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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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  1. Iceland, Switzerland, Europe

    Podcast: The Sound of Economics (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?) Episode: Iceland, Switzerland, Europe Pub date: 2026-08-31 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode of The Sound of Economics, host Rebecca Christie speaks with Bruegel’s...

  2. Lebanon's Electricity Crisis is Not New - It Started in 1952! | Prof. Ziad Abu-Rish

    Podcast: The afikra Podcast (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?) Episode: Lebanon's Electricity Crisis is Not New - It Started in 1952! | Prof. Ziad Abu-Rish Pub date: 2026-09-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The history of electricity in Lebanon...

  3. Emeka Umejei, "China in African Media: Between Influence Operations and Decolonization" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

    Podcast: New Books in African Studies (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?) Episode: Emeka Umejei, "China in African Media: Between Influence Operations and Decolonization" (Bloomsbury, 2026) Pub date: 2026-09-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization At its...

  4. 631: Colombian Mercenaries in Sudan

    Podcast: Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?) Episode: 631: Colombian Mercenaries in Sudan Pub date: 2026-09-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode of the Colombia Calling podcast,...

  5. Reclaiming Land in Casiavera w/ David E. Gilbert (E223)

    Podcast: The Fire These Times (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?) Episode: Reclaiming Land in Casiavera w/ David E. Gilbert (E223) Pub date: 2026-09-07 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Two decades ago, a group of Indonesian agricultural workers began...

  6. Simon Sebag Montefiore: How the Modern Middle East Was Made

    Podcast: CONFLICTED (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?) Episode: Simon Sebag Montefiore: How the Modern Middle East Was Made Pub date: 2026-08-25 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this Conflicted Conversation, Simon Sebag Montefiore returns to…

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  7. Indigenous Kenya: The Power of Luhya Knowledge to Protect Biodiversity with Dr. Nelly Masayi

    Podcast: Mother Earth Medicine Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?) Episode: Indigenous Kenya: The Power of Luhya Knowledge to Protect Biodiversity with Dr. Nelly Masayi Pub date: 2026-08-26 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In Episode 5…

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  8. Labors of Division: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Navyug Gill

    Podcast: In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?) Episode: Labors of Division: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Navyug Gill Pub date: 2026-08-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization For this episode of the In Theory podcast…

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  9. Author Arundhati Roy on rise of India's youth-led protests

    Podcast: The World (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?) Episode: Author Arundhati Roy on rise of India's youth-led protests Pub date: 2026-07-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization India is seeing a new wave of anti-government protests inspired by the...

  10. E258 - How the New Deal Invented the National Security State w/ Andrew Preston

    Podcast: American Prestige (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?) Episode: E258 - How the New Deal Invented the National Security State w/ Andrew Preston Pub date: 2026-07-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Subscribe now to skip the ads and get more...

  11. Diana T. Kudaibergen, "What Does It Mean to Be Kazakhstani?: Power, Identity and Nation-Building" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?) Episode: Diana T. Kudaibergen, "What Does It Mean to Be Kazakhstani?: Power, Identity and Nation-Building" (Oxford UP, 2024) Pub date: 2026-07-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and...

  12. How to Make a Fascist: Part 4

    Podcast: Then & Now: Philosophy, History & Politics (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?) Episode: How to Make a Fascist: Part 4 Pub date: 2026-07-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. The...

  13. E255 - The History of Iran’s Nuclear Program w/ Sina Azodi

    Podcast: American Prestige (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?) Episode: E255 - The History of Iran’s Nuclear Program w/ Sina Azodi Pub date: 2026-07-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Subscribe now for an ad-free experience. Sina Azodi, assistant...

  14. Alex Boodrookas, "Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf" (Stanford UP, 2026)

    Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?) Episode: Alex Boodrookas, "Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf" (Stanford UP, 2026) Pub date: 2026-06-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and...

  15. Interregnum - Peace in the Gulf?

    Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?) Episode: Interregnum - Peace in the Gulf? Pub date: 2026-06-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization On the peace deal between Iran and the United States, which is expected to see the...

  16. The ecological continuation of empire in the Arab world

    Podcast: Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | Video Episode: The ecological continuation of empire in the Arab world Pub date: 2026-06-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This lecture by Marwa Daoudy, held in honour of the renowned...

  17. How International Institutions and Structures Failed Palestine

    Podcast: Beyond the Ballot Box Episode: How International Institutions and Structures Failed Palestine Pub date: 2026-06-04 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Saul Takahashi is a Japanese human rights lawyer and academic known for his work on...

