Lionel Gelber Prize Podcasts

Carter Malkasian on The American War in Afghanistan

Carter Malkasian talks about his 2022 Lionel Gelber Prize-shortlisted book, The American War in Afghanistan.

2022 Lionel Gelber Prize Podcasts | Carter Malkasian

2022 Lionel Gelber Prize Podcasts | Jeffrey Veidlinger

Jeffrey Veidlinger on In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the onset of the Holocaust

Jeffrey Veidlinger talks about his 2022 Lionel Gelber Prize-shortlisted book, In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the onset of the Holocaust.

2022 Lionel Gelber Prize Podcasts | Emily Bass

2022 Lionel Gelber Prize Podcasts | Niall Ferguson

Emily Bass on To End a Plague: America’s Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa

Emily Bass talks about her 2022 Lionel Gelber Prize-shortlisted book, To End a Plague: America’s Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa.

Niall Ferguson on DOOM

Niall Ferguson talks about his 2022 Lionel Gelber Prize-shortlisted book, Doom.

2021 Lionel Gelber Prize Podcasts | Margaret MacMillan

Margaret MacMillan on War: How Conflict Shaped Us

Janice Stein, chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize jury speaks with Margaret MacMillan about her shortlisted book, War: How Conflict Shaped Us.

2021 Lionel Gelber Prize Podcasts | Charles A. Kupchan

Charles A. Kupchan on Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World

Janice Stein, chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize jury speaks with Charles Kupchan about his shortlisted book, Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World.

2021 Lionel Gelber Prize Podcasts | Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis

Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis on Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace

Janice Stein, chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize jury speaks with Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis about their shortlisted book, Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace

2021 Lionel Gelber Prize Podcasts | Anne Applebaum

Anne Applebaum on Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

Janice Stein, chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize jury speaks with Anne Applebaum about her shortlisted book, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism.

Peter Andreas on Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs

Janice Stein, chair of the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize jury, talks with Peter Andreas about his book Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs. 

2021 Lionel Gelber Prize Podcasts | Peter Andreas

Introducing the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize Podcasts

Introducing the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize Podcasts

Janice Stein, chair of the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize jury, introduces the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize podcasts.

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt on How Democracies Die

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt on How Democracies Die

Timothy Snyder on The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

Rania Abouzeid on No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria

Elizabeth C. Economy on The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State

Elizabeth C. Economy on The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State

Timothy Snyder on The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

Timothy Snyder, author of the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

Rania Abouzeid on No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria

Rania Abouzeid, author of the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

Adam Tooze on Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

Adam Tooze, author of the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

Adam Tooze on Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

Richard McGregor on Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century

Richard McGregor on Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century

Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro on The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World

Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro on The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World

Lawrence Freedman on The Future of War: A History

Anne Applebaum on Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine

Graham Allison on Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’ Trap?

Lawrence Freedman on The Future of War: A History

Lawrence Freedman, author of the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “The Future of War: A History”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.

Anne Applebaum on Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine

Anne Applebaum, author of the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.

Graham Allison on Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?

Graham Allison, author of the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.

Benn Steil on The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order

Benn Steil, author of the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.

Brendan Simms on Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present

Brendan Simms, author of the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.

Eric Schlosser on Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

Eric Schlosser, author of the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.

Lynne Olson on Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941

Lynne Olson, author of the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.

Gary J. Bass on The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide

Gary J. Bass, author of the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize-winning book “The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.

Sonke Neitzel on Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying

Sonke Neitzel, author of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize longlisted book “Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.

S.C.M. Paine on The Wars For Asia: 1911-1949

S.C.M. Paine, author of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize longlisted book “The Wars For Asia: 1911-1949”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.

Paul Bracken on The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics

Paul Bracken, author of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.

Pankaj Mishra on From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia

Pankaj Mishr, author of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.

Michael R. Gordon on The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama

Michael R. Gordon, author of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize longlisted book “The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.