Thinking Global

Patrick J. Vernon (Kings College London - @paddyjvernon @warstudies ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Queer International Relations and the 2024 UK General Election. Patrick Vernon chats with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠) about Queer IR, how it intersects with this election, queer epistemology, their most recent work The Coloniality of Humanitarian Intervention , and more. This...

Evie Aspinall (British Foreign Policy Group - @EvieAspinall_ , @TheBFPG ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about British foreign relations and the 2024 UK General Election. Evie Aspinall chats with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠) about British foreign relations at this General Election, soft power, the foreign policy proposals of the different parties, and more. This is the second episod...

Christopher Hill (University of Cambridge - @Dept_of_POLIS ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about the future of British foreign policy and The 2024 UK General Election. Prof. Hill chats with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠) on conceptualising ‘foreign policy’ itself, British foreign policy after Brexit, the central thesis of his The Future of British Foreign Policy , how this election i...

Prof. Robert Fatton, Jr. speaks with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) and Edward ( @edwarddcurry5 ) in the second of our two-part series on the international politics of Haiti and Caribbean affairs, focussing on Haiti in the ‘outer periphery’ of the global economic system, humanitarian intervention, CARICOM, and more. Thinking Global  is affiliated with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠E-International Relations⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Kevin Bloor (Author and Teacher) speaks with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠) about the A-Level Global Politics course, his book Understanding Global Politics (2022) , how to think about the exam, structuring essays, and more. Thinking Global  is affiliated with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠E-International Relations⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  - the world's leading open access website for students and scholars of internati...

Prof. Robert Fatton Jr. speaks with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) and Edward ( @edwarddcurry5 ) in the first of a two-part series on the international politics of Haiti and Caribbean affairs, focussing on Haiti’s marginalisation in the ‘outer periphery’ of the global economic system. Thinking Global  is affiliated with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠E-International Relations⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  - the world's leading open...

Kathleen McInnis ( @kjmcinnis1 - Center for Strategic and International Studies) speaks with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠) and Jennifer ( ⁠@JenniferEngl⁠ ) about podcasting the political, her ‘Smart Women, Smart Power’ programme, and so much more. Thinking Global  is affiliated with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠E-International Relations⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  - the world's leading open access website for students...

Ajay Gudavarthy  (Jawaharlal Nehru University) speaks with the Thinking Global team about The 2024 Indian Elections. Dr. Gudavarthy chats with Tusharika ( ⁠@Tusharika24⁠ ) about the Congress Party of India, its history, the 2024 Indian Elections and more. This is the third episode of our multilingual ‘India Votes’ series of 2024. Thinking Global  is affiliated with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠E-International Relat...

Dean Vuletic (University of Luxembourg) speaks with the Thinking Global team about the Eurovision Song Contest, its history, how it connects to international politics, and more - all ahead of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday the 11th May 2024 in Malmö, Sweden. Thinking Global  is affiliated with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠E-International Relations⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  - the world's leading open access websi...

Danny Dorling (University of Oxford - @dannydorling @oxfordgeography ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about human geography, Brexit, ‘Shattered Nation’ ( @VersoBooks ), inequality, human progress, influenza, rising mortality rates and more. Thinking Global  is affiliated with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠E-International Relations⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  - the world's leading open access website for students and schola...

Arvind Kumar (Royal Holloway, The University of London - @arvind_kumar__ ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about The 2024 Indian Elections. Dr. Kumar chats with Tusharika ( ⁠@Tusharika24⁠ ) about the significance of these elections, who the key political figures and parties in India are, class-based minor parties, candidate selection procedure, and more. This is the second episode of our mult...

Arvind Kumar (Royal Holloway, The University of London - @arvind_kumar__ ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about The 2024 Indian Elections - in Hindi. Dr. Kumar chats with Tusharika ( ⁠@Tusharika24⁠ ) about the significance of these elections, who the key political figures and parties in India are, class-based minor parties, candidate selection procedure, and more. This is the second episode...

Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary, University of London - @QMHistory ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Contextualism, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and more. Professor Skinner chats with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) and Tusharika ( ⁠@Tusharika24⁠ ) about what contextualism is as a methodological approach to political thought, how he applies this to Machiavelli and Hobbes, and how this relays back t...

