{"podcast":{"title":"Grand Tamasha","slug":"grand-tamasha-340012","podcast_index_feed_id":340012,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/dJuLIw5J","website_url":"http://www.grandtamasha.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/115ebe2e-23ad-42ec-b051-9234726bbe19/7e6b8c58-9a5f-4940-9169-64b89abf73e1/3000x3000/gt-simplecast-new.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Carnegie Endowment for International Peace","episode_count":293,"summary":"Each week, Milan Vaishnav and his guests from around the world break down the latest developments in Indian politics, economics, foreign policy, society, and culture for a global audience. Grand Tamasha is a co-production of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Hindustan Times.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grand-tamasha-340012"},"episode":{"title":"Populism and the Politics of India’s Foreign Policy","slug":"populism-and-the-politics-of-india-s-foreign-policy","published_at":"2026-03-04T02:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grand-tamasha-340012/populism-and-the-politics-of-india-s-foreign-policy","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grand-tamasha-340012","url":"http://www.grandtamasha.com","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/cdn.simplecast.com/audio/503276c1-2266-428d-bc7e-2dffc1bda4f8/episodes/e3627811-48b6-4cc9-aa43-8b03adb0a2cc/audio/e2680f74-06cb-4f25-936d-c08dc71089a7/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=dJuLIw5J","summary":"We tend to think of populist leaders around the world as disruptive—skeptical of international institutions, impatient for change, and prone to upending foreign policy norms. But a new book by scholars Sandra Destradi and Johannes Plagemann argues that—while populists can have dramatic impacts on foreign policy—the extent of change depends on key factors. Milan and Sandra discuss the definitional debates around populism, the conditional effects of populism on foreign policy, and the reasