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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)

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01:26:05

Creating Consent in an Illiberal Order: Policing...

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2022/07/20

Podcast: LSE Middle East Centre Podcasts (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Creating Consent in an Illiberal Order: Policing Disputes in JordanPub date: 2022-07-11This event was the launch of Jessica Watkins' latest book 'Creating Consent in an Illiberal Order: Policing Disputes in Jordan' published by Cambridge University Press. Middle Eastern police forces have a reputation for carrying out repression and surveillance on behalf of authoritarian regimes, despite frequently under

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01:12:33

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 331: Winter in America w/...

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2022/07/20

Podcast: Nostalgia Trap (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Nostalgia Trap - Episode 331: Winter in America w/ Dan McClurePub date: 2022-07-12Historian and writer Dan McClure returns to the Trap for a talk about his incredible new book Winter in America: A Cultural History of Neoliberalism, from the Sixties to the Reagan Revolution, which explores how the cruel economic principles we call “neoliberalism” found currency in popular culture in the years since the Vietnam War, delivering us

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00:47:19

Cheongsams and Coppers: Beijing's Stealth...

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2022/07/12

Podcast: The Little Red Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Cheongsams and Coppers: Beijing's Stealth Infiltration of Hong KongPub date: 2022-06-30It’s now been twenty-five years since Hong Kong returned to Chinese sovereignty with a pledge not to change Hong Kong’s way of life for fifty years. In actual fact, Beijing's stealth infiltration of Hong Kong began long before the territory's return, with United Front work targeting certain sectors of the population. In this episode,

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00:51:19

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

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2022/07/12

Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Colombia w/ Forrest HyltonPub date: 2022-07-01Suzi talks to Forrest Hylton about Gustavo Petro’s historic victory in Colombia’s June 19 Presidential Election. Historic because it is the first victory for a leftist candidate in Colombia's history, despite a heavy challenge from the right. Former Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro and his VP, the Afro-Colombian environmental activist and human rights lawyer

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00:59:58

Outsourcing Repression with Lynette Ong

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2022/07/06

Podcast: NüVoices (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Outsourcing Repression with Lynette OngPub date: 2022-06-29Professor Lynette Ong joins us on the podcast this week to discuss her new book Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China. While in conversation with Joanna Chiu, Lynette discusses China's use of nonstate actors who minimize resistance during government land grabs, housing demolitions, and (perhaps most notably) tracking foreign journalists while

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01:10:28

Seán William Gannon, "The Irish Imperial Service:...

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2022/07/06

Podcast: New Books Network (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Seán William Gannon, "The Irish Imperial Service: Policing Palestine and Administering the Empire, 1922–1966" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)Pub date: 2022-06-28Seán William Gannon's book The Irish Imperial Service: Policing Palestine and Administering the Empire, 1922–1966 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) explores Irish participation in the British imperial project after ‘Southern’ Ireland’s independence in 1922. Building on a detailed

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01:14:51

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

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2022/07/06

Podcast: Nostalgia Trap (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Nostalgia Trap - Episode 330: In Whose Ruins? w/ Alicia PuglionesiPub date: 2022-06-28Stories about the past form the ideological foundation of the American project. This week’s guest, Alicia Puglionesi, is a historian and writer whose work often focuses on “hauntings” – both real and imagined – in our collective history. Her latest book, In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire, explores the fake

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01:07:28

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

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2022/06/28

Podcast: Explaining Ukraine (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Ukraine, looking from America - with Marci Shore | Ep. 113Pub date: 2022-06-21In this episode we are asking what one can learn by looking at Ukraine from America. Our guest for this episode is Marci Shore, American historian and scholar, associate professor at Yale University where she teaches modern European intellectual history. She has written, among other works, The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in

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Power, Privilege, Parties: the shaping of modern Britain

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2022/06/28

Podcast: Post #Brexit Daily - Latest stories on making Britain great againEpisode: Power, Privilege, Parties: the shaping of modern BritainPub date: 2022-05-23lse.ac.uk - 6.30pm Thurs 26 May | Simon Kuper, Jane Gingrich, Mike Savage | Registration Required | Free online public event at LSETweeted by @NH4Europe https://twitter.com/NH4Europe/status/1528345093228347392The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Radio Free UK, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or

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00:19:38

Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That...

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2022/06/21

Podcast: The US-China Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern | Jing TsuPub date: 2022-06-09Less than a century ago, China faced myriad challenges in catching up to a world that had passed it by technologically. In her new book, Kingdom of Charactes, Jing Tsu breaks down how the monumental and transformative task of bringing the Chinese language into the modern era also modernized China itself. Jing Tsu joined the

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00:38:19

Episode 3.15: Made to Eat Dirt: The Rhetoric and...

