Diplomacy and International Relations

Listen to this episode of Diplomacy and International Relations summer series where Responsibility to Protect confronts sovereignty in intervention dilemmas.

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Listen to this episode of Diplomacy and International Relations summer series where aid, trade, and inequality politics explain why poverty persists despite globalgrowth.

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Listen to this episode of Diplomacy and International Relations summer series where faith and identity return as powerful forces in modern diplomacy and conflict.

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Listen to this episode of Diplomacy and International Relations summer series where trade, corporations, and crises reveal the economic forces driving internationalpolitics.

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Listen to this episode of Diplomacy and International Relations summer series where NGOs and activists challenge governments and shape global norms from the outside.

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A tiny island of just over 56,000 people has quietly become the most strategically contested territory in the Northern Hemisphere. In this bonus episode we map out why the United States, China, and Russia are suddenly tripping over themselves to reach Greenland — starting with the cold logic of the map. We trace the GIUK gap and the radar perched at the top of the world, then descend beneath the melting ice to the real prize: rare earth elements, the building blocks of every EV motor, wind turbine, and F-35. From there the story turns into something stranger than geopolitics — a single radioactive mountain above a town of sheep farmers, a democratic earthquake that killed a multi-billion-dollar mine, and an $11.5 billion lawsuit, bankrolled by Wall Street litigation financiers, that now hangs over the island's dream of independence. It's a briefing that connects the EV in your driveway, the fighter jets overhead, and the question that may define our generation: can we save the planet without destroying the places that make it worth saving?

Listen to this episode of Diplomacy and International Relations summer series where UN, EU, NATO both constrain states and create new diplomatic opportunities.

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Listen to this episode of Diplomacy and International Relations summer series where sovereignty, treaties, and the Lotus case reveal what makes (and breaks)international law.

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What happens when states stop treating religion as background noise and start using it as foreign policy infrastructure? In this episode, Bastian breaks down four case studies — Morocco, Russia, the United States, and Nigeria — where theology isn't just decorating the statecraft, it is the statecraft. The rational calculus of traditional diplomacy doesn't survive contact with a divine mandate.

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Listen to this episode of Diplomacy and International Relations summer series where realism, liberalism, and critical theories explain world events and Danishforeign policy choices.

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