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A curated playlist of the best new podcasts on international affairs. Powered by The Syllabus. (To see the articles, books, reports and videos that are also part of the Cosmopolitan, check out our site: the-syllabus.com)

Thomas Fazi: Civil disobedience is coming

52 mins; September 14, 2022

Wolfgang Streeck: The end of the German empire

45 mins; September 12, 2022

#139 Patricia Pino: The Economic Impact Of Peru's Internal Conflict

56 mins; September 12, 2022

Imperial Connections: Syria, Lebanon and French West Africa with Dahlia El Zein

34 mins; August 09, 2022

Sérgio Sauer - How have land struggles shaped social conflicts and extractivism in Brazil?

57 mins; August 09, 2022

Gediminas Lesutis on The Politics of Precarity in Mozambique

40 mins; August 09, 2022

The Rising Sons of Japan with Tim Shorrock

52 mins; August 02, 2022

How Brazil Became a Black Country with Márcia Lima

48 mins; August 02, 2022

Securing the supply of semiconductors to Europe

35 mins; July 27, 2022

The Future of Wisconsin Dairy Farming

52 mins; July 27, 2022

The State of the Saudi Economy

35 mins; July 27, 2022

Creating Consent in an Illiberal Order: Policing Disputes in Jordan

86 hours 5 mins; July 20, 2022

Andrea Wright - Between Dreams and Ghosts

39 mins; July 20, 2022

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 331: Winter in America w/ Dan McClure

72 hours 33 mins; July 20, 2022

Cheongsams and Coppers: Beijing's Stealth Infiltration of Hong Kong

47 mins; July 12, 2022

E7 Life and Death in Canada’s Institutions

60 hours 57 mins; July 12, 2022

Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Colombia w/ Forrest Hylton

51 mins; July 12, 2022

Outsourcing Repression with Lynette Ong

59 mins; July 06, 2022

Seán William Gannon, "The Irish Imperial Service: Policing Palestine and Administering the Empire, 1922–1966" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

70 hours 28 mins; July 06, 2022

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 330: In Whose Ruins? w/ Alicia Puglionesi

74 hours 51 mins; July 06, 2022

Ukraine, looking from America - with Marci Shore | Ep. 113

67 hours 28 mins; June 28, 2022

Power, Privilege, Parties: the shaping of modern Britain

0 secs; June 28, 2022

Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern | Jing Tsu

19 mins; June 21, 2022

Episode 3.15: Made to Eat Dirt: The Rhetoric and Politics of Humiliation – Roxanne Euben

38 mins; June 15, 2022

Urban metabolism, water scarcity & seawater desalination in Chile | Maria Christina Fragkou

42 mins; June 15, 2022

Mathematics in Latin America: Challenges and Perspectives. Marcelo Viana interviewed by Robinson dos Santos

39 mins; June 15, 2022

Robbie McVeigh & Bill Rolston /// Ireland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Revolution

63 hours 52 mins; June 08, 2022

States of Subsistence & the Politics of Bread in Egypt (S. 11, Ep. 33)

48 mins; June 08, 2022

Episode 34: Ukraine War: Can EU public finance help the rebuild?

35 mins; June 08, 2022

How French Neo-Colonialism Destabilized Africa’s Sahel, w/ Hannah Armstrong

64 hours 47 mins; June 01, 2022

Sinn Féin and the art of government

41 mins; June 01, 2022

Reuben Silverman on modern Turkey’s social, political and geographic margins

35 mins; June 01, 2022

State, Society, and Markets in North Korea with Professor Andrew Yeo

62 hours 13 mins; May 25, 2022

Banu Subramaniam, "Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism" (U of Washington Press, 2019)

41 mins; May 25, 2022

State-Building and Women in Tunisia

32 mins; May 17, 2022

Gimme, gimme, gimme a Han after midnight: China’s masculinity crisis

38 mins; May 17, 2022

Sarah-Neel Smith on art and development in mid-20th century Turkey

37 mins; May 17, 2022

Will China & Russia create an alternative financial system to evade sanctions over Ukraine?

