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Russian RouletteSergey Radchenko on Ukraine Peace NegotiationsMax and Maria spoke with Sergey Radchenko about the state of affairs in peace negotiations over Ukraine as we come to the close of 2025. They discuss the different parties' goals and positions, and how this current round of negotiations compares to the talks in Istanbul at the start of the full-scale invasion back in 2022.
This conversation was recorded on December 12, 2025.
"America's Magical Thinking About Ukraine: A Bad Deal Is Worse Than No Deal," by Sergey Radchenko (Foreign Affairs, December 2025).
"The Talks That Could Have Ended the War in Ukraine: A Hidden History of...
2025-12-1847 minRussian RouletteSergey Radchenko on Ukraine Peace NegotiationsMax and Maria spoke with Sergey Radchenko about the state of affairs in peace negotiations over Ukraine as we come to the close of 2025. They discuss the different parties' goals and positions, and how this current round of negotiations compares to the talks in Istanbul at the start of the full-scale invasion back in 2022.
This conversation was recorded on December 12, 2025.
"America's Magical Thinking About Ukraine: A Bad Deal Is Worse Than No Deal," by Sergey Radchenko (Foreign Affairs, December 2025).
"The Talks That Could Have Ended the War in Ukraine: A Hidden History of...
2025-12-1847 min
Decoding Geopolitics Podcast with Dominik Presl#80 Sergey Radchenko: What Really Drives Russia’s Foreign Policy – From the USSR to Putin➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/This is a conversation with Sergey Radchenko. Sergey is one of the most insightful historians of the Cold War and Russian history. He grew up in the USSR, has spent years combing through Soviet archives, and his latest book offers a rare inside look into how Soviet leaders actually made decisions about war, diplomacy, and the...
2025-09-0136 min
The Great State Mural - Mongolia PortrayedFrom Kremlin to Mongolian Steppes: How Mongolia Played Role in Pushing The Soviet Union's Global AgendaIn this episode of The Great State Mural: Mongolia Portrayed, we have our first guest on the show, Professor Sergey Radchenko. In this episode, we step back in time to explore Mongolia’s role as a Soviet satellite state and what role Mongolia played in Stalin's aspirations for Asia. Professor Sergey Radchenko explains why Mongolia mattered to Stalin, from trying to wedge Mongolia away from China to how Mongolian leaders themselves emulated Stalin and pushed the Soviet Union's agenda for their own gain or preservation.Check out Sergey Radchenko's new book: Sergey Radchenko, "To Ru...
2025-08-2040 min
Foreign Policy LiveGrading Trump’s Ukraine DiplomacyThe Trump-Putin summit on Friday, followed by Monday’s unprecedented White House meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky and seven other European leaders, has left analysts wondering whether recent diplomacy will result in an end to hostilities—or if it’s all just pageantry. Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Sergey Radchenko sit down with Ravi Agrawal to debrief these two high-level meetings.
Kendall-Taylor is a former CIA analyst and a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Radchenko is a Johns Hopkins University professor and the author of To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for...
2025-08-1942 min
Betrouwbare Bronnen522 - Zeven zomerboekenDeze zomer is er hopelijk genoeg tijd om uit te puffen en op te laden voor een spannend politiek najaar. Jaap Jansen en PG Kroeger dienen je geestelijke vitaminen toe om er straks vol inspiratie en nieuwe energie weer tegenaan te gaan! *** Op 21 september live in Het Concertgebouw! Betrouwbare Bronnen: muziek en tirannie. Kom ook! Deze aflevering is mede mogelijk gemaakt met donaties van luisteraars die we hiervoor hartelijk danken. Word ook vriend van de show! Heb je belangstelling om in onze podcast te adverteren of ons te sponsoren? Zend een m...
2025-08-052h 17
AmericanoTrump – the conventional foreign policy President?Trump has said he's "very, very unhappy" with Russia, and threatened severe tariffs against them if there's no deal on Ukraine within 50 days. He's also sending more weapons to Ukraine in coordination with NATO. What's behind his change of heart on foreign policy, and how's his MAGA base responding? Freddy Gray is joined by deputy US editor Kate Andrews, and Sergey Radchenko, professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.You can watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/J_QvBDhAGgUBecome a Spectator subscriber today to access this podcast without adverts...
2025-07-1527 min
New Books in Eastern European StudiesSergey Radchenko, "To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power" (Cambridge UP, 2024)What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In To Run The World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power, Sergey Radchenko provides an unprecedented deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin's decision-making. He reveals how the Soviet struggle with the United States and China reflected its irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution. This tension drove Soviet policies from Stalin's postwar scramble for territory to Khrushchev's reckless overseas adventurism and nuclear brinksmanship, Brezhnev's jockeying for influence in the...
2025-06-291h 14
New Books in World AffairsSergey Radchenko, "To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power" (Cambridge UP, 2024)What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In To Run The World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power, Sergey Radchenko provides an unprecedented deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin's decision-making. He reveals how the Soviet struggle with the United States and China reflected its irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution. This tension drove Soviet policies from Stalin's postwar scramble for territory to Khrushchev's reckless overseas adventurism and nuclear brinksmanship, Brezhnev's jockeying for influence in the...
2025-06-291h 14
Exchanges: A Cambridge UP PodcastSergey Radchenko, "To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power" (Cambridge UP, 2024)What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In To Run The World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power, Sergey Radchenko provides an unprecedented deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin's decision-making. He reveals how the Soviet struggle with the United States and China reflected its irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution. This tension drove Soviet policies from Stalin's postwar scramble for territory to Khrushchev's reckless overseas adventurism and nuclear brinksmanship, Brezhnev's jockeying for influence in the...
2025-06-291h 14
New Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesSergey Radchenko, "To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power" (Cambridge UP, 2024)What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In To Run The World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power, Sergey Radchenko provides an unprecedented deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin's decision-making. He reveals how the Soviet struggle with the United States and China reflected its irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution. This tension drove Soviet policies from Stalin's postwar scramble for territory to Khrushchev's reckless overseas adventurism and nuclear brinksmanship, Brezhnev's jockeying for influence in the...
2025-06-291h 10
New Books in HistorySergey Radchenko, "To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power" (Cambridge UP, 2024)What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In To Run The World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power, Sergey Radchenko provides an unprecedented deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin's decision-making. He reveals how the Soviet struggle with the United States and China reflected its irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution. This tension drove Soviet policies from Stalin's postwar scramble for territory to Khrushchev's reckless overseas adventurism and nuclear brinksmanship, Brezhnev's jockeying for influence in the...
