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Amitav Acharya, "The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survi…

1/12/2026 • 56 min

Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, the West has been in crisis. Social unrest, political polarization, and the rise of other great powers—especially China—threaten to unravel today’s Western-led world order. Many fear this would lead to global chaos. But the West has never had a monopoly on order.Surveying five thousand years of global history, politica… Play episode

Eve Warburton, "Resource Nationalism in Indonesia: Booms, Big Business, an…
Heather Smith-Cannoy et al., "Sex Trafficking and Human Rights: The Status…
David Broder, "Mussolini's Grandchildren: Fascism in Contemporary Italy" (…
Thomas Albert Howard, "Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern Histor…
Mary E. Stuckey, "Remembering Jefferson: Who He Was, Who We Are" (UP of Ka…
Charles G. Thomas, "Ujamaa's Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanza…
Dylan Loh, "China's Rising Foreign Ministry: Practices and Representations…
What happens when liberalism stops feeling like a victory and starts feeli…
Florentine Koppenborg, "Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safet…
James Greenwood-Reeves, "Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in D…
Philip A. Wallach, "Why Congress" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Bernard Forjwuor, "Critique of Political Decolonization" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Danielle Allen, "Justice by Means of Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Amitav Acharya, "Tragic Nation: Burma--Why and How Democracy Failed" (Peng…
Joel S. Wit, "Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm Nor…
Jonathan Sumption, "The Challenges of Democracy: And the Rule of Law" (Pro…
Paul Kelly, "Against Postliberalism: Why ‘Family, Faith and Flag’ is a Dea…
Weila Gong, "Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chine…
Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism’s High Tide: A Conversation with Howard W…
Jeff Roche, "The Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New R…
Celina Su, "Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidari…
Matt Sleat, "Post-Liberalism" (Polity, 2025)
Stephen Skowronek, "The Adaptability Paradox: Political Inclusion and Cons…
Peace A. Medie, "Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Viole…
The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies
Mark Griffiths, "Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine" (U Minnesota…
Brooke Barbier, "King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Foundin…
Is a River Alive?: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane
Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Yoram Hazony, "Conservatism: A Rediscovery" (Regnery Publishing, 2022)
Philip Rocco, "Counting Like a State: How Intergovernmental Partnerships S…
Joe Greenwood-Hau," Capital, Privilege and Political Participation" (Liver…
Nina Wilén, "Securitizing the Sahel: Analyzing External Interventions and …
Democracy and Freedom: The Role of Philanthropy and Education
Emily Callaci, "Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Lab…
Killian Clarke, "Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and Succ…
160* Hannah Arendt's Refugee Politics (JP)
Can Feminism be African?: A Conversation with Minna Salami
Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fa…
Nicholas Buccola, "One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle Ov…
On Democracy and B******t with Hélène Landemore
Lisa Vanhala, "Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss and Da…
Wolfgang Wagner, "The Democratic Politics of Military Interventions" (Oxfo…
Two Decades On: The African Union, Power, and Africa’s Democratic Future
Clint Smith, "How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slav…
E. Alaverdov and M. W. Bari, "Cultural Heritage Protection and Restoration…
Ihnji Jon, "Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics" (P…
What Democracy Does… and Does Not Do

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