/198/ Universal India ft. Achin Vanaik
On secularism, nationalism and identity politics. India is held up as a model developing country: liberal, democratic, multicultural. Renowned Indian writer and activist Achin Vanaik joins us to exam...
18 Juni 20211h 36min
RE-RELEASE: /100/ What Was the End of History? ft. Many Guests
In the lead-up to our 200th episode later this month, we're exceptionally re-releasing our 100th episode special this week. On the 30 years since 1989. For our 100th episode, we invited our favourite ...
15 Juni 20211h 44min
Excerpt: /197/ Reading Club: The Breakaway
We discuss the third and final in the series of Perry Anderson essays on the EU in the London Review of Books, "The Breakaway", and wonder if the EU can - despite its crises - just carry on indefinite...
10 Juni 20216min
Excerpt: /196/ Cosmopolitan Dystopia
On atrocity and sovereignty. This episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast The disasters of Iraq, Libya, Syria and beyond are there for all to see. Why hasn't an emphasi...
8 Juni 20218min
/195/ No Shock China ft. Isabella Weber
On China, economic reform, and the future. While Russia famously succumbed to destructive neoliberal "shock therapy", China managed to avoid it. How and why? Isabella Weber, author of How China Escape...
1 Juni 20211h 22min
Excerpt: /194/ Anti-Politics & Non-Movements
On global insurrection and identity politics. This episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast We discuss an essay by the ultra-left collective 'Endnotes' that deals with the ...
25 Maj 20218min
/193/ The New 20 Years' Crisis
On liberal idealism and imperial overreach. Why did the winners of the Cold War turn 'revisionist', undermining their own order? How has utopianism come to dominate the discipline of IR, such that we ...
18 Maj 20211h 9min
Excerpt: /192/ Three Articles: Pandemic (Dis)Satisfactions
On consequences of the pandemic + important local election results in Spain & UK. We start off by discussing the telling results of some recent local and regional elections: in the UK, Labour cont...
11 Maj 20217min
