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Catherine Fieschi on the Rise of Populism
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Seema Syeda Addresses Islamophobia Across Europe
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Michael Woldemariam on Challenges Facing African Democracy (Part 2)
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Michael Woldemariam on Challenges Facing African Democracy (Part 1)
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Reading Albert O. Hirschman with Santiago Gerchunoff
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In this episode of Research at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, host Yanina Welp and guest Santiago Gerchunoff speak about Santiago’s personal encounter with the Hirchman’s contributions to social sciences and humanities. Santiago Gerchunoff teaches Political Theory at Madrid Carlos III University and specializes in the study of historical…
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Vivek Maru on Legal Empowerment for Communities
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Navigating Environmental Justice at Sea through Ethnographic Ways of Knowing with Jennifer Telesca
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In this episode of Research at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, host Laura Bullon Cassis and guest Jennifer Telesca dive into the heart of environmental justice through an ethnographic lens. This episode unpacks the intersections of human-environment relationships, global ocean governance, and the politics of extinction. It delves into the…
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Oleksandra Matviichuk on Human Rights and Ukraine
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Dilip Gaonkar on the "Degenerations of Democracy"
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Paul Lendvai on "Austria Behind the Mask"
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Maciej Kisilowski on the Polish Elections
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Kalypso Nicolaidis on Governing Together Through Demoicracy (Part 2)
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Kalypso Nicolaidis on Governing Together Through Demoicracy (Part 1)
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Janka Oertel on "The End of the China Illusion" (Part 2)
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Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz on a More Equitable Future
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Janka Oertel on "The End of the China Illusion" (Part 1)
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Alejandra Ballon Gutierrez on Body Politics in Peru
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Kim Lane Scheppele on Destroying Democracy by Law
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Ulrike Flader on Turkey at the Crossroads
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Daniela Schwarzer on Europe’s Strategic Conundrums (Part 2)
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Daniela Schwarzer on Europe’s Strategic Conundrums (Part 1)
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Martin Krygier on Anti-Constitutional Populism
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Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani on Israel: Democracy on the Defensive
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Sergei Guriev on the Changing Face of Autocracy
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Guests featured in this episode: Sergei Guriev, Provost of Sciences Po in Paris. He's professor of economics there following an outstanding academic career at the New Economic School in Moscow. He was its Rector until 2013 when he was forced by political circumstances to leave Russia. Between 2016 and 2019, Sergei served as the chief economist of t…
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Mukulika Banerjee on the Cultivation of Democracy in India
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Guests featured in this episode: Mukulika Banerjee, Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science where she was also the inaugural director of its South Asia Centre from 2015 to 2020. Working at the intersection of social anthropology, politics, and history, Mukulika has published widely on South Asia. She edits …
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Ken Opalo on the Prospects of Democracy in Africa
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Ronald Daniels on the Role of Universities in Strengthening Democracy
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Guests featured in this episode: Ronald Daniels, the President of Johns Hopkins University, as well as a board member of the Central European University. His numerous accomplishments include the Order of Canada awarded to him in 2016 and his election as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. During his tenure as President, Johns Hop…
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Shaharzad Akbar on Afghanistan after Democracy
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Guests featured in this episode: Shaharzad Akbar, one of the most prominent among the Afghan democratic opposition voices in exile. She was born in Afghanistan, lived with her family as a refugee in Pakistan during the first Taliban regime for some years and she's the first Afghan woman to earn a postgraduate degree at Oxford University in 2011. Sh…
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Thomas Carothers on Democratic Backsliding in a Comparative Perspective
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Guests featured in this episode: Thomas Carothers, is the Harvey V Feinberg Chair for Democracy Studies and Co-director of the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Trained as a lawyer, he served in the office of the legal advisor of the U.S. State Department before joining The Carnegie Endow…
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Azadeh Moaveni on the Ongoing Iranian Demonstrations Fueled and Led by Women
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Guests featured in this episode: Azadeh Moaveni, the Iranian-American writer and journalist who has been covering the Middle East for more than two decades. A renowned expert on Iran, the Islamic State, as well as Middle East Politics and Islamic society in general, she has focused her work on how women are impacted by political conflicts, and how …
