Sergei Guriev Revisits Spin Dictators
Spin dictators have fewer political prisoners, fewer political killings. This is good. This is really good. On the other hand, we want to tell everybody that they are still dictators. Sergei Guriev A...
25 Jul 202351min
Berk Esen and Sebnem Gumuscu on the Disappointing Elections in Turkey... or How Democratic (or Autocratic) is Turkey Really?
Elections are not free or fair, but they matter greatly because this is how Erdoğan comes to power and stays in power and in this case he was almost about to lose that power. Sebnem Gumuscu Support D...
18 Jul 202357min
Hal Brands Thinks China is a Declining Power... Here's Why that's a Problem
The most dangerous states in the international system aren't necessarily revisionist powers that think that their trajectory points continually upward. It's those countries that have been growing, ris...
11 Jul 202353min
Natasha Wheatley Raises Some Really Difficult Questions About Sovereignty
My book is in some ways trying to help us see not only the kind of deep intermingling of pre-modern and modern ideas of sovereignty, but how we repeat some of those more fantastical attributes of sove...
4 Jul 202350min
Sebastian Edwards on the History of Neoliberalism in Chile
I think that the most important reform is openness. Once the country is open, really open to the rest of the world, the rest follows. Sebastian Edwards Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-ti...
27 Jun 202348min
Dan Slater on Thailand's Revolutionary Election
Democracy is Eastern as well as Western. Dan Slater Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Dan ...
20 Jun 202350min
Peter Turchin Wants to Avoid Political Disintegration
If you have grown up in a household which had decent quality of life and now you are struggling, you cannot even match the degree of wellbeing that your parents achieved, this is very obvious and make...
13 Jun 202347min
Isabel Kershner on Israel and its Divisions
It's very hard to understand what's happening today without looking at the roots of all these divisions and at the interests of the different communities and their long-held resentments against the es...
6 Jun 202350min
