New Books in World Affairs
Hosted by Miranda Melcher and Eleonora Mattiacci and Morteza Hajizadeh · New Books Network
4.3from 44 ratings
- 2,087
- Episodes
- 67
- Transcribed
- 44
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2008
- First episode
- 243
- YouTube views
About New Books in World Affairs
This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/world-affairs
- Publisher
- New Books Network
- Category
- history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 Apr 2008
- Latest episode
- 21 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
67 of 2,087 episodes have a transcript.
21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Reimagining Foreign Aid in a Changing Global Order with Mary-Collier Wilks (Stanford UP, 2026)
20 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Romania, the Little Entente and the Struggle for Europe with Owen Grey (Bloomsbury, 2026)
12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Civil Societies, Uncivil States: Government Repression of NGOs with Suparna Chaudhry (Cornell UP, 2026)
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Reimagining Foreign Aid in a Changing Global Order with Mary-Collier Wilks (Stanford UP, 2026)
Published 21 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And of course, if you really dig into it with them, Cambodians know there are differences between, say, German and UK donors, but they use these regional development models, or I call them imaginaries, strategically. For instance, in the U.S. organization, they actually reject some of the U.S.'s program activities that want them to help the state regulate the private health sector because they say they don't want a private health system that's too expensive like America has. They want to follow in the footsteps of a strong public health system like South Korea or Japan. And this is important because to your question, the post-Cold War world was one of singular ideas about what are global development norms that the U.S. played this key role in crafting, right? […]
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- Mary-Collier Wilks
- Suparna Chaudhry
- Natalie Bennett
- Jan Eijking
- Augusto López-Claros
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- YouTube views
- 243
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.3 / 5
- 23 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.4 / 5
- 21 ratings
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- 98
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- 91
- YouTube
- 72
- Engagement
- 95
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