Danny Dorling (University of Oxford - @dannydorling @oxfordgeography ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about human geography, Brexit, ‘Shattered Nation’ ( @VersoBooks ), inequality, human progress, influenza, rising mortality rates 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 dona...
Apr 29, 2024•36 min
Arvind Kumar (Royal Holloway, The University of London - @arvind_kumar__ ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about The 2024 Indian Elections. Dr. Kumar chats with Tusharika ( @Tusharika24 ) about the significance of these elections, who the key political figures and parties in India are, class-based minor parties, candidate selection procedure, and more. This is the second episode of our multilingual ‘India Votes’ series of 2024. Thinking Global is affiliated with E-International...
Apr 15, 2024•50 min
Arvind Kumar (Royal Holloway, The University of London - @arvind_kumar__ ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about The 2024 Indian Elections - in Hindi. Dr. Kumar chats with Tusharika ( @Tusharika24 ) about the significance of these elections, who the key political figures and parties in India are, class-based minor parties, candidate selection procedure, and more. This is the second episode of our multilingual ‘India Votes’ series of 2024. Thinking Global is affiliated with E-In...
Apr 14, 2024•33 min
Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary, University of London - @QMHistory ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Contextualism, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and more. Professor Skinner chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) and Tusharika ( @Tusharika24 ) about what contextualism is as a methodological approach to political thought, how he applies this to Machiavelli and Hobbes, and how this relays back to what it is to think about global politics. Thinking Global is affiliated with E-Interna...
Apr 08, 2024•50 min
Rahul Verma (Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi - @rahul_tverma ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about The 2024 Indian Elections. Dr. Verma chats with Tusharika ( @Tusharika24 ) about the Indian electoral system, the party system of India, forecasting the outcome, the effect of ‘regional’ parties, how these elections may have a global effect, and so much more. Additionally, check out Rahul’s co-authored book Ideology and Identity: The Changing Party Systems of India (2018, Oxford Univ...
Mar 31, 2024•44 min
G. John Ikenberry (Princeton University @Princeton ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Liberal International Order in part two of a two-part series. Prof. G. John Ikenberry chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) about critiques of the Liberal international order in relation to the Russo Ukrainian War, the global south and modernity, alongside the major overarching qualities of liberal internationalism. Prof. Ikenberry’s latest article for International Affairs , ‘Three Worlds: the W...
Mar 25, 2024•38 min
G. John Ikenberry (Princeton University @Princeton ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Liberal International Order in part one of a two-part series. Prof. G. John Ikenberry chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) about conceptualising Liberal International Order, the ‘crisis’ of Liberal Order, and how the Russian Invasion of Ukraine fits into this picture. Prof. Ikenberry’s latest article for International Affairs , ‘Three Worlds: the West, East and South and the competition to shape...
Mar 18, 2024•36 min
Fawaz Gerges (London School of Economics and Political Science, @FawazGerges , @LSEIRDept , @lseideas ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about The Middle East and The Israeli-Hamas Conflict. Prof. Fawaz Gerges chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) and Edward ( @edwarddcurry5 ) about his latest book What Really Went Wrong: The West and The Failure of Democracy in the Middle East (Yale University Press, 2024 - available to pre-order), conceptualising the Middle East, political Islam, Pan-...
Mar 11, 2024•57 min
Dimitrios Stroikos (London School of Economics - @DStroikos , @LSEIRDept , @lseideas ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Space and International Relations. Dr. Dimitrios Stroikos chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) and Romanos ( @rmnorph ) on Security in outer Space, a ‘new space race’, the militarization of space, sovereignty in outer space, conflict in space, alongside China and India’s weapons capabilities in outer space. Thinking Global is affiliated with E-Internat...
Mar 04, 2024•48 min
This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, Romanos ( @rmnorph ) and Edward ( @edwarddcurry5 ) chat with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) about what they've been reading in the third instalment of The Laid-Back Book Club. Edward speaks about ‘ Water: Asia’s New Battleground ’, Romanos talks about ‘ Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine ’, and Kieran chats about ‘ Conspiracy and Power ’ , ‘ Queer International Relations ’, and ‘ The Quest For Knowledge in International Relations .’ Thinking Global ...
