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JUN 7, 2019 Journal

A Theory of Global Governance: Authority, Legitimacy, and Contestation, by Michael Zürn

In this book, Zürn’s ambition is to demonstrate that a global-politics paradigm is now increasingly well established. Along the way, he mounts a ...

JUN 7, 2019 Journal

Global Health Governance in International Society, by Jeremy Youde

In this book, Jeremy Youde applies one of the grande dames of IR theory—the English School—to the setting of global health. The result ...

JUN 6, 2019 Podcast

Global Ethics Weekly: A Firsthand Account of Electrification in Myanmar, with Christina Madden

Christina Madden, now a director at Criterion Institute, discusses her work on Myanmar's massive electrification project in 2013-2014. With less than one-third of the population ...

Meeting of leaders at the Belt and Road International Forum, May 2017, Beijing. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roundtable_meeting_of_leaders_at_Belt_and_Road_international_forum.jpg"> Russian Presidential Press & Information Office (CC)</a>

JUN 5, 2019 Podcast

China, Surveillance, and "Belt & Road" with Joshua Eisenman

Just back from China, Sinologist (and fluent Mandarin speaker) Joshua Eisenman discusses the pervasive camera surveillance and facial recognition systems there; the omnipresent power of "...

L to R: Henry Farrell, Stephen Del Rosso, Michael Desch. CREDIT: Billy Pickett.

JUN 5, 2019 Podcast

A Debate: Political Science is Lapsing into Irrelevance, with Michael Desch & Henry Farrell

What is the current state of the academic-policy gap and why should we care? What progress has been made in bridging this gap? What more ...

JUN 3, 2019 Journal Online Exclusive

More Emerging Narratives for U.S. Foreign Policy

President Erdoğan & President Trump at the White House, May 2017. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/148748355@N05/33875862824"> Shealah Craighead/Public Domain</a>

JUN 3, 2019 Podcast

How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship, with Ece Temelkuran

In her new book, award-winning Turkish novelist and political commentator Ece Temelkuran lays out the seven steps from democracy to dictatorship. "Some of these steps ...

The Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_nest_of_fireworks_-_panoramio.jpg">wuqiang_beijing (CC)</a>

MAY 31, 2019 Podcast

China, the Olympics, & Influence, with Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian

Washington DC-based journalist Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian speaks with Senior Fellow Devin Stewart about a new article she authored in "The Atlantic" with Senior Fellow Zach Dorfman ...

MAY 31, 2019 Journal Online Exclusive

Emerging Narratives for U.S. Foreign Policy

MAY 30, 2019 Podcast

Global Ethics Weekly: Iran Tensions & Secretary Shanahan, with Asha Castleberry

National security expert and U.S. Army veteran Asha Castleberry breaks down the rising tensions with Iran and John Bolton's influence at the White House. ...