2025-06-291h 10
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Ukraine-Russia Negotiations with Eric Ciaramella and Samuel CharapLawfare Legal Fellow Mykhailo Soldatenko sits down with Eric Ciaramella, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Samuel Charap, Senior Political Scientist at Rand Corporation, to discuss the key issues in the Ukraine-Russia talks. They chat about the national interests of the interested parties, whether a negotiated settlement is possible, and what form a potential agreement may take. They also discuss credible security arrangements for Ukraine to prevent future aggression and various Russian demands, including those related to NATO and neutrality. You may want to look at the following pieces relevant to the discussion. Andriy...
2025-06-271h 08
The Lawfare PodcastLawfare Daily: Ukraine-Russia Negotiations with Eric Ciaramella and Samuel CharapLawfare Legal Fellow Mykhailo Soldatenko sits down with Eric Ciaramella, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Samuel Charap, Senior Political Scientist at Rand Corporation, to discuss the key issues in the Ukraine-Russia talks. They chat about the national interests of the interested parties, whether a negotiated settlement is possible, and what form a potential agreement may take. They also discuss credible security arrangements for Ukraine to prevent future aggression and various Russian demands, including those related to NATO and neutrality. You may want to look at the following pieces relevant to the discussion. Andriy...
2025-06-271h 08
Silicon Curtain730. Sergey Radchenko - The Kremlin's Bid for Global Power, Influence and Dominance During the Cold WarSergey Radchenko is a Soviet-born British Russian historian. He is the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Centre for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and visiting professor at Cardiff University. He is an historian of the Cold War, mainly known for his work on Sino-Soviet relations and Soviet foreign policy. He also works on Russian and Chinese foreign and security policies, and is a frequent contributor to Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Spectator and other outlets.----------Books:Two suns in the heavens: the Sino-Soviet struggle for supremacy, 1962-1967 (2009)The...
2025-05-2952 min
L'OTAN, ce qu'il faut savoirLes partenaires de l'OTANpodcast produit avec notebooklm.google.comà partir du livre “NATO: What You Need to Know” écrit par Medea Benjamin et David Swanson, publié en 2022. Traduction de l’anglais par Nicolas Calvé publiée en 2025 sous le titre « L’OTAN - Une alliance au service de la guerre” aux éditions LUXChapitre 5 [1] OTAN, Le Traité de l’Atlantique Nord, 4 avril 1949. [2] «Projet de réponse à la note soviétique du 31 mars», RDC/215/54, OTAN, 24 avril 1954. [3] Sergey Radchenko, Timothy Andrews Sayle et Christian F. Ostermann (dir.), NATO in the Cold War and After: Contested Histories and Future Directions, Londres, Routledge, 2024. [4] Jenn...
2025-05-2806 min
Fascinating People Fascinating PlacesTo Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power: Sergey S. RadchenkoAt the end of ww1, the vast but ailing Russian empire collapsed. What followed was regicide, civil war and famine. But just a generation later, the world had changed. Russia, now part of the Soviet Union found itself uniquely positioned to itself on the global scene in a way it had done before. In this episode I speak with Russian born historian Sergey Rachenko, he Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs about his groundbreaking book To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power. We discuss the motivations...
2025-05-2234 min
Green Socialist NotesGreen Socialist Notes, Episode 261Howie talks about current events and takes viewer questions.Resources Shared on the Stream:Jayapal Introduces Legislation to Block Offensive Weapons Sales to Israel, March 31, 2025, https://jayapal.house.gov/2025/03/31/jayapal-introduces-legislation-to-block-offensive-weapons-sales-to-israel/Samuel Charap and Sergey Radchenko, "The Talks That Could Have Ended the War in Ukraine: A Hidden History of Diplomacy That Came Up Short—but Holds Lessons for Future Negotiations," April 16, 2024, Foreign Affairs, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/talks-could-have-ended-war-ukraineSamuel Charap and Sergey Radchenko, "Why Peace Talks Fail in Ukraine: Learning the Right Lessons From Three Years of Grinding War and Faltering Negotiations," May 8, 2025, Foreign Af...
2025-05-191h 02
Brussels SproutsWhat Ukraine and Russia are Negotiating in TurkeyDirect talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul this week – the first since March 2022 – have got off to a shaky start. Putin’s no-show meant President Zelenskyy remained in Ankara on Thursday, but he plans to send a delegation to Istanbul led by his Defense Minister. Russia’s unwillingness to send a more senior delegation suggests they are not taking the talks seriously, and there are few signs they have dropped their maximalist war demands and would be ready to make a settlement with Ukraine that ensures a sustainable peace. With their efforts so far having failed to yield signific...
2025-05-161h 00
Le CollimateurUkraine : ce que peuvent les négociations [Le Casque et la plume #12]Invités : Rym Momtaz, rédactrice en chef de « Strategic Europe »Elie Tenenbaum, directeur du centre des études de sécurité de l’Ifri Ulrike Franke, senior policy fellow à l’ECFRLes articles : Samuel Charap and Sergey Radchenko, "Why Peace Talks Fail in Ukraine." Foreign Affairs, mai 8, 2025. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/why-peace-talks-fail-ukraine.Rym Momtaz, « Why Europeans Should Impose a Ceasefire in Ukraine » - https://carnegieendowment.org/europe/strategic-europe/2025/05/why-europeans-should-impose-a-ceasefire-in-ukraine?lang=en¢er=europeBibliographie : David Sanger, « In High-Stakes Negoti...
2025-05-161h 13
Le monde aujourd'hui !Le monde aujourd'hui épisode du 2025-05-14Bonjour et bienvenue dans Le monde Aujourd’hui, le podcast quotidien de géopolitique par l’IA! Aujourd’hui : les pourparlers de paix en Ukraine, la dépendance américaine aux minéraux critiques, et les dynamiques géopolitiques autour de Taïwan.Commençons par l'Ukraine, où les négociations de paix peinent à mettre fin à un conflit qui dure depuis trois ans. Selon un article de Samuel Charap et Sergey Radchenko, plusieurs facteurs expliquent cet échec. Les auteurs soulignent que les dynamiques complexes du conflit, ainsi que les intérêts divergents des parties impliquées, rendent difficile toute avancée vers une réso...