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Ricardo Regatieri on Brazilian Elections: Bolsonarism and Its Aftermath
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Guests featured in this episode: Ricardo Regatieri, professor of sociology at the University of Bahia, Brazil. He also teaches in the Graduate Program in Social Sciences and is one of the leaders of PERIFERICAS – Research Group on Social Theories, Modernities and Colonialities at the same university. Ricardo was a visiting professor at the Universi…
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Charles Taylor on Degenerations and Regenerations of Democracy
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Guests featured in this episode: Charles Taylor, one of the most preeminent contemporary philosophers of our times. He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University in Montreal. He was Fellow of All Souls College and Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford University. His remarkably vast oeuvre includes landmark monographs on …
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Craig Calhoun on the Current Crisis of American and Global Democracy and Potential Remedies
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Guests featured on this episode: Craig Calhoun, University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has written on the struggle by students for democracy in China, a book titled "Neither Gods nor Emperors." He has co-authored the volume, "Does Capit…
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Leonard Benardo on Civil Society and the Politics and Practices of Civil Society Organizations
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Guests featured in this episode: Lenny Benardo, Executive Vice President of the Open Society Foundations, and the founding director of the Open Society Fellowship Program. Lenny also sits on the boards of Bard College, the American University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan, the European Humanities University in Lithuania, and my very own institution…
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Nadia Urbinati on the Resurgence of Populism, its History, and its Various Forms
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Mykola Gnatovskyy on the establishment of a Special Tribunal to Investigate the Crimes of Aggression against Ukraine
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Neloufer de Mel on the Current Economic, Social and Political Situation in Sri Lanka
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Guests featured in this episode Neloufer de Mel, Senior Professor of English at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka. Drawing on feminist scholarship, postcolonial and cultural studies, she has published extensively on Sri Lankan society, gender, justice. Neloufer has been awarded numerous prestigious fellowships and grants from the MacArthur Fou…
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The Fragility of US Democracy and the Genuine Threat of Fascism it Faces
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Guests featured in this episode Jason Stanley; Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, and author of five monographs, including, most recently, the acclaimed How Propaganda Works and How Fascism Works. Jason is also a renowned public intellectual who has written extensively on fascism, authoritarianism, propaganda, free speech, critical race th…
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Mary Kaldor on NATO, Human Security, the Changing Face of Global War and the Effectiveness of Sanctions and Debt Cancellation
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Guests featured in this episode: Mary Kaldor, Professor Emeritus of Global Governance and Director of the Conflict Research Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has had a long and illustrious academic career but has also been an activist since the 1980s. She was a founder of the European Nuclear Disarmament Movemen…
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Thoughts on the Past, Present and Future of Diverse Democracies
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Guests featured in this episode: Yascha Mounk, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and also professor of the practice of international affairs at Johns Hopkins University. As a public intellectual, he is widely known for his work on the crisis of democracy and the defense of liberalism. He is a regular contributor to The Atlantic, The…
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Current State of Affairs in Putin’s Russia
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Guests featured in this episode: Masha Gessen, a distinguished journalist & staff writer for the New Yorker. Born in Moscow in the Soviet Union, Masha moved to the United States in 1981, only to return to Russia as a journalist a decade later. A strong critic of Putin’s regime from the very outset, Masha decided to leave Russia and return to the US…
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Faltering democratic systems and the need to reconstruct democracy
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Guests featured in this episode: Dr Michael John Hastings, Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick CBE. He began his career as a teacher at a London Comprehensive school but after a few years took up a government job and supported policy initiatives to bring employment and development to Britain’s inner cities in a rough period marked by urban riots. He went …
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The French Presidential Election and the State of Democracy in France
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Guests featured in this episode: Éric Fassin, Professor of sociology and co-chair of the Gender Studies Department at Paris VIII. University, where he also established the Research Center on Gender and Sexuality Studies. His research addresses sexual and racial politics as well as immigration issues, in France, Europe, and in the United States in a…
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