Feb 19, 2024•22 min
George Lawson (Australia National University - @GeorgeLawsonIR ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Revolution and international relations in the second episode of two-parts. Prof. George Lawson chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) and Catharine ( @catharinedamron ) about why we should think of revolutions as international or global phenomena, ‘Unruly Politics’, ‘negotiated revolutions’, and more. Thinking Global is affiliated with E-International Relations - the...
Feb 12, 2024•40 min
George Lawson (Australia National University - @GeorgeLawsonIR ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Revolution and international relations in part one of a two-part series. Prof. George Lawson chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) and Catharine ( @catharinedamron ) on conceptualising Revolution, the debates within comparative political and sociological studies about revolution, whether history or comparative theory is more significant when thinking about revolution, and what ‘anatom...
Feb 05, 2024•31 min
Maria Popova (McGill University - @PopovaProf @mcgillu ) and Oxana Shevel (Tufts University - @OxanaShevel @TuftsPolSci ) speak with the Thinking Global team about the conflict and politics between Russia and Ukraine. Professors Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel chat with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) and Jennifer (@JenniferEngl ) about the factors that led to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, NATO expansion and ‘westsplaining’, Regime divergence, identity, war fatigue and holding perpetrat...
Jan 29, 2024•44 min
Joseph S. Nye Jr. (Harvard Kennedy School - @Kennedy_School ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about US Foreign Policy, Soft Power, Theory and more. Prof. Joseph S. Nye. Jr. chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) and Edward ( @edwarddcurry5 ) about his latest book A Life In The American Century (Polity, 2024), soft power, international relations theory, US Foreign Policy, the current crisis in the Middle East, and the question of US decline. Thinking Global is affiliated with E...
Jan 22, 2024•38 min
Simon Curtis (University of Surrey - @UniOfSurrey @SurreyPolitics ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about the ‘global city’ and international relations. Dr. Simon Curtis chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) and Romanos ( @rmnorph ) on conceptualising the ‘global city’, the role of the urban in the global order, why we should focus more on ‘the urban’ in International Relations, China and the Belt and Road Initiative in such a schema, and the future of the global city in a post-pandemi...
Jan 15, 2024•53 min
Genevieve Guenther (End Climate Science, The New School – @DoctorVive ) speaks with the Thinking Global Team about COP28, Climate Language, Communication and Misinformation. Dr. Guenther chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) and Catharine ( @catharinedamron ) on how to conceptualise ‘climate crisis’, COP28, how the media, activists and diplomats communicate and miscommunicate the key facts of the climate crisis, and how climate politics is bound-up with language. Thinking Global is affiliat...
Jan 08, 2024•53 min
Jamie Gaskarth (The Open University - @GaskarthJamie ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about British Foreign Policy, Brexit, The Commonwealth, David Cameron and William Hague. Prof. Gaskarth chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) and Romanos ( @rmnorph ) about defining features of British Foreign Policy, the ‘indo-pacific’ tilt, the status of the Commonwealth following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, what we should expect from David Cameron ( @David_Cameron ) as Foreign Secretary, the ...
Dec 18, 2023•51 min
Maurice Stierl (Osnabrück University - @MauriceStierl ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about migration and the weaponization of time, borders and migrant solidarity. Dr. Stierl chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) and Marianna ( @Faloulah ) about how time can be weaponised, how this relates to EU Maritime Migration Policy, migrant resistance and solidarity, the entanglement of borders, and resistance as method. Additionally, check out Maurice’s article in Security Dialogue : Rebel sp...
Dec 11, 2023•32 min
Giorgio Shani (International Christian University, Tokyo - @GiorgioShani ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Sikh Nationalism and Post-Western IR. Prof. Shani speaks with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) and Tusharika ( @Tusharika24 ) about Sikh Nationalism, The Khalistan Movement, tensions between Canada and India concerning Sikh Nationalism, how this is distinct from Hindu Nationalism, and what it is to conceive of a Post-Western IR. Additionally, check out Giorgio's recent article for...
Nov 20, 2023•36 min
Natasha Saunders (University of St. Andrews - @NEGSaunders ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Refugees, Digital Border Technologies and The Violence of Asylum. Dr. Saunders chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) about the distinction between refugee status and asylum, the 'slow violence' of the latter, digital border technologies, current UK policy towards asylum seekers and refugees, and the manner in which resistance manifests to these. Additionally, check out Natasha's article in ...
