Thinking Global

Rumela Sen ( @rsen02 – Columbia University) speaks with Dr. Tusharika Deka ( ⁠@Tusharika24⁠ ) to explore Maoist rebellion and governance, the challenges of fieldwork, the politics of Nepal, digital transnational repression, the intersection of democracy and technology, and much more. Thinking Global  is affiliated with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠E-International Relations⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  - the world's leading open...

Philip Cunliffe ( @thephilippics – University College London) speaks with the Thinking Global team about the national interest, the end of globalization, Brexit and more. Dr. Philip Cunliffe speaks with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) and Oliver Bisogni about his new book The National Interest: Politics After Globalization , exploring what ‘the national interest’ conceptually entails, alongside ho...

Harris Mylonas ( @hmylonas – George Washington University Elliot School of International Affairs) speaks with the Thinking Global team on nations, nation-building and diaspora politics. Harris Mylonas chats with Kosta Kambouris about nations, nationalism, migration, nation-building and the politics of domestic diaspora policy in relation to this. Thinking Global  is affiliated with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠E-In...

Anthony F. Lang Jr. ( @ProfTonyLang – University of St. Andrews) speaks with the Thinking Global team about universal values, International Political Theory (IPT), ethics and Hugo Grotius. Professor Tony Lang speaks with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) and Daniel Drury about conceptualising International Political Theory (IPT), normativity in international relations, intervention, his latest refle...

Roland Bleiker ( @rbleiker ) the Keynote Speaker of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Conference 2025 in Belfast, speaks to Marianna Karakoulaki ( @Faloulah ), Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ), and the Thinking Global team about emotions and visuality in international politics, the conference, advice to young scholars and much more. This is an episode you do not want to miss. Thi...

The Thinking Global Team bring to you the highlights from Day 3 of the  British International Studies Association (BISA) Conference 2025  in Belfast. Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ), Marianna ( @Faloulah ) and Daniel speak to Mollie Schnurr (Queen’s University, Belfast), Carmen Chas (Universidad Pontificia Comillas), Charles Devellenes (University of Kent), David Murphy (University of Loughborough...

The Thinking Global Team bring to you the highlights from Day 2 of the  British International Studies Association (BISA) Conference 2025  in Belfast. Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ), Marianna ( @Faloulah ) and Daniel speak to Cornelia Navari (University of Birmingham/University of Buckingham), Sam Bradley (Loughborough University), Noemi Bergesio (Independent Researcher), Delia Burns (University o...

The Thinking Global Team bring to you the highlights from Day 1 of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Conference 2025 in Belfast. Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ), Marianna ( @Faloulah ) and Daniel speak to Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University), Daniela Suárez Vargas (Queen’s University, Belfast), Maxwin Paul Rayen (Kings College London), and Augustin Berea (University of St. An...

Arend Lijphart (University of California, San Diego) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Democracy and Consociationalism. Professor Emeritus Arend Lijphart speaks with Daniel Drury and Kieran O’Meara (⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠) about Democracy in 2025, elections in 2024, majoritarian democracies, Consociationalism, and more. Don’t forget to check out Thinking Global in-person at the 2025...

Mark Juergensmeyer ( @juergensmeyer – University of California-Santa Barbara) speaks with the Thinking Global team about religion and global politics. Distinguished Professor Emeritus Mark Juergensmeyer speaks with Tusharika Deka ( ⁠@Tusharika24⁠ ) about religious conflict, religious nationalism, a methodology for researching where religion and global politics meet, Professor Juergensmeyer’s lates...

Noah Zerbe (@n_zerbe – California State Polytechnic, Humboldt) speaks with the Thinking Global team on the global politics of food, the economy and technology. Noah Zerbe chats with Kosta Kambouris about Globalisation, food politics, economics and more. Professor Zerbe’s YouTube channel may be found @NoahZerbe . Thinking Global  is affiliated with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠E-International Relations⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  -...

Aylin Matlé ( @AylinMatle - Center for Security and Defense at the German Council on Foreign Relations) speaks with the Thinking Global team on German foreign policy and transatlantic relations. Aylin Matléchats with Jennifer (@JenniferEngl ) and Kieran (⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠) about German Foreign Policy, transatlantic relations, NATO, Trump, US-German Relations and foreign policy following...

