Nutshell Politics
Welcome to the Nutshell Politics podcast, the show where we discuss what YOU need to know about world politics, with the context and depth that the mainstream media glosses over. We'll talk conflict, terrorism, international relations, religious and cultural contexts, and much more!
Episode 77: The Quelling of a Qatari Quarrel
AUTHOR READING - Ring of Conspiracy, by J. Robert Kinney (Chapter 1)
Episode 76: An Iranian Assassination - What do we know?
Episode 75: This Week in History - What's Important about November 9th?
Episode 74: North Korean Parades and Missiles
Episode 73: SPOTLIGHT -- The Uyghurs: A Persecuted People
Episode 72: Middle East Border History
Episode 71: A Historic Peace in the Middle East
Episode 70: Pandemic Politics, Back from Hiatus
Episode 69: The Death of Qasem Soleimani
SPECIAL HOLIDAY REWIND: The Famous Christmas Truce of World War One!
Episode 68: Uncontacted Tribes
Episode 67: SPOTLIGHT -- The Sentinelese, an untouched people
Episode 66: Killing Baghdadi
Episode 65: Did we Abandon the Kurds?
GREATEST HITS: International Institutions & the UN
Episode 64: The Resource *Curse*
Episode 63: Death of a Despot - Robert Mugabe
GREATEST HITS: Terrorist Spotlight -- ISIS
Episode 62: Economic Systems - A Brief Series, Part 2 (Capitalism vs Socialism!)
Episode 61: Economic Systems - A Brief Series, Part 1
Episode 60: Battle for Hong Kong
GREATEST HITS: Four Waves of Modern Terrorism
Episode 59: The Future of Europe & the EU
Episode 58: The Death of Bin Laden...no, not that one!
Episode 57: SPOTLIGHT -- The Somali Terrorists of al-Shabaab
Episode 56: HISTORICAL --> The Missing Submarine Hunter...FOUND!
Episode 55: The Land without Time -- Sommaroy
Episode 54: West Africa and the single currency
Episode 53: Palestinian Peace Conference -- How did it go?
Episode 52: Iran, a Relationship on the Edge
Episode 51: Trump, Bahrain, & the Plan in Palestine
Episode 50: Historical episode - The Normandy Invasion
Episode 49: The American Taliban...Free!?
GREATEST HITS: Who are the Kurds?
Episode 48: Baghdadi Surfaces after 5 Years -- What does it mean?
Episode 47: Around the World, Election-style
Episode 46: Israel and Palestine Erupt!
Episode 45: Terror in Sri Lanka
GREATEST HITS: Excelsior! Stan Lee, Superheroes, & Politics.
GREATEST HITS -- The Unique America
Episode 44: The Issue of Human Rights
Episode 43: SPOTLIGHT --> ISIS, the Islamic State
Episode 42: Women's History Month Special -- The Matriarchy, Societies Where Women Rule
Episode 41: The Great British Exit...er, that is...Brexit!
GREATEST HITS: History of Terrorism - Four Modern Waves (Replay: 9/3/18)
Episode 40: Grab Bag of Current Events! North Korea Summit, fighting b/w India/Pakistan, & a $1 million bounty
Episode 39: The American ISIS bride who wants to come back home
Episode 38: It's a State of Emergency!
Episode 37: The Twisted Symbiotic Relationship between Terror and Media
Episode 36: Nuclear Tension Rising! - The Breaking of the INF Treaty
Episode 35: A Country in Crisis - Venezuela
Episode 34: The NBA Player Accused of Being a Terrorist
Episode 33: Peculiar Politics -- the Pig War and the Soccer War
Episode 32: The Unique America -- U.S. Foreign Policy from Founding to Today
Episode 31: Spotlight -- FARC terrorists
Episode 30: The Famous Christmas Truce of World War One!
Episode 29: The Most Forgotten War of the 21st century -- Yemeni Civil War
Episode 28: SPOTLIGHT --> So who WERE the Narodnaya Volya??
AUTHOR READING - Splintered State, by J. Robert Kinney (Chapter 1)
Episode 27: The G20 Summit and Russia-Ukraine Tensions
Episode 26: Book Release + APEC Summit Troubles
Episode 25: Excelsior! A look at International Politics and Superheroes - A tribute to Stan Lee
Episode 24: Veterans Day, History and Meaning
Episode 23: Remember, Remember the 5th of November
Special Holiday Episode: Halloween
Episode 22: Update on North Korea & Peculiar Politics: Korean Clocks
Episode 21: SPOTLIGHT on Ancient "Terrorists" -> Sicarii, Hashshashin, Thuggees
Episode 20: Who is Jamal Khashoggi & what happened to him?
Episode 19: Chinese Warship Maneuvers & the South China Sea
Episode 18: Grand Theories of IR, Part 3 - Social Constructivism & others...
Episode 17: Grand Theory of IR -- Liberal Institutionalism
Episode 16: Grand Theory of International Politics - REALISM
Episode 15: Peculiar Politics out of Liechtenstein
Episode 14: Egypt's Recent Mass Trials
Episode 13: History of Terrorism -- The Four Waves
Episode 12: Who are the Rohingya?
Episode 11: Syrian Civil War, Part 2 - Political Context
Episode 10: Syrian Civil War, Part 1 - Religious Background
Episode 9: Who are the Kurds?
Episode 8: The United Nations & International Institutions
Episode 7: Nicaraguan Massacre & Protests
Episode 6: Trump's NATO Summit
Episode 5: The NPT Treaty and Nuclear Deterrence Theory
Special Holiday Episode: The 4th of July
Episode 4: Erdoğan and the Turkish Election
Episode 3: Kim Jong-un & the Kim Dynasty
Episode 2: Trump meets with Kim Jong-un, NK Nuclear Program