4. Mar 2022 / 35 min

Thai Totalitarians? Why the Love of Authoritarian Symbols?

A discussion with Verita Sriratana. Hosted by Petra Alderman

Why did Restart Thailand, a 2020 student-led pro-democracy movement, sport a red Communist-style logo with a hammer and sickle? Why did a Thai BNK48 singer wear a swastika t-shirt for the band’s 2019 concert rehearsal? And why did the latest Thai junta produce a video of two boys applauding a portrait of Adolf Hitler to promote Thai values? Verita Sriratana, an Associate Professor in Literary Studies at Chulalongkorn University, discusses this deeply troubling Thai infatuation with Nazi and Communist symbolism with Petra Alderman (prev. Desatova), an Associate Researcher at NIAS.

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24. Feb 2023 / 29 min

Beijing’s Global Media Offensive

A conversation with Joshua Kurlantzick. Hosted by Duncan McCargo.

How is China trying to influence media across Asia and indeed globally? Why has this ambitious project achieved rather mixed results so far? And how should the rest of the world respond? In this episode of the Nordic Asia Podcast, CFR’s Josh Kurlantzick talks to NIAS Director Duncan McCargo about his important new book, Beijing’s Global Media Offensive […]

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12. Nov 2021 / 22 min

In Search of New Social Democracy: Insights from the South – Implications for the North

In conversation with Olle Törnquist. Hosted by Kenneth Bo Nielsen

In his new book In Search of New Social Democracy: Insights from the South – Implications for the North (Zed-Bloomsbury), Olle Törnquist has returned to findings from fifty years of research on democracy and social rights movements in especially Indonesia, India and the Philippines, to address the major puzzle of our time: why the vision about development […]

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