Democracy in Question?
80 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsToday, liberal democracies are under unprecedented strain from within and without. In each episode, renowned social anthropologist Shalini Randeria invites a leading scholar to explore the challenges and dilemmas facing democracies around the world. They investigate what needs to be done to ensure the future well-being of our democratic institutions and practices.
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Michael Woldemariam on Challenges Facing African Democracy (Part 1)
April 10, 2024 11:00 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBDemocracy in Question? is brought to you by: • Central European University: CEU • The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: AHCD • The Podcast Company: scopeaudio 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 and sharing our podcast in your networks! Glossary Tigray War (03:21 or p.1 in ...
Vivek Maru on Legal Empowerment for Communities
March 13, 2024 12:00 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBDemocracy in Question? is brought to you by: • Central European University: CEU • The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: AHCD • The Podcast Company: scopeaudio 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 and sharing our podcast in your networks!
Oleksandra Matviichuk on Human Rights and Ukraine
February 28, 2024 12:00 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBDemocracy in Question? is brought to you by: • Central European University: CEU • The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: AHCD • The Podcast Company: scopeaudio 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 and sharing our podcast in your networks! Glossary Euromaidan and the Revolution ...
Dilip Gaonkar on the "Degenerations of Democracy"
February 14, 2024 12:00 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBDemocracy in Question? is brought to you by: • Central European University: CEU • The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: AHCD • The Podcast Company: scopeaudio 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 and sharing our podcast in your networks! Glossary Nation-state (07:01 or p.2 in...
Yanis Varoufakis on "Technofeudalism"
January 31, 2024 12:00 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBDemocracy in Question? is brought to you by: • Central European University: CEU • The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: AHCD • The Podcast Company: scopeaudio 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 and sharing our podcast in your networks! Glossary Feudalism (03:10 or p.1 in th...
Nancy Fraser on "Cannibal Capitalism"
January 17, 2024 12:00 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBDemocracy in Question? is brought to you by: • Central European University: CEU • The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: AHCD • The Podcast Company: scopeaudio 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 and sharing our podcast in your networks!
Paul Lendvai on "Austria Behind the Mask"
November 22, 2023 12:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBDemocracy in Question? is brought to you by: • Central European University: CEU • The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: AHCD • The Podcast Company: scopeaudio 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 and sharing our podcast in your networks! Glossary Bruno Kreisky (01:53 or p.1 i...
Maciej Kisilowski on the Polish Elections
November 08, 2023 12:31 - 44 minutes - 41 MBDemocracy in Question? is brought to you by: • Central European University: CEU • The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: AHCD • The Podcast Company: scopeaudio 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 and sharing our podcast in your networks! Glossary Polish population transfer (1...
Kalypso Nicolaidis on Governing Together Through Demoicracy (Part 2)
October 25, 2023 11:00 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBDemocracy in Question? is brought to you by: • Central European University: CEU • The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: AHCD • The Podcast Company: scopeaudio 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 and sharing our podcast in your networks! Glossary Democratic Odyssey (02:19 or...
Kalypso Nicolaidis on Governing Together Through Demoicracy (Part 1)
October 11, 2023 11:00 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBDemocracy in Question? is brought to you by: • Central European University: CEU • The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: AHCD • The Podcast Company: scopeaudio 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 and sharing our podcast in your networks! Glossary Panopticon (11:53 or p.3 in t...
Janka Oertel on "The End of the China Illusion" (Part 2)
September 27, 2023 11:00 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBDemocracy in Question? is brought to you by: • Central European University: CEU • The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: AHCD • The Podcast Company: scopeaudio 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 and sharing our podcast in your networks! Glossary Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)...
Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz on a More Equitable Future
September 13, 2023 11:00 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBDemocracy in Question? is brought to you by: • Central European University: CEU • The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: AHCD • The Podcast Company: scopeaudio 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 and sharing our podcast in your networks! Glossary Capital gains taxation (17...
Janka Oertel on "The End of the China Illusion" (Part 1)
August 30, 2023 11:00 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBDemocracy in Question? is brought to you by: • Central European University: CEU • The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: AHCD • The Podcast Company: scopeaudio 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 and sharing our podcast in your networks! Glossary Green transition (16:37 or...
Alejandra Ballon Gutierrez on Body Politics in Peru
July 26, 2023 10:00 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBDemocracy in Question? is brought to you by: • Central European University: CEU • The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: AHCD • The Podcast Company: scopeaudio 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 and sharing our podcast in your networks! Glossary USAID (19:20 or p.4 in the...
