In this episode, the eminent historian Srinath Raghavan reconstructs India’s tremendous contributions to the war, the nationalist dilemma, the roots and impact of the movement, and how the war years Quit India hastened independence but also deepened India’s internal divisions.
In this Vital Center discussion, recorded before the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, Rachel Kleinfeld unpacks her scholarship on rising political violence in the United States and how she became one of the leading experts in this field.
Ahead of Brazil’s elections in October, Brazilian professor of international relations Oliver Stuenkel describes the tests facing his country’s fragile democracy.
In this episode, Shruti speaks with Jennifer Murtazashvili about the problems with imposing liberal democracy in Afghanistan, building state capacity, education, the role of the U.S. in the Ghani government’s collapse and much more.
Trump created a permission structure for militia groups starting in 2016, and now those groups are infiltrating state and local Republican parties around the country. The Carnegie Endowment’s Rachel Kleinfeld joins Charlie Sykes to discuss the growing threat from the mainstreaming of political violence.
Only in the past decade or so has this concept of a liberal or rules-based international order come into widespread usage
Politics shape policy choices that have caused or have exacerbated this challenge of diversification.
New perspectives about what works when trying to stabilize countries troubled by long-lasting violence, crime, and terrorism.
Ideas that are not backed by power tend to be weaker ideas. It is true that success based on things like the successful application of military power really do help bolster people's belief in certain sets of ideas.
Age and education have largely determined British votes in the recent local elections. Looking at the big parties’ race, the main question is whether past trends will hold in the run-up to the general election.