  18. New Thinking: Chinese Firms in Africa w/ Elisa Gambino

    Podcast: SPERI Presents... Episode: New Thinking: Chinese Firms in Africa w/ Elisa Gambino Pub date: 2026-05-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization How are Chinese firms' activities in Africa shaped by local social, cultural and political…

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  19. Mengqi Wang, "Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China's Housing Market" (Cornell UP, 2026)

    Podcast: New Books in Chinese Studies (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?) Episode: Mengqi Wang, "Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China's Housing Market" (Cornell UP, 2026) Pub date: 2026-05-19 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Anxious Homes:...

  20. How The British Made The Far Right Acceptable / Daniel Trilling

    Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?) Episode: How The British Made The Far Right Acceptable / Daniel Trilling Pub date: 2026-05-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Journalist and author Daniel Trilling returns to This Is Hell!...

  21. Weekend Listen: Writer Amitav Ghosh on Why India Has Lost Its Way

    Podcast: Big Take Asia (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?) Episode: Weekend Listen: Writer Amitav Ghosh on Why India Has Lost Its Way Pub date: 2026-05-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization For more than 30 years, the Indian-born writer Amitav Ghosh…

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  22. EP. 872: TUPAC: FORGED IN REVOLUTIONARY FIRE ft. HAMZA SHEHRYAR

    Podcast: THIS IS REVOLUTION ＞podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?) Episode: EP. 872: TUPAC: FORGED IN REVOLUTIONARY FIRE ft. HAMZA SHEHRYAR Pub date: 2026-04-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Read Hamza's article in Jacobin here:...

  23. The French Colonial Tourism Industry in Ifrane, Morocco

    Podcast: Maghrib in Past & Present | Podcasts (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?) Episode: The French Colonial Tourism Industry in Ifrane, Morocco Pub date: 2026-04-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Episode 232: The French Colonial Tourism…

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  24. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 95: On Crisis and the Origins of Modern Iran

    Podcast: The Podcast for Social Research (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?) Episode: Podcast for Social Research, Episode 95: On Crisis and the Origins of Modern Iran Pub date: 2026-04-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode of the...

  25. Long Reads: Decoding the French Left w/ Sebastian Budgen (Part 1)

    Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?) Episode: Long Reads: Decoding the French Left w/ Sebastian Budgen (Part 1) Pub date: 2026-04-09 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Two years ago, the French president Emmanuel Macron called...

  26. 'Mar-a-Lago face:' MAGA's aesthetic loyalty test

    Podcast: Code Switch (LS 76 · TOP 0.01% what is this?) Episode: 'Mar-a-Lago face:' MAGA's aesthetic loyalty test Pub date: 2026-04-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The MAGA look — you know the one: dramatic eyeliner, long, wavy hair, sheath...

  27. Epstein Files: Inside the Slovakia Connection | Karin Kőváry Sólymos

    Podcast: Talk Eastern Europe (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?) Episode: Epstein Files: Inside the Slovakia Connection | Karin Kőváry Sólymos Pub date: 2026-03-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization What do the Jeffrey Epstein files reveal about...

  28. Gendering the Archive: A Catalyst for Change in Women’s Rights in Egypt

    Podcast: LSE Middle East Centre Podcasts (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?) Episode: Gendering the Archive: A Catalyst for Change in Women’s Rights in Egypt Pub date: 2026-03-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode, Diana Magdy, a gender...

  29. Long Reads: Trump’s Nation-Breaking War w/ Afshin Matin-Asgari

    Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?) Episode: Long Reads: Trump’s Nation-Breaking War w/ Afshin Matin-Asgari Pub date: 2026-03-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization We’ve now entered the second week of the US-Israeli war on…

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  30. LSE: The Ballpark | China’s Three Personality Problem with Professor Todd Hall

    Podcast: LSE: The Ballpark (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?) Episode: LSE: The Ballpark | China’s Three Personality Problem with Professor Todd Hall Pub date: 2026-03-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Understanding China’s role in the world has...

  31. #474 - A Modern History of Syria: A Dialogue with Daniel Neep

    Podcast: Converging Dialogues (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?) Episode: #474 - A Modern History of Syria: A Dialogue with Daniel Neep Pub date: 2026-02-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Ini this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Daniel...

  32. Homeland Empire w/ Nikhil Pal Singh

    Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?) Episode: Homeland Empire w/ Nikhil Pal Singh Pub date: 2026-01-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Nikhil Pal Singh joins PTO to discuss his recent article in Equator, titled…

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  33. Red Pill or Blue Pill? China's K-Visa Examined

    Podcast: All Things Policy (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?) Episode: Red Pill or Blue Pill? China's K-Visa Examined Pub date: 2026-01-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization China’s new K-Visa policy, introduced in October 2025, intends to attract...

