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New Books in Diplomatic History

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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.com⁠Subscribe 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

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What is New Books in Diplomatic History about?

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.

What has New Books in Diplomatic History covered recently?

Recent episodes include "Britain and the Ottoman Maghreb, 1662, 1712 with Nat Cutter (Oxford UP, 2026)" (16 October 2026, 49 minutes), "Beyond Incremental Reform: Rethinking the United Nations with Augusto López-Claro" (3 October 2026, 42 minutes), and "The Colombo Plan: Development Internationalism in Cold War Asia with David Lowe (Cambridge UP, 2025)" (3 October 2026, 40 minutes).

How often does New Books in Diplomatic History publish?

New Books in Diplomatic History publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 44 minutes across 600 episodes.

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Booking probability for New Books in Diplomatic History is 47%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. New Books in Diplomatic History requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. New Books in Diplomatic History's contact route on record: verified email.

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  • Episode #1601

    Britain and the Ottoman Maghreb, 1662–1712 with Nat Cutter (Oxford UP, 2026)

    Oct 16, 202649 min

    From the mid-seventeenth to early eighteenth century, a wide network of English-speaking men, women, and children took up residence in the Ottoman Maghrebi regencies of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli. There they formed...

  • Episode #1600

    Beyond Incremental Reform: Rethinking the United Nations with Augusto López-Claro

    Oct 3, 202642 min

    As the United Nations faces mounting geopolitical tensions, financial pressures, and new global challenges, what would meaningful reform actually look like? In this episode of International Horizons , RBI Fellow Peter...

  • Episode #1599

    The Colombo Plan: Development Internationalism in Cold War Asia with David Lowe (Cambridge UP, 2025)

    Oct 3, 202640 min

    Conceived in 1950, the Colombo Plan for Co-operative Development in South and Southeast Asia was a unique experiment in foreign relations. Meeting annually across what we now know as the 'Indo-Pacific', talented...

  • Episode #1598

    Kennedy’s Only Hero: How JFK’s Obsession with Winston Churchill Defined His Presidency with Joel Nelson (Public Affairs, 2026)

    Oct 1, 202626 min

    President John F. Kennedy and Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill remain two of the most iconic figures of the twentieth century and Joel Nelson’s new book, Kennedy’s Only Hero: How JFK’s Obsession with Winston...

  • Episode #1597

    Operation Sparrow: The Incredible True Story of the North American Spies Who Tricked Hitler and Won the War with Jason Bell (Hanover Square Press, 2026)

    Sep 30, 202632 min

    Historians have always known that the success of the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day in June 1944 depended on deceiving the Germans about where the invasion would take place. Jason Bell’s book, Operation Sparrow...

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  • Episode #1596

    Great Power Diplomacy: The Skill of Statecraft from Attila the Hun to Kissinger with A. Wess Mitchell (Princeton UP, 2025)

    Sep 29, 202656 min

    Great Power Diplomacy. The Skill of Statecraft from Attila the Hun to Kissinger  (Princeton UP, 2025) is a  captivating history of diplomacy—and an urgent reminder of why we need to revive its lost arts to...

  • Episode #1595

    The Return of the Great Powers with Brendan Simms (Basic Books, 2026)

    Sep 29, 202635 min

    From the dawn of the modern era to the end of the Cold War, global history was defined by rivalries between Great Powers. In the West, this meant the struggle for supremacy in Europe and the Americas, while in the East...

  • Episode #1594

    Stefano Recchia, "Strategies for Approval: Building Support for Military Intervention at the UN Security Council" (Yale UP, 2025)

    Sep 20, 202651 min

    When powerful states go to war, why do they bother asking permission? In Strategies for Approval: Building Support for Military Intervention at the UN Security Council (Yale University Press, 2025), Stefano Recchia...

  • New Books in Diplomatic History

    Emily Matson, "China’s Date Debate: How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II" (U Michigan Press, 2026)

    Sep 6, 202633 min

    China’s Date Debate: How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II (U Michigan Press, 2026) by Dr. Emily Matson is an in-depth investigation of the Chinese Communist Party’s remapping of China’s World War II...

