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This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to ... more

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Dov Levin
Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Hong Kong, author of Meddling in the Ballot Box.
University of Hong Kong
Episode: Inside Jobs: How Great Powers Meddle in Other Countries’ Elections
Maja Davidović
Scholar of International Relations, author of 'Governing the Past, Never Again and the Transitional Justice Project'
Cambridge University Press
Episode: Maja Davidović, "Governing the Past: 'Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Anne Irfan
Researcher and author of A Short History of the Gaza Strip
University College London
Episode: Anne Irfan, "A Short History of the Gaza Strip" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
Jessica Green
Professor from the Department of Political Science in the School of the Environment
University of Toronto
Episode: Jessica F. Green, "Existential Politics: Why Global Climate Institutions Are Failing and How to Fix Them" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Janna Sauerteig
Mobilization and Advocacy Manager at SOS Humanity
SOS Humanity
Episode: What is Happening in the Mediterranean Right Now – And Why You Should Care
Joel Rubin
Foreign policy expert, media commentator, and Jewish community leader with over 25 years of experience in Washington.
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs under President Obama
Episode: Can America Still Lead? Foreign Policy in an Age of Division with Joel Rubin
Minna Salami
Writer, social critic and thought leader on feminism, knowledge production and the aesthetics and structures of power.
Episode: Can Feminism be African?: A Conversation with Minna Salami
Carl Benedikt Frey
Dieter Schwartz Associate Professor of AI and Work at the Oxford Internet Institute
Oxford University
Episode: Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Philip Gamaghelyan
Professor and author of 'Conflict Resolution Beyond the International Relations Paradigm'
Ibidem Verlag, Columbia University Press
Episode: Philip Gamaghelyan, "Conflict Resolution Beyond the International Relations Paradigm: Evolving Designs as a Transformative Practice in Nagorno-Karabakh and Syria" (Ibidem Press, 2017)

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  • Condescending boringness

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  • Slanted against Russia and ignoring Corporate control of capitalist economies and disinterested in the countries of the Global South. Monopoly financial capitalism is almost wholly dismissed as a factor in the collapse of "liberal" ideology.

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  • Slanted against Russia and ignoring Corporate control of capitalist economies and disinterested in the countries of the Global South. Monopoly financial capitalism is almost wholly dismissed as a factor in the collapse of "liberal" ideology.

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Inside Jobs: How Great Powers Meddle in Other Countries’ Elections
Q: How can founding elections be different from other types of elections when it comes to foreign interference?
Founding elections involve candidates who lack experience in running elections, leading to potential miscommunication of needs to intervening foreign powers.
Inside Jobs: How Great Powers Meddle in Other Countries’ Elections
Q: How do Trump's actions differ from previous efforts by American presidents who also employed what you call the vote with us or else tactic?
The key differences include the identity of Trump's supported candidate and the overall size of the aid promised.
Maja Davidović, "Governing the Past: 'Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Q: What does it mean to be ontologically insecure or secure, as well as how it relates to the Transitional Justice Project?
Davidović discusses how ontological security concerns both individual and collective identities and how transitional justice can impact these by managing uncertainties.
Maja Davidović, "Governing the Past: 'Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Q: Can you tell us more about these imperatives and their relationship and regard to each other?
Davidović explains that the link between the two imperatives, ensuring non-recurrence and dealing with the past, is causal, where transitional justice exists to put the 'never again' promise into practice.
Anne Irfan, "A Short History of the Gaza Strip" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
Q: What does having a kind of politicized and historicized understanding of the situation imply for policy?
Many of the policy proposals have shown a real historical illiteracy, contributing to their ineffectiveness.

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