  34. Imagining Wastelands: Turkey's Waste and Recycling Policy at the Periphery with Adnan Khan

    Podcast: Imagining Turkey Episode: Imagining Wastelands: Turkey's Waste and Recycling Policy at the Periphery with Adnan Khan Pub date: 2026-01-07 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode, the Takhayyul Project welcomes Adnan Khan, an...

  35. Ep 357 - Socialism with Chinese Characteristics with Yan Liang

    Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?) Episode: Ep 357 - Socialism with Chinese Characteristics with Yan Liang Pub date: 2025-12-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In today’s world, anyone serious about anti-imperialism, global...

  36. MAGA’s other immigration battle

    Podcast: Today, Explained (LS 74 · TOP 0.01% what is this?) Episode: MAGA’s other immigration battle Pub date: 2025-11-25 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The debate over high-skill work visas is revealing cracks between President Trump and his...

  37. Can Feminism be African?: A Conversation with Minna Salami

    Podcast: The Ideas Letter Podcast: A project of the Open Society Foundations Episode: Can Feminism be African?: A Conversation with Minna Salami Pub date: 2025-11-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Transcript of the interview Minna Salami is a...

  38. Is China's "Engineering State" the New Development Model for the Global South?

    Podcast: The China in Africa Podcast (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?) Episode: Is China's "Engineering State" the New Development Model for the Global South? Pub date: 2025-11-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization China's rapid ascent from rural...

  39. Liliana López Ruelas: Building Community in Tucson´s News Desert

    Podcast: Journal of the Southwest Radio Episode: Liliana López Ruelas: Building Community in Tucson´s News Desert Pub date: 2025-10-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization On April 25, 2023, a phone call from an out-of-state number ended La Estrella...

  40. Power, Policy, and Privatization with Simon Enoch

    Podcast: The Skeptical Leftist Podcast (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?) Episode: Power, Policy, and Privatization with Simon Enoch Pub date: 2025-10-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Simon Enoch from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives...

  41. Living Minerals of Chile’s Atacama: Ecosystems vs. Mining with Javiera Barandiarán

    Podcast: EcoJustice Radio (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?) Episode: Living Minerals of Chile’s Atacama: Ecosystems vs. Mining with Javiera Barandiarán Pub date: 2025-09-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode, we welcome Javiera...

  42. Mali: Fuel tankers set ablaze

    Podcast: Focus on Africa (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?) Episode: Mali: Fuel tankers set ablaze Pub date: 2025-09-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Several fuel tankers were destroyed in Mali after al Qaeda-linked insurgents, who had declared…

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  43. Profit, Politics, and the Future of Indonesia's Rainforests

    Podcast: Ear to Asia (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?) Episode: Profit, Politics, and the Future of Indonesia's Rainforests Pub date: 2025-08-26 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Indonesia’s 17,000-plus islands boast the world’s third-largest...

  44. Can the Bad Bunny effect save Puerto Rico?

    Podcast: Front Burner (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?) Episode: Can the Bad Bunny effect save Puerto Rico? Pub date: 2025-08-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Bad Bunny, one of the most-streamed artists on the planet, is in the middle of his...

  45. LSE: The Ballpark | The Administrative State with Professor Kimberley S. Johnson

    Podcast: LSE: The Ballpark (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?) Episode: LSE: The Ballpark | The Administrative State with Professor Kimberley S. Johnson Pub date: 2025-08-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Contributor(s): Chris Gilson, Kimberley S....

  46. Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)

    Podcast: New Books in Indian Religions (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?) Episode: Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025) Pub date: 2025-07-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Much of world history…

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  47. India’s Big Cat Strategy: Balancing Conservation and Conflict Pt.1

    Podcast: All Things Policy (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?) Episode: India’s Big Cat Strategy: Balancing Conservation and Conflict Pt.1 Pub date: 2025-07-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization India’s big cat conservation story has captured...

  48. Long Reads: The Legacy of Greece’s Oxi Referendum w/ Yanis Varoufakis

    Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?) Episode: Long Reads: The Legacy of Greece’s Oxi Referendum w/ Yanis Varoufakis Pub date: 2025-07-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization It’s now ten years since the people of Greece voted in a...

  49. How Trump Became a Neocon

    Podcast: Confronting Capitalism with Vivek Chibber (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?) Episode: How Trump Became a Neocon Pub date: 2025-06-25 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Much of Trump’s popular appeal was wrapped up in his anti-establishment...

  50. The Unfolding Genocide in Sudan

    Podcast: The Political Scene | The New Yorker (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?) Episode: The Unfolding Genocide in Sudan Pub date: 2025-06-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The New Yorker recently published a report from Sudan, headlined…

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