Thinking Global

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...

Jamie Gaskarth (The Open University - @GaskarthJamie ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about British Foreign Policy, Brexit, The Commonwealth, David Cameron and William Hague. Prof. Gaskarth chats with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) and Romanos ( @rmnorph ) about defining features of British Foreign Policy, the ‘indo-pacific’ tilt, the status of the Commonwealth following the death of Queen...

Maurice Stierl (Osnabrück University - @MauriceStierl ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about migration and the weaponization of time, borders and migrant solidarity. Dr. Stierl chats with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) and Marianna ( @Faloulah ) about how time can be weaponised, how this relates to EU Maritime Migration Policy, migrant resistance and solidarity, the entanglement of borders,...

Giorgio Shani (International Christian University, Tokyo - @GiorgioShani ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Sikh Nationalism and Post-Western IR. Prof. Shani speaks with Kieran ( ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ ) and Tusharika ( @Tusharika24 ) about Sikh Nationalism, The Khalistan Movement, tensions between Canada and India concerning Sikh Nationalism, how this is distinct from Hindu Nationalism, a...

Natasha Saunders (University of St. Andrews - @NEGSaunders ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Refugees, Digital Border Technologies and The Violence of Asylum. Dr. Saunders chats with Kieran ( ⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠ ) about the distinction between refugee status and asylum, the 'slow violence' of the latter, digital border technologies, current UK policy towards asylum seekers and re...

Elena Şimanschi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @ESimanschi ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Russian (dis)information on Ukraine. Elena chats with Kieran ( ⁠@kieranjomeara⁠ ) and Catharine Damron ( @catharinedamron ) about what (dis)information is, what its major mechanisms are, how it materialises, its connection with emotion and memory, alongside the findings of her...

Megan MacKenzie (Simon Fraser University - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @SFU ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Military Sexual Violence (MSV) and her new book Good Soldiers Don't Rape , available from Cambridge University Press. Professor MacKenzie chats with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) and Abigail about what Military Sexual Violence is, exploring sexual violence in conflict through a gendered lens, ho...

Dov Waxman (University of California, Los Angeles - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@DovWaxman ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about The ongoing Israel-Hamas War. Prof. Waxman speaks with Kieran and Edward about what has occurred in Israel and Gaza since the morning of October 7th, whether we should consider this a Third Intifada, if this will lead to a new generation of Palestinian refugees in the region, the ex...

Seán Molloy (University of Kent - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @SeanMolloyIR ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Realist Ethics and the work of E.H. Carr. Dr. Molloy chats with Kieran about what 'Realism' as a school of IR theorising is, how considering Realism as amoral or immoral is incorrect, responses to and misinterpretation of Carr's ' The Twenty Years Crisis' , the importance of h...

This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, Marianna Karakoulaki ( @Faloulah ) and Edward Curry ( @edwarddcurry5 ) - two of the E-International Relations and Thinking Global team- chat with Kieran ( @kieranjomeara ) about what they have been reading recently. Thinking Global is now recruiting for Podcast Editorial Assistants - If you would like to apply, click HERE . Don't forget to follow us on...

Kosuke Shimizu (Ryukoku University, Kyoto - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ @caatc105 ) speaks with the  Thinking Global  team about the Kyoto School and 'Non-Western' International Relations. With Kieran and Edoardo, Professor Shimizu explores how we can cast 'non-western' International Relations, how the Kyoto School of philosophy can help us think about global politics, the concept of 'relation...

Sarrah Kassem (University of Tübingen - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @KassemSarrah ) speaks with the Thinking Global team about the global politics of the platform economy. Dr. Kassem chats with Kieran about what the platform economy is, how the politics of such an economy is global, the alienation experienced by Amazon workers globally, and the manner in which platform workers hold both power and agency on the glob...

Alexander Lanoszka (University of Waterloo - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@ALanoszka) speaks with the Thinking Global team about Military Alliances and NATO Enlargement. Lanoszka speaks with Kieran about how to conceptualise military alliances, the effect of Nuclear proliferation on alliances, the importance of multilateral alliances today, why we should 'thank goodness' for NATO expansion and the effect of the Russo...

Bruce Pannier (@BrucePannier) and Temur Umarov (Fellow, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Centre @TUmarov) speak with the Thinking Global Team about the regional politics of Central Asia. Mr. Pannier and Mr. Umarov chat with Kieran and Ismail about the history of Russia's dominance in the region, how the region has been effected by the Russo-Ukraine war, regional ties with China, the potential for conflict,...