Politics and International Relations

Steve Cooke, author of 'What are Animal Rights For?', berates the government for capitulating to lobby groups and reneging on its promise to get its Kept Animals Bill through parliament.…Read more

Federica Rossi and Chris Magill speak to Jess Miles about what state harms are, how they are justified, opportunities for resistance and whether academic research itself should be political.…Read more

John Clarke, author of The Battle for Britain, looks back to the authoritarian populism of Thatcherism to locate the origins of the ever-extending coercive reach of the state and argues that we desperately need a new way of thinking. …Read more

In this, the last of three short conversations, Tim Stevens focuses on cybersecurity’s political dimensions.…Read more

Ӧzlem Altıok assesses the makeup of Turkey’s new parliament and what it means for women’s rights in the country. …Read more

Busra Nisa Sarac shows how silence was a form of empowerment for Yazidi women living in ISIS-controlled territories. …Read more

Henry Tam, author of 'Who's Afraid of Political Education?' calls for the adoption of civic competence and democratic participation education in schools and universities to produce more engaged citizens in an era of misinformation and voter inertia. …Read more

In the second of three short conversations, Jack McDonald, the author of What is War For?, tells George Miller what’s at stake in calling something a war.…Read more

What’s the emotional toll of COVID-19? In this new episode of the Transforming Society podcast, the fantastic Lucy Easthope and Kandida Purnell, two of the co-editors of 'When This Is Over', talk about the pandemic and its long lasting impact.…Read more

Ӧzlem Altıok explains how gender politics is intrinsic to the most critical election in Turkey’s history. …Read more