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2022/06/15

Podcast: The Andrea Mitchell Center Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Episode 3.15: Made to Eat Dirt: The Rhetoric and Politics of Humiliation – Roxanne EubenPub date: 2022-06-06Interviewer: MATTHEW BERKMAN. Of all of the emotions that spur political engagement, whether in the form of electoral participation or disruptive violence, none currently seem as potent as a sense of humiliation. Political theorist ROXANNE EUBEN’s current book project explores how political rhetoric the

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01:03:52

Robbie McVeigh & Bill Rolston /// Ireland,...

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2022/06/08

Podcast: The Funambulist Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Robbie McVeigh & Bill Rolston /// Ireland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished RevolutionPub date: 2022-05-30 This rather long conversation with Robbie McVeigh & Bill Rolston only evokes fragments of their book "Anois ar theacht an tSamhraidh": Ireland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Revolution, which resituates Irish history within the global history of colonialism. We talk about Gorta Mór (the

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00:35:46

Episode 34: Ukraine War: Can EU public finance help...

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2022/06/08

Podcast: EU Watchdog RadioEpisode: Episode 34: Ukraine War: Can EU public finance help the rebuild?Pub date: 2022-05-31In the latest episode of EU Watchdog Radio, we discuss how EU public finance institutions like the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) should approach the rebuilding of Ukraine after the war comes to an end.Russia’s hostile invasion of Ukraine sent shockwaves across Europe and beyond. The war has forced over 6.8 million people to flee the country, with millions

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01:04:47

How French Neo-Colonialism Destabilized Africa’s...

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2022/06/01

Podcast: Rania Khalek Dispatches (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: How French Neo-Colonialism Destabilized Africa’s Sahel, w/ Hannah ArmstrongPub date: 2022-05-20Africa’s Sahel region encompasses Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Chad and has been an arena of French colonialism, liberation struggles, ongoing imperialist interventions, the war on terror, and coups d’etat. To discuss this and more Rania Khalek, was joined by Hannah Rae Armstrong, a long-time researcher with years

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00:41:10

Sinn Féin and the art of government

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2022/06/01

Podcast: Inside Politics (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Sinn Féin and the art of governmentPub date: 2022-05-25If Sinn Féin fulfils its ambition to be the first party other than Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil to form a government in the Republic, what challenges will it face to implement its ambitious agenda? That question is the subject of this week’s opinion piece by former political advisor Gerard Howlin. He joins Jennifer Bray, Harry McGee and Cormac McQuinn on today’s Inside Politics

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00:35:51

Reuben Silverman on modern Turkey’s social, political...

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2022/06/01

Podcast: Turkey Book Talk (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Reuben Silverman on modern Turkey’s social, political and geographic marginsPub date: 2022-05-23Reuben Silverman on “Borderline Personalities: Lives at the Political, Social and Geographic Edges of Modern Turkey” (Libra Books). The book brings together pieces from his website largely focusing on figures from the political, social and cultural margins to illuminate broader themes of modern Turkish history. Become a member to

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01:02:13

State, Society, and Markets in North Korea with...

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2022/05/25

Podcast: The Korea Society (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: State, Society, and Markets in North Korea with Professor Andrew YeoPub date: 2022-05-13May 13, 2022 - Join us for this discussion on North Korea's evolving economy, state, and society with Dr. Andrew Yeo, the SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies at The Brookings Institution and Professor of Politics, Catholic University of America. Yeo's new book, State, Society, and Markets in North Korea, examines the extent and

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00:41:11

Banu Subramaniam, "Holy Science: The Biopolitics of...

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2022/05/25

Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Banu Subramaniam, "Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism" (U of Washington Press, 2019)Pub date: 2022-05-12In Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism (University of Washington Press, 2019), Banu Subramaniam examines how science and religion have come together to propel a vision of the modern Indian nation, and in particular, a Hindu nationalist vision of India. Subramaniam demonstrates

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00:32:58

Thoughts on State-Building, Decolonization, Gender,...

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2022/05/17

Podcast: Maghrib in Past & Present | Podcasts (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Thoughts on State-Building, Decolonization, Gender, and Tunisia: Insights from the Global 1960sPub date: 2022-05-05Episode 141: Thoughts on State-Building, Decolonization, Gender, and Tunisia: Insights from the Global 1960s In this conversation, Amy Kallander reflects on how the work of Tunisian scholars on trade unions, feminism, and patriarchy informed her approach to thinking critically about

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00:38:25

Gimme, gimme, gimme a Han after midnight: China’s...

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2022/05/17

Podcast: The Little Red Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Gimme, gimme, gimme a Han after midnight: China’s masculinity crisisPub date: 2022-05-11For the past year, China has been in the grip of a crackdown on niangpao, or ‘sissy men’, with the People’s Daily warning that effeminate men are ‘corrupting a generation.’ It’s a movement that is having a chilling effect well beyond influencers having their social media accounts closed, with the Ministry of Education even issuing

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