Roland Bleiker ( @rbleiker ) the Keynote Speaker of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Conference 2025 in Belfast, speaks to Marianna Karakoulaki ( @Faloulah ), Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ), and the Thinking Global team about emotions and visuality in international politics, the conference, advice to young scholars and much more. This is an episode you do not want to miss. Thinking Global is affiliated with E-International Relations - the world's leading o...
Jun 24, 2025•26 min
The Thinking Global Team bring to you the highlights from Day 3 of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Conference 2025 in Belfast. Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ), Marianna ( @Faloulah ) and Daniel speak to Mollie Schnurr (Queen’s University, Belfast), Carmen Chas (Universidad Pontificia Comillas), Charles Devellenes (University of Kent), David Murphy (University of Loughborough), Erin McNally (Lancaster University), Gemma Bird (University of Liverpool), Jason Ralph (University ...
Jun 21, 2025•53 min
The Thinking Global Team bring to you the highlights from Day 2 of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Conference 2025 in Belfast. Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ), Marianna ( @Faloulah ) and Daniel speak to Cornelia Navari (University of Birmingham/University of Buckingham), Sam Bradley (Loughborough University), Noemi Bergesio (Independent Researcher), Delia Burns (University of St Andrews), Emanuele Errichiello (LSE), David Wilcox (University of Birmingham) about the conferenc...
Jun 19, 2025•48 min
The Thinking Global Team bring to you the highlights from Day 1 of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Conference 2025 in Belfast. Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ), Marianna ( @Faloulah ) and Daniel speak to Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University), Daniela Suárez Vargas (Queen’s University, Belfast), Maxwin Paul Rayen (Kings College London), and Augustin Berea (University of St. Andrews) about the conference, the ethics of storytelling, transitional justice in conflict settings, ...
Jun 18, 2025•19 min
Arend Lijphart (University of California, San Diego) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Democracy and Consociationalism. Professor Emeritus Arend Lijphart speaks with Daniel Drury and Kieran O’Meara ( @kieranjomeara ) about Democracy in 2025, elections in 2024, majoritarian democracies, Consociationalism, and more. Don’t forget to check out Thinking Global in-person at the 2025 BISA conference in Belfast, 17th-20th June 2025, where we will be recording and live-streaming from...
Jun 02, 2025•41 min
Mark Juergensmeyer ( @juergensmeyer – University of California-Santa Barbara) speaks with the Thinking Global team about religion and global politics. Distinguished Professor Emeritus Mark Juergensmeyer speaks with Tusharika Deka ( @Tusharika24 ) about religious conflict, religious nationalism, a methodology for researching where religion and global politics meet, Professor Juergensmeyer’s latest book: ‘ Why God Needs War and War Needs God ,’ and more. Thinking Global is affiliated with ...
May 06, 2025•46 min
Noah Zerbe (@n_zerbe – California State Polytechnic, Humboldt) speaks with the Thinking Global team on the global politics of food, the economy and technology. Noah Zerbe chats with Kosta Kambouris about Globalisation, food politics, economics and more. Professor Zerbe’s YouTube channel may be found @NoahZerbe . Thinking Global is affiliated with E-International Relations - the world's leading open access website for students and scholars of international politics. If you en...
Apr 28, 2025•32 min
Aylin Matlé ( @AylinMatle - Center for Security and Defense at the German Council on Foreign Relations) speaks with the Thinking Global team on German foreign policy and transatlantic relations. Aylin Matléchats with Jennifer (@JenniferEngl ) and Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) about German Foreign Policy, transatlantic relations, NATO, Trump, US-German Relations and foreign policy following the 2025 German Elections. This is part of our 2025 German Election special series. Thinking Global...
Feb 24, 2025•31 min
Harry Hobbs ( @HarryHobbsUNSW – University of New South Wales) speaks with the Thinking Global team about micronations and micropatriology. Dr. Hobbs chats with Edward ( @edwarddcurry5 ) on micronations and the international system, the practices of legitimacy and sovereignty of micronations, their position in international law, and more. A new member of the team is also introduced, Daniel Drury, who reviews Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert. Thinking Global is affiliated with E-...
Jan 27, 2025•30 min
Simon Polinder ( @SPolinder – Utrecht University) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Love and International Relations, exploring his recent award-winning article. Dr. Polinder chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) on the concept of love, how we can use love as a lens to think about international relations, fear vs. love, love in the history of international thought and more. Dr. Polinder’s article ‘ Through the Eyes of Love’: Looking at International Politics Differently ’ won the E...
