Thinking Global Podcast – Simon Polinder Trendy Blogger

In this week’s episode of the Thinking Global podcast, Dr Simon Polinder chats with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) on the concept of love, how we can use love as a lens to think about international relations, fear versus love, love in the history of international thought and more. Article by Dr Polinder “Through the Eyes of Love”: A Different Look at International Politics » won the 2024 E-International Relations Article Prize.

Simon Polinder (@SPolinder) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of History of International Relations at Utrecht University. He is associated with the Reimagining Religion, Security and Social Transformation project. This project is part of the broader Joint Initiative for Strategic Religious Action (JISRA) knowledge agenda. As part of JISRA’s Knowledge Agenda, this project will make a crucial contribution to the study of religion and security and to policy and practitioner efforts to address the role of religion in conflict processes , violence and social transformation. As part of this project, Utrecht University and the University of Groningen are focusing on the countries of Nigeria, Kenya and Indonesia. He is the author of Towards a new Christian political realism. The Amsterdam School of Philosophy and the role of religion in international relations (Routledge 2024).

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