2025-05-1403 min
The Agenda with Steve Paikin (Audio)Living as a Canadian in Trump's AmericaThe Agenda's week in review features an interview with author and educator Irshad Manji about being a Canadian living in the U.S., and a discussion with Sergey Radchenko, author of "To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power".See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2025-04-1904 minThe Agenda with Steve Paikin (Audio)What Can Soviet Foreign Policy Teach Us About Russia Today?The West's relationship with Russia has been utterly fascinating, confusing, maddening, and encouraging for more than a century. Sergey Radchenko (Distinguished professor at Johns Hopkins University) is the author of a new book called "To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power." It's just won the Lionel Gelber Prize, presented by the Munk School for Global Affairs, for the world's best English-language book on foreign affairs. He joins host Steve Paikin for a wide-ranging discussion on the making and breaking of the Soviet UnionSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2025-04-1832 min
The East AngleIs Trump courting Russia because he is worried about China? A conversation with Sergey RadchenkoWhat lessons can we draw from the Soviet Union's Cold War bid to Run the World, which is the title of the latest book by the historian Sergey Radchenko? What does Russia's sense of historic destiny tell us about its relations with the West and China? Hosts Ra and Sherzod discussed these and some other questions with Prof. Radchenko in this episode of the podcast.Brief bio: Sergey Radchenko is the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is a renowned historian and commentator who has published numerous books and academic...
2025-04-1644 min
ChinaTalkThe Soviet Cold War Machine: Inside the Sino-Soviet RivalryWelcome to part two of our series on Cold War history with Sergey Radchenko. Here’s part one.In today’s interview, we discuss…
Khrushchev’s removal from power and the transition to the Brezhnev era,
How the USSR and China managed their relationships with Vietnam,
Sino-Soviet border conflicts, Brezhnev’s negative feelings toward China, and Nixon’s rapprochement,
Watergate and the inability of China or the USSR to understand American politics
Why the Soviets decided to invade Afghanistan,
Reagan’s approach to negotiations and his relationship with Gorbachev,
How to manage the containment pa...
2025-04-011h 15ChinaTalkThe Soviet Cold War Machine: Inside the Sino-Soviet RivalryWelcome to part two of our series on Cold War history with Sergey Radchenko. Here’s part one.In today’s interview, we discuss…
Khrushchev’s removal from power and the transition to the Brezhnev era,
How the USSR and China managed their relationships with Vietnam,
Sino-Soviet border conflicts, Brezhnev’s negative feelings toward China, and Nixon’s rapprochement,
Watergate and the inability of China or the USSR to understand American politics
Why the Soviets decided to invade Afghanistan,
Reagan’s approach to negotiations and his relationship with Gorbachev,
How to manage the containment pa...
2025-04-011h 15
The CGAI Podcast NetworkEnergy Security Cubed: Navigating Geopolitical Risks for Canadian Trade with Dr. Lance MortlockOn this episode of the Energy Security Cubed Podcast, Joe Calnan interviews Lance Mortlock about the growing risks for businesses in Canada and what it could mean for Canada's place in the world.
You can find Lance's book "Outside In, Inside Out" here: https://www.lancemortlock.com/outside-in-inside-out
You can find Lance's recent article for Chief Executive Magazine here: https://chiefexecutive.net/cross-border-battleground-the-future-of-canada-u-s-trade-in-a-tariff-fueled-era/
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For the intro, Kelly and Joe talk about U.S. shipbuilding and the political obstacles to a return of Russian gas to Europe.
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Guest Bio:
- Dr. Lance Mortlock is the Managing Partner, Energy & Resources Canada at...
2025-03-3148 min
History in the Making: The War in UkraineA conversation with Dr. Radchenko on the ongoing talksPlease note that this episode was recorded on Saturday March 22, before ceasefire talks in Saudi ArabiaAs we enter talks between the US, Russia, and Ukraine (potentially among others), its worth stepping back and understanding the historical approach to talks by the Kremlin as well as the White House. What are some of the major continuities in foreign policy between the Soviet Union and Putin's Russia?What impact will that have on the ongoing talks? Are we moving towards a "spheres of influence" world like Yalta set up?What is China's role in...
2025-03-2732 min
ChinaTalkThe Soviets' Bid for Global PowerSergey Radchenko’s book, To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Bid for Global Power, is a masterwork! In my mind, it’s in pole position for best book of 2025. Sergey takes you into the mind of Soviet and Chinese leaders as they wrestle for global power and recognition, leaving you amused, inspired, and horrified by the small-mindedness of the people who had the power to start World War III.We get amazing vignettes like Liu Shaoqi making fun of the Americans for eating ice cream in trenches, Khrushchev pinning red stars on Eisenhower’s grandkids, and Brezhnev...
2025-03-241h 50ChinaTalkThe Soviets' Bid for Global PowerSergey Radchenko’s book, To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Bid for Global Power, is a masterwork! In my mind, it’s in pole position for best book of 2025. Sergey takes you into the mind of Soviet and Chinese leaders as they wrestle for global power and recognition, leaving you amused, inspired, and horrified by the small-mindedness of the people who had the power to start World War III.We get amazing vignettes like Liu Shaoqi making fun of the Americans for eating ice cream in trenches, Khrushchev pinning red stars on Eisenhower’s grandkids, and Brezhnev...
2025-03-241h 50
AmericanoIs Trump right about Ukraine?Donald Trump attacked the Ukrainian President overnight, describing him as a 'dictator' and saying he's done a 'terrible job.' In return, Zelensky has accused Trump of 'living in a disinformation space.' The West has invested a huge amount of capital in the fight against Russia – and failed to secure peace. Is Trump using these offensive and odious methods in order to secure an end to the conflict? Is he the only person with the power to do so? Freddy Gray discusses with The Spectator's Russia correspondent Owen Matthews, and Sergey Radchenko, historian and author.Become a...
2025-02-2025 minRussian RouletteLessons from Soviet Foreign Policy with Sergey RadchenkoMax and Maria spoke with historian Sergey Radchenko about his latest book, To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power, and how the study of Soviet foreign policy can help us understand Russia's current approach to global affairs.Sergey's book is available for purchase from Cambridge University Press.
2025-02-0643 minRussian RouletteLessons from Soviet Foreign Policy with Sergey RadchenkoMax and Maria spoke with historian Sergey Radchenko about his latest book, To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power, and how the study of Soviet foreign policy can help us understand Russia's current approach to global affairs.Sergey's book is available for purchase from Cambridge University Press.
