New Books in World Affairs
Interviews with Scholars of Global Affairs about their New Books
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- http://newbooksnetwork.com/category/peoples-places/world-affairs/
- Description
- Interviews with Scholars of Global Affairs about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-11-24 09:08
- last episode published
- 2024-11-24 09:00
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- 3.43 days
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- Marshall Poe
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- 1771
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| 2024-11-24 | International development projects supported by governments of wealthy countries, international financial institutions, and influential NGOs like the Gates Foundation purport to uplift poor or disadvantaged populations through political, economic, and ... |
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| 2024-11-24 |
Middle East on the Brink: Escalation, Diplomacy, and the Search for Stability Recent developments in the Middle East have raised concern about the potential for a wider regional war. What do escalating tensions in Gaza, Lebanon, and beyond mean for the future? Join RBI Director John Torpey as he discusses the complexities of the... |
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| 2024-11-21 |
Erica Benner, "Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power" (Penguin, 2024) Democracy is a living, breathing thing and Dr. Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about the role ordinary citizens play in keeping it alive: from her childhood in post-war Japan, where democracy was imposed on a defeated country, to working in ... |
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| 2024-11-21 | Whether it’s in commerce or conflict, today’s world pays rapt attention to the Persian Gulf. But the centrality of the Gulf to world history stretches far beyond the oil age–its ancient ports created the first proper trading system and the launching po... |
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| 2024-11-21 | Darwin called the Galápagos archipelago “a little world within itself,” unaffected by humans and set on its own evolutionary path – strange, diverse, and unique. Islands are repositories of unique cultures and ways of living, seed banks built up in rel... |
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| 2024-11-19 | In the first few years after the Russian Revolution, an ideological project coalesced to link the development of what Stalin demarcated as the internal "East"—primarily Central Asia and the Caucasus—with nation-building, the overthrow of colonialism, a... |
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| 2024-11-18 | Since the global financial crisis that began in 2008, the role of the financial sector in contemporary capitalism has come under increasing scrutiny. In the global North, the expansion of the financial sector over the last 40 years has paralleled a dec... |
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| 2024-11-15 |
How Can Going Inside the Political Mind Help Us to Better Understand Development? Why do efforts to build effective states and deliver services to citizens so often go wrong? And how can understanding the inside of the political mind empower us to achieve better results? In this podcast, Nic Cheeseman talks to Greg Power about his i... |
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| 2024-11-09 |
Jeremy Black, "Introduction to Global Military History: 1775 to the Present Day" (Routledge, 2018) Introduction to Global Military History:: 1775 to the Present Day (Routledge, 2018) provides a lucid and comprehensive account of military developments around the modern world from the eighteenth century up to the present day. Beginning with the backgr... |
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| 2024-11-08 | From the U.S. lead negotiator on climate change, an inside account of the seven-year negotiation that culminated in the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015—and where the international climate effort needs to go from here. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climat... |
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