Jan 13, 2025•38 min
Trita Parsi ( @tparsi – Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft) speaks with the Thinking Global team about US foreign policy towards the Middle East after the 2024 Presidential election. Professor Trita Parsi chats with Edward ( @edwarddcurry5 ) and Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) on Trump’s Middle East foreign policy, US-Israel relations, the Abraham Accords, relations with Türkiye, and more. This is the fourth episode of our 2024 US Elections series. Thinking Global is affiliated with ...
Dec 02, 2024•23 min
James Goldgeier ( @JimGoldgeier – American University) speaks with the Thinking Global team about US foreign policy after the 2024 Presidential election. Prof. Goldgeier chats with Edward ( @edwarddcurry5 ) and Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) on the future of US foreign policy, NATO, Sino-US relations, transatlantic relations, European security and more. This is the third episode of our 2024 US Elections series and was recorded before the election was held. Thinking Global is affiliated with ...
Nov 18, 2024•23 min
Michael W. Mosser (University of Texas at Austin - @mwmosser ) and Dan G. Cox (US Army School of Advanced Military Studies) speak with the Thinking Global team about disinformation, cyberattacks and the possibility of insurgency in the US at the 2024 Election. Dr. Mosser and Prof. Cox chat with Edward ( @edwarddcurry5 ) and Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) on an article they recently published, conceptualising misinformation, the history and function of cyberattacks at US elections, the possibili...
Nov 04, 2024•31 min
David Anderson (University of St. Andrews - @scotswoodworker @StAndrewsIR ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Judith Shklar and International Relations in Part Two of our two-part series. David Anderson chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) about Civil Disobedience, cruelty, our duty to transnational civil disobedience, and using Shklar in thinking about International Relations. Thinking Global is affiliated with E-International Relations - the world's leading op...
Oct 21, 2024•34 min
David Anderson (University of St. Andrews - @scottwoodworker @StAndrewsIR ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Judith Shklar and International Relations in part one of a two-part series. David Anderson chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) about who the political theorist Judith N. Shklar was and the qualities of her political thinking in part one of this two-part series. Thinking Global is affiliated with E-International Relations - the world's leading open acces...
Oct 14, 2024•34 min
Chase Oliver (Libertarian Party US Presidential Nominee - @ChaseForLiberty @LPNational ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Libertarian US Foreign Policy, Non-intervention, trade, climate change and more. Chase Oliver chats with Edward ( @edwarddcurry5 ) and Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) about what his Libertarian foreign policy for the US would entail if he were to win the upcoming US Presidential Election in November 2024 as the nominee of the third largest party in the US. He also t...
Oct 07, 2024•38 min
Marsha Henry (Queen’s University Belfast - @mghacademic @QUBelfast ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about her new book The End of Peacekeeping: Gender, Race, and the Martial Politics of Intervention (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024). Prof. Henry chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) and Marianna ( @Faloulah ) about peacekeeping, researching peacekeeping operations, Critical Race Theory, Black Feminism, anthropological methods, and more. Thinking Global is affiliated with ...
Sep 16, 2024•49 min
This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, Jennifer Engl (@JenniferEngl ), Romanos Orpheas Tofis ( @rmnorph ), and our new co-host, Kosta Kambouris, chat with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) about what they've been reading in the fourth instalment of The Laid-Back Book Club. Thinking Global is affiliated with E International Relations - the world's leading open access website for students and scholars of international politics. Please send letters of correspondence to thinkingg...
Sep 02, 2024•36 min
Marilou Bayard Trépanier of Last Generation Canada ( @lastgencanada ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about the current Oil Kills uprising ( @_oilkills ). Marilou chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) and Daniel McDaid about the aims of Oil Kills, the practice of direct non-violent global civil disobedience, the impact of their action, the substance of a Fossil Fuel non-proliferation treaty, and more. For more information, visit the Oil Kills Website . Thinking Global is affiliated wit...
Aug 19, 2024•28 min
In the fifth and final episode of our 2024 UK General Election special series, the Thinking Global team discuss the outcome of the election through an International Relations lens. Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) speaks with Jennifer (@JenniferEngl ), Marianna ( @Faloulah ), and Edward ( @edwarddcurry5 ) about some of the more interesting aspects of this election, before each editor gives their own thoughts. Please send us your letters to thinkingglobal.eir@gmail.com telling us your though...
