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How Do Autocrats Stay in Power: A Discussion with Johannes Gerschewski
34 mins; May 27, 2025
Nicholas Barry et al., "Constitutional Conventions: Theories, Practices and Dynamics" (Routledge, 2025)
49 mins; May 21, 2025
Quentin Skinner, "Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
55 mins; May 20, 2025
Eric Heinze, "Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left" (MIT Press, 2025)
71 hours 54 mins; May 16, 2025
JĂșlia KirĂĄly, "Hungary and Other Emerging EU Countries in the Financial Storm: From Minor Troubles to Global Hurricane" (Springer, 2020)
44 mins; May 14, 2025
Make Britain Great Again? The MAGA-Style Rise of Reform UK
41 mins; May 08, 2025
Living Right: Far Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe
71 hours 22 mins; May 08, 2025
Democracy for Sale: Death by Dark Money
69 hours 4 mins; May 02, 2025
The Good Father Syndrome: Why Strongmen Still Seduce
31 mins; April 27, 2025
Eleanor Paynter, "Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present" (U California Press, 2024)
52 mins; April 26, 2025
Russell Blackford, "How We Became Post-Liberal: The Rise and Fall of Toleration" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
77 hours 48 mins; April 25, 2025
Maurizio Ferrera, "Politics and Social Visions: Ideology, Conflict, and Solidarity in the EU" (Oxford UP, 2024)
79 hours 50 mins; April 21, 2025
Agnieszka Pasieka, "Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe" (Princeton UP, 2024)
44 mins; April 17, 2025
Serhiy Kudelia, "Seize the City, Undo the State: The Inception of Russia's War on Ukraine" (Oxford UP, 2015)
57 mins; April 16, 2025
Is Liberal Democracy Dying?
66 hours 42 mins; April 11, 2025
Benjamin M. Studebaker, "Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
61 hours 6 mins; April 07, 2025
Giacinto della Cananea, "The Common Core of European Administrative Laws: Retrospective and Prospective" (Brill/NIjhoff, 2023)
54 mins; March 30, 2025
Vuk Vuksanovic, "Serbia’s Balancing Act: Between Russia and the West" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
41 mins; March 21, 2025
Fractured Alliances: Trump, Ukraine, and Europe's Security Dilemma
31 mins; March 15, 2025
Sabrina P. Ramet and Lavinia Stan, "East Central Europe Since 1989" (Routledge, 2025)
89 hours 32 mins; March 09, 2025
Abby Innes, "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
91 hours 2 mins; March 09, 2025
Jonathan Haslam, "Hubris: The American Origins of Russia's War against Ukraine" (Harvard UP, 2025)
65 hours 36 mins; February 06, 2025
Trump’s Second Term and Europe: Nationalism, NATO, and the Future of Transatlantic Relations
33 mins; February 03, 2025
Enrico Ciappi, "Building Europe in New York: From the Munich Conference to the European Coal and Steel Community (1938-1952)" (Routledge, 2025)
46 mins; January 31, 2025
Eugene Finkel, "Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine" (Basic Books, 2024)
35 mins; January 29, 2025
Roland Erne et al., "Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
61 hours 20 mins; January 28, 2025
Viktoriya Fedorchak, "The Russia-Ukraine War: Towards Resilient Fighting Power" (Routledge, 2024)
89 hours 27 mins; January 28, 2025
Philip Rathgeb, "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" (Oxford UP, 2024)
54 mins; January 28, 2025
Christina L. Davis, "Discriminatory Clubs: The Geopolitics of International Organizations" (Princeton UP, 2023)
46 mins; January 17, 2025
Frank Trentmann, "Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022" (Knopf, 2024)
55 mins; January 16, 2025
Isaac Stanley-Becker, "Europe Without Borders: A History" (Princeton UP, 2025)
43 mins; January 14, 2025
Victoria Harms, "The Making of Dissidents: Hungary’s Democratic Opposition and its Western Friends, 1973-1998" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2024)
65 hours 48 mins; January 10, 2025
Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti, "Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views" (Oxford UP, 2024)
62 hours 7 mins; January 10, 2025
Gabriel Gavin, "Ashes of Our Fathers: Inside the Fall of Nagorno-Karabakh" (Hurst, 2025)
