• Understanding: Constitution-Writing w. Duke Prof. Donald Horowitz
    Apr 23 2024

    Buy Donald''s Book: Constitutional Processes and Democratic Commitment - https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Donald-L-Horowitz/dp/0300254369 Donald Horowitz is Professor of Law and Political Science Emeritus at Duke University. He was involved in the Constitution-Making of multiple Countries. And has studied the formation of constitutions in a variety of contexts and situations, particularly in societies divided by ethnic conflict for decades. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more! I allow everyone to use (reupload/clip etc.) my content as long as they @ me in the Description or Title.

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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • Understanding: Globalization w. Prof. Manfred B. Steger
    Apr 14 2024

    Buy Manfred's Book: Globalization: A Very Short Introduction - https://www.amazon.de/Globalization-Very-Short-Introduction-Introductions/dp/0198779550 Manfred B. Steger is a Professor of ⁠Sociology⁠ at the ⁠University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa⁠.⁠ He is most known for his work in social and political theory, primarily discourses of ⁠globalization⁠. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more! I allow everyone to use (reupload/clip etc.) my content as long as they @ me in the Description or Title.

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    47 mins
  • The Genetics of Politics w. Brown Prof. Rose McDermott
    Apr 4 2024

    Buy Rose's latest Book: Intelligence Success and Failure: The Human Factor - https://www.amazon.de/Intelligence-Success-Failure-Human-Factor/dp/0199341745

    Rose McDermott is Professor of International Relations at Brown University and a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She works in the areas of political psychology. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science and M.A. in Experimental Social Psychology from Stanford University and has also taught at Cornell and UCSB.

    She has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the Women and Public Policy Program, all at Harvard University, and has been a fellow at the Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences twice.

    She is the author of five books, a co-editor of two additional volumes, and author of over two hundred academic articles across a wide variety of disciplines.

    She work on a wide variety of different topics. Current projects include a large series of survey experiments examining nine types of attitudes toward gender inequality in over 20 countries. She is participating in several projects related to nuclear weapons, leadership and the stability of deterrence. More broadly, she works on topics including international relations, American Foreign and Defense policy, nuclear strategy, experimentation, leadership, ethics, gender, identity, intelligence, cybersecurity, the role of emotion in decision-making, and genetic contributions to political attitudes and behaviors.

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    58 mins
  • Modern Propaganda in the West w. Prof. Dannagal G. Young
    Feb 29 2024

    Buy Dannagal's Book: Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation - https://amzn.to/3wx7GTl Dannagal G. Young is a Professor of Communication and Political Science at the University of Delaware where she studies the content, audience, and effects of nontraditional political information. She has published over sixty academic articles and book chapters on the content, psychology, and effects of political information, satire, and misinformation. Her book Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laugher in the U.S. examines satire and outrage as the logical extensions of the respective psychological profiles of liberals and conservatives (Oxford University Press, 2020). Her new book, Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive our Appetite for Misinformation was published in Oct 2023 with JHU Press. Dr. Young's 2020 TED Talk explaining how our psychology shapes our politics, and how media exploit these relationships, has been viewed over 1.9 Million times. She publishes extensively in the popular press with essays and Op-eds in outlets including Vox.com, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. She has appeared on CNN, PBS Newshour, ABC News, NPR, and various national and international podcasts. As of 2020, her research has been cited in over 70 popular press articles, news stories, and interviews at such outlets as The Washington Post, USA Today, Politico, Christian Science Monitor, Variety, the New York Times, the Atlantic, PBS, Slate, and Vox. Her popular University of Delaware course "Propaganda and Persuasion" was released by The Great Courses in 2023. In recognition of her public facing work, in 2021, Dr. Young became the inaugural recipient of the Dr. Robert M. Entman Award in Democracy and Political Communication from the School of Media and Public Affairs (SMPA) at The George Washington University. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more!

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    44 mins
  • Slavery in Asia w. Prof. Don J. Wyatt
    Feb 22 2024

    Buy Don's Book: Slavery in East Asia - https://amzn.to/3I9BVCk History Professor Don Wyatt (A.B. Beloit; A.M., Ph.D. Harvard) has taught at Middlebury College since 1986. Most of his courses are cross-listed with Philosophy. He specializes in the intellectual history of China, with research most currently focused on the intersections of identity and violence and the nexuses of ethnicity and slavery. He is the author of The Blacks of Premodern China, the past editor of the Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, and the former concurrent president of its Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies. During successive sabbaticals in 2004 and 2010, he was in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Among his most recent publications are chapter essays in the medieval volumes of both the Cambridge World History of Violence and the Cambridge World History of Slavery as well as in Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250-1900. Articles have recently appeared the Journal of Religion and Violence and in Mediaevalia as well as in Itinerario and China and Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies. His latest books are the Cambridge Element in the Global Middle Ages series, Slavery in East Asia, and the shortly forthcoming, Song China and the World. He is co-executive editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas, chair of the newly established Diversity and Equity Committee of the Association for Asian Studies, and a mentor of early career award recipients for the Luce/ACLS China Studies Mentoring Project. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more!

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    52 mins
  • The NEW SCIENCE behind our Origins w. Archeologist Prof. Tom Higham
    Feb 21 2024

    Buy Tom's Book: The World Before Us: The New Science Behind Our Human Origins - https://amzn.to/49hOaZC Thomas Higham is Professor of Scientific Archaeology at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna. He was, until August 2021, the Director of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit at the University of Oxford, where he was based for 20 years. He is best known for his work in dating the Neanderthal extinction and the arrival of modern humans in Europe. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more!

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    50 mins
  • Understanding: Inequality with Nobel Nominee Prof. Oded Galor
    Feb 10 2024

    Buy Oded's Book: The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality - https://amzn.to/3w4ZSIc Oded Galor (born 1953) is an Israeli-American economist who is currently Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics at Brown University. He is the founder of unified growth theory. Galor has contributed to the understanding of development over the entire course of human history and prehistory, and the role of deep-rooted factors in the transition from stagnation to growth and in the emergence of global inequality. He also pioneered the exploration of the impact of human evolution, population diversity, and inequality on the process of development over most of human existence. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more!

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Understanding: Currencies with Brown Prof. Mark Blyth
    Feb 4 2024

    . Get Mark's Book: Angrynomics - https://amzn.to/3u8NZ3A Mark McGann Blyth is a Scottish-American political economist. He is currently the William R. Rhodes Professor of International Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. At Brown, Blyth additionally directs the William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. His research focuses upon how uncertainty and randomness impact complex systems, particularly economic systems, and why people continue to believe stupid economic ideas despite buckets of evidence to the contrary. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more!

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    1 hr and 1 min