2025-02-0643 min
Geopolitics Decanted with Dmitri AlperovitchWhy North Korea Is Planning a Second Korean War and How to Stop ItDmitri Alperovitch sits down with Andrei Lankov, one of the west’s foremost experts on North Korea, and Sergey Radchenko, a leading Cold War historian, for a deep dive into North Korea. They discuss the threats posed by North Korea's nuclear program and possibility of a new war, the chances of a Trump-brokered peace deal with Kim Jong Un, and the nature of North Korea’s relationships with China, Russia, and Iran. Andrei also offers rare insights into daily life under the regime, its surveillance state, hackers and IT workers, political succession, and long-term foreign policy ambitions.
00:00 Intr...
2025-01-291h 20
The CGAI Podcast NetworkEnergy Security Cubed: Reflecting on Europe’s Response to the Energy CrisisOn this episode of the Energy Security Cubed Podcast, Kelly Ogle and Joe Calnan interview Max Bergmann and Cy McGready about their recent report, "Power Plays: Europe’s Response to the Energy Crisis", which can be found here: https://www.csis.org/analysis/power-plays
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For the intro, Kelly and Joe discuss the ongoing negotiations between Canada and the United States about the Trump tariff threat and the prospect of Indonesian nuclear energy.
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Guest Bio:
- Max Bergmann is the director of the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program and the Stuart Center in Euro-Atlantic and Northern European Studies at the Center fo...
2024-12-051h 06
Reader's Corner"To Run The World" By Sergey RadchenkoAn interview with Sergey Radchenko, author of the new book, To Run the World. The book offers a detailed portrait of Russian leadership during the Cold War, helming a sprawling nation with irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution.
2024-11-0233 min
Ill Literacy: Books with BensonTo Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power (Guest: Sergey Radchenko)Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Sergey Radchenko, Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, to discuss his new book, To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power. They chat about how the Soviet struggle with the United States and China reflected its irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution, and how this tension drove Soviet policy throughout the second half of the 20th Century. They also discuss whether Soviet foreign policy was mo...
2024-10-141h 15
Heartland Daily PodcastTo Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power (Guest: Sergey Radchenko)Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Sergey Radchenko, Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, to discuss his new book, To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power. They chat about how the Soviet struggle with the United States and China reflected its irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution, and how this tension drove Soviet policy throughout the second half of the 20th Century. They also discuss whether Soviet foreign policy was mo...
2024-10-141h 15
UkrainecastIs the West out of touch with the reality of the war?As President Zelensky conducts a whistle stop tour of Europe…. we answer your questions on whether the West is out of touch with the reality of the war and what impact elections in the US and Europe could have on support for Ukraine’s war effort. Victoria is joined by our correspondent in Kyiv Sarah Rainsford and Cold War historian Sergey Radchenko.Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire.
The producers were Arsenii Sokolov, Cordelia Hemming and Nick Sturdee. The technical producer was Jack Graysmark. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news editor...
2024-10-1119 min
Elevated ThoughtsPutin's Cold War Tactics: Newly Declassified Soviet Archives with Sergey Radchenko | Ep. 32In this exclusive interview, we sit down with Professor Sergey Radchenko, a distinguished Cold War historian from Johns Hopkins University, to uncover shocking revelations from newly declassified Soviet archives. Professor Radchenko, author of To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power, offers unprecedented insights into Soviet foreign policy, Russia's Cold War ambitions, and the driving forces behind Putin's modern-day strategies.
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Explore how Putin may be mirroring the tactics of So...
2024-09-2559 min
Indulge In Into A Binge-Worthy Full Audiobook In The Car.To Run the World by Sergey RadchenkoPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/46166to listen full audiobooks.
Title: To Run the World
Author: Sergey Radchenko
Narrator: Daniel Henning
Format: mp3
Length: 30 hrs and 42 mins
Release date: 09-17-24
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 8 ratings
Genres: Politics & Government
Publisher's Summary:
In this new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko provides a deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin's decision-making. He reveals how the Soviet struggle with the United States and China reflected its irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution. This tension drove Soviet policies from Stalin's postwar...
2024-09-176h 42Tune In To The Most Critically-Acclaimed Full Audiobook Today!To Run the World by Sergey RadchenkoPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/29119to listen full audiobooks.
Title: To Run the World
Author: Sergey Radchenko
Narrator: Daniel Henning
Format: mp3
Length: 30 hrs and 42 mins
Release date: 09-17-24
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 8 ratings
Genres: Russia
Publisher's Summary:
In this new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko provides a deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin's decision-making. He reveals how the Soviet struggle with the United States and China reflected its irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution. This tension drove Soviet policies from Stalin's postwar scramble...
2024-09-176h 42
Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsTo Run The World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power by Sergey RadchenkoPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812290 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Run The World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power Author: Sergey Radchenko Narrator: Daniel Henning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 30 hours 42 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko provides an unprecedented deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin's decision-making. He reveals how the Soviet struggle...
2024-09-1730 min
The EI PodcastEI Weekly Listen — Sergey Radchenko on the past, present and future of Sino-Russian relationsThe tumultuous relationship between Red China and the Soviet Union hints at an uncertain future for the Sino-Russian partnership. Read by Helen Lloyd.Image: Sino-Soviet propaganda poster. Credit: Album / Alamy Stock Photo
2024-08-3022 min
The Eurasian KnotThe Soviet Bid to Run the WorldGuest: Sergey Radchenko on To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power published by Cambridge University Press.The post The Soviet Bid to Run the World appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-07-2951 min
Shield of the RepublicThe Long Shadow of the Evil EmpireEric and Eliot host Sergey Radchenko, the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies based in Bologna, Italy. They discuss Sergey’s personal story of growing up in Sakhalin in the Soviet Union, living in China, becoming an historian and gaining access to documentary sources in both countries that were heretofore unavailable and which shed new light on the history of the Cold War. The discussion covers ideology vs. realpolitik in explaining Soviet foreign policy, the USSR as both a status quo and revolutionary power, th...