Harry Hobbs ( @HarryHobbsUNSW – University of New South Wales) speaks with the Thinking Global team about micronations and micropatriology. Dr. Hobbs chats with Edward ( @edwarddcurry5 ) on micronations and the international system, the practices of legitimacy and sovereignty of micronations, their position in international law, and more. A new member of the team is also introduced, Daniel Drury,...

Simon Polinder ( @SPolinder – Utrecht University) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Love and International Relations, exploring his recent award-winning article. Dr. Polinder chats with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) on the concept of love, how we can use love as a lens to think about international relations, fear vs. love, love in the history of international thought and more. Dr. Polin...

Trita Parsi ( @tparsi – Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft) speaks with the Thinking Global team about US foreign policy towards the Middle East after the 2024 Presidential election. Professor Trita Parsi chats with Edward ( @edwarddcurry5 ) and Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) on Trump’s Middle East foreign policy, US-Israel relations, the Abraham Accords, relations with Türkiye, and more...

James Goldgeier ( @JimGoldgeier – American University) speaks with the Thinking Global team about US foreign policy after the 2024 Presidential election. Prof. Goldgeier chats with Edward ( @edwarddcurry5 ) and Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) on the future of US foreign policy, NATO, Sino-US relations, transatlantic relations, European security and more. This is the third episode of our 2024 US El...

Michael W. Mosser (University of Texas at Austin - @mwmosser ) and Dan G. Cox (US Army School of Advanced Military Studies) speak with the Thinking Global team about disinformation, cyberattacks and the possibility of insurgency in the US at the 2024 Election. Dr. Mosser and Prof. Cox chat with Edward ( @edwarddcurry5 ) and Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) on an article they recently published, con...

David Anderson (University of St. Andrews - @scotswoodworker @StAndrewsIR ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Judith Shklar and International Relations in Part Two of our two-part series. David Anderson chats with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) about Civil Disobedience, cruelty, our duty to transnational civil disobedience, and using Shklar in thinking about International Relations. Thin...

David Anderson (University of St. Andrews - @scottwoodworker @StAndrewsIR ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Judith Shklar and International Relations in part one of a two-part series. David Anderson chats with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) about who the political theorist Judith N. Shklar was and the qualities of her political thinking in part one of this two-part series. Thinking Glo...

Chase Oliver (Libertarian Party US Presidential Nominee - @ChaseForLiberty @LPNational ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Libertarian US Foreign Policy, Non-intervention, trade, climate change and more. Chase Oliver chats with Edward ( @edwarddcurry5 ) and Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) about what his Libertarian foreign policy for the US would entail if he were to win the upcoming US P...

Marsha Henry (Queen’s University Belfast - @mghacademic @QUBelfast ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about her new book The End of Peacekeeping: Gender, Race, and the Martial Politics of Intervention (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024). Prof. Henry chats with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) and Marianna ( @Faloulah ) about peacekeeping, researching peacekeeping operations, Critical Race...

This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, Jennifer Engl (@JenniferEngl ), Romanos Orpheas Tofis ( @rmnorph ), and our new co-host, Kosta Kambouris, chat with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) about what they've been reading in the fourth instalment of The Laid-Back Book Club. Thinking Global  is affiliated with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠E International Relations⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  - the world's leading open access w...

Marilou Bayard Trépanier of Last Generation Canada ( @lastgencanada ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about the current Oil Kills uprising ( @_oilkills ). Marilou chats with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) and Daniel McDaid about the aims of Oil Kills, the practice of direct non-violent global civil disobedience, the impact of their action, the substance of a Fossil Fuel non-proliferation tre...

In the fifth and final episode of our 2024 UK General Election special series, the Thinking Global team discuss the outcome of the election through an International Relations lens. Kieran (⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠) speaks with Jennifer (@JenniferEngl ), Marianna ( @Faloulah ), and Edward ( @edwarddcurry5 ) about some of the more interesting aspects of this election, before each editor gives th...

Catarina M. Liberato (University of Kent - @CataMLiberato @UniKentPolitics ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about ‘Global Britain’ in The Post-Brexit Context and the 2024 UK General Election. Catarina chats with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠) about ‘Global Britain’, post-Brexit foreign policy, globality of foreign policy, this election, and more. This is the fourth episode in our 2024...