There's never been a better time to understand what's going on in Asia. That's why we talk to the people who know it best. The Asia In-Depth podcast brings you conversations with the world's leading experts and thought-leaders on the politics, economics, and culture of Asia — and beyond. Subscribe today.
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ASIA PACIFIC TODAY covers hot topics in Business, Politics, Economics and Societies in our region. Host Mike Ryan interviews leaders of influence from Business, Government, Academe, Arts and Entertainment throughout the Asia Pacific. New Episodes are uploaded weekly. As part of our programming, THE NARRATIVE is an issues-oriented show. It discusses, debates and at times exposes the hot news stories, controversies and issues of the day.
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Interviews with scholars of diplomacy, international relations, and geopolitics about their new books.
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Welcome to Pending Presidency, the podcast where political and historical experts discuss the latest news on the 2024 US election. Hosted by Deakin’s Dr Clare Corbould and Dr Zim Nwokora, tune in for a thought-provoking discussion where everything is on the table. Will Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? What do Australians think of the election? What do the latest opinion polls in Australia look like? This podcast is brought to you by the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University. Ple ...
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Bullet Train is a podcast produced by Asia Pacific Arts, an online magazine based in Los Angeles that has been covering pan-Asian arts and entertainment since 2003. Launched in February 2015, Bullet Train features pop culture stories connecting Asia with the rest of the world. We'll travel from Chinese dramas, K-pop and Bollywood to YouTube, karaoke and comic books and take you where you didn't even know you wanted to go.
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The Gensler Design Podcast brings experts in architecture, design and technology together and discuss the future of cities in the Asia Pacific and Middle East region.
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Tokyo based radio broadcaster Guy Perryman interviews movers and shakers in global entertainment and creative business about their projects, life journey and the power of music, all from the perspective of being in Japan.
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Welcome to Lowy Institute Conversations – a podcast in which Lowy Institute researchers and some of the world’s leading experts delve into the big issues in international affairs.
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25 years has gone since one of the most progressive agendas for women’s rights and gender equality came about: The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. As time has gone by, feminists around the world are taking stock, where are we now and how far has we yet to go in our quest for social and gender justice? Listen to interviews with activists from around the world that was conducted at the regional Beijing+25 forums in Europe/Central Asia and Asia-Pacific. The podcast is led by Women’ ...
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‘INSPIRING INDEPENDENCE THROUGH TRAVEL’Despite losing my sight (registered blind/legally blind) due to a genetic version of Macular Dystrophy some 20 years ago, I still travel extensively mostly by myself. A great deal of travel is playing in blind/disabled golf events worldwide as I am one of the top blind/disabled golfers in the world having won 16 major titles in blind and disabled golf.I am posting podcasts from my travels around the world, Tibet, the USA, South Africa, the Khyber Pass i ...
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The Centre for Corporate Public Affairs is a membership-based organisation acknowledged internationally as a thought leader by business leaders, academics and professionals working in the field of corporate public affairs in the Asia-Pacific region. Each episode examines an aspect of best practice in corporate public affairs internationally, providing insight and guidance to public affairs practitioners working in corporations, connecting public affairs practitioners with ideas and practical ...
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Mythology extends past the Greek and Roman pantheon, and European fairy tales are only one section in the worldwide folklore lexicon. Every other Monday, join your host Gree, long time folk tale fan and short time global studies scholar, as we delve into stories from traditionally overlooked cultures from all over the planet. If you’re interested in hearing about myths and fables and legends from civilizations that have honed storytelling over thousands of years, “Colored Folklore” is the po ...
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Move8 Fitness Movement | Meet people who are FIT for GOOD
AFT Podcasts by AsiaFitnessToday.com | Co-hosted by Jasmine H. Low & Nikki Yeo
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Move8 • Move It • MoveAID is a fitness movement that advocates wellness education and action, making fitness accessible to all layers of society. The movement was founded by co-hosts Nikki Yeo & Jasmine Low as a way to get more people moving; head outdoors to enjoy nature and living their best lives. They get up close with everyday heroes who use their own fitness for good and find out what’s their secret to happiness.
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With the Great Indian Marketing Show, Aadil Bandukwala and Kaushik Satish bring you stories and experiences of marketing leaders behind some of the most pioneering brands in the world. They aim to uncover not just what marketers do, but how. And to do it in a way, that's fun, creative and compelling. The show cuts through the jargon, eschews the 30,000 feet view and gets to the brass tacks. At the end of every podcast, we want you to walk away discovering something new; something that adds v ...