2024-07-111h 00
Departures with Robert AmsterdamRussia's burning ambition for global powerFollowing the end of World War II, Josef Stalin and Russia's leadership had a certain vision of the postwar order, one which ended up being quite different from reality. They had expected to maintain control over the whole of Europe, and have these gains of war legitimized and recognized by the United States - with specific emphasis on the carve up of territory concluded in the Yalta conference of 1945. But these burning ambitions for global power continued long after in the Khruschev and Brezhnev eras and came to define the cold war. On this week's episode of...
2024-07-0927 min
School of WarEp 123: Sergey Radchenko on Soviet Motivations in the Cold WarSergey Radchenko, Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and author of To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power, joins the show to talk about the strategic aims of the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War and how the Soviets attempted to run the world.▪️Times • 01:17 Introduction • 02:32 A novel argument • 08:36 Power and recognition • 11:51 Who started the Cold War? • 14:55 The American dilemma • 17:09 Fukuyama • 21:21 Nuclear guarantees • 25:16 The shadow of WWII • 29:44 Flippancy and boredom • 32:06 Détente • ...
2024-05-1449 min
The Naked PravdaReturning to the talks that could have ended the war in UkraineOver the past few weeks, many in the think-tank community have argued about the negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv in the first two months of the full-scale invasion, following an article published on April 16 in Foreign Affairs, titled “The Talks That Could Have Ended the War in Ukraine: A Hidden History of Diplomacy That Came Up Short — but Holds Lessons for Future Negotiations,” by Samuel Charap, a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, and Sergey Radchenko, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Europe.
In their article, Charap and Radchenko acknow...
2024-05-0333 min
Mark Leonard's World in 30 MinutesHigh stakes in the strait: US -China competition and Taiwan’s futureTaiwan has come to represent a strategic flashpoint in US-China relations. As Beijing ramps up its political and military pressure on Taipei, any escalation could trigger a major conflict between the two powers. Unlike Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China may have to reckon with direct US intervention if it chose to invade Taiwan. Alongside this, the US-China strategic competition is rising, with the United States’ strategic approach involving aggressive export controls, maintaining tariffs, and creation of alliances in the Indo-Pacific.In this week’s episode, Mark Leonard welcomes Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and chairman of national security think...
2024-04-2635 min
Net AssessmentCountering Foreign Media Manipulation. Or Not.Chris, Melanie, and Zack discuss Gavin Wilde's recent article in the Texas National Security Review on foreign media manipulation. How vulnerable are citizens of democracies to manipulation through social media? Is a more open and less hierarchical media space a national security threat? And what, if anything, should policymakers in democracies do about this issue? Grievances for China blocking popular apps, Marjorie Taylor Green for her shenanigans surrounding the foreign aid vote, and to the F-35, the gift that keeps on giving (to the tune of $2 trillion); Attas for Samuel Charap and Sergey Radchenko for an important article on...
2024-04-251h 02
ECFR ON AIRUnder the Overcoat: Russian foreign policy: from a U-Turn over the Atlantic to the zigzags of historyHow can we understand current-day Russia against the background of history? Is the monopolisation of power and lack of checks and balances on a level unique to Russia? Was Russia’s foreign policy trajectory predestined and if not, what were the crucial turning points that brought it to where it is today? And is Russian foreign policy changing irreversibly? ECFR’s new podcast on Russia, “Under the Overcoat”, explores the deeper trends beneath the surface of daily politics. To look at the history of Russia’s foreign policy and what its future might be, our host Kadri Liik is...
2024-04-2550 min
Ukraine: The LatestUkraine ‘shoots down’ Russian bomber armed with cruise missiles & Russian-Ukrainian diplomacy at the start of the full-scale invasionDay 783.Today, we bring you news from across the battlefront, bring you political and diplomatic updates and we speak to historian Sergey Radchenko about the intense diplomacy between Ukraine and Russia in the early months of the full-scale invasion.Contributors:David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @djknowles22 on X.Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor) @FrancisDearnley on X.With thanks to Sergey Radchenko, Historian of the Cold War and after. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at The Henry A. K...
2024-04-1951 minGeopolitics Decanted with Dmitri AlperovitchNew Secrets From the Cold War and Lessons for Cold War II With ChinaDmitri Alperovitch talks with Sergey Radchenko, one of the Cold War's preeminent historians, about the untold secrets of that period based on Sergey's unique access to recently declassified Soviet and Chinese archives.
They discussed China's role in causing Khrushchev to initiate the Cuban Missile Crisis, a huge Soviet intelligence failure that caused the Korean War and Brezhnev's attempts to prevent Nixon's downfall in Watergate.
Sergey and Dmitri also discussed their upcoming books, which are both publishing in the next few weeks, on Cold War I history and the history and strategy of Cold War II...
2024-04-1652 min
Battle LinesThe Kremlin's Cold War bid for global powerIn this Bonus episode of Battle Lines, The Telegraph's David Knowles speaks to Professor Sergrey Radchenko to discuss his upcoming book 'To Run The World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power'. Professor Radchenko's shares with us what he discovered about the psychology of the Kremlin's decision-making during the Cold War and what this can tell us about Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.Contributors:David Knowles (Host) @djknowles22 on X.Sergey Radchenko (Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor @KissingerCenter@SAISHopkins) @DrRadchenko on XFor 3 months access to The...
2024-02-2834 min
The EI PodcastWorldview — Ukraine, two years onTwo years on from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a solution, military or diplomatic, seems as far away as ever. On Worldview, leading historians and commentators reflect on a conflict that has altered the state of global geopolitics.Jade McGlynn, author of Russia’s War, calls in from Kyiv (00:56).Shashank Joshi, defence editor of the Economist and Hew Strachan, military historian, illuminate the battlefield picture (24:18). The possible outcomes are considered by Sergey Radchenko, expert on Russian foreign policy, and Tim Marshall, best-selling author, whose most recent book is The Future of Geography (1:00:45).
2024-02-221h 24
"Office Hours" by SAIS EuropeSeason 2 Episode 2: Ethnic Violence and Autocracy in the South CaucasusSimon Thorpe sits down with Professor Sergey Radchenko and current SAIS student Maximilien Mavian to discuss ethnic conflict in the South Caucasus.This conversation was inspired by the fall of the Republic of Artsakh and the flight of its entire Armenian population in September of 2023. Photos soon emerged that showed the 100,000 Armenians forced to flee their homes forever, leaving many in the global community shocked and confused as to what happened. Why was there such animosity between Azerbaijan and Armenia? Why is peace so hard to achieve? What does this conflict tell us about the general attitudes...