52 mins; January 09, 2025
Emily Marker, "Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era" (Cornell UP, 2022)
65 hours 37 mins; January 05, 2025
Eric Storm, "Nationalism: A World History" (Princeton UP, 2024)
50 mins; January 01, 2025
Kit Kowol, "Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
37 mins; December 28, 2024
Transatlantic Tensions: Trump’s Return and Europe’s Far-Right Resurgence
39 mins; December 23, 2024
How to Tackle Political Violence
33 mins; December 13, 2024
Nicola Kristin Karcher and Markus Lundström, "Nordic Fascism: Fragments of an Entangled History" (Routledge, 2022)
31 mins; December 07, 2024
GeneviĂšve RousseliĂšre, "Sharing Freedom: Republicanism and Exclusion in Revolutionary France" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
50 mins; December 04, 2024
Nick Butler, "The Trouble with Jokes: Humour and Offensiveness in Contemporary Culture and Politics" (Policy Press, 2023)
32 mins; November 27, 2024
Erica Benner, "Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power" (Penguin, 2024)
50 mins; November 21, 2024
Robert B. Talisse, "Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance" (Oxford UP, 2024)
94 hours 50 mins; November 21, 2024
Tom Theuns, "Protecting Democracy in Europe: Pluralism, Autocracy and the Future of the EU" (Hurst, 2024)
45 mins; November 16, 2024
Graham Brady, "Kingmaker: Secrets, Lies, and the Truth about Five Prime Ministers" (Ithaka, 2024)
37 mins; November 04, 2024
Robert A. Schneider, "The Return of Resentment: The Rise and Decline and Rise Again of a Political Emotion" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
55 mins; November 02, 2024
Is Democracy Failing to Deliver?
34 mins; October 31, 2024
The Wisdom of Our Ancestors
61 hours 15 mins; October 30, 2024
Marietje Schaake, "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2024)
29 mins; October 15, 2024
Jamie Furlong and Will Jennings, "The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales" (Oxford UP, 2024)
48 mins; October 15, 2024
Theo Williams, "Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement before Decolonisation" (Verso, 2022)
64 hours 18 mins; October 13, 2024
Marco Bastos, "Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation" (Bristol UP, 2024)
50 mins; October 06, 2024
Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)
73 hours 19 mins; October 04, 2024
Samuel J. Hirst, "Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939" (Oxford UP, 2024)
62 hours 45 mins; September 28, 2024
David M. Driesen, "The Specter of Dictatorship: Judicial Enabling of Presidential Power" (Stanford UP, 2021)
55 mins; September 23, 2024
The Far-Right Threat in German Politics: A Discussion with Marcus Böick
35 mins; September 23, 2024
Mikhail Zygar, "War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine" (Scribner, 2023)
65 hours 18 mins; September 15, 2024
Jennifer Redmond and Mary McAuliffe, "The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland: A Reader" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
56 mins; September 14, 2024
Lynn M. Tesser, "Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics" (Stanford UP, 2024)
53 mins; September 13, 2024
Isaac Nakhimovsky, "The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation" (Princeton UP, 2024)
70 hours 25 mins; September 12, 2024
Are We Experiencing a Crisis of Culture?
39 mins; September 10, 2024
Duncan Simpson, "I am pleased to inform the director: letters from Portuguese people to PIDE (1958-1968)" (Silveira, BookBuilders, 2022)
55 mins; September 05, 2024
Daniel Laqua, "Activism Across Borders Since 1870: Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and Beyond Europe" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
32 mins; September 04, 2024
Gill Bennett, “The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy that Never Dies” (Oxford UP, 2018)
54 mins; September 02, 2024
Manuela Moschella, "Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy" (Cornell UP, 2024)
44 mins; September 01, 2024
What is Going on with Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe?
