A Journal’s Video Shelf Springs Back to Life
The scene is a quiet corner of academia rather than a street or a frontline, but the movement on it is unmistakable: the videos and interviews page of Global Policy Journal, dated 29 September 2026, now opens with the “freshly relaunched SGIA & Global Policy Book podcast”, breaking a long stretch in which the newest entries on the page were years old. Three releases, all dated 29 September 2026, sit at the top of the interviews list, and the journal has scheduled dialogue sessions around them for 21 October 2026.
Research Design Takes the Spotlight
The lead episode goes by the name “Methods, Doubt and Discovery: Research Design in Politics and International Relations” and it is hosted by Dr Judith Koch. Her two guests carry real institutional weight: 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 Policy”. The conversation turns on the pair’s new book, “Research Design in Politics and International Relations”, and the question the episode poses, “What does it take to turn a political question into meaningful research?”, is the kind that follows young researchers into the field and rarely lets go of them.
Counterterrorism, Twice Over
Security themes dominate the other two new releases. One bears the title “Discourse, Identity and the Politics of Insurgency: Nigeria’s Counter-terrorism Strategy”, turning the lens on how identity talk shapes a state’s fight against insurgents. The other, “Colonial Logics and Everyday Violence: Counterterrorism in Britain and Egypt”, reaches deeper into history, tying colonial inheritance to the ordinary, repeated violence of modern counterterrorism in two countries with long imperial entanglements.
The Long Memory of the Archive
Scroll beneath the new arrivals and the archive tells the story of a channel that has hosted global debate for nearly a decade. Qing Cao appeared in March 2021 to discuss rhetoric and representations of China in global politics. Nathan Sears came through in June 2020 with an argument about existential security and a framework built for the survival of humanity. An October 2020 event asked whether the weak must suffer what they must, examining the Global South under weaponized interdependence. The 2017 entries read like a time capsule: Hugh Pennington on whether bacteria have won in November, Catherine de Vries on euroscepticism and Europe’s integration future in October, Jeffrey Sachs on world consciousness and sustainable development that same month, and David Goldblatt in January on football in the twenty first century.
Where the Conversation Goes Next
The channel’s deeper podcast shelf holds recent seasons as well: a June 2025 episode on Spain’s housing crises, urban unrest and real estate markets under the banner of residential capitalism, plus a February 2025 dialogue between academics and student practitioners about rethinking disability and redesigning policies. What the relaunch signals is a journal putting its weight behind spoken conversation again, and the calendar states it plainly: all three new titles are set for dialogue events on 21 October 2026.