Kim Lane Scheppele on Destroying Democracy by Law
July 12, 2023 11:00 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBDemocracy in Question? is brought to you by: • Central European University: CEU • The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: AHCD • The Podcast Company: scopeaudio 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 and sharing our podcast in your networks! Glossary Gerrymandering (14:00 or p.4 in ...
Ulrike Flader on Turkey at the Crossroads
June 28, 2023 11:00 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBDemocracy in Question? is brought to you by: • Central European University: CEU • The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: AHCD • The Podcast Company: scopeaudio 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 and sharing our podcast in your networks! Glossary Ukraine Grain Deal (Black Sea ...
Daniela Schwarzer on Europe’s Strategic Conundrums (Part 2)
May 31, 2023 11:00 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBDemocracy 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 and sharing our podcast in your networks! DiQ S6 EP10 Daniela Schwarzer on Europe’s Strat...
Daniela Schwarzer on Europe’s Strategic Conundrums (Part 1)
May 17, 2023 11:00 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBDemocracy 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 and sharing our podcast in your networks! DiQ S6 EP9 Daniela Schwarzer on Europe’s Strateg...
Martin Krygier on Anti-Constitutional Populism
May 03, 2023 11:00 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBDemocracy 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 and sharing our podcast in your networks!
Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani on Israel: Democracy on the Defensive
April 19, 2023 11:00 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBDemocracy 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 and sharing our podcast in your networks! DiQ S6 EP7 Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani on Israel...
Sergei Guriev on the Changing Face of Autocracy
March 29, 2023 10:00 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MBGuests 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 Development. And he has held visiting professorships at MIT, Princeton. And in 2006, he was selected a Yo...
Mukulika Banerjee on the Cultivation of Democracy in India
March 15, 2023 12:00 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBGuests 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 the political in South Asia. Her most relevant publications to this episode are; Why India Votes ...
Ken Opalo on the Prospects of Democracy in Africa
March 01, 2023 12:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBDemocracy 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 and sharing our podcast in your networks! DiQ S6 EP4 Ken Opalo on the Prospects of Democr...
Ronald Daniels on the Role of Universities in Strengthening Democracy
February 15, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBGuests 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 top for its interdisciplinary research and innovation, enhanced student access, as well as communi...
Shaharzad Akbar on Afghanistan after Democracy
February 01, 2023 12:00 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBGuests 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 Afghanistan, a nonprofit organization supporting civil society and media, focusing on human ri...
Thomas Carothers on Democratic Backsliding in a Comparative Perspective
January 18, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes - 35 MBGuests 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 democracy and international support for democracy promotion abroad for human rights, governanc...
Azadeh Moaveni on the Ongoing Iranian Demonstrations Fueled and Led by Women
December 21, 2022 12:00 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBGuests 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 militarism and Islamism. In 2005, she published the international bestseller Lipstick Jihad,...
Ricardo Regatieri on Brazilian Elections: Bolsonarism and Its Aftermath
December 07, 2022 12:00 - 32 minutes - 30 MBGuests 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 at Korea University and a lecturer at Hankuk University, both in Seoul, South Korea. Ricardo ...
Charles Taylor on Degenerations and Regenerations of Democracy
November 23, 2022 12:00 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBGuests 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 multiculturalism. Among his books let me mention Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identit...
Craig Calhoun on the Current Crisis of American and Global Democracy and Potential Remedies
November 09, 2022 12:00 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBGuests 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 and others. His latest book, "Degenerations of Democracy," written with Charles Taylor and Dilip ...
Leonard Benardo on Civil Society and the Politics and Practices of Civil Society Organizations
October 26, 2022 11:00 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBGuests 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 New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the International Herald Tribune, Bookforum, Amer...
Leonard Bernado on Civil Society and the Politics and Practices of Civil Society Organizations
October 26, 2022 11:00 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBGuests 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 New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the International Herald Tribune, Bookforum, Amer...
Nadia Urbinati on the Resurgence of Populism, its History, and its Various Forms
October 12, 2022 11:00 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBGuests 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 political thought and the democratic, as well as anti-democratic traditions. GLOSSARY What is ...
Mykola Gnatovskyy on the establishment of a Special Tribunal to Investigate the Crimes of Aggression against Ukraine
September 28, 2022 11:00 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBGuests 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 for Foreign Affairs on international criminal justice, and was a member of the International Exper...
Neloufer de Mel on the Current Economic, Social and Political Situation in Sri Lanka
September 14, 2022 11:00 - 34 minutes - 32 MBGuests 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 IWM in Vienna. Some of her books are: Women and the Nation’s Narrative: Gender and Nationalism ...
