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RevDem Podcast
RevDem Podcast is brought to you by the Review of Democracy, the online journal of the CEU Democracy Institute. The Review of Democracy is dedicated to the reinvigoration, survival, and prosperity of democracies worldwide and to generating innovative cross-regional dialogues. RevDem Podcast offers in-depth conversations in four main areas: rule of law, political economy and inequalities, the history of ideas, and democracy and culture.
Episodes
RevDem PodcastJonathan Holslag on World Politics Since 1989
Our editor Ferenc Laczo interviews Jonathan Hoslag (Free University Brussels) on his book "World Politics Since 1989" (Polity Press).
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LaTosha Brown: Culture will eat strategy for breakfast
RevDem editor Ferenc Laczo interviews LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the voting rights group Black Voters Matter whose work is credited with significant voter…
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Laurent Pech about Poland and the Court of Justice of the EU
Laurent Pech (Middlesex University) in conversation with Oliver Garner (RevDem Editor) about conflicts between the Polish government and the European…
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Talisse: To Be a Democratic Citizen
Katarzyna Krzyżanowska talks with Robert Talisse, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, on the epistemology of…
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Konrad Jarausch on Realistic Progress
RevDem editor Ferenc Laczo interviewed historian Konrad H. Jarausch, Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel…
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Samuel Moyn on the US’ Attempt to Humanise its Imperial Burden
Ferenc Laczo in conversation with Samuel Moyn (Yale University) about his book "Humane. How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War".
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Rising Inequality in Egalitarian Societies: Revisiting the Post-Communist Transition with Mitchell Orenstein
In conversation with our editor Ferenc Laczo, Mitchell Orenstein, Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses…
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Contesting German Memory Culture. A Conversation with Jennifer Evans on the Catechism Debate
Ferenc Laczo talks with Jennifer Evans (Carleton University) about the new Holocaust memory debate. Jennifer Evans curated a series of articles in the New…
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Siegelberg: Statelessness and the Global Political Order
Ferenc Laczo discusses with Mira Siegelberg her latest book "Statelessness", the story of a much-contested legal category.
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Corrective power of the populists
Do populists pose a threat to constitutional democracy? Are populists always the villains in our tales about democracy? Bojan Bugarič answers these questions…
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What Are the Sources of Democratic Legitimacy? Till van Rahden on Democracy as a Way of Life
Elias Buchetmann talks to Till van Rahden about his latest book 'Demoracy: A Fragile Way of Life', which focuses on the history of democracy in the Federal…
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How the US decided to lead the world. Stephen Wertheim on the transformation of American internationalism
RevDem editor Ferenc Laczó spoke to Stephen Wertheim, Director of Grand Strategy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and Visiting Faculty Fellow…
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“I Won’t Remain Silent”: Interview on Human Rights Activism in Hungary
In an interview with our assistant editor Bence Bari, Vera Mérő, Hungarian journalist, media researcher, human rights activist, founder and host of the…
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Populism and Antipopulism: Beyond the Post-1989 Paradigm
Petr Agha (University of Copenhagen) discusses the clash between populism and antipopulism, and the implications for Europe, in conversation with Oliver Garner.
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Rule of Law is not like IKEA furniture
What is the societal dimension of the rule of law? How can we improve democracy on the European Union level? Is there a place for citizens engagement in design…
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"The Future Cannot be Stopped"
In an interview with our assistant editor Bence Bari, Lili Rutai, Hungarian feminist journalist and podcaster, co-founder and co-host of the popular podcast…
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Conway on Western European democracy in the postwar decades
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Ferenc Laczo discuss with Martin Conway his latest book "Western Europe’s Democratic Age 1945-1968" (Princeton University Press…
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Lawrence and Laybourn-Langton: Remaking politics in response to the assault on the natural world
RevDem Editor Ferenc Laczo is discussing the book "Planet on Fire. A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown" by Mathew Lawrence and Laurie…
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Bickerton on the new logic of democratic politics
Chris Bickerton (University of Cambridge) is discussing his latest book “Technopopulism” (co-authored with Carlo Invernizzi Accetti) with Ferenc Laczo…
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Citizens as Masters of the EU Treaties
Markus Patberg (University of Hamburg) in his recent book argues that we should not see the master of the Treaties in member states but in citizens. In this…
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Halmai: It’s not only about the rule of law: Poland and Hungary in the EU
Professor Gabor Halmai (EUI) discusses with Theodora Miljojkovic the constitutional backsliding in Poland and Hungary, as well as their relationship with the…
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Ernst Fraenkel - a Jewish lawyer who resisted the Nazis
In this episode Kasia Krzyżanowska talks to Douglas G. Morris, a legal historian and practicing criminal defense attorney with Federal Defenders of New York…
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Stasavage: Democracy requires continuous effort
David Stasavage (New York University) in conversation with RevDem editor Ferenc Laczo (Maastricht University) about his recent book “The Decline and Rise of…
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Finchelstein: From Fascism to Populism and Back Again?
RevDem editor Ferenc Laczo (Maastricht University) talks with Federico Finchelstein (New School for Social Research, New York) about his two recent books…
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Vaccination passports - the way to go?
In the newest episode of the RevDem podcast Giancarlo Grignaschi interviews Luiza Bialasiewicz (University of Amsterdam) and Prof. Oskar Josef Gstrein…
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Crouch: Situation in Myanmar after the coup
In this conversation with Assistant Editor Gaurav Mukherjee, Melissa Crouch discusses the rapidly evolving situation involving the military coup in Myanmar on…
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Academic Freedom and the Rule of Law
Professor Nandini Ramanujam (McGill University) discusses with Oliver Garner the connection between academic freedom and the Rule of Law, contemporary and…
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Zeller: Demobilising Far-Right Demonstration Campaigns: Kamikaze Activism
Kasia Krzyżanowska interviews Michael Zeller (Central European University) on the far-right demonstration campaigns and how are demobilized by the…
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Adding Bite to the Member States' Rule of Law Bark?
Oliver Garner interviews Professor Dimitry Kochenov (University of Groningen) on Member State legal action against backsliding Member States to enforce the…
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Bard: Rule of Law Conditionality: The Sharpest New Tool in the Box?
Oliver Garner interviews Professor Petra Bard (CEU and Eötvös Loránd University) on the new regime of budget conditionality to enforce the Rule of Law in the…
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Steinmetz-Jenkins: Liberalism(s) reinvigorated?
Kasia Krzyzanowska interviews Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, a faculty member in History Department at Dartmouth College, on the future of liberalism, especially…
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Samuel Moyn on American democracy after Trump
Samuel Moyn (Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale University) in conversation with Kasia Nowicka on the current state of America's democracy on the eve of Joe…
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Alberto Alemanno on the Conference on the Future of Europe
Michal Matlak interviews Professor Alberto Alemanno (HEC, Paris) and the founder of Good Lobby about the upcoming Conference on the Future of Europe.