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Welcome to the "Fidinam Podcast", your gateway to the vibrant world of business and investment opportunities worldwide. Fidinam is a private consulting firm founded in 1960 in Lugano, Switzerland, that provides tax, business, real estate and digital consulting services to companies, entrepreneurs and individuals. We are dedicated to helping businesses navigate the landscape of different jurisdictions. Throughout our podcast, we'll explore the appeal of countries like Vietnam, China and many ...
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Michael Jabara Carley, "Stalin's Gamble: The Search for Allies Against Hitler, 1930-1936" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
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Shedding light on the origins of the Second World War in Europe, Stalin's Gamble: The Search for Allies Against Hitler, 1930-1936 (University of Toronto Press, 2023) aims to create a historical narrative of the relations of the USSR with Britain, France, the United States, Poland, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Romania during the 1930s. The bo…
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Conversations: Understanding influence in Southeast Asia
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Southeast Asia is one of the most geopolitically diverse and contested regions of the world. But does China or the United States have more influence? And is it even accurate to describe the region’s geopolitics in these terms? Research Director Hervé Lemahieu talks with two of the authors of the newly launched Southeast Asia Influence Index, Susann…
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A conversation with Zebulon Ellis – gospel singer based in Atlanta who performed live with Acid Jazz legends Incognito in Tokyo in December 2024 and sung on their music track Strangers Become Friends released in July 2025. Ellis shares his musical and spiritual journey, the joy of collaborating with Incognito's Bluey, his happiest place, enjoying a…
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Conversations: Understanding global democratic decline
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We're in a global democratic recession. Not only is the number of democratic nations in decline, but so are democratic institutions and norms. What's going on? Sam Roggeveen talks with Lydia Khalil, co-author of the Lowy Institute's newest interactive, Understanding Democratic Erosion, about the complex dynamics and whether there is a way back. See…
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Adam R. C. Humphreys and Hidemi Suganami, "Causal Inquiry in International Relations" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Causal Inquiry in International Relations (Oxford UP, 2024) by Adam R. C. Humphreys and Hidemi Suganami defends a new, philosophically informed account of the principles which must underpin any causal research in a discipline such as International Relations. Its central claim is that there is an underlying logic to all causal inquiry, at the core o…
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A conversation with Joya Mooi - singer/songwriter from the Dutch R&B scene with a soulful voice and songs who was in Japan for the first time for live shows in September 2025. Mooi shares stories of her musical journey including her writing being inspired by historical moments and people including a pioneering doctor in South Africa and a portrait …
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A conversation with Bnnyhunna – musician from the Dutch R&B scene whose soulful music has West African influences and was in Japan for the first time for live shows in September 2025. Bnnyhunna shares stories about his musical journey including winning the 2025 Edison Pop Award (the Dutch equivalent of the Grammy Awards) in the Soul/R&B/Funk catego…
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George Papaconstantinou and Jean Pisani-Ferry, "New World New Rules: Global Cooperation in a World of Geopolitical Rivalries" (Agenda, 2024)
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The need for collective action has never been greater, but geopolitics, structural changes and diverging preferences mean that existing global governance arrangements, devised at Bretton Woods in the 1940s, are either unravelling or outmoded. Reconciling this contradiction is today's pressing global policy challenge. In New World New Rules: Global …
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The 19th-Century Melbourne-born Idea That Could Heal America’s Politics
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Welcome to Season Two of Presidency Upending! In this first episode, Clare and Zim dive into the complexities of American politics with Professor Edward. B Foley of Ohio State University, who is widely regarded as one of the nation’s top experts on election law. During his visit to Melbourne, Foley delivered a lecture on Australia’s Edward Nanson, …
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Zach Fredman and Judd Kinzley eds., "Uneasy Allies: Sino-American Relations at the Grassroots, 1937–1949" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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This timely collection of essays examines Sino-American relations during the Second World War, the Chinese Civil War and the opening of the Cold War. Drawing on new sources uncovered in China, Taiwan, the UK and the US, the authors demonstrate how 'grassroots' engagements - not just elite diplomacy - established the trans-Pacific networks that both…
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Michael Poznansky, "Great Power, Great Responsibility: How the Liberal International Order Shapes US Foreign Policy" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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In the wake of World War II, the United States leveraged its hegemonic position in the international political system to gradually build a new global order centered around democracy, the expansion of free market capitalism, and the containment of communism. Named in retrospect the "liberal international order" (LIO), the system took decades to buil…