2024-02-0837 min
Small World, Big ProblemsThe Dragon and the Bear: Unpacking Sino-Russian Relations Amidst WarWe are joined by Sergey Radchenko, a Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at SAIS Europe, and Director of the Bologna Institute for Policy Research. An expert on Sino-Soviet relations, Soviet and Chinese foreign policies, he discusses the State of Sino-Russia Relations in the wake of a raging war in Ukraine.Connor Crago conducted this interview. The episode was researched and produced by Benie Kwarteng and Adi Baurzhanuly.
2024-02-0239 min
The EditionHow Britain sobered upThis week: The Spectator’s cover story looks at how Britain is sobering up, forgoing alcohol in favour of alcohol free alternatives. In his piece, Henry Jeffreys – author of Empire of Booze – attacks the vice of sobriety and argues that the abstinence of young Britons will have a detrimental impact on the drinks industry and British culture. He joins the podcast alongside Camilla Tominey, associate editor of the Telegraph and a teetotaler. (01:27)Also this week: could Mongolia be the next geopolitical flashpoint? The Spectator’s Wild Life columnist Aidan Hartley writes in the magazine about Mong...
2024-01-1835 min
Best of the SpectatorThe Edition: how Britain sobered upThis week:
The Spectator’s cover story looks at how Britain is sobering up, forgoing alcohol in favour of alcohol free alternatives. In his piece, Henry Jeffreys – author of Empire of Booze – attacks the vice of sobriety and argues that the abstinence of young Britons will have a detrimental impact on the drinks industry and British culture. He joins the podcast alongside Camilla Tominey, associate editor of the Telegraph and a teetotaler. (01:27)
Also this week: could Mongolia be the next geopolitical flashpoint?
The Spectator’s Wild Life columnist Aidan Hartley writes in the magazine about Mo...
2024-01-1835 min
The Asia ChessboardThe Sino-Russian Strategic AlignmentMike and Jude are joined by Sergey Radchenko, the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Sergey is an accomplished author, and has written extensively on the Cold War, nuclear history, and on Russian and Chinese foreign and security policies. The conversation begins by delving into the nature of Beijing’s ties with Moscow, and how they have evolved from the Cold War. They explore points of divergence in the interests of China and Russia, and assess how both countries have reacted to frictions in the relationship over time. Next, they...
2023-12-0545 minThe Naked PravdaHow the USSR tried to run the worldThis week, Meduza spoke to Dr. Sergey Radchenko about his next book, To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2024), which explores the era’s diplomatic history, focusing on how narratives of legitimacy offer crucial insights for interpreting Moscow’s motivations and foreign policy.
The conversation covers telling anecdotes about prominent world leaders like Richard Nixon, Nikita Khrushchev, and Leonid Brezhnev, their psychology, and how individual quirks shaped world events. Dr. Radchenko explains how resentment and the need for legitimacy and recognition drove Soviet decision-making in ways that p...
2023-11-1043 minGeopolitics Decanted with Dmitri AlperovitchChina and Russia: An Alliance, an Alignment or a Marriage of Convenience?Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Alexander Gabuev (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) and Sergey Radchenko (Johns Hopkins SAIS), two of the foremost experts on the true nature of the China-Russia relationship. Topics discussed:
- The signs that the Xi-Putin summit in Moscow last month may have achieved more substance than many may realize
- How China may covertly help Russia in procurement of weapons and munitions
- Why China may not be interested in a near-term resolution to the war
- Whether China is able to restrain Moscow's use of nuclear blackmail
- The Scramble f...
2023-04-0758 min
Russia Invades UkraineA Korean Template For Ukraine?Is the armistice that brought a halt to fighting on the Korean Peninsula 70 years ago a template for peace in the Ukraine war? Sergey Radchenko, a Cold War historian and professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, thinks it might be. Radchenko joins guest host Mike Eckel to discuss the idea and what to watch for as the war grinds into bitter attrition.
2023-03-0630 min
通勤學英語 15Mins Today每日英語跟讀 Ep.K523: 全球逾70年的衝突給俄烏戰爭的啟示歡迎留言告訴我們你對這一集的想法： https://open.firstory.me/user/cl81kivnk00dn01wffhwxdg2s/comments 每日英語跟讀 Ep.K522: What 70 Years of War Can Tell Us About the Russia-Ukraine Conflict Any Russian invasion of Ukraine was long expected to play out as a kind of postmodern war, defined by 21st-century weapons like media manipulation, battlefield-clouding disinformation, cyberattacks, false flag operations and unmarked fighters. 俄國對烏克蘭的任何入侵早已被認為會是一場後現代戰爭，由21世紀武器界定，如媒體操縱、戰場假消息戰、網路攻擊、栽贓行動以及無名戰士。 Such elements have featured in this war. But it is traditional 20th-century dynamics that have instead dominated: shifting battle lines of tanks and troops; urban assaults; struggles over air supremacy and over supply lines; and mass mobilization of troops and of weapons production. 這些的確是這場戰爭的特點。但主導局面的仍是20世紀的傳統動能：戰車與部隊不斷變化的戰線、城市攻防、爭奪制空權和補給線，大規模動員軍隊與生產武器。 The war’s contours, n...
2023-02-2004 minUkrainecast‘Have you ever had to collect your kid from the battlefield?’A mother’s quest to bring her dead son home. Anastasiya Gribanova from the BBC’s Ukrainian Service has been talking to two mothers about the lengths they had to go to find the bodies of their dead sons.Allies fail to reach an agreement over sending German-made tanks to Ukraine. We get the latest from the meeting of Western defence officials in Ramstein and hear from historian and cold war expert Sergey Radchenko on whether Russia can be defeated.Alexei, formerly known as Jimmy or James, tells us that life in Kherson continues to be d...
2023-01-2028 min
Moskva-kontoretPiruetter i krigenRussisk ballet har altid været både kunst, magt og politik - vi ser på, hvilken rolle balletten spiller i dagens krigsramte Rusland. 83-årige Sergei Radchenko skal helt op på tæerne for at styre sit succesfulde balletkompagni i Moskva uden om sanktionerne, mens den 22-årige danser Lidia Kovalenko betaler for sin krigsmodstand med sin karriere i Rusland. Vi skal også i det store Bolsjoj-teatret og se 'Giselle' og høre historien om, hvordan man som solodanser bedst kan hylde Putin i pausen mellem to akter.
