In the seventh episode of the Political Science Podcast, Višeslav Raos spoke with philosopher and theoretician of international relations Stipe Buzar, associate professor at Libertas International University. Together with Petar Popović and Damir Mladić Buzar is the co-author of the book Finis Africae. Its title connotes the unexplored and unknown, but also the potentially dangerous, like the forbidden part of the library in Eco's The Name of the Rose.
In the sixth episode of the Political Science Podcast, its host and presenter Enes Kulenović spoke with Ana Matan, assistant professor at the Department of Political and Social Theory at the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb. Matan is an expert on the work of John Rawls, teaching theories and policies of peace and theories of democracy, and also a political activist at the local level.
In the fifth episode of the Political Science Podcast, Višeslav Raos discussed public policies with political scientist Ana Petek, associate professor at the Department of Public Policy, Management and Development of the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Zagreb and head of the research team on the project Kako vlada Vlada? (“How Does the Government Govern?”).
In the fourth episode, the conversation of the host of the Political Science Podcast Enes Kulenović with the Croatian political scientist and scientific returnee from the USA Dagmar Radin focused on three topics. The first part of the conversation focused on the position of women in the Croatian health system. Radin pointed out the problems of institutional and social practices that contribute to inequality and hinted the possibility of reformist action through institutions that would contribute to greater equality between men and women.
In the third episode of the Political Science Podcast, Enes Kulenović talked with professor Berto Šalaj from the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb. The conversation started with the topic of populism. One of its forms is the celebrity populism: celebrities bring techniques and experiences of communication from the media to the political sphere, from the lesser-known cases...
In the second episode of the Political Science Podcast, we spoke with political scientist Nenad Zakošek. After an introductory explanation of the political causes of social inequality and reflections on nationalism and local power structures in Croatia, the focus of the first part of the conversation was on the disappointment of citizens and distrust in institutions, especially in Eastern Europe, which leads to authoritarian policies...
In the first episode of the Political Science Podcast, editor and host Enes Kulenović spoke with political scientist Marko Grdešić about his 2019 book The Shape of Populism: Serbia before the Dissolution of Yugoslavia, published by the University of Michigan Press, and about his actual article published in the Annals of HPD 2021, Red and Black Croatia in the Long Run...
