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Episode 6: Understanding the attacks on higher education with Professor Hussein Banai

1 h 6 min · 28. juli 2025
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I am excited to be joined in this episode by my friend (and former IU undergraduate thesis advisor) Professor Hussein Banai to discuss all the ins and outs of the attacks on higher education happening across the US and the wider world.

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Decolonising our reading lists

The good, the bad, and the ugly of our security studies reading lists.... From the episode: The meta-writers: * Empires Without Imperialism: Anglo-American Decline and the Politics of Deflection by Jeanne Morefield * How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr * The Atlantic Realists: Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United States by Matthew Specter The bad: * Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by Niall Ferguson * The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror by Michael Ignatieff * The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century by Robert D. Kaplan * Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar * Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq by Melvyn Leffler The good: * Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David van Reybrouck * Congo: The Epic History of a People by van Reybrouck * King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild * Culture and Imperialism + Orientalism by Edward Said (amongst many others) * Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces by Radley Balko * The Wretched of the Earth + Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon * Primitive Rebels + On History by Eric Hobsbawm * Uncivil War: The British Army and The Troubles, 1966-1975 by Huw Bennett * Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life by Richard Beck * One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

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