Medvirkende: Lidia Kovalenko, balletdanser; Sergey Radchenko, tidligere balletdanser, nu kompagnidirektør, Johan Glov...
2022-11-2438 minNew Books in World AffairsThe Future of Cold War: A Discussion with Sergey RadchenkoAre we in a new cold war? And if so, is the US up against China or Russia? Join Owen Bennett Jones for a discussion with Sergey Radchenko, the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.Radchenko is the author of Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War and Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967 among other works. Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a reside...
2022-10-1848 min
New Books in Chinese StudiesThe Future of Cold War: A Discussion with Sergey RadchenkoAre we in a new cold war? And if so, is the US up against China or Russia? Join Owen Bennett Jones for a discussion with Sergey Radchenko, the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.Radchenko is the author of Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War and Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967 among other works. Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a reside...
2022-10-1847 min
New Books in East Asian StudiesThe Future of Cold War: A Discussion with Sergey RadchenkoAre we in a new cold war? And if so, is the US up against China or Russia? Join Owen Bennett Jones for a discussion with Sergey Radchenko, the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.Radchenko is the author of Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War and Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967 among other works. Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a reside...
2022-10-1848 min
New Books in European PoliticsThe Future of Cold War: A Discussion with Sergey RadchenkoAre we in a new cold war? And if so, is the US up against China or Russia? Join Owen Bennett Jones for a discussion with Sergey Radchenko, the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.Radchenko is the author of Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War and Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967 among other works. Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a reside...
2022-10-1847 min
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-JonesThe Future of Cold War: A Discussion with Sergey RadchenkoAre we in a new cold war? And if so, is the US up against China or Russia? Join Owen Bennett Jones for a discussion with Sergey Radchenko, the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.Radchenko is the author of Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War and Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967 among other works. Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a reside...
2022-10-1848 min
New Books in Diplomatic HistoryThe Future of Cold War: A Discussion with Sergey RadchenkoAre we in a new cold war? And if so, is the US up against China or Russia? Join Owen Bennett Jones for a discussion with Sergey Radchenko, the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.Radchenko is the author of Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War and Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967 among other works. Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a reside...
2022-10-1848 minNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesThe Future of Cold War: A Discussion with Sergey RadchenkoAre we in a new cold war? And if so, is the US up against China or Russia? Join Owen Bennett Jones for a discussion with Sergey Radchenko, the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.Radchenko is the author of Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War and Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967 among other works. Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a reside...
2022-10-1847 min
New Books in National SecurityThe Future of Cold War: A Discussion with Sergey RadchenkoAre we in a new cold war? And if so, is the US up against China or Russia? Join Owen Bennett Jones for a discussion with Sergey Radchenko, the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.Radchenko is the author of Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War and Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967 among other works. Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a reside...
2022-10-1847 min
New Books in Military HistoryThe Future of Cold War: A Discussion with Sergey RadchenkoAre we in a new cold war? And if so, is the US up against China or Russia? Join Owen Bennett Jones for a discussion with Sergey Radchenko, the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.Radchenko is the author of Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War and Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967 among other works. Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a reside...
2022-10-1848 minThe Naked PravdaIf China invades Taiwan, what happens to the war in Ukraine?The Chinese government has consistently threatened to take Taiwan by force if the government there declares formal independence. American politician Nancy Pelosi completed a two-day trip to Taiwan in early August, enraging Beijing, raising regional tensions, and thrilling Russian state propagandists, who are clearly desperate to draw the two most powerful countries on Earth into a shooting war that would presumably weaken Western resolve to counter Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Two months after Pelosi’s visit, fears of a war over Taiwan have receded, but the conflict could flare up again at any time, raising questions abou...
2022-10-0831 min
Geschichte ist Gegenwart! Der History & Politics Podcast der Körber-StiftungThe New Germany, Part 2: A Love-Hate Relationship
Part 2 of our four-part series The New Germany with historian Katja Hoyer and journalist Oliver Moody. They are going to explore Germany's long relationship with Russia. And they look for answers: What is the Germany-Russia dimension of the Ukraine conflict? And where do we go from here?
Guest: Sergey Radchenko, Historian, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC
Russia's war on Ukraine has heralded a Zeitenwende, a historic turning point for Germany. But how and why has Germany changed since then – or why hasn’t it? With old certainties set ablaze by a new European war, are we w...
2022-07-2556 minUkraine: The LatestThe Cold War, Vladimir Putin & what history can tell us about how the invasion of Ukraine may endDay 133.Today, David Knowles and Roland Oliphant interview historian Sergey Radchenko on the Cold War, Eastern European history, Russian imperialism and how history can help us better understand the modern day invasion of Ukraine.Contributors: David Knowles (Host)Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Reporter)With thanks to Sergey Radchenkoon.Email us: podcasts@telegraph.co.ukSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-07-0646 min
Conversation SixSergey Radchenko and Dmitri AlperovitchSergey Radchenko and Dmitri Alperovitch on the Russian invasion of Ukraine
2022-06-1306 min
State of the World from NPRAfter months of harsh sanctions, Moscow seeks to stabilize the country's economyNPR's Leila Fadel talks to Russian history professor Sergey Radchenko of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, about the state of the Russian economy after three months of war.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
2022-05-2704 min
AmericanoIs Kissinger right about Ukraine?Freddy Gray speaks to Sergey Radchenko a Cold War historian and Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and visiting professor at Cardiff University. They discuss a recent speech by Henry Kissinger who believes that Ukraine should made territorial concessions to Russia – is he right?Become a Spectator subscriber today to access this podcast without adverts. Go to spectator.co.uk/adfree to find out more.For more Spectator podcasts, go to spectator.co.uk/podcasts. Contact us: podcast@sp...
2022-05-2531 min
The EditionThe Western FrontIn this week’s episode: Has Putin’s invasion of Ukraine exposed the West’s weakness - or its strength?For this week, Sergey Radchenko, a Cold War historian writes about the draconian anti-war measures that Putin has imposed in Russia. He joins the podcast along with Dr Jade Glynn, a specialist in Russian memory and foreign policy at the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies. (01:00)Also this week: has Russia’s invasion of Ukraine highlighted the hubris of the West? While Western countries unite in a chorus of criticism against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Rod Liddle writes that the i...
2022-03-1744 min
Transformative PodcastBack to Totalitarianism? Russia’s War in Ukraine (Sergey Radchenko)Putin´s aggression against Ukraine released a landslide change in international politics, economy, academia, and public culture. Within Russia itself, it triggered an avalanche of repressive policies, which are the culmination of Russia's long-term crackdown on any form of opposition to the regime. Russia's ideological program behind the invasion re-appropriates and re-writes history, while the country itself returns to its authoritarian past.
