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Book interview, 2026
“International Aid and Democracy Promotion: Liberalization at the Margins”, Interviewed by Deepack Bhatt, Businness Talks, 12 Janurary 2026. Click on the following platforms:
Invited Speaker at Roundtable, 2025
“On Hedging”, in The ASEAN and the EU in a Changing World Order Roundtable, Corvinus University of Budapest, 24 November 2025. The Linkedin post about it is here.
Speaking at Corvinus University, 2025
“Spear versus Shield: The impact of democracy on rivalry”, Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies (CIAS), 14th CIAS International Workshop, Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary. 10 October 2025. The Linkedin post about it is here.
On the Liberal International Order
in the Indo-Pacific, 2024
Liberal International Order in the Indo-Pacific, Interviewed by Ritwij Shandilya, The Prode, September 27, 2024. Watch it on youtube here.
Book Listed on Booklisti.com.
I discussed the textbooks I use in teaching on Booklisti.com here. My author page and my book is also listed here.
Interview on “Populism in Russia” by the CDIS.
The Conversation in Development Studies (CDIS), managed by the Center for New Economic Studies (CNES) at O.P. Jindal Global University interviewed me for their special edition on Populism. We discussed Russian populism, how its current leaders are not truly populist, and the impact of the Russian-Ukraine War. Read about it here.
Second Asian Summer School, June 2022
I attended the 2nd Asian Summer School on Political Parties and Democracy in Asia between 20-26 June 2022. It is held at the OSCE Academy HQ in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. I spoke on democracy promotion and discussed the themes in my book. We took a group photo here! I presented Guest Lecture on “A realistic take on Democracy Promotion”, in Fernando Casal Bertoa’s course. “From Dictatorship to Democracy – and Back?”, University of Nottingham, 9-5-22.
Foreign Aid and Democracy
Book Talk with Bruce Bueno De Mesquita, Chicago Center of Democracy, University of Chicago, 2 December 2022. Watch it on Vimeo here.
On the Ukrainian War, 2022
Russia Ukraine Crisis Explained: The Role of the West, Interviewed by Ritwij Shandilya, The Prode, March 21, 2022. Watch it on youtube here.
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