Democracy in Question?

Democracy in Question?  is brought to you by: • Central European University:  CEU • The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva:  AHCD • The Podcast Company:  Novel   Follow us on social media! • Central European University:  @CEU • Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva:  @AHDCentre Subscribe to the show. If you enjoyed what you listened to, you can support us by leaving a review a...

Democracy in Question?  is brought to you by: • Central European University:  CEU • The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva:  AHCD • The Podcast Company:  Novel   Follow us on social media! • Central European University:  @CEU • Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva:  @AHDCentre Subscribe to the show. If you enjoyed what you listened to, you can support us by leaving a review a...

Democracy in Question?  is brought to you by: • Central European University:  CEU • The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva:  AHCD • The Podcast Company:  Novel   Follow us on social media! • Central European University:  @CEU • Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva:  @AHDCentre Subscribe to the show. If you enjoyed what you listened to, you can support us by leaving a review a...

Democracy in Question?  is brought to you by: • Central European University:  CEU • The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva:  AHCD • The Podcast Company:  Novel   Follow us on social media! • Central European University:  @CEU • Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva:  @AHDCentre Subscribe to the show. If you enjoyed what you listened to, you can support us by leaving a review a...

Guests featured in this episode: Sergei Guriev , Provost of Sciences Po in Paris. He's professor of economics there following an outstanding academic career at the New Economic School in Moscow. He was its Rector until 2013 when he was forced by political circumstances to leave Russia. Between 2016 and 2019, Sergei served as the chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Developme...

Guests featured in this episode: Mukulika Banerjee , Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science where she was also the inaugural director of its South Asia Centre from 2015 to 2020. Working at the intersection of social anthropology, politics, and history, Mukulika has published widely on South Asia. She edits also the excellent Routledge series, exploring th...

Democracy in Question?  is brought to you by: • Central European University:  CEU • The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva:  AHCD • The Podcast Company:  Novel   Follow us on social media! • Central European University:  @CEU • Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva:  @AHDCentre Subscribe to the show. If you enjoyed what you listened to, you can support us by leaving a review a...

Guests featured in this episode: Ronald Daniels , the President of Johns Hopkins University, as well as a board member of the Central European University. His numerous accomplishments include the Order of Canada awarded to him in 2016 and his election as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. During his tenure as President, Johns Hopkins University has consistently ranked at the to...

Guests featured in this episode: Shaharzad Akbar, one of the most prominent among the Afghan democratic opposition voices in exile. She was born in Afghanistan, lived with her family as a refugee in Pakistan during the first Taliban regime for some years and she's the first Afghan woman to earn a postgraduate degree at Oxford University in 2011. She was later Country Director for the Open Society...

Guests featured in this episode: Thomas Carothers , is the Harvey V Feinberg Chair for Democracy Studies and Co-director of the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Trained as a lawyer, he served in the office of the legal advisor of the U.S. State Department before joining The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.  He is an expert on...

Guests featured in this episode: Azadeh Moaveni , the Iranian-American writer and journalist who has been covering the Middle East for more than two decades. A renowned expert on Iran, the Islamic State, as well as Middle East Politics and Islamic society in general, she has focused her work on how women are impacted by political conflicts, and how their social and political rights are affected by...

Guests featured in this episode: Ricardo Regatieri, professor of sociology at the University of Bahia, Brazil. He also teaches in the Graduate Program in Social Sciences and is one of the leaders of PERIFERICAS – Research Group on Social Theories, Modernities and Colonialities at the same university. Ricardo was a visiting professor at the University of Cape Verde, as well as a research professor...

Guests featured in this episode:  Charles Taylor , one of the most preeminent contemporary philosophers of our times. He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University in Montreal. He was Fellow of All Souls College and Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford University. His remarkably vast oeuvre includes landmark monographs on Hegel, social theory, religion, language, and mu...

Guests featured on this episode: Craig Calhoun , University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has written on the struggle by students for democracy in China, a book titled "Neither Gods nor Emperors." He has co-authored the volume, "Does Capitalism Have a Future?" with Immanuel Wallerstein a...

Guests featured in this episode: Lenny Benardo, Executive Vice President of the Open Society Foundations, and  the founding director of the Open Society Fellowship Program. Lenny also sits on the boards of Bard College, the American University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan, the European Humanities University in Lithuania, and my very own institution, CEU. He has published numerous articles in the...

Guests featured in this episode:  Nadia Urbinati, the Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory at Columbia University. She is also a permanent visiting professor at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa (Italy), and has taught at Bocconi University Milan (Italy), Sciences Po Paris (France) and the UNICAMP University (Brazil). Her main fields of expertise are modern and contemporary poli...

Guests featured in this episode:  Mykola Gnatovskyy , a renowned Ukrainian legal scholar who was recently elected to serve as judge at the European Court of Human Rights. Before taking up this very prestigious nine-year appointment at the ECHR, Mykola was a professor at the Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. He also advised the Ukrainian Minister fo...

Guests featured in this episode Neloufer de Mel, Senior Professor of English at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka. Drawing on feminist scholarship, postcolonial and cultural studies, she has published extensively on Sri Lankan society, gender, justice. Neloufer has been awarded numerous prestigious fellowships and grants from the MacArthur Foundation, a Fulbright Scholarship at Yale, and the...

Guests featured in this episode  Jason Stanley; Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, and  author of five monographs, including, most recently, the acclaimed How Propaganda Works and How Fascism Works . Jason is also a renowned public intellectual who has written extensively on fascism, authoritarianism, propaganda, free speech, critical race theory, and mass incarceration for The New York T...

Guests featured in this episode: Mary Kaldor, Professor Emeritus of Global Governance and Director of the Conflict Research Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has had a long and illustrious academic career but has also been an activist since the 1980s. She was a founder of the European Nuclear Disarmament Movement, was co-chair of Helsinki Citizens Assembly and...

Guests featured in this episode: Yascha Mounk,  senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and also professor of the practice of international affairs at Johns Hopkins University. As a public intellectual, he is widely known for his work on the crisis of democracy and the defense of liberalism. He is a regular contributor to The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Foreign Affairs. Y ascha is...

Guests featured in this episode: Masha Gessen,  a distinguished journalist & staff writer for the New Yorker.  Born in Moscow in the Soviet Union, Masha moved to the United States in 1981, only to return to Russia as a journalist a decade later. A strong critic of Putin’s regime from the very outset, Masha decided to leave Russia and return to the US due to the politically motivated crackdown on g...

Guests featured in this episode: Dr Michael John Hastings, Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick CBE. He began his career as a teacher at a London Comprehensive school but after a few years took up a government job and supported policy initiatives to bring employment and development to Britain’s inner cities in a rough period marked by urban riots. He went to work for the BBC as presenter and later joined...

Guests featured in this episode: Éric Fassin, Professor of sociology and co-chair of the Gender Studies Department at Paris VIII. University, where he also established the Research Center on Gender and Sexuality Studies. His research addresses sexual and racial politics as well as immigration issues, in France, Europe, and in the United States in a comparative perspective. He is currently working...

Guests featured in this episode: Stephen Holmes, the Walter E. Mayer Professor of Law and co-director of the Center on Law and Security at New York University. Stephen has been the recipient of prestigious fellowships from, among others, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, the Wissenschaftkolleg in Berlin, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the IWM in Vienna.  Between 1994 and 1996, he served...