Lionel Gelber Prize Podcasts: Recent Episodes
The Lionel Gelber Prize - at the Munk School of Global Affairs
Founded in 1989 by Canadian diplomat Lionel Gelber and presented annually in partnership with Foreign Policy magazine and the Munk School of Global Affairs, the Lionel Gelber Prize is a literary award that seeks to deepen public debate on significant international issues. Enjoy fascinating conversations with the Prize Finalists and Robert Steiner, Director of the Fellowship in Global Journalism and Professor of Global Practice at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. Special thanks to Focus Asset Management for their support of this podcast series.
Carter Malkasian talks about his 2022 Lionel Gelber Prize-shortlisted book, The American War in Afghanistan.
Jeffrey Veidlinger talks about his 2022 Lionel Gelber Prize-shortlisted book, In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the onset of the Holocaust.
Emily Bass talks about her 2022 Lionel Gelber Prize-shortlisted book, To End a Plague: America’s Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa.
Janice Stein, chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize jury speaks with Margaret MacMillan about her shortlisted book, War: How Conflict Shaped Us.
Janice Stein, chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize jury speaks with Charles Kupchan about his shortlisted book, Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World.
Janice Stein, chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize jury speaks with Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis about their shortlisted book, Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
Janice Stein, chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize jury speaks with Anne Applebaum about her shortlisted book, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism.
Janice Stein, chair of the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize jury, talks with Peter Andreas about his book Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs.
Janice Stein, chair of the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize jury, introduces the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize podcasts.
Timothy Snyder, author of the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “How Democracies Die”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Rania Abouzeid, author of the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Elizabeth C. Economy, author of the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Adam Tooze, author of the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Richard McGregor, author of the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, authors of the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World”, speak with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
Lawrence Freedman, author of the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “The Future of War: A History”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
Anne Applebaum, author of the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
Graham Allison, author of the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
Benn Steil, author of the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
Brendan Simms, author of the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
Eric Schlosser, author of the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
Lynne Olson, author of the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
Gary J. Bass, author of the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize-winning book “The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
Sonke Neitzel, author of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize longlisted book “Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
S.C.M. Paine, author of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize longlisted book “The Wars For Asia: 1911-1949”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
Paul Bracken, author of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
Pankaj Mishr, author of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
Michael R. Gordon, author of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize longlisted book “The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
Kwasi Kwarteng, author of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “Ghosts of Empire: Britain’s Legacies in the Modern World”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
Fredrik Logevall, author of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize longlisted book “Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
David Crist, author of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize longlisted book “The Twilight War: The Secret History of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
Daron Acemoglu, author of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize longlisted book “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
Chrystia Freeland, author of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize-winning book “Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
Anne Applebaum, author of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
Andrew Preston, author of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize longlisted book “Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
Amanda Foreman, author of the 2012 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlisted book “A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial War in the American Civil War”, speaks with Robert Steiner, Director, Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs.