Menchik Interviewed for Podcast on Southeast Asian Politics
Jeremy Menchik, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Fredrick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was interviewed as part of a recent podcast on the current state of Southeast Asian politics including the 2018-2019 elections in Indonesia and Malaysia. Menchik was interviewed alongside University of Albany Professor Meredith Weiss.
The podcast interview was conducted by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and released on September 24, 2018.
You can listen to the entire podcast below:
Jeremy Menchik’s research interests include comparative politics, religion and politics, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. His first book, Islam and Democracy in Indonesia: Tolerance without Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2016) explains the meaning of tolerance to the world’s largest Islamic organizations and was the winner of the 2017 International Studies Association award for the best book on religion and international relations. He has received numerous awards and fellowships for teaching and research, and his work has appeared in the academic journals Comparative Studies in Society and History, Comparative Politics, International Studies Review, Politics and Religion, and South East Asia Research as well as in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.