Rahul Verma (Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi - @rahul_tverma ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about The 2024 Indian Elections. Dr. Verma chats with Tusharika ( ⁠@Tusharika24⁠ ) about the Indian electoral system, the party system of India, forecasting the outcome, the effect of ‘regional’ parties, how these elections may have a global effect, and so much more. Additionally, check out Ra...

G. John Ikenberry (Princeton University @Princeton ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Liberal International Order in part two of a two-part series. Prof. G. John Ikenberry chats with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) about critiques of the Liberal international order in relation to the Russo Ukrainian War, the global south and modernity, alongside the major overarching qualities of liberal...

G. John Ikenberry (Princeton University @Princeton ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Liberal International Order in part one of a two-part series. Prof. G. John Ikenberry chats with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) about conceptualising Liberal International Order, the ‘crisis’ of Liberal Order, and how the Russian Invasion of Ukraine fits into this picture. Prof. Ikenberry’s latest arti...

Fawaz Gerges (London School of Economics and Political Science, @FawazGerges , @LSEIRDept , @lseideas ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about The Middle East and The Israeli-Hamas Conflict. Prof. Fawaz Gerges chats with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) and Edward ( @edwarddcurry5 ) about his latest book What Really Went Wrong: The West and The Failure of Democracy in the Middle East (Yale Univ...

Dimitrios Stroikos (London School of Economics - @DStroikos , @LSEIRDept , @lseideas ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Space and International Relations. Dr. Dimitrios Stroikos chats with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) and Romanos ( @rmnorph ) on Security in outer Space, a ‘new space race’, the militarization of space, sovereignty in outer space, conflict in space, alongside China and...

This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, Romanos ( @rmnorph ) and Edward ( ⁠@edwarddcurry5⁠ ) chat with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) about what they've been reading in the third instalment of The Laid-Back Book Club. Edward speaks about ‘ Water: Asia’s New Battleground ’, Romanos talks about ‘⁠ Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine ’, and Kieran chats about ‘ Conspiracy and Power ’ , ‘ Queer...

George Lawson (Australia National University - @GeorgeLawsonIR ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Revolution and international relations in the second episode of two-parts. Prof. George Lawson chats with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) and Catharine ( @catharinedamron ) about why we should think of revolutions as international or global phenomena, ‘Unruly Politics’, ‘negotiated revolutio...

George Lawson (Australia National University - @GeorgeLawsonIR ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Revolution and international relations in part one of a two-part series. Prof. George Lawson chats with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) and Catharine ( @catharinedamron ) on conceptualising Revolution, the debates within comparative political and sociological studies about revolution, whethe...

Maria Popova (McGill University - @PopovaProf @mcgillu ) and Oxana Shevel  (Tufts University - @OxanaShevel @TuftsPolSci ) speak with the Thinking Global team about the conflict and politics between Russia and Ukraine. Professors Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel chat with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) and Jennifer (@JenniferEngl ) about the factors that led to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 202...

Joseph S. Nye Jr. (Harvard Kennedy School - @Kennedy_School ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about US Foreign Policy, Soft Power, Theory and more. Prof. Joseph S. Nye. Jr. chats with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) and Edward ( @edwarddcurry5 ) about his latest book A Life In The American Century (Polity, 2024), soft power, international relations theory, US Foreign Policy, the current crisi...

Simon Curtis (University of Surrey - @UniOfSurrey @SurreyPolitics ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about the ‘global city’ and international relations. Dr. Simon Curtis chats with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) and Romanos ( @rmnorph ) on conceptualising the ‘global city’, the role of the urban in the global order, why we should focus more on ‘the urban’ in International Relations, China an...

Genevieve Guenther (End Climate Science, The New School – @DoctorVive ) speaks with the Thinking Global Team about COP28, Climate Language, Communication and Misinformation. Dr. Guenther chats with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) and Catharine ( @catharinedamron ) on how to conceptualise ‘climate crisis’, COP28, how the media, activists and diplomats communicate and miscommunicate the key facts of...