Jul 05, 2024•42 min
Catarina M. Liberato (University of Kent - @CataMLiberato @UniKentPolitics ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about ‘Global Britain’ in The Post-Brexit Context and the 2024 UK General Election. Catarina chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) about ‘Global Britain’, post-Brexit foreign policy, globality of foreign policy, this election, and more. This is the fourth episode in our 2024 UK General Election special series, posting a new episode every day in the week leading up to the J...
Jul 04, 2024•41 min
Patrick J. Vernon (Kings College London - @paddyjvernon @warstudies ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Queer International Relations and the 2024 UK General Election. Patrick Vernon chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) about Queer IR, how it intersects with this election, queer epistemology, their most recent work The Coloniality of Humanitarian Intervention , and more. This is the third episode in our 2024 UK General Election special series, posting a new episode every day...
Jul 03, 2024•47 min
Evie Aspinall (British Foreign Policy Group - @EvieAspinall_ , @TheBFPG ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about British foreign relations and the 2024 UK General Election. Evie Aspinall chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) about British foreign relations at this General Election, soft power, the foreign policy proposals of the different parties, and more. This is the second episode in our 2024 UK General Election special series, posting a new episode every day in the week leadin...
Jul 02, 2024•27 min
Christopher Hill (University of Cambridge - @Dept_of_POLIS ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about the future of British foreign policy and The 2024 UK General Election. Prof. Hill chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) on conceptualising ‘foreign policy’ itself, British foreign policy after Brexit, the central thesis of his The Future of British Foreign Policy , how this election intertwines with foreign policy discourse, and more. This is the first episode in our 2024 UK General...
Jul 01, 2024•56 min
Prof. Robert Fatton, Jr. speaks with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) and Edward ( @edwarddcurry5 ) in the second of our two-part series on the international politics of Haiti and Caribbean affairs, focussing on Haiti in the ‘outer periphery’ of the global economic system, humanitarian intervention, CARICOM, and more. Thinking Global is affiliated with E-International Relations - the world's leading open access website for students and scholars of international politics. If you...
Jun 24, 2024•31 min
Kevin Bloor (Author and Teacher) speaks with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) about the A-Level Global Politics course, his book Understanding Global Politics (2022) , how to think about the exam, structuring essays, and more. Thinking Global is affiliated with E-International Relations - the world's leading open access website for students and scholars of international politics. If you enjoy the output of E-International Relations, please consider a donation ....
Jun 10, 2024•43 min
Prof. Robert Fatton Jr. speaks with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) and Edward ( @edwarddcurry5 ) in the first of a two-part series on the international politics of Haiti and Caribbean affairs, focussing on Haiti’s marginalisation in the ‘outer periphery’ of the global economic system. Thinking Global is affiliated with E-International Relations - the world's leading open access website for students and scholars of international politics. If you enjoy the output of E-Internati...
Jun 03, 2024•47 min
Kathleen McInnis ( @kjmcinnis1 - Center for Strategic and International Studies) speaks with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) and Jennifer ( @JenniferEngl ) about podcasting the political, her ‘Smart Women, Smart Power’ programme, and so much more. Thinking Global is affiliated with E-International Relations - the world's leading open access website for students and scholars of international politics. If you enjoy the output of International Relations, please consid...
May 20, 2024•43 min
Ajay Gudavarthy (Jawaharlal Nehru University) speaks with the Thinking Global team about The 2024 Indian Elections. Dr. Gudavarthy chats with Tusharika ( @Tusharika24 ) about the Congress Party of India, its history, the 2024 Indian Elections and more. This is the third episode of our multilingual ‘India Votes’ series of 2024. Thinking Global is affiliated with E-International Relations - the world's leading open access website for students and scholars of international po...
May 14, 2024•47 min
Dean Vuletic (University of Luxembourg) speaks with the Thinking Global team about the Eurovision Song Contest, its history, how it connects to international politics, and more - all ahead of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday the 11th May 2024 in Malmö, Sweden. Thinking Global is affiliated with E-International Relations - the world's leading open access website for students and scholars of international politics. If you enjoy the output of E-International Relatio...
May 06, 2024•46 min
