SGIA & Global Policy Book podcast
This podcast showcases recent work by scholars from the School of Government and International Affairs (SGIA) at Durham University. Across episodes, SGIA researchers explain how cutting-edge research speaks to today’s most pressing global challenges. The series is produced in collaboration with Global Policy journal. It aims to make academic insights on government and international affairs accessible to a wider audience.
Episodes
Discourse, Identity and the Politics of Insurgency: Nigeria’s Counter-terrorism Strategy
In this episode, Dr Judith Koch hosts Dr Kodili Chukwuma, Assistant Professor of Interna-tional Security at Durham University's School of Government and International Affairs. They discuss his new book, Nigeria's Counter-terrorism Strategy: Constructions of Threat, Re-sponse and Identity (Edinburgh University Press, 2025).
Drawing on critical, constructivist and discursive approaches, Chukwuma cha
Colonial Logics and Everyday Violence: Counterterrorism in Britain and Egypt
In this episode, host Dr Judith Koch speaks with Dr Alice Finden about her book, Counterterrorism and Colonialism: Everyday Violence in Britain and Egypt (Routledge, 2025). Drawing on feminist, postcolonial and socio-legal approaches, Finden challenges con-ventional accounts of counterterrorism, reframing it as a continuation of colonial governance and everyday violence.
They discuss the ethical
Methods, Doubt and Discovery: Research Design in Politics and International Relations
What does it take to turn a political question into meaningful research? In this episode of the freshly relaunched SGIA & Global Policy Book podcast, Dr Judith Koch hosts Dr Anouk S. Rigterink, Associate Professor in Quantitative Comparative Politics at Durham University, and Dr Mareike Schomerus, Vice President at Busara and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public P
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The SGIA & Global Policy podcast will be relaunched soon, bringing you new conversations and insights on books recently published by scholars in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University.
