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The Cosmopolitan

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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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01:01:50

Silvia M. Lindtner, "Prototype Nation: China and the...

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2022/03/23

Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Silvia M. Lindtner, "Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation" (Princeton UP, 2020)Pub date: 2022-03-10Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation (Princeton University Press, 2020) reveals how a growing distrust in Western models of progress and development, including Silicon Valley and the tech industry after the financial crisis of 2007–8, shaped the vision of China as a

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00:53:59

NPR and the Latinx Public

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2022/03/23

Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: NPR and the Latinx PublicPub date: 2022-03-14 In recent months, there has been a spate of journalists of color leaving their posts at NPR, including Audie Cornish, Lourdes “Lulu” Garcia-Navarro, and Noel King. This has raised questions about race at NPR, not only regarding staff but the broad American public they are supposed to be serving. Since its inception in 1970, NPR has gone from “conceiving of

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00:59:10

The Troubled Everyday in/of Gaza: Restoring Agency...

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2022/03/23

Podcast: Harvard Divinity School (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: The Troubled Everyday in/of Gaza: Restoring Agency and Creative PossibilityPub date: 2022-03-13This event is part of the RCPI Fellows' Spring Series, "Disrupting Injustice and Promoting Moral Imagination in Israel/Palestine." Conflict and Peace Fellows at Religion and Public Life (RPL) talk about their projects illuminating transnational solidarities, reimagining Jewish identity, Palestinian steadfastness (Sumoud), and

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01:00:16

2791-America's Housing Scam w/ Andrew Ross

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2022/03/16

Podcast: The Majority Report with Sam Seder (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: 2791-America's Housing Scam w/ Andrew RossPub date: 2022-03-08Emma hosts Andrew Ross, professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, to discuss his recent book Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing, on the continued financialization of the housing market in the wake of the 2008 recession as seen through myriad communities throughout the sunbelt. They begin by situating Professor

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02:06:44

Scramble for Africa 12: The British Scramble for West...

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2022/03/08

Podcast: The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Scramble for Africa 12: The British Scramble for West AfricaPub date: 2022-02-27We start this episode with a few minutes of reading reviews – from fans and not-fans! Perhaps this will inspire you to review us too. Then we’re on to the British Scrambling for West Africa. Some of the Africans who fought back, of course, notably Bai Bureh and Yaa Asentewaa. Lord Lugard’s ideas of the … Continue reading

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01:05:02

Decolonizing Memory, COVID-19 in MENA, Democratic...

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2022/03/08

Podcast: POMEPS Middle East Political Science Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Decolonizing Memory, COVID-19 in MENA, Democratic Reform in Jordan (S. 11, Ep. 21)Pub date: 2022-02-24Jill Jarvis of Yale University joins Marc Lynch on this week's podcast to discuss her new book, Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and Politics of Testimony. In the book, Jarvis analyzes the magnitude of the legal violence exercised by the French to colonize and occupy Algeria. Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl of

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00:25:39

FreshEd #271 – Reimagining Education in Chile’s New...

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2022/03/08

Podcast: FreshEd (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: FreshEd #271 – Reimagining Education in Chile’s New Constitution (Carlos Navia Canales)Pub date: 2022-02-27In 2020, Chilean citizens voted for their national constitution to be re-written. This was the culmination of mass protests the year before. Now a Constitutional Convention is actively re-writing a new constitution, which will be put to the public for an up or down vote later this year. With me to talk about the ways in which

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00:57:25

Yunxiang Gao, "Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and...

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2022/03/01

Podcast: New Books in Chinese Studies (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Yunxiang Gao, "Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2021)Pub date: 2022-02-22Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and

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00:24:11

Understanding Authoritarianism: Deepening...

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2022/03/01

Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Understanding Authoritarianism: Deepening Autocratization, Dynamic Dictatorships, and ChinaPub date: 2022-02-21Authoritarian regimes have often been discussed in contrast to democratic governments and defined in terms of what they lack--namely, democratic features. Dr. Elina Sinkkonen highlights the need for a new method of conceptualizing authoritarian regimes on their own terms, by including variables like

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01:25:07

#11 In Conversation with Professor Akeel Bilgrami:...