89 hours 40 mins; May 10, 2022

Global Covid-19 vaccine inequality | Karrar Karrar, Lara Dovifat & Ken Shadlen

57 mins; May 10, 2022

W. African Women's Development (Part 1) w/ Takiyah Harper-Shipman

85 hours 38 mins; May 10, 2022

Emily Hoge on the Strange Evolution of Russian Veterans Organizations

35 mins; May 03, 2022

Marta Dyczok and Andriy Kulykov on the Media, Information Warriors, and the Future of Ukraine

53 mins; May 03, 2022

What's in your cup? Coffee production in Colombia

54 mins; May 03, 2022

Kishore Mahbubani: The Return of Asia in the 21st Century

68 hours 18 mins; April 27, 2022

Chris Coyne on Manufacturing Militarism

50 mins; April 27, 2022

Darren Byler, "Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City" (Duke UP, 2022)

67 hours 0 mins; April 20, 2022

The Objects That Made Britain

25 mins; April 20, 2022

Episode 99: Historicizing the Search for Roots

68 hours 16 mins; April 20, 2022

Pedro Sanchez and Western Sahara with Nazha Elkhalidi #Saharalibre

61 hours 13 mins; April 13, 2022

Sa'ed Atshan and Katharina Galor, "The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians" (Duke UP, 2020)

56 mins; April 13, 2022

The High Price of American Exceptionalism on the Earth

59 mins; April 13, 2022

12 Wayne Au - Beyond Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Social Justice Education in a Post-Trump America

73 hours 24 mins; April 07, 2022

Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas, "Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America" (Duke UP, 2020)

50 mins; April 07, 2022

The house that Viktor built

27 mins; April 07, 2022

Dig: Clash of Empires w/ Ho-fung Hung

105 hours 34 mins; March 30, 2022

FreshEd #274 - Transitional Justice and Education in South Africa (Natasha Robinson)

27 mins; March 30, 2022

SEPADPod With Mohammad Kalantari

58 mins; March 30, 2022

Silvia M. Lindtner, "Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation" (Princeton UP, 2020)

59 mins; March 22, 2022

NPR and the Latinx Public

53 mins; March 22, 2022

The Troubled Everyday in/of Gaza: Restoring Agency and Creative Possibility

59 mins; March 22, 2022

Women's Lives In Modern China

39 mins; March 15, 2022

Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili and Ilia Murtazashvili on Afghanistan, Local Institutions, and Self-Governance

47 mins; March 15, 2022

2791-America's Housing Scam w/ Andrew Ross

60 hours 16 mins; March 15, 2022

Scramble for Africa 12: The British Scramble for West Africa

126 hours 44 mins; March 08, 2022

Decolonizing Memory, COVID-19 in MENA, Democratic Reform in Jordan (S. 11, Ep. 21)

65 hours 2 mins; March 08, 2022

FreshEd #271 – Reimagining Education in Chile’s New Constitution (Carlos Navia Canales)

25 mins; March 08, 2022

Yunxiang Gao, "Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2021)

56 mins; March 01, 2022

Understanding Authoritarianism: Deepening Autocratization, Dynamic Dictatorships, and China

24 mins; March 01, 2022

#11 In Conversation with Professor Akeel Bilgrami: Gandhi, Modernity, and the Cultural Commons

85 hours 7 mins; March 01, 2022

Jonathan Katz on ‘Gangsters of Capitalism’

49 mins; February 22, 2022

412: Protests in Colombia: the urgent need for police reform

52 mins; February 22, 2022

Globalization and Asian Geopolitics — Shivshankar Menon

49 mins; February 15, 2022

The Fate of Colonial Elites in Post-Colonial Regimes: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution

56 mins; February 15, 2022

Queer Activism in Lebanon, Refugee Aid in Jordan, and East Jerusalem (S. 11, Ep. 18)

71 hours 2 mins; February 15, 2022

Caste Aside: The Future for China's Peasants

45 mins; February 08, 2022

79: Palestine and the Power of the Archive with Gil Z. Hochberg

69 hours 13 mins; February 08, 2022

Mir Yarfitz, "Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina" (Rutgers UP, 2019)

70 hours 35 mins; February 08, 2022

Mircea Raianu, "Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism" (Harvard UP, 2021)

70 hours 9 mins; February 01, 2022

The Future of Hong Kong

35 mins; February 01, 2022

Governing the Urban in China and India, with Xuefei Ren

58 mins; February 01, 2022

Episode 86: Belarus and the crisis on the EU’s border

56 mins; January 25, 2022

How Would Sanctions Work Against Russia Over Ukraine?

34 mins; January 25, 2022

Ethnography of "Development": Tania Li on Indonesia's Oil Palm Zone

65 hours 35 mins; January 25, 2022

The role of SOEs in China’s common prosperity push, with Sarah Eaton and Nis Grünberg

27 mins; January 18, 2022

Literature and Censorship in China since 1979, with Michel Hockx

90 hours 22 mins; January 18, 2022

Tariq Ali on the Forty-Year War in Afghanistan

53 mins; January 18, 2022

Mabel Moraña, "Philosophy and Criticism in Latin America: From Mariátegui to Sloterdijk" (Cambria Press, 2020)

57 mins; January 11, 2022

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