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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Castbox |
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| Oct 10 | #51 | #52 | #45 | #52 |
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Latest episodes
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New Thinking: Fossil Fuel Phaseouts w/ Peter Newell, Lukas Slothuus & Daniela Soto Hernández
October 9, 2026 · 1 hr 25 minWhy do states carry on extracting fossil fuels amid climate collapse? Why have some pledged to phaseout fossil fuels over the next few decades? Why are supply-side policies important? What will the coming decades of energy politics looks…
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New Thinking: Electrostates w/ Freddie Daley
August 28, 2026 · 52 minWhat actually is an electrostate? How do the material substances of electricity and fossil fuels shape state power? Is the US a petrostate and does this question expose the flimsiness of the concept? When we talk about electrostates, do we…
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New Thinking: IPE and the Global South w/ Zaynab El Bernoussi & Bashir Saade
July 31, 2026 · 35 minWhy has the Global South been peripheralized in the study of international political economy (IPE)? What does this cause us to miss in our scholarship? How are sovereignties and power dynamics produced in the Global South? How should…
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New Thinking: Value Struggles in the Wine Industry w/ Stefano Ponte
June 25, 2026 · 53 minHow is value constructed and contested in the wine industry? What is the significance of place and nature? What does the win industry tell us about capitalist production in general? Stefano Ponte is Professor of International Political…
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Live: Second China Shock @ BISA 2026
June 11, 2026 · 1 hr 25 minHow should we understand the ruptural shift of the second China shock? How does it effect what we thought we knew about China and global production? How can we study this transformation? What comes next? Professor Yvette To is an Assistant…
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New Thinking: Chinese Firms in Africa w/ Elisa Gambino
May 29, 2026 · 39 minHow are Chinese firms' activities in Africa shaped by local social, cultural and political processes? In what sense is this embeddedness flexible and how does this affect firms' internationalisation? What is specific and generalisable…
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New Thinking: Neoliberal Knowledge Production w/ Nina Lotze
April 30, 2026 · 48 minHow do neoliberal think tanks work? When do they disagree with each other? What do they do to influence government policy and public debate? How did they respond to the crisis of COVID-19 and state intervention that came with it? Nina…
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Live: Is revolution necessary to stop climate change? @ PSA 2026
April 7, 2026 · 1 hr 2 minIs a climate transition really happening? What do political economists mean when they talk about climate 'transformation'? Does it require overcoming capitalism? Should we be honest that we're actually talking about revolution? If so, what…