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Peter Sparding, "No Better Friend? The United States and Germany Since 1945" (Hurst, 2024)
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The German-American relationship is the decisive transatlantic dynamic of our time. Long seen as one of the most stable connections between Europe and America thanks to its well-defined Cold War structure and hierarchy, relations between Washington and Berlin have become much more volatile in the twenty-first century-- and are playing an increasing…
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Thomas Graham, "Getting Russia Right" (Polity Press, 2023)
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“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia,” Winston Churchill once said. “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” That saying sounds as true now as ever in the midst of Russia’s war in Ukraine. In Getting Russia Right (Polity Press, 2023), however, Thomas Graham provides an expert perspective on Russian history and statecraft …
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Joanne Yao, "The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order" (Manchester UP, 2022)
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Environmental politics has traditionally been a peripheral concern for international relations theory, but increasing alarm over global environmental challenges has elevated international society's relationship with the natural world into the theoretical limelight. IR theory's engagement with environmental politics, however, has largely focused on …
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Jeremy Black, "British Politics and Foreign Policy, 1744-57" (Routledge, 2016)
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The years between 1744 and 1757 were a testing time for the British government as political unrest at home exploded into armed rebellion, whilst on the continent French armies were repeatedly victorious. Providing an analytical narrative, supported by thematic chapters, this book examines the relationship between Britain's politics and foreign poli…
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Conversations: The Beijing parade, controversy in the Pacific, wither the Quad, and nuclear reactors on the Moon — This month in The Interpreter
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Join Lydia Khalil and Interpreter Managing Editor Daniel Flitton for a conversation about what we covered this month in Australia’s best foreign affairs magazine, The Interpreter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Lowy Institute
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Kayoko Jones - Asia Pacific University PR
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A conversation with Kayoko Jones – Public Relations Planner at APU – Asia Pacific University in Beppu, Kyushu sharing why the campus is a unique place in Japan bringing together students from around the world into a multi-cultural multi-lingual environment of learning, not to mention the wonderful onsen environment of the location! Jones was in Tok…
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Robert Ivermee, "Glorious Failure: The Forgotten History of French Imperialism in India" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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This is a powerful new account of a chapter in history that is crucial to understand, yet often overlooked. For 150 years, from the reign of Louis XIV to the downfall of Napoleon, France was an aggressive imperial power in South Asia, driven by the pursuit of greatness and riches. Through their East India company and state, the French established a…
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Conversations: Mick Ryan on Trump's Ukraine folly
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The Trump–Putin summit in Alaska left the Russian leader smiling and the United States without concrete results, says Lowy Institute Senior Fellow for Military Studies Mick Ryan. In this conversation, Sam Roggeveen asks Mick Ryan about the battlefield situation in Ukraine and the lessons of the war for the Asia-Pacific. See omnystudio.com/listener …
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Olga Touloumi, "Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
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For almost seven years after World War II, a small group of architects took on an exciting task: to imagine the spaces of global governance for a new political organization called the United Nations (UN). To create the iconic headquarters of the UN in New York City, these architects experimented with room layouts, media technologies, and design in …
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David Bosco, "The Poseidon Project: The Struggle to Govern the World's Oceans" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Oceanic Studies. An interdisciplinary podcast that examines the past, present, and future of ocean governance In 1609, the Dutch lawyer Hugo Grotius rejected the idea that even powerful rulers could own the oceans. "A ship sailing through the sea," he wrote, "leaves behind it no more legal right than it does a track." A philosophical and legal batt…
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Thane Gustafson, "Perfect Storm: Russia's Failed Economic Opening, the Hurricane of War and Sanctions, and the Uncertain Future" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 brought a tragic close to a thirty-year period of history that began with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the reopening of Russia to the West after six decades of Soviet isolation. The opening lasted for three tumultuous decades and ended with a new closing, driven by the Ukrainian war, the imposition of We…
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How can we eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online?
