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Social Sciences
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James E. Baker, "The Centaur's Dilemma: US Nati...
An interview with James E. Baker
78 min
427
H. M. E. Tagma and P. E. Lenze, "Understanding ...
An interview with H. M. E. Tagma and P. E. Lenze
58 min
428
K. Mistry and H. Gurman, "Whistleblowing Nation...
An interview with Kaeten Mistry and Hannah Gurman
63 min
429
D. Barno and N. Bensahel, "Adaptation Under Fir...
59 min
430
Andrew R. Hom, "International Relations and the...
An interview with Andrew R. Hom
46 min
431
Zeynep Kaya, "Mapping Kurdistan: Territory, Sel...
An interview with Zeynep Kaya
47 min
432
Jeremy Pressman, "The Sword is Not Enough: Arab...
An interview with Jeremy Pressman
55 min
433
Rajan Menon, "The Conceit of Humanitarian Inter...
An interview with Rajan Menon
68 min
434
Samuel Zipp, "The Idealist: Wendell Willkie's W...
An interview with Samuel Zipp
51 min
435
Erez Manela, "The Wilsonian Moment: Self-determ...
An interview with Erez Manela
49 min
436
Mark Cornwall, "Sarajevo 1914: Sparking the Fir...
In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo....
39 min
437
Heather L. Dichter, "Soccer Diplomacy: Internat...
In our conversation, we discussed the origins of soccer diplomacy, the diplomatic role of different actors, and whether winning matters for sports diplomats....
50 min
438
Eric Zolov, "The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in ...
Zolov retells the history of 1960s Mexico by focusing on the way that Mexican political leaders pursued a paradoxical foreign policy agenda...
53 min
439
Timothy P. Storhoff, "Harmony and Normalization...
Storhoff explores the channels of musical exchange between Cuba and the United States during the eight-year presidency of Barack Obama...
55 min
440
Rana Mitter, "China's Good War: How World War I...
Mitter traces this transformation in the Chinese interpretations of the war from one marked by humiliation to one that celebrates victory...
59 min
441
Michael Brenes, "For Might and Right: Cold War ...
Brenes argues that after the beginning of the Cold War, defense spending became an important part of the federal social safety net...
61 min
442
Vince Cable, "China: Engage!--Avoid The New Col...
Anyone doing business with China will have been shocked by the speed with which political and economic relations with Western, and some other, countries...
59 min
443
Cynthia Miller-Idriss, "Hate in the Homeland: T...
Hate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us,...
52 min
444
Charles A. Kupchan, "Isolationism: A History of...
In the past few years isolationism, which had long been derided in the national discourse, has been making a comeback as a political force...
45 min
445
Paul Jankowski, "All Against All: The Long Wint...
Jankowski provides a wide-angled account of a critical period of world history, the interwar years, in which the world transitioned from postwar to the prewar and saw the disintegration of collective security and international institutions created after the First World War....
47 min
446
Jeremy Black, "Geopolitics and the Quest for Do...
Black argues that just as the perception of power is central to issues of power, so place, and its constraints and relationships, is partly a matter of perception, not merely map coordinates...
63 min
447
David Rundell, "Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia ...
Rundell offers a granular analysis and insider’s understanding of the inner workings of the kingdom garnered as a US foreign service officer who served a total of 15 years in the country...
71 min
448
Victoria Phillips, "Martha Graham's Cold War: T...
Phillips adeptly tells the story of Martha Graham's role as diplomat, arts innovator, and dancer...
49 min
449
Sebastian Strangio, "In the Dragon's Shadow: So...
Strangio carefully dissects the People’s Republic of China’s complicated relationships with its southern neighbors....
108 min
450
Luke A. Nichter, "The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot...
Few have ever enjoyed the degree of foreign-policy influence and versatility that Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., the grand-son of Woodrow Wilson’s senatorial antagonist, did...,
57 min