International Horizons is a podcast of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies that brings scholarly expertise to bear on our understanding of international issues.   The International Horizons podcast is our latest effort to bring our research and scholarship to a broader public. We are part of the New Books Network.

John Torpey, the host of the podcast and director of the Ralph Bunche Institute, holds conversations with prominent scholars and figures in state-of-the-art international issues in our weekly episodes.

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  Words of Attack
  Rhetoric Against Liberal Democratic Values with James McAdams. With a presidential campaign in the US just around the corner and populist and authoritarian thinkers gaining broader platforms, University of Notre Dame political scientist A. James McAdams
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  Why Should We Preserve Memory of the Holocaust?
  Wojtek Soczewica has led the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation since 2019, near the site of the killing fields. The Foundation aims at the preservation of the remains of the concentration and extermination camp and of all the personal items
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  Citizenship Across Time and Space with David Jacobson
  In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey discusses the past and future of citizenship with David Jacobson, Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida (Tampa). They discuss the origins of the
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  How can we reach international consensus on AI regulation?
   In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Gabriele Mazzini, a lawyer and officer of the European Commission and expert in AI regulation. Mazzini discusses the means through which European countries have found
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  How Democracies Die . . . and How They May Survive with Daniel Ziblatt
  In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Daniel Ziblatt, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University and co-author (with Steven Levitsky) of the bestsellers How Democracies Die (Crown, 2019) and The Tyranny
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  Why is right-wing extremism so widespread in Italy?
  In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Marla Stone, a historian of Italian fascism at Occidental College, on the resurgence of the far right in Italy. The conversation delves into the origins of
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  “War is What you Make of It” with Neta Crawford
  We begin this new season of International Horizons with an interview by RBI Director John Torpey with Neta Crawford from Oxford University and the Cost of War Project. Prof. Crawford argues that conflict is less lethal
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  Is Poland back on track? The challenges for the new government.
  In this episode of International Horizons, RBI’s Director John Torpey interviews Grzegorz Ekiert, Chair of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, a propós of the recent election in Poland that installed a centrist government
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  The Everyday life behind Berlin Wall
  In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews historian and journalist Katja Hoyer about her book Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany (Basic Books, 2023). The conversation begins with a discussion
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  Israel, Hamas, and American Jews in a Time of War
  On today’s episode of International Horizons, Ralph Bunche Institute Director John Torpey speaks with Jodi Rudoren, editor-in-chief of the Forward magazine, about the situation in Israel and Gaza.  She notes that Hamas’s incursion into Israel on October 7,
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  The U.S. State Department and Ever-Changing Global Politics
  In this episode of International Horizons, Ralph Bunche Institute Director John Torpey interviews Assistant Secretary of State for Global Public Affairs Bill Russo.  Assistant Secretary Russo commented on the role of the United States in the
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  Iran, Hamas and Israel: The Perils of Overreaction
  In this episode of International Horizons, Colin Clarke, director of research at the Soufan Center, discusses the possible trajectories of the Israel-Palestine conflict with RBI director John Torpey. Clarke introduces the linkages of Hamas with Iran
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  From the Invention of Passport to the Golden Passport
  In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviewed Kirstin Surak professor at the London School of Economics, about her new book, The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires (Harvard University Press, 2023). The
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  AI, post-truth, and cultural transformation
  In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey talks with economists Luciana Lazzaretti and Stefania Oliva of the University of Florence about the role of artificial intelligence in contemporary cultural transformation.  The authors discuss
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  Resentment: The complexity of an emotion and its effect on politics
  In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Rob Schneider, Professor of History at Indiana University-Bloomington, about the political effects of resentment. Schneider begins by discussing the psychological complexity of resentment and then
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  Should we be optimistic about global governance? On the future of the UN with the ICG’s UN Director Richard Gowan
  This week on International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviewed Richard Gowan, UN director of the International Crisis Group.  Gowan discusses the different views of the UN on the occasion of the annual meeting of the
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  Global inequality: Are we really measuring what we should be measuring?
  In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviewed Jayati Ghosh, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, about different debates surrounding inequality. Ghosh criticizes the flaws in some inequality indicators
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  India, a Non-aligned member of the International System?
  We kick off our Fall 2023 season of International Horizons with Upendra Choudhury from Aligarh Muslim University discussing the role of India in the contemporary international system.  Prof. Choudhury argues that India’s vision of a multipolar world order consists of
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  UN Administrative and Bureaucratic Politics
  Join us for a conversation with Katja Hemmerich, expert on the United Nations. The session will be chaired by HRH steering committee member and Professor of Political Science at John Jay College George Andreopoulos. RSVP Here
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  Negotiating Decolonization
  The Limits of a Fairy Tale with Valerie Rosoux In this episode of International Horizons, Valerie Rosoux, Research Director at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) discusses the disagreements in the historiography of Belgium’s human rights