In the first part of our two-part interview, Alexis Carré discusses the politics of the European Union and the notion of civic responsibility in the wake of the war in Ukraine. Alexis Carré is the 2022-23 Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate of the James Madison Program at Princeton University. Intro and Outro credits: “Waltz (Tschikovsky Op. 40)” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Pascale Siegel joins the podcast to discuss US politics, American democracy and the 2022 midterm elections. Pascale is a veteren political risk analyst with a focus on international affairs, cross-cultural communications and strategic influence. Intro and Outro credits: “Waltz (Tschikovsky Op. 40)” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Adam Ni joins the podcast to discuss China, political philosophy, and the Chinese Communist Party. Adam Ni is a noted China analyst and the Co-editor of the China Neican newsletter. Intro and Outro credits: “Waltz (Tschikovsky Op. 40)” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Charles Dumas joins us to discuss the economy in the post-Covid era. Charles Dumas is Chief Economist of TS Lombard. An analyst with a long and storied career at institutions such as The Economist, JP Morgan and the London School of Economics, Charles is a prescient doomsayer, having predicted the dot-com bubble of the late 90s, the US housing bust of the late 2000s, and the slow global recovery in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. He is the author of many books, including Populism and Economics, which covers the economic causes of the recent challenge to the liberal consensus of the post-Cold War era, and Decarbonomics, which focuses on the challenging transition to a carbon-free economic system after the Covid epidemic.

For the ninth episode of the Tocqueville 21 podcast, we discuss international relations in between China, Japan and South Korea with Leo Howard. Leo Howard is IR and history researcher. Based out of the University of Edinburgh, Mr. Howard has also written for the Japan Times. He holds masters-level qualifications in both international relations and history, and is currently working as a research assistant under Doctor Christopher Harding. Intro and Outro credits: “Waltz (Tschikovsky Op. 40)” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Alexander Kliment, director and creator of Puppet Regime, discusses political satire in this new episode of the Tocqueville 21 podcast. In addition to writing and directing Puppet Regime, Alex Kliment is also Creative Director at GZERO Media and a Senior Editor of Signal. Formerly an analyst with GZERO Media’s parent company Eurasia Group, Alex has also worked as a journalist for the Financial Times. Alex holds degrees from Columbia University and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Intro and Outro credits: “Waltz (Tschikovsky Op. 40)” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week on the Tocqueville 21 Podcast, blog editor emeritus Jacob Hamburger speaks with Deepak Bhargava and Ruth Milkman about their new essay collection Immigration Matters: Movements, Visions, and Strategies for a Progressive Future—co-edited with Penny Lewis, and out now in paperback from the New Press. Professors Bhargava and Milkman describe their vision for how immigration policy needs to evolve to reflect the realities of twenty-first-century politics, economics, and ecology, as well as how the fight for a more inclusive United States intersects with the fight to preserve democracy from its enemies in a post-January 6th world. Deepak Bhargava is Distinguished Lecturer in Urban Studies at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies and was previously President of the Center for Community Change. Ruth Milkman is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, and is the author of Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat (2020).

Professor Susan Perry joins Tocqueville 21 to discuss the cybersecurity landscape, Digital Human Rights, and great power competition in the digital age. Doctor Susan Perry is a specialist in international human rights law and digital technology and teaches law and politics at The American University of Paris, as well as directing several of the University’s graduate programs. Dr. Perry’s work focuses on vulnerable populations – women, children and communities in conflict – whose rights are being violated by the State, society or industry, often in breach of binding legal conventions. Dr. Perry has collaborated on several projects funded by the European Commission, and she is currently an Advisory Board member of SHERPA, a Horizon 2020 European Commission grant on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in Europe. Her most recent books analyze the nexus between digital technology, human rights and deliberative democracy: Illusion Pixel in French (Lemieux Editions 2015); Human Rights and Digital Technology (Palgrave 2017); and a third project under way on the digital divide in education.

From the Great Divergence to the nature of historical scholarship, our conversation with Professor Gagan Sood continues.

Today we discuss The End of History and the Great Divergence with Professor Gagan Sood of the London School of Economics.