How are regions reshaping global order? What forces drive integration and change? Dr. Ivo Ganchev interviews leading academics and practitioners to tackle these questions, and much more on New Regional Orders, the official podcast of the Centre for Regional Integration. Through interdisciplinary conversations with, the show explores how political, economic, social, and geographic factors shape regional dynamics — and how those dynamics influence the global system. Each season focuses on a different region of the world. Season one explores the Americas, while future seasons will examine other regions including Asia, Africa, and Europe. Listen and subscribe on your favorite podcast platform or watch full episodes on YouTube — links are readily available below.
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Dr. Alina Gamboa Combs (Universidad Anáhuac, Mexico) is the author of Regional Integration, Development and Governance in Mesoamerica (Springer, 2019). In this episode, she joins Dr. Ivo Ganchev to explore Mexico’s complex regional identity, the evolution of Mesoamerican integration initiatives such as Plan Puebla Panama and Proyecto Mesoamérica, and the challenges of overlapping mechanisms like SICA. They also discuss U.S.–Mexico relations in the Trump era, the role of indigenous communities in regional projects, and creative approaches to teaching political theory. Throughout the conversation, Alina draws on extensive fieldwork and first-hand insights from across the region.
Prof. Tom Long (University of Warwick) is the author of the acclaimed books A Small State’s Guide to Influence in World Politics (Oxford University Press) and Latin America Confronts the United States (Cambridge University Press). In this episode he speaks to Dr. Ivo Ganchev about the strategic role of small states in global politics and the impact of U.S. foreign policy on Latin America. They also discuss the historical roots of regionalism in the Americas as well as how domestic factors shape foreign policy, among other topics. Towards the end of the conversation, Tom introduces Republican Internationalism, a central concept in his current work.
