Jenny White, "Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence" (Princeton UP, 2021)
The scene is Turkey in the mid-to-late Seventies. A young male college student hops onto a bus. He sits next to a cute female student from his class, but before they can strike up a conversation, they...
13 Maj 202140min
Erik Jones, "European Studies: Past, Present, and Future" (Agenda, 2020)
“It is no secret that European studies has suffered a setback in the academy”, write William Collins Donahue and Martin Kagel in their contribution to European Studies: Past, Present and Future (Agend...
7 Maj 202140min
Stella Ghervas, "Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Stella Ghervas's Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union (Harvard University Press, 2021) is a bold new look at war and diplomacy in Europe that traces the idea of a unified con...
28 Apr 202152min
Terri E. Givens, "Immigration in the 21st Century: The Comparative Politics of Immigration Policy" (Routledge, 2020)
Immigration in the 21st Century: The Comparative Politics of Immigration Policy (Routledge, 2020) is an excellent primer for those looking to understand the complexities of immigration not only as a p...
22 Apr 202138min
Matthew Frear, "Belarus under Lukashenka: Adaptive Authoritarianism" (Routledge, 2020)
Often called “Europe’s last dictator”, Alexander Lukashenka has ruled Belarus – a land-locked European country of close to 10 million people bordered by Russia, Ukraine, Poland and two Baltic states -...
14 Apr 202138min
Pedro Gustavo Teixeira, "The Legal History of the European Banking Union: How European Law Led to the Supranational Integration of the Single Financial Market" (Hart, 2020)
Today I talked to Pedro Gustavo Teixeira about his new book The Legal History of the European Banking Union: How European Law Led to the Supranational Integration of the Single Financial Market (Hart,...
12 Apr 202143min
Sasha Roseneil, "The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm: Intimate Citizenship Regimes in a Changing Europe." (UCL Press, 2020)
Sasha Roseneil, Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science at the Institute of Advanced Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical Studies at University College London joins today to ...
7 Apr 202149min
Richard Pomfret, "The Road to Monetary Union" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
“Economics is the long-run driver” in the history of Europe’s monetary union, writes Richard Pomfret in the first of a new Cambridge Elements series on the Economics of European Integration: The Road ...
7 Apr 202132min
