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The small corner where ideas meet. Bruna and Sofia's friendship was born out of conversations on issues that keep students of international relations awake. In these episodes, they take books and articles as starting points to discuss matters of social, political, and economic significance, from the perspective of young adults who strive to learn more about the world they live in.
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On the last episode of this season of "I thought about it", Sofia and Bruna invite their friend Clara to discuss how their paths so far led them to see the world in the manner they do today. They also chat about what they would still like to achieve and how the creation of this podcast series resulted in a great learning (communication) experience …
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In 2019, a wave of protests broke out in Latin America. A region that's home to some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world, is also one of deep economic and political turmoil. In this episode, we discuss a bit about the past and present reality of some of these countries' economies: hyperinflation, refugee crisis, austerity, and hyperinflat…
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"God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World", is the book we discuss in this episode. Its author, the religion scholar Stephen Prothero argues that persistent attempts to portray all religions as different paths to the same God is incorrect. Each religion wants to address different questions and provides different answers. If tole…
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The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is probably a direct consequence of China’s reinforcement of different institutions that needed to be built to improve (trade) relations between China and other countries. With the this ambitious iniative, China is aiming to sustain its new phase of development. Across continents, however, other countries' perspec…
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"The White Man's Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good" is one of the books written by the development economist William Easterly and the inspiration for this episode. We discuss some of the past and contemporary conceptions on economic development policy and compare cases of success and failure.…
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In this episode, we discuss the book "Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People", by Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald. You may expect some new psychology vocabulary and a lot of discussion about stereotyping and its potential harms. If you wish to take the implicit association test (IAT) , here's a link where you can do so: https://implicit.harv…
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Welcome to our channel! We have prepared 10 episodes for this Podcast series in which we will discuss a diverse range of issues, from common social practices we observe on a day to day basis, to the application of some of the theories on international politics, and the illustration of concepts we learned from exciting literature. If we would give a…
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