Nov 06, 2023•48 min
Elena Şimanschi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - @ESimanschi ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Russian (dis)information on Ukraine. Elena chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) and Catharine Damron ( @catharinedamron ) about what (dis)information is, what its major mechanisms are, how it materialises, its connection with emotion and memory, alongside the findings of her empirical study. Additionally, check out Elena's article in International Affairs 'Fabricating a War...
Oct 23, 2023•28 min
Megan MacKenzie (Simon Fraser University - @SFU ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Military Sexual Violence (MSV) and her new book Good Soldiers Don't Rape , available from Cambridge University Press. Professor MacKenzie chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) and Abigail about what Military Sexual Violence is, exploring sexual violence in conflict through a gendered lens, how military exceptionalism links to MSV, media coverage of MSV globally, the ethics and methodology of co...
Oct 16, 2023•29 min
Dov Waxman (University of California, Los Angeles - @DovWaxman ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about The ongoing Israel-Hamas War. Prof. Waxman speaks with Kieran and Edward about what has occurred in Israel and Gaza since the morning of October 7th, whether we should consider this a Third Intifada, if this will lead to a new generation of Palestinian refugees in the region, the extent to which the recent Israeli judicial crisis and increased numbers of settlers in the West Bank ...
Oct 09, 2023•26 min
Seán Molloy (University of Kent - @SeanMolloyIR ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Realist Ethics and the work of E.H. Carr. Dr. Molloy chats with Kieran about what 'Realism' as a school of IR theorising is, how considering Realism as amoral or immoral is incorrect, responses to and misinterpretation of Carr's ' The Twenty Years Crisis' , the importance of hermeneutics, what Carr's 'impure' or 'inconsistent' ethics looks like, and how figures like Mearsheimer fit into this di...
Sep 25, 2023•57 min
This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, Marianna Karakoulaki ( @Faloulah ) and Edward Curry ( @edwarddcurry5 ) - two of the E-International Relations and Thinking Global team- chat with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) about what they have been reading recently. Thinking Global is now recruiting for Podcast Editorial Assistants - If you would like to apply, click HERE . Don't forget to follow us on Instagram and TikTok for exclusive content! Thinking Global is affiliated with E-International Relation...
Sep 18, 2023•25 min
Kosuke Shimizu (Ryukoku University, Kyoto - @caatc105 ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about the Kyoto School and 'Non-Western' International Relations. With Kieran and Edoardo, Professor Shimizu explores how we can cast 'non-western' International Relations, how the Kyoto School of philosophy can help us think about global politics, the concept of 'relationality,' and the manner in which 'non-western' International Relations thinking intersects with certain methodological ques...
Sep 04, 2023•26 min
Sarrah Kassem (University of Tübingen - @KassemSarrah ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about the global politics of the platform economy. Dr. Kassem chats with Kieran about what the platform economy is, how the politics of such an economy is global, the alienation experienced by Amazon workers globally, and the manner in which platform workers hold both power and agency on the global level. Dr. Kassem's book ' Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy ' can be purchased from Br...
Aug 28, 2023•47 min
Alexander Lanoszka (University of Waterloo - @ALanoszka) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Military Alliances and NATO Enlargement. Lanoszka speaks with Kieran about how to conceptualise military alliances, the effect of Nuclear proliferation on alliances, the importance of multilateral alliances today, why we should 'thank goodness' for NATO expansion and the effect of the Russo-Ukrainian War on NATO. Dr. Lanoszka's book 'Military Alliances in the Twenty First Century' can be ...
Aug 21, 2023•38 min
Bruce Pannier (@BrucePannier) and Temur Umarov (Fellow, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Centre @TUmarov) speak with the Thinking Global Team about the regional politics of Central Asia. Mr. Pannier and Mr. Umarov chat with Kieran and Ismail about the history of Russia's dominance in the region, how the region has been effected by the Russo-Ukraine war, regional ties with China, the potential for conflict, and how we should think about current widespread protest in the region. Thinking Global is affiliat...
Aug 14, 2023•40 min
Mauricio Palma-Gutiérrez (University of Warwick - @xmpalmax ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about migration and displacement in South America. Palma-Gutiérrez discusses with Kieran and Daniel the causes and effects of migration from Venezuela, how those states along the Andes are changing their perception and policy towards migration, how such policy is different to that of EU states, and the role of international institutions in the global migration crisis. Thinking Global is affil...
Jul 31, 2023•42 min
