Hello fall semester (at least here in the US)!
Hopefully there is not too much syllabus tinkering happening, but let me recommend a few recent/not so recent podcast episodes that I have assigned in my International Relations classes this semester and in the past. They speak to a variety of economic issues, norm discussions, climate crises, pandemic readiness, and also some issues in popular culture and its effects on politics. I use them all as supplemental aids to introduce a new problem, to have an additional case study, or to create a jumping off point for further discussions. Happy listening!
- Global Economy:
- Today, Explained: How Sanctions Backfire
- Planet Money: The Great Depression, the New Deal and how it changed our economy
- Planet Money: An Economic History of the World
- Globalization:
- Freakonomics Radio – Episode 519: Has Globalization Failed us?
- Norms and Norm Erosion:
- Good Authority – The Importance of Norms in International Affairs
- Freakonomics Radio – Everything you never knew about whaling
- Repatriating Art in Museums:
- Freakonomics Radio – Episode 541: The Case of the $4 Million Gold Coffin
- Freakonomics Radio – Episode 542: Is a Museum Just a Trophy Case?
- Freakonomics Radio – Episode 542: How to Return Stolen Art
- Into Africa: The Restitution of African Art
- Today Explained: Fight At the Museum
- Video Games in International Relations/History:
- Science History Institute: Learning History with Video Games
- The Global Climate Crisis:
- New York Times Daily Podcast: Who pays the bill for climate change?
- The Global Story: Curse of the world’s fastest growing economy
- Global Health Politics:
- A Global Health Insights Podcast: Future pandemic preparedness
- Pandemic Planet (CSIS): John-Arne Røttingen: Investing in Pandemic Preparedness to Insure Against Future Threats
- Democratic Erosion:
- The Europeans: An Autocrat’s Guide to Destroying Local Media
- LGBTQ+:
- The Europeans: The surprising queer history of Poland
- Race & Identity:
- New Books in European Politics: Hans Kundnani – “Eurowhiteness”
How about you? What sort of podcasts/podcast episodes do you include in your teaching?