Lucy Kinski, "European Representation in EU National Parliaments" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
It’s been 44 years since the Young European Federalists first coined the term “democratic deficit” – two years before the first direct elections to the European Parliament, 10 before the Single Europe...
10 Elo 202142min
Léonie de Jonge, "The Success and Failure of Right-Wing Populist Parties in the Benelux Countries" (Routledge, 2021)
"The populist radical right is by far the best-studied party family within political science”. Extremism expert Cas Mudde may be right but, as Léonie de Jonge argues in The Success and Failure of Righ...
28 Heinä 202139min
Massimo Rostagno et al., "Monetary Policy in Times of Crisis: A Tale of Two Decades of the European Central Bank" (Oxford UP, 2021)
In July 2021, nine summers after its then president saved the euro with three choice words (“whatever it takes”), the European Central Bank published the results of a thoroughgoing review of its strat...
28 Heinä 202148min
Malte Dold and Tim Krieger, "Ordoliberalism and European Economic Policy: Between Realpolitik and Economic Utopia" (Taylor & Francis, 2021)
Once described as a “German oddity”†, Ordoliberalism was one of a number of new liberalisms that emerged from the political maelstrom of the interwar period. But, unlike the other neoliberal splinters...
21 Heinä 202157min
Christian Ydesen, "The OECD’s Historical Rise in Education: The Formation of a Global Governing Complex" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
In 1961, it was famously declared that the “fight for education is too important to be left solely to the educators.” Enter the OECD. In The OECD’s Historical Rise in Education: The Formation of a Glo...
19 Heinä 202145min
Timothy Frye, "Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Putin is not the unconstrained, all-powerful boogeyman he is made out to be in the popular Western media. So says Timothy Frye, Professor of Political Science at Columbia University in his new book,We...
13 Heinä 202149min
Marta Dyczok, "Ukraine Calling: A Kaleidoscope from Hromadske Radio 2016-2019" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
Marta Dyczok's book Ukraine Calling: A Kaleidoscope from Hromadske Radio 2016-2019 (Ibidem Press, 2021) is like a time capsule containing a selection of interviews that aired on Hromadske Radio's Ukra...
9 Heinä 202157min
Christopher Grey, "Brexit Unfolded: How No One Got What They Wanted (and Why They Were Never Going To)" (Biteback, 2021)
In 2020-21, the UK left first the EU and then the 30-nation European Economic Area. Much of the impact has been masked by the coronavirus pandemic but, as that lifts, there will be profound effects on...
30 Kesä 202146min