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The 2019 Christchurch terror attacks tragically highlighted how online capabilities can be exploited by bad actors. Since that time, there has been a concerted global effort by governments, tech companies and civil society to come together to mitigate these risks. But online extremism is a persistent challenge. The Institute's Lydia Khalil talks wi…
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A conversation with Zero Fes team - a bunch of really inspiring teens from Japan and around the world who created and performed at the first Zero Fes, a club music event by teens for teens held in Tokyo in July 2025 - DJ's - Elfigo, Otek, Michelle; DJ drummer Cezary; music producer Riki; rapper MC Millaray; dancers - Mamadou & Papa; drone racer Yuk…
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Mark L. Haas, "The Geriatric Peace: Population Aging and the Decline of War" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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The vast majority of the world's countries are experiencing a demographic revolution: dramatic, sustained, and likely irreversible population aging. States' median ages are steadily increasing as the number of people ages 65 and older skyrockets. Analysts and policymakers frequently decry population aging's domestic costs, especially likely slowing…
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Jérémy Filet, "The Jacobites and the Grand Tour: Educational Travel and Small-States' Diplomacy" (Manchester UP, 2025)
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The Jacobites and the Grand Tour: Educational travel and small-states' diplomacy (Manchester University Press, 2025) by Dr. Jérémy Filet is the first monograph to fully examine the intersecting networks of Jacobites and travellers to the continent. In the book, Dr. Filet considers how small states used official diplomacy and deployed soft power - e…
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Conversations: Indonesian foreign policy under President Prabowo
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Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has travelled relentlessly since his inauguration in October 2024. Yet questions remain about the direction of Indonesian foreign policy under his leadership. How will Indonesia manage its relationships with China, the United States and Russia? And what role will it play within the Association of Southeast Asia…
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Gregory A. Daddis, "Faith and Fear: America's Relationship with War Since 1945" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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In a groundbreaking reassessment of the long Cold War era, historian Gregory A. Daddis argues that ever since the Second World War's fateful conclusion, faith in and fear of war became central to Americans' thinking about the world around them. With war pervading nearly all aspects of American society, an interplay between blind faith and existenti…
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Stephan Kieninger, "Securing Peace in Europe: Strobe Talbott, NATO, and Russia After the Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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This deeply researched book offers new perspective on the NATO-Russia relationship through the eyes of Strobe Talbott, a deputy secretary of state for seven years under President Bill Clinton and the key US diplomatic broker for the former USSR. Stephan Kieninger traces the Clinton administration’s efforts to engage Russia and enlarge NATO at the s…
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K. Ian Shin, "Imperial Stewards: Chinese Art and the Making of America's Pacific Century" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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This episode, which is co-hosted with Delaney Chieyen Holton, features Dr. K. Ian Shin discussing his recently published book, Imperial Stewards: Chinese Art and the Making of America’s Pacific Century (Standford UP, 2025). Imperial Stewards argues that, beyond aesthetic taste and economics, geopolitics were critical to the United States’ transform…
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Raymond Jonas, "Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire" (Harvard UP, 2024)
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For a few years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Mexico was ruled by an Austrian and defended by a French army. This often neglected story is more than just historical trivia - it's a way of understanding 19th century imperial politics, and global insurgencies today. In Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Em…
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Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis - at Summer Sonic 2025
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A conversation with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis – legendary production duo who have collaborated, and had massive chart hits with Janet Jackson, Alexander O'Neal, The SOS Band, Mariah Carey, Vanessa Williams, Chaka Khan, The Human League, Sounds of Blackness and so many more... we only had ten minutes together backstage before their live show at Summ…
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Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II" (Basic Books, 2025)
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In popular memory, the Second World War was an unalloyed victory for freedom over totalitarianism, marking the demise of the age of empires and the triumph of an American-led democratic order. In Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II (Basic Books, 2025), historian Paul Thomas Chamberlin opens a longer and wider aperture on World War II a…
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Reid B. C. Pauly, "The Art of Coercion: Credible Threats and the Assurance Dilemma" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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Strong states are surprisingly bad at coercion. History shows they prevail only a third of the time. Dr. Pauly argues that coercion often fails because targets fear punishment even if they comply. In this "damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenario, targets have little reason to obey. The Art of Coercion: Credible Threats and the Assurance Dil…
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Mary Bridges on US Bankers Abroad and the Making of a Global Superpower
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Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Mary Bridges, Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, about her book, Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower. Dollars and Dominion takes an infrastructural view of ba…
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Georgiy Kasianov et al., "From 'the Ukraine' to Ukraine: A Contemporary History, 1991-2021" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
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In 2021, Ukraine celebrates its thirty-year independence anniversary. During this relatively short period of time—when considered in historical terms—Ukraine underwent a number of drastic changes that have so far shaped the country’s domestic and international environments. From “the Ukraine” to Ukraine: A Contemporary History, 1991-2021 (Ibidem Pr…
