The Hague Diplomacy Podcast

Ilen Madhavji sits down with the 2023 winner of the HJD Book Award, Dr. Rohan Mukherjee, to discuss how rising powers seek status from the established international order, to reserve their seat at the table of power. Inspired by Dr. Mukherjee's award-winning book 'Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions", they explore how countries like China and India have been motivated by ascending the global order, benefitting from it, and not necessarily the desire to dismantle it. After listening, if you’re left with more questions than answers, or just want to say hello, please reach out to us at [email protected]. We would love to hear from you! This is a podcast created by The Hague Journal of Diplomacy: www.haguejournalofdiplomacy.org

Host Ilen Madhavji speaks with Saadia Pekkanen, co-editor of the recent HJD Special Issues on Space Diplomacy, to see what there is to learn from Japan's approach to Space Diplomacy. Uniquely situated next to China but with extensive military ties to the United States, Japan cleverly employs Space Diplomacy to maintain its position between the two. This happens all the while they continue to be a global leader in dual-use space technology, which can be used for civil and military purposes. This "all fronts" strategy means Japan has found a way to operate bilaterally, regionally, and multilaterally by tailoring Space Diplomacy to their needs. After listening, if you’re left with more questions than answers, or just want to say hello, please reach out to us at [email protected]. We would love to hear from you! This is a podcast created by The Hague Journal of Diplomacy: www.haguejournalofdiplomacy.org

Host Ilen Madhavji is joined by Mai'a Cross, co-editor of the new HJD Special Issues on Space Diplomacy, to explore how diplomacy operates in outer space. With the United States and China engaging in a "Space Race 2.0" we are often exposed to the security implications of space competition, but space diplomacy can give us confidence that collaboration can be an even stronger driving force for peace, development, and exploration for all of humankind. After listening, if you’re left with more questions than answers, or just want to say hello, please reach out to us at [email protected]. We would love to hear from you! This is a podcast created by The Hague Journal of Diplomacy: www.haguejournalofdiplomacy.org

In the first episode of 2023, our host Simran Kataria sits down with David Eichert to discuss his paper titled “Hashtagging Justice: Digital Diplomacy and the International Criminal Court on Twitter,” which was published in The Hague Journal of Diplomacy. They go a bit beyond the state-centric understanding of digital diplomacy to understand how the International Criminal Court (ICC) uses Twitter and its overall diplomatic messaging. They dig deeper into the different types of tweets on the ICC’s Twitter and discuss the guests’ categorization of these tweets into eleven distinct categories. They touch briefly upon three key narratives that emerge from the tweets as well as the key audiences among other topics. After listening, if you’re left with more questions than answers, or just want to say hello, please reach out to us at [email protected]. We would love to hear from you! This is a podcast created by The Hague Journal of Diplomacy: www.haguejournalofdiplomacy.org

Inspired by the HJD paper "Everyday Migrant Accompaniment: Humanitarian Border Diplomacy" by Cristina Churruca Muguruza, host Ilen Madhavji sits down with Cristina and field practitioner Diego Fernández Maldonado (Jesuit Migrant Service) to discuss this very relevant and burgeoning corner of diplomacy. We often hear of and see the impact of crisis on migrants and refugees, but seldom are we exposed to the harsh reality of what waits for them at a border. Uncertainty, hostility, and trauma that asylum seekers face has forced humanitarian border diplomats into existence. Join us to learn why and how they represent groups of migrants in the face of state authorities and legal jeopardy. Also, we touch on the refugee crisis caused by the conflict in Ukraine, and the interesting difference in how they are treated compared to asylum seekers knocking on the EU's southern border. After listening, if you're left with more questions than answers, or just want to say hello, please reach out to us at [email protected]. We would love to hear from you! This is a podcast created by The Hague Journal of Diplomacy: www.haguejournalofdiplomacy.org