In this episode, Anastassiya Schacht (RECET) is talking to Prof. Dr. Sergey Radchenko, Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a scholar of Cold War and Sino-Soviet security p...
2022-03-1615 minUkrainecastMariupolA new attack at the border of Poland sparks fears of further escalation by Russian forces, as Vitaly updates us on what’s happened over the weekend. Meanwhile, footage from Mariupol shows the effects of being under siege for the past ten days, with Ukrainian authorities claiming over 2,500 deaths in the city.
As many flee, the remaining residents are unable to be contacted due to regular power outages.
Victoria speaks to a Ukrainian MP who grew up in Mariupol, and whose parents are still in the city, about what it’s like in that part of Ukraine, while Gabriel spea...
2022-03-1430 min
Świat_PLDr Radchenko: Putin nie spodziewał się tak zjednoczonej odpowiedzi ZachoduMoże się wydawać, że Putin nie myśli zdroworozsądkowo i jest szalony, ale on atakując Ukrainę nie spodziewał się tak wielkich konsekwencji. Przypuszczał, że sankcje będą o wiele bardziej liberalne, a skala twardej obrony ze strony Ukrainy nie będzie tak ogromna. - powiedział dr Sergey Radchenko, sowietolog z Johns Hopkins School.
2022-03-1151 min
Westminster InsiderHow to avoid a nuclear warAs Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine continues, Jack Blanchard speaks to diplomats, nuclear experts and historians about how we can best hope to avoid the conflict escalating into full-blown nuclear war. Former Foreign Office head Sir Simon Fraser and former NATO Policy Chief Fabrice Pothier analyse Western policy toward Russia since the end of the Cold War, and explain how they believe the current crisis is likely to play out. The Russian Cold War historian Professor Sergey Radchenko provides some historical context, detailing moments during the 20th Century when tensions between the Soviet Union and...
2022-03-1159 min
The InquiryDoes Putin’s view of history explain why he invaded Ukraine?Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has offered historical justification for his invasion of Ukraine by claiming its lands have long been part of Russia. The history of Russia and Ukraine may be intertwined, but the identity of Ukraine as a separate nation emerged over centuries, long before it became independent 30 years ago. Tanya Beckett investigates. Contributors:
Faith Hillis, Professor of Russian History, University of Chicago
Serhii Plokhy, Professor of History, Director Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
Margarita Balmaceda, Professor of International Relations, Seton Hall University
Sergey Radchenko, Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, visiting Professor Ca...
2022-03-1023 min
Talks on ChinaChina and Russia: A deepening partnership?Before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, China and Russia appeared to be growing ever closer. Russian President Vladimir Putin being one of a handful of known leaders to attend the Winter Olympics, where he signed a landmark strategic partnership with his counterpart, President Xi Jinping. Will that 'no limits' partnership survive Russia's newfound pariah status?
In this live event, co-chair of the China Research Group Alicia Kearns MP was joined by Professor Sergey Radchenko, Dr Maria Repnikova and Bonny Lin. These three leading Sino-Russian experts set out the historical and geopolitical context of the China-Russia relationship and answered...
2022-03-0852 min
Hopkins Podcast on Foreign AffairsThe Russia-China Alignment
Are Russia and China allies? Will their alignment last? Are we living in a new Cold War? On today’s episode, we discuss these questions with Sergey Radchenko, a cold war and Russia-China expert.
Hey POFA fans just a quick disclaimer before we get started. This episode was recorded on February 18th, a week before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. One of our questions is outdated because of this. Alright, let’s get back to programming.
In the first decade of the Cold War, the Soviet Union and Communist China were intima...
2022-02-2500 min
The Slavic ConnexionNATO and the "Bear in the Woods" with Sergey RadchenkoSergey Radchenko, a prolific historian with a multifaceted background and perspective, regales us on many topics from Cold War history to the current sitaution with Russia and Ukraine and Moscow's continued pursuit of legitimacy on the global stage. On a personal note, he shares about his time as an exchange student in Hong Kong and expounds on what it was like living in Mongolia while finishing his PhD with the London School of Economics.
Dr. Radchenko questions Russia's continual status as the "Bear in the woods," saying it doesn't have to be this way while providing perspective...
2022-01-2751 minThe Naked PravdaPutin the Killer: What Joe Biden’s pronouncement means in U.S.-Russian diplomatic historyIn an interview published on March 17, U.S. President Joe Biden said he considers Vladimir Putin to be a “killer,” prompting the Russian president to respond a day later with a schoolyard retort that translates loosely to the phrase: “Look who’s talking!” In what sounded more like a threat than a salutation, Putin also wished his American counterpart good health.
Pretty strong language for the leaders of the two greatest nuclear powers on Earth! But how does this rhetoric compare to recent and Cold War history? Is this the worst thing an American president has ever said publi...
2021-03-2022 minThe Naked PravdaIs it Putin or is it Russia? The causes of today’s bad vibes between Moscow and the West.Back in early October, Meduza learned about a whole archive of transcripts between members of the Clinton administration and Vladimir Putin, dated between 1999 and 2001 — records that were first declassified and published by the Clinton Digital Library in August 2019. We wrote three feature stories based on these archives, highlighting and contextualizing some of the more memorable exchanges between Moscow and Washington. Comparing these conversations to the rhetoric that’s common now, the radically different flavor of today’s diplomacy is apparent.
For a better understanding of how this relationship soured so dramatically, “The Naked Pravda” turns to three experts on Russian foreign p...
2020-11-2139 minThe Naked PravdaThe Sino-Russian Propaganda Pact: How Moscow and Beijing bungled a media partnership meant to promote each otherFor the past two years, several major state news organizations in Russia have been working with China’s biggest media conglomerate to trade publicity about each nation’s greatest achievements. Beijing’s efforts have fallen mostly flat in Russia, however, thanks to shortages of trained personnel and shortcomings in China’s grasp of the Russian mediasphere. Moscow, meanwhile, has struggled as the propaganda pact’s junior partner.
To learn more about how the Russian and Chinese state media work together, why this cooperation has stumbled, and how geopolitics plays into this relationship, “The Naked Pravda” turned to three experts, as well as Med...
2020-07-3129 min