40 mins; August 30, 2024
Anders Persson, "EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967-2019" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
58 mins; August 24, 2024
Lost in Ideology: A Conversation with Jason Blakely
59 mins; August 21, 2024
Joachim C. HĂ€berlen, "Beauty Is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe" (Penguin, 2023)
77 hours 17 mins; August 21, 2024
Peter Allen, “The Political Class: Why It Matters Who Our Politicians Are” (Oxford UP, 2018)
39 mins; August 20, 2024
Jason Blakely, "Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life" (Agenda Publishing, 2023)
40 mins; August 06, 2024
Julia Sonnevend, "Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
31 mins; August 01, 2024
Bilge Yesil, "Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
60 hours 25 mins; July 28, 2024
Anne Applebaum, "Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World" (Doubleday Books, 2024)
45 mins; July 23, 2024
Nicolas VĂ©ron, "Europe's Banking Union at Ten: Unfinished Yet Transformative" (Bruegel, 2024)
43 mins; June 28, 2024
The Democratic Regression: The Political Causes of Authoritarian Populism
34 mins; June 27, 2024
Oscar Sanchez-Sibony, "The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market: Energy and the Ascent of Finance in Cold War Europe, 1964–1971" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
53 mins; June 22, 2024
Mark Gilbert, "Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy" (Norton, 2024)
44 mins; June 13, 2024
The Complexities of the EU Parliament Elections
46 mins; June 13, 2024
Julia Wojnowska-RadziƄska, "Implications of Pre-Emptive Data Surveillance for Fundamental Rights in the European Union" (Brill Nijhoff, 2023)
35 mins; June 12, 2024
All About Money? Elections, Campaign Spending and the Effects on Democracy
26 mins; May 31, 2024
Benjamin A. Schupmann, "Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
41 mins; May 30, 2024
The Social Acceptance of Inequality
32 mins; May 28, 2024
Asian Soft Power in Estonia: A Discussion with Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska
26 mins; May 24, 2024
Dmitry Grozoubinski, "Why Politicians Lie About Trade...How, and What You Need to Know" (Canbury Press, 2024)
49 mins; May 23, 2024
Agnieszka Pasieka and PaweƂ Rodak, "Rethinking Modern Polish Identities: Transnational Encounters" (U Rochester Press, 2023)
59 mins; May 10, 2024
Lawrence Freedman, "Modern Warfare: Lessons from Ukraine" (Penguin, 2023)
42 mins; May 08, 2024
Illia Ponomarenko, "I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
45 mins; May 03, 2024
Jen Stout, "Night Train to Odesa: Covering the Human Cost of Russia's War" (Polygon, 2024)
45 mins; May 02, 2024
Éric Fassin, "State Anti-Intellectualism and the Politics of Gender and Race: Illiberal France and Beyond" (CEU Press, 2024)
43 mins; April 30, 2024
Social media’s business model is changing democracy, and not for the better
39 mins; April 24, 2024
Anu Bradford, "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
19 mins; April 24, 2024
Words of Attack: Rhetoric Against Liberal Democratic Values with James McAdams
32 mins; April 17, 2024
Maria Snegovaya, "When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe" (Oxford UP, 2024)
63 hours 45 mins; April 13, 2024
Traian Sandu, "Ceausescu: The Ambiguous Dictator" (Perrin, 2023)
80 hours 58 mins; April 10, 2024
Why Should We Preserve Memory of the Holocaust?
44 mins; April 02, 2024
Party People: Candidates and Party Evolution
32 mins; March 27, 2024
How Can We Reach International Consensus on AI Regulation?
43 mins; March 25, 2024
Aaron Clift, "Anticommunism in French Society and Politics, 1945-1953" (Oxford UP, 2023)
61 hours 48 mins; March 25, 2024
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