The Fragility of US Democracy and the Genuine Threat of Fascism it Faces
August 31, 2022 11:00 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBGuests 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 Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Project Syndicate, or The Chronicle of Higher Education...
Mary Kaldor on NATO, Human Security, the Changing Face of Global War and the Effectiveness of Sanctions and Debt Cancellation
August 17, 2022 11:00 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBGuests 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 Peoples Europe, and was a member of the Goldstone Commission investigating the Kosovo crisis. ...
Thoughts on the Past, Present and Future of Diverse Democracies
July 06, 2022 11:00 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBGuests 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. Yascha is also the author of 4 books, the autobiographically inspired Stranger in My Own Country, The Age ...
Current State of Affairs in Putin’s Russia
June 22, 2022 11:00 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBGuests 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 gay parents by Russian authorities. They have authored 11 books, most recently, Surviving Autocra...
Faltering democratic systems and the need to reconstruct democracy
June 08, 2022 11:00 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBGuests 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 the BBC Corporate Division, after which he became the head of its Public Affairs, and then its ...
The French Presidential Election and the State of Democracy in France
May 25, 2022 11:00 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBGuests 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 on book project with his brother, Didier Fassin, on The Rising Significance of Race in France, ...
Perspectives on Putin and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
May 11, 2022 11:00 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBGuests 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 as Director of the Soros Foundation program for promoting legal reform in Russia and Eastern E...
Assessing the 2022 Hungarian Parliamentary Elections
April 27, 2022 11:00 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBGuests featured in this Episode Gábor Tóka, Senior Research Fellow in the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives in Budapest. A sociologist by training, he has published more than 60 articles on electoral behaviour, public opinion, political parties and democratic consolidation in edited volumes, political science and sociology journals. He is also the author of Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation (Cambridge University Press, 1999),...
Myanmar’s Struggle for Democratization
April 13, 2022 11:00 - 31 minutes - 29 MBGuests featured in this episode: Marzuki Darusman, an internationally recognized human rights lawyer and former Attorney General of Indonesia. Marzuki has participated in the work of UN committees on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan, war crimes in Sri Lanka, human rights in North Korea, and most recently, he was the chair an independent Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar under the UN Human Rights Council following the Rohingya genocide in 2017. GLOSSARY: Who is the Aung S...
Imminent Scenarios in Ukraine
March 30, 2022 11:00 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBGuests featured in this episode: Slawomir Sierakowski, a Polish sociologist and political analyst, with extensive knowledge of not only Ukraine and Russia, but also the potential third party in the current war, Belarus. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of the Krytyka Polityczna (Political Critique) magazine. His more than 400 articles and op-eds include not only publications in Polish, but regular monthly columns in the international edition of The New York Times and Project Syndi...
Geopolitics of the War in Ukraine
March 16, 2022 12:00 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBGuests featured in this episode Georgi Derluguian, Professor of Social Research and Public Policy at New York University’s Abu Dhabi campus. Born in the Soviet Union, Georgie then experienced its breakup as a young social scientist. Having pursued African studies in Moscow, Georgi spent two years in Mozambique during the civil war in the 1980s, and then moved to the United States right after that to work with Immanuel Wallerstein, graduating with a PhD in sociology from the State Univers...
The Genealogy of Illiberalism
March 02, 2022 13:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBGuests featured in this episode: Renata Uitz, is the co-editor of Handbook of Illiberalism, who has contributed two chapters to it as well. Renata is also professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the Central European University, Vienna, as well as the co-director of its Democracy Institute in Budapest. Helena Rosenblatt is a professor of history, French, and political theory at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York, and the author of both Liberal Values: Benjamin C...
Freedom of Expression in an Unequal World
February 09, 2022 12:00 - 32 minutes - 30 MBGuests featured in this episode: Irene Khan, the first woman to ever hold the mandate of UN Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Opinion and Expression. She is also a Distinguished Fellow and Research Associate at the Graduate Institute's Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy. Previously, Irene Khan was Secretary-General of Amnesty International (2001-2009) and Director-General of the International Development Law Organization (2010 to 2019). Democracy in Question? is brought to you by...
Governance in Illiberal Democracies
January 26, 2022 12:00 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBGuests featured in this episode: Professor Andras Sajo, former judge at the European Court of Human Rights & founding Dean of Legal Studies Department at the Central European University, 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 S...
Holding Power Accountable with Investigative Journalism
January 12, 2022 12:00 - 32 minutes - 30 MBDemocracy 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 and sharing our podcast in your networks! BIBLIOGRAPHY The Watchdog That Didn't Bark: The Fi...