Epicenter

About Epicenter

Epicenter is produced by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Wrapping our minds around profound global issues can be daunting. Where does one begin to unpack responsibility for climate change or human rights? How does one account for social inequalities or the endurance of repressive regimes? In our Epicenter podcast, we bring together scholars and experienced practitioners from different disciplines to guide us through pressing global topics, to boil down the issues, to explain the research and give valuable context. The goal is to give listeners a deeper understanding of a topic to expand their everyday thinking about the world inside and outside their own borders.

Publisher

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University

Category

government · history · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Jan 2020

Latest episode

2 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

6 of 20 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   2 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Beyond Paris: Building a Practical Climate Coalition (with Arathi Rao, Dustin Tingley, and Catherine Wolfram)

   Host [Host Name] interviews Arathi Rao, Dustin Tingley, and Catherine Wolfram about forging global carbon pricing cooperation beyond the Paris Agreement.

2. 

   6 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   One Thousand Years of Capitalism (with Sven Beckert)

   Harvard history professor Sven Beckert discusses the millennium-long evolution of global capitalism and its impact on understanding our present world in this interview.

3. 

   13 Aug 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Life After War (with Melani Cammett, Dženana Šabić Hamidović, Cathal McManus)

   When a war ends, the work of mending a society begins. Groups who were sworn enemies for decades, even generations, must find ways to live together in peace. The process of reconciliation takes a long time, and involves all levels of society: civilians, government institutions, political elites.

Inside a recent episode

Beyond Paris: Building a Practical Climate Coalition (with Arathi Rao, Dustin Tingley, and Catherine Wolfram)

Published 2 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] CO2 is the main greenhouse gas and the main contributor to climate change. And right now, in most of the world, you can use carbon in a production process. You can consume goods like steel or aluminum that that require a lot of carbon to produce for free. But the idea behind carbon pricing is let's make that expensive or a little bit more expensive so that producers find ways to make things that don't require as much carbon. And so that consumers, you know, producers can't do that. Consumers turn away from the goods that remain really carbon intensive. So It's what's called a market-based regulatory approach. […]

Who has been a guest on Epicenter

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Arathi Rao
• Dustin Tingley
• Catherine Wolfram
• Sven Beckert
• Myles Lennon

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

1,367,508

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 49 / 100

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Quality

61

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

0

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Books guests

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