RevDem Podcast

In conversation with RevDem editor Lucie Hunter, Joachim Häberlen discusses his latest book, Beauty is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War

Joachim Häberlen, Ph.D., is a historian of modern Europe and a writer focused on protest movements in post-war Europe and the experiences of Afghan and Syrian refugees in Germany. He received his academic training at the University of Chicago, where he graduated with a Ph.D. in Modern European History in 2011. Some of his

In this conversation with RevDem editor Ferenc Laczó, Van Jackson – author of the new book Grand Strategies of the Left. The Foreign Policy of Progressive Worldmaking – explains what distinguishes progressives from liberal internationalists; clarifies why he thinks that the tradition of grand strategy might be worth rescuing by and for progressives; discusses the three main progressive grand strategies that are recurrently articulated in the US these days, what they priorities are, and what risks they respectively contain; distils the main consensual points of progressive worldmaking; and reflects on what a global starting point for agendas comparable to his own might lead to.

Van Jackson is a political scientist and a scholar of international relations who specializes in East Asian and Pacific security, critical analysis of defense issues, and the intersection of working-class interests with foreign policy. He is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington. He also acts as a Senior Research Scholar at Security in Context where he co-directs the “Multipolarity, Great-power Competition, and the Global South” project. He is the author of four books, has made contributions to a wide range of international media, and runs The Undiplomatic Podcast.

Grand Strategies of the Left. The Foreign Policy of Progressive Worldmaking has been published by Cambridge University Press.

In collaboration with Lucie Hunter.

The guest for the latest RevDem Rule of Law podcast is Professor Jeff King. He is a Professor of Law at University College London and he is the Director of Research at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law. He has previously acted as a legal adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution. The conversation with Oliver Garner discusses Jeff’s 'regulatory’ conception of the Rule of Law and its application to contemporary challenges.

The guest for the latest RevDem Rule of Law podcast is Professor Jeff King.

In this conversation with RevDem editor Ferenc Laczó,

Matthew Longo is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University.

The Picnic. A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the

In collaboration with Lucie Hunter.

In this conversation with RevDem editor Ferenc Laczó, Viet Thanh Nguyen – author of the new book A Man of Two Faces. A Memoir, A History, A Memorial – reflects

Viet Thanh Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thanh Việt) is a

A Man of Two Faces. A Memoir, A History, A Memorial has been published by Grove Press.

In collaboration with Lucie Hunter.

In this conversation with RevDem editor Ferenc Laczó, Mirjam Zadoff – director of the Munich Documentation

Mirjam Zadoff is the director of the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism.

Gewalt und Gedächtnis: Globale Erinnerung im 21.

In collaboration with Lucie Hunter.

In this conversation with Lorena Drakula and Ferenc Laczó, Volodymyr Ishchenko – author of the new collection, Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War – explains how the study of contemporary Ukraine could contribute to our understanding of globally relevant processes. He reflects on the main political cleavage in the country and how the relationship between the various camps has evolved; and shows what led to the “deficient revolutions” in early 21st-century Ukraine and what have been their main outcomes. Finally, he discusses what he sees as the

Volodymyr Ishchenko is a research associate at the Institute of East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. 

Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War is published by Verso.

In a conversation with Kasia Krzyżanowska, Bécquer Seguin discusses his book “The Op-Ed Novel. A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain” (Harvard University Press, 2023). He elaborates on the concept of the op-ed novel, explains the idea of literary populism, advocates for the engagement of novelists in the public debates of historical and national meaning, and discusses some most noteworthy examples of Spanish op-ed novelists.

Bécquer Seguín is an assistant professor of

In this conversation with RevDem editor Ferenc Laczó, Jacob Mikanowski – author of Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land – discusses his major inspirations as a writer and how his travels have shaped his perspective; explicates his specific approach to the history of Eastern Europe and what he views as the

Jacob Mikanowski (PhD, University of

Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land has been published by Pantheon.