Security in Context

NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Milei's election and the Argentinian economy: An interview with Matías Vernengo [Part 2]” from February 2, 2024. ⁠ Click here to watch the original video ⁠. In this interview, Executive Producer of the Security in Context Podcast Anita Fuentes talks with Matías Vernengo, about his recent book "Dollar Hegemony," and the economic circums...

NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Dollar hegemony explained: An interview with Matías Vernengo [Part 1]” from January 31, 2024. ⁠ Click here to watch the original video ⁠. In this interview, Executive Producer of the Security in Context Podcast Anita Fuentes talks with Matías Vernengo, about his recent book "Dollar Hegemony," and the economic circumstances that contrib...

NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “The Socioeconomic Consequences of the War on Gaza: An Interview with UN ESCWA's Mehrinaz El Awady” from December 16, 2023. ⁠ Click here to watch the original video⁠. Executive Producer of the Security in Context Podcast Anita Fuentes interviews Mehrinaz El Awady about the impact of the Israeli attacks on the socioeconomic conditions in...

NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Palestine, Human Rights, and Justice for Gaza: An Interview with Ione Belarra” from November 28, 2023. ⁠Click here to watch the original video⁠. Security in Context's Anita Fuentes and Fernando Brancoli interview Spanish former Minister Ione Belarra about the war in Gaza. Since the beginning of the war, Belarra has emerged as one of th...

NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Monitoring Global Sanctions: An Interview with Michael Galant” from November 20, 2023. ⁠ Click here to watch the original video⁠. Executive producer of the Security in Context Podcast Anita Fuentes interviews Michael Galant about his work at CEPR leading the Sanctions Watch. Michael Galant is Senior Research and Outreach Associate with...

NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Settler Colonialism in Palestine: An Interview with Rabie Nasser” from November 11, 2023. ⁠ Click here to watch the original video⁠. Security in Context Project Director Omar Dahi interviews Rabie Nasser about his recent article "Settler Colonialism in Palestine: Structures of Violence and Injustice." Rabie Nasser is an economist, rese...

NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “How much military aid has Israel received from the US?: An Interview with Stephen Semler” from October 30, 2023. ⁠ Click here to watch the original video⁠. Executive Producer of the Security in Context Podcast Anita Fuentes interviews Stephen Semler about US military aid in Israel. Stephen Semler is co-founder of the Security Policy Re...

NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Inside the Long Fight against Torture: An Interview with Lisa Hajjar” from October 28, 2023. ⁠ Click here to watch the original video⁠. Executive Producer of the Security in Context podcast Anita Fuentes interviews sociologist Lisa Hajjar about her new book, "The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture," with a focus on Gua...

NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “U.S. Sanctions, (Mis)Information, and the Possibilities of International Solidarity with Cuba” from October 20, 2023. ⁠ Click here to watch the original video⁠. Security in Context's Roosbelinda Cárdenas interviews award-winning Cuban journalist Liz Oliva Fernández about US Sanctions, information and misinformation, and possibilities o...

NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Libya is a crime scene: An interview with Vijay Prashad” from September 28, 2023. ⁠ Click here to watch the original video⁠. Executive Producer of the Security in Context Podcast Anita Fuentes interviews historian Vijay Prashad about Tricontinental’s recent newsletter titled “NATO Destroyed Libya in 2011: Storm Daniel Came to Sweep Up...

NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “The Coup in Niger - An Interview with Sebastian Elischer” from September 23, 2023. ⁠ Click here to watch the original video⁠. Security in Context's Abdalla Nasef interviews Professor Sebastian Elischer about the coup in Niger. Dr. Sebastian is an associate professor of political science at the University of Florida and an editor of the...

NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “The Radical Right in the Global South - An Interview with Tatiana Vargas Maia” from September 19, 2023. ⁠ Click here to watch the original video⁠. Executive producer of the Security in Context Podcast Anita Fuentes interviews Professor Tatiana Vargas Maia about their latest book, "The Rise of the Radical Right in the Global South." Mai...

NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Morocco Earthquake - An Interview with Zaynab El Bernoussi” from September 12, 2023. ⁠ Click here to watch the original video⁠. Executive producer of the Security in Context Podcast Anita Fuentes interviews SiC's Zaynab El Bernoussi about the recent Earthquake in Morocco. Zaynab El Bernoussi is professor of international politics at Sc...

NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “The Women of the Far Right - An Interview with Eviane Leidig” from September 7, 2023. ⁠ Click here to watch the original video⁠. Host and executive producer of the Security in Context podcast Anita Fuentes interviews researcher Eviane Leidig on her new book, "The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalizatio...

NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Selective Security in the War on Drugs: An Interview with Alke Jenss” from July 5, 2023. ⁠ Click here to watch the original video⁠ . Executive Producer of the Security in Context podcast Anita Fuentes interviews author Alke Jenss about her new book, "Selective Security and the War on Drugs: The Coloniality of State Power in Columbia an...

NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “The Struggle to Reshape the Middle East: An Interview with Samer Shehata” from June 26, 2023. ⁠ Click here to watch the original video ⁠. Executive Producer of the Security in Context podcast Anita Fuentes interviews Samer Shehata about "The Struggle to Reshape the Middle East in the 21st Century" (Edinburgh University Press). Samer Sh...

NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Iran, Sanctions and Economic Warfare: A Conversation with Narges Bajoghli” from June 4, 2023. ⁠ Click here to watch the original video ⁠. Executive Producer of the Security in Context podcast Anita Fuentes and Security in Context Media and Knowledge Production Intern Jordi Bernal interview Narges Bajoghli about her upcoming book, "How...

NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview "The Human Consequences of Sanctions: An Interview with Francisco Rodriguez" from May 24, 2023. Click here to watch the original video . Executive Producer of the Security in Context Podcast Anita Fuentes interviews Professor Francisco Rodriguez. Professor Francisco Rodriguez is a Rice Family Professor of the Practice of International a...

NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview "Turkish 2023 Presidential Election Heads for a Run Off: Analysis and Implications" from May 16, 2023. Click here to watch the original video. Executive Producer of the Security in Context Podcast Anita Fuentes interviews Professor Firat Demir about the 2023 Presidential Election in Turkey. Firat Demir is a Professor of Economics at the...

NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview "Understanding China in Latin America: an Interview with Paul Amar and Fernando Brancoli" from May 9, 2023. Click here to watch the original video . Executive Producer of the Security in Context Podcast Anita Fuentes interviews Paul Amar and Fernando Brancoli about their latest book, "The Tropical Silk Road." Dr. Paul Amar is a professo...

Hamid Khalafallah is a non-resident fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy focusing on inclusive governance and mobilization in Sudan. He is also a program officer for the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), supporting Sudan’s democratic transition. In this interview, Hamid Khalafallah shares his take on Sudan's militarized conflict.

Margaret Cerullo is a professor of Sociology and Feminist Studies at Hampshire College and a member of the Lightning Collective, which put together the book “Zapatista Stories for Dreaming An-Other World by Subcomandante Marcos.” In this gorgeous collection of allegorical stories, Subcomandante Marcos, idiosyncratic spokesperson of the Zapatistas, has provided “an accidental archive” of a revoluti...

What has Security in Context achieved in the past two years? And what does the future hold for the project?  In this episode, we hear from some of the key people leading Security in Context’s research network, including: Omar Dahi, Project Director of Security in Context and Economics Professor at Hampshire College; Shana Marshall, Associate Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies a...

In this episode we investigate the Russian war in Ukraine from a global South perspective by analyzing the effects of the crisis on the different countries and regions of the global South, and highlighting the issues that are currently missing from the mainstream discussion. Our guests include: Eric Draitser, independent political analyst and host of CounterPunch Radio; Samar Al-Bulushi, assistant...

Khaled Barakat is a Palestinian-Canadian activist and writer, currently based in Vancouver, who was recently subjected to a media and political campaign aimed at silencing him and those fighting for Palestinian rights in Canada. Attempts to criminalize Barakat originated in an article published in the right-wing newspaper The National Post, and quickly became subject of debate in the Canadian Sena...