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Conversations: US Senator Chris Coons on President Trump, AUKUS and the future of the Democratic Party
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US Senator Chris Coons joined the Lowy Institute's Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove at the Institute's Bligh Street headquarters for a special episode of Lowy Institute Conversations. They discussed US President Donald Trump's forthcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the first 200 days of President Trump's foreign policy, A…
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Michael Jabara Carley, "Stalin's Great Game: War and Neutrality, 1939-1941" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
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The period from September 1939 to early 1942 was crucial for Soviet foreign policy and coincided with the early stages of the Second World War, including the Great Patriotic War. In Stalin's Great Game, Michael Jabara Carley unpacks the complexities of Soviet diplomacy during this time, addressing key issues such as the Soviet-Finnish Winter War, S…
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Edward Luce, "Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
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Zbigniew Brzezinski was a key architect of the Soviet Union’s demise, which ended the Cold War. A child of Warsaw—the heart of central Europe’s bloodlands—Brzezinski turned his fierce resentment at his homeland’s razing by Nazi Germany and the Red Army into a lifelong quest for liberty. Born the year that Joseph Stalin consolidated power, and dying…
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Conversations: Vacating the lane in the Pacific
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Washington says the Pacific is a critical arena for strategic competition, yet recent US actions suggest otherwise. In this episode, the Institute’s Mihai Sora talks with Dr Charles Edel, Australia Chair at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, and Kathryn Paik, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director with the Australia Chair, about America…
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Rita Kiki Edozie and Moses Khisa, "Africa's New Global Politics: Regionalism in International Relations" (Lynne Rienner, 2022)
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The African Union's threat to lead African states' mass withdrawal from the International Criminal Court in 2008 marked just one of many encounters that demonstrate African leaders' growing confidence and activism in international relations. Rita Kiki Edozie and Moses Khisa explore the myriad ways in which the continent’s diplomatic engagement and …
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Megan Brown, "The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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In The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community (Harvard University Press, 2022), Dr. Megan Brown details the surprising story of how Algeria joined and then left the postwar European Economic Community and what its past inclusion means for extracontinental membership in today’s European Union. On their face, the mid-1950s …
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Jonathan Fisher and Nina Wilén, "African Peacekeeping" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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In African Peacekeeping (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Dr. Jonathan Fisher and Dr. Nina Wilén explore the story of Africa's contemporary history and politics through the lens of peacekeeping. This concise and accessible book, based on over a decade of research across ten countries, focuses not on peacekeeping in Africa but, rather, peacekeepin…
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Grace C. Huang, "Chiang Kai-Shek's Politics of Shame: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Once a powerful figure who reversed the disintegration of China and steered the country to Allied victory in World War II, Chiang Kai-shek fled into exile following his 1949 defeat in the Chinese civil war. As attention pivoted to Mao Zedong’s communist experiment, Chiang was relegated to the dustbin of history. In Chiang Kai-shek’s Politics of Sha…
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Alan McPherson, "Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet's Terror State to Justice" (UNC Press, 2019)
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On September 21, 1976, a car bomb exploded in Washington DC, killing a former Chilean diplomat named Orlando Letelier and his American colleague Ronni Moffitt. The assassination was a cruel and brazen attempt by the Chilean government to silence a critic of the Pinochet regime. And it proved to be a major strategic error––Pinochet himself used the …
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Stomp Cast 2025 - West End and Broadway Performers
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A conversation with Stomp cast – from the West End and Broadway productions in Japan for shows in August 2025 talking about their journey with this spectacular explosion of a stage show, plus a spontaneous live performance with tiny drum sticks!!By Guy Perryman
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James Ross - Radio Broadcaster / Media Company CEO
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A conversation with James Ross – British radio broadcaster and Lightning International media distribution company CEO based in Hong Kong chatting on my live morning radio show GPS in Tokyo in August 2025. James shares what he loves about radio, gives some tips on enjoying nature in Hong Kong, and we put his music skills to the test with Intro Quiz …
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Zack Cooper, "Tides of Fortune: The Rise and Decline of Great Militaries" (Yale UP, 2025)
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An ambitious look at how the twentieth century's great powers devised their military strategies and what their implications mean for military competition between the United States and China. How will the United States and China evolve militarily in the years ahead? Many experts believe the answer to this question is largely unknowable. But Zack Coo…
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Giles Tremlett, "The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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When civil war broke out in Spain in 1936, tens of thousands of young men and women from across the world flocked there to fight against the Nationalist uprising. Though their history has been told before, Giles Tremlett’s The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War (Bloomsbury, 2021) draws upon previously unavailable mat…
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Dan Reiter, "Untied Hands: How States Avoid the Wrong Wars" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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How do states advance their national security interests? Conventional wisdom holds that states must court the risk of catastrophic war by “tying their hands” to credibly protect their interests. Dan Reiter overturns this perspective with the compelling argument that states craft flexible foreign policies to avoid unwanted wars. Through a comprehens…
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