How does a city feel when it's invaded by an occupying army?
Clarissa Ward is a British-American journalist who frequently reports on global conflicts and crises as CNN’s Chief International Correspondent, including the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, the overthrow of the Assad regime by rebel forces in Syria, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Clarissa i…
The CIA plot to kill the Congolese prime minister
Stuart Reid is author of The Lumumba Plot, a rip-roaring read about the CIA plan to assassinate the newly independent Congo’s charismatic prime minister Patrice Lumumba in 1960.
Stuart is a Senior Fellow for History and Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has written for many p…
China’s International Media Footprint
Maria Repnikova explores the importance of China’s growing international media footprint.
The end of a Mongolian-language newspaper
Soyonbo Borjgin is from Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China, where he worked as a journalist at the state-owned, Mongolian-language Inner Mongolia Life Weekly in the last few years of its existence. He later moved to New York, where has peed in a bottle while delivering packages for Amazon and worked fo…
"That devil has to follow you everywhere"—activism in Singapore
Singapore is a business-friendly, illiberal democracy, or what some political scientists call a “competitive authoritarian regime,” or a “façade electoral” system. So there’s much in that island nation for Americans to learn about their own future.
Kirsten Han is a great guide: She runs We, The C…
Hegemonic suicide and medieval peasant brain
Seva Gunitsky is author of Aftershocks: Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century. He studies Russian and late Soviet politics, international relations, and hegemonic transitions and their global effects as associate professor and George Ignatieff Chair of Peace and Conflict Studi…
Episode 12: We've Been Walking Around Obstacles with Dr. Maria Repnikova
When we talk about resistance, we tend to picture it: marchers in the street, dissidents with megaphones, confrontation made visible. But in societies where activists are monitored, journalists are constrained, and the costs of speaking out are real and immediate, resistance looks different. It le…
Episode 14: On Rethinking the Words We Reach For (Season Finale)
For our final episode, we sat down without a guest to ask ourselves the questions we usually put to others. Has the podcast changed how we see Turkey, the US, and our own positions this season, and are we even reaching for the right words anymore?
One answer surprised us: we are rethinking the te…
Competing for Soft Power: China's Image-Making in Africa
With a growing young population, vast natural resources, and emerging technology hubs, countries across Africa have become key sites for diplomatic competition between the United States and China. Focusing on Ethiopia, Maria Repnikova examines the ambitious and disjointed display of Chinese diplom…
Complicating China’s Soft Power: Maria Repnikova on China’s Image-Making Efforts in Ethiopia
In this episode of China Field Notes, Scott Kennedy talks with Communications Professor Maria Repnikova of Georgia State University. She explains how China seeks to build influence in Africa through tangible enticements, ideational power, and defensive image-making. Although she points to a variet…
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