  • New Books in Diplomatic History

    Tom Trier, "Blue Sea, Black Gold, Red Banner: The South Caucasus and Scandinavia, 1880s–1920s" (Northern Illinois UP, 2026)

    Aug 30, 20261h 3m

    Blue Sea, Black Gold, Red Banner: The South Caucasus and Scandinavia, 1880s–1920s (Northern Illinois University Press, 2026) tells the story of the historical connections between two geographically distant and...

  • New Books in Diplomatic History

    Malcolm Murfett, "Eden's Alternative to Appeasement: The Anglo-American Strategy that Might Have Been, 1937–38" (Tithebarn Press, 2026)

    Aug 26, 202637 min

    As Foreign Secretary in Neville Chamberlain's Cabinet in 1937, Eden didn't believe in appeasing the German and Italian dictatorships or the militaristic Japanese regime. Instead, he wanted to confront their aggression...

  • New Books in Diplomatic History

    Travis Bruce, "Constructing the Medieval Maritime State: Identity, Violence, and Connection in the Mediterranean" (Oxford UP, 2026)

    Aug 23, 202642 min

    Constructing the Medieval Maritime State: Identity, Violence, and Connection in the Mediterranean (Oxford University Press, 2026) by Professor Travis Bruce explores how the small medieval kingdom of Denia in Spain...

  • New Books in Diplomatic History

    Vivek Neelakantan, "The Emergence of International Health Policy in Southeast Asia, India, and Sri Lanka, 1937–1978" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)

    Aug 22, 20261h 1m

    Examining the emergence of international public health policy between the 1930s and 80s, The Emergence of International Health Policy in Southeast Asia, India, and Sri Lanka, 1937–1978 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026) by Dr...

  • New Books in Diplomatic History

    Zvi Yehuda and Marian Scheuer Sofaer, "The Expulsion of Jews from Iraq, 20th Century: The Agonies of Redemption" (Brill, 2024)

    Aug 15, 202654 min

    In this episode we spoke with Marian Scheuer Sofaer, Esquire, and Dr. Einav Yehuda-Shnaidman about The Expulsion of Jews from Iraq, 20th Century: The Agonies of Redemption (Brill, 2024), by Dr. Zvi Yehuda, and...

  • New Books in Diplomatic History

    Steven Veerapen, "Overlord: A New History of the Life and Reign of Henry VIII" (Simon & Schuster, 2026

    Aug 6, 202637 min

    Henry VIII is England’s most famous king. He is simultaneously the virtuous Renaissance prince gone wrong, the psychopathic, paranoid tyrant, the religious disruptor and the much-married glutton. Overlord: The Life and...

  • New Books in Diplomatic History

    Nabi Sahak, "Anglo-Afghan Power and Politics, 1893–1947: The Durand Line Unmasked" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

    Jul 31, 202630 min

    In this episode of New Books Network, I speak with Nabi Sahak about his book, Anglo-Afghan Power and Politics, 1893–1947: The Durand Line Unmasked  (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). Anglo-Afghan Power and Politics...

  • New Books in Diplomatic History

    The Resurgence of War and the Collapse of Arms Control

    Jul 31, 202634 min

    How the nuclear guardrails were dismantled. What arms control actually did (risk management, predictability, geography), how it unravelled from the 2000s onward, and why its collapse matters more now as we see a...

  • New Books in Diplomatic History

    Anna Lively, "Revolutionary Connections: Russia and Ireland, 1905-1923" (Oxford UP, 2026)

    Jul 28, 202620 min

    Anna Lively is a historian of modern Ireland, Britain, and Russia. Awarded her PhD in History from the University of Edinburgh in 2022, she is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in History at the University of...

  • New Books in Diplomatic History

    Eamonn Gearon, "The Arab Bureau: The Story of Britain's Most Ingenious Intelligence Unit" (Hurst, 2026)

    Jul 23, 202650 min

    Many of us have watched the classic 1962 movie Lawrence of Arabia, the somewhat fictionalized work based on the life of T. E. Lawrence during the Arab Revolt and the First World War. But Lawrence was part of the Arab...

  • New Books in Diplomatic History

    R. Joseph Parrott, "Dream the Size of Freedom: How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism" (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

    Jul 21, 20261h 19m

    Dream the Size of Freedom: How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025) by Dr. R. Joseph Parrott explores how anti-colonial movements in Angola, Mozambique...

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