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A curated playlist of the best new podcasts on international affairs. Powered by The Syllabus. (To see the articles, books, reports and videos that are also part of the Cosmopolitan, check out our site: the-syllabus.com)

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263 episodes

  1. After the boom: how China’s local governments pay the bills 36:15
  2. Long Reads: Burkina Faso’s Revolutionary Tradition w/ Bettina Engels 43:15
  3. Iceland, Switzerland, Europe 50:11
  4. Lebanon's Electricity Crisis is Not New - It Started in 1952! | Prof. Ziad Abu-Rish 57:07
  5. Emeka Umejei, "China in African Media: Between Influence Operations and Decolonization" (Bloomsbury, 2026) 45:29
  6. 631: Colombian Mercenaries in Sudan 52:47
  7. Reclaiming Land in Casiavera w/ David E. Gilbert (E223) 1:05:05
  8. Simon Sebag Montefiore: How the Modern Middle East Was Made 1:11:36
  9. Indigenous Kenya: The Power of Luhya Knowledge to Protect Biodiversity with Dr. Nelly Masayi 51:52
  10. Labors of Division: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Navyug Gill 55:54
  11. Author Arundhati Roy on rise of India's youth-led protests 50:09
  12. E258 - How the New Deal Invented the National Security State w/ Andrew Preston 1:10:52
  13. Diana T. Kudaibergen, "What Does It Mean to Be Kazakhstani?: Power, Identity and Nation-Building" (Oxford UP, 2024) 53:43
  14. How to Make a Fascist: Part 4 46:13
  15. E255 - The History of Iran’s Nuclear Program w/ Sina Azodi 1:00:53
  16. Alex Boodrookas, "Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf" (Stanford UP, 2026) 49:00
  17. Interregnum - Peace in the Gulf? 44:42
  18. The ecological continuation of empire in the Arab world 1:32:06
  19. How International Institutions and Structures Failed Palestine 49:55
  20. New Thinking: Chinese Firms in Africa w/ Elisa Gambino 38:52
  21. Mengqi Wang, "Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China's Housing Market" (Cornell UP, 2026) 1:01:02
  22. How The British Made The Far Right Acceptable / Daniel Trilling 1:20:54
  23. Weekend Listen: Writer Amitav Ghosh on Why India Has Lost Its Way 33:36
  24. EP. 872: TUPAC: FORGED IN REVOLUTIONARY FIRE ft. HAMZA SHEHRYAR 1:53:08
  25. The French Colonial Tourism Industry in Ifrane, Morocco 15:01
  26. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 95: On Crisis and the Origins of Modern Iran 1:26:22
  27. Long Reads: Decoding the French Left w/ Sebastian Budgen (Part 1) 35:58
  28. 'Mar-a-Lago face:' MAGA's aesthetic loyalty test 27:33
  29. Epstein Files: Inside the Slovakia Connection | Karin Kőváry Sólymos 36:39
  30. Gendering the Archive: A Catalyst for Change in Women’s Rights in Egypt 32:22
  31. Long Reads: Trump’s Nation-Breaking War w/ Afshin Matin-Asgari 32:02
  32. LSE: The Ballpark | China’s Three Personality Problem with Professor Todd Hall 39:39
  33. #474 - A Modern History of Syria: A Dialogue with Daniel Neep 2:10:45
  34. Homeland Empire w/ Nikhil Pal Singh 43:41
  35. Red Pill or Blue Pill? China's K-Visa Examined 34:34
  36. Imagining Wastelands: Turkey's Waste and Recycling Policy at the Periphery with Adnan Khan 39:19
  37. Ep 357 - Socialism with Chinese Characteristics with Yan Liang 1:11:33
  38. MAGA’s other immigration battle 25:56
  39. Can Feminism be African?: A Conversation with Minna Salami 34:01
  40. Is China's "Engineering State" the New Development Model for the Global South? 40:59
  41. Liliana López Ruelas: Building Community in Tucson´s News Desert 1:01:01
  42. Power, Policy, and Privatization with Simon Enoch 49:27
  43. Living Minerals of Chile’s Atacama: Ecosystems vs. Mining with Javiera Barandiarán 1:11:59
  44. Mali: Fuel tankers set ablaze 32:52
  45. Profit, Politics, and the Future of Indonesia's Rainforests 52:27
  46. Can the Bad Bunny effect save Puerto Rico? 29:00
  47. LSE: The Ballpark | The Administrative State with Professor Kimberley S. Johnson 36:29
  48. Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025) 1:15:11
  49. India’s Big Cat Strategy: Balancing Conservation and Conflict Pt.1 26:15
  50. Long Reads: The Legacy of Greece’s Oxi Referendum w/ Yanis Varoufakis 55:22