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2022/03/01

Podcast: BeaconsfieldEpisode: #11 In Conversation with Professor Akeel Bilgrami: Gandhi, Modernity, and the Cultural CommonsPub date: 2022-02-18What is the Cultural Commons? Is there a tradition that links Burke with Nietzsche? What about Burke and Gandhi? What was Gandhi's critique of modernity? And what was Burke's, too, of Capital? Is there an Indian secularism? In this conversation it is my honour to speak with Professor Akeel Bilgrami about his past and present work in philosophy, political

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00:49:26

Jonathan Katz on ‘Gangsters of Capitalism’

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2022/02/22

Podcast: Radio Times (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Jonathan Katz on ‘Gangsters of Capitalism’Pub date: 2022-02-15A two-time Medal of Honor winner, General Smedley Butler went from spreading American imperialism in the early 20th century to places like Cuba, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and the Philippines, to despising it. Smedley, born into a prominent Main Line Quaker family outside Philadelphia, was a celebrated Marine General during the height of American expansion, but became

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00:49:38

Globalization and Asian Geopolitics — Shivshankar Menon

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2022/02/15

Podcast: In Pursuit of Development (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Globalization and Asian Geopolitics — Shivshankar MenonPub date: 2022-02-02As India’s stature across the globe increases, there is considerable interest in better understanding how its foreign policy is likely to evolve. In a new book – India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present – Shivshankar Menon examines India’s foreign and security policy choices through history, with a particular focus on India’s responses to

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00:56:57

The Fate of Colonial Elites in Post-Colonial Regimes:...

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2022/02/15

Podcast: Middle East Centre (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: The Fate of Colonial Elites in Post-Colonial Regimes: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian RevolutionPub date: 2022-02-03Dr Neil Ketchley in conversation with Professor Walter Armbrust about his current research. The post-WWII era saw coups and “revolutions from above” break out across the Middle East and North Africa. How did these events transform colonial-era state elites? We theorize that post-colonial regimes had to choose

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00:45:37

Caste Aside: The Future for China's Peasants

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2022/02/08

Podcast: The Little Red Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Caste Aside: The Future for China's PeasantsPub date: 2022-02-02By any metric, China's rural residents face massive disadvantages compared to their urban counterparts. More than half of rural teenagers are cognitively delayed, and longstanding policies restrict their mobility and access to vital services. China's peasants were one of Chairman Mao's favoured classes and the backbone of his Revolution, but what place is

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01:09:13

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

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2022/02/08

Podcast: Jewish History Matters (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: 79: Palestine and the Power of the Archive with Gil Z. HochbergPub date: 2022-02-02Join our community on Facebook | Join our mailing list In this episode, our guest is Gil Z. Hochberg, who will be speaking about how we can develop a sophisticated approach to thinking about Palestine and Israel through the concept of “the Archive.” Gil Z. Hochberg is the Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies,

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01:12:20

Mir Yarfitz, "Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work in...

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2022/02/08

Podcast: New Books in Gender (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Mir Yarfitz, "Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina" (Rutgers UP, 2019)Pub date: 2022-01-28Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina (Rutgers UP, 2019) investigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was a legal institution in Argentina and the international community knew its capital city Buenos Aires as the center of the sex industry. At the same time,

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01:12:09

Mircea Raianu, "Tata: The Global Corporation That...

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2022/02/01

Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Mircea Raianu, "Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism" (Harvard UP, 2021)Pub date: 2022-01-27Nearly a century old, the grand façade of Bombay House is hard to miss in the historic business district of Mumbai. This is the iconic global headquarters of the Tata Group. Founded in 1868, the Tatas – India’s largest business conglomerate – have been a persistent and dominant presence in the economic and

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00:58:22

Governing the Urban in China and India, with Xuefei Ren

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2022/02/01

Podcast: Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Governing the Urban in China and India, with Xuefei RenPub date: 2022-01-21Speaker: Xuefei Ren, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University Xuefei Ren is a comparative urbanist whose work focuses on urban development, governance, architecture, and the built environment in global perspective.She is the author of three award-winning books: Governing the Urban in China and

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00:56:52

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

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2022/01/25

Podcast: Talk Eastern Europe (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Episode 86: Belarus and the crisis on the EU’s borderPub date: 2022-01-15In the first episode of 2022, Talk Eastern Europe takes a comprehensive look at the situation on the border of Belarus and Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. Last year, the regime in Minsk headed by Alyaksandr Lukashenka, tried to artificially create a migration and border crisis for EU states as revenge for sanctions policies in the wake of the falsified

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00:34:51

How Would Sanctions Work Against Russia Over Ukraine?

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2022/01/25

Podcast: Ones and Tooze (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: How Would Sanctions Work Against Russia Over Ukraine?Pub date: 2022-01-14Talks with Russia to resolve the Ukraine crisis hit a dead end this week. As Foreign Policy reports, top Biden administration officials have reiterated the possibility of economic actions against Russia if it invades Ukraine. On Ones and Tooze this week, Cameron Abadi and Adam Tooze explain how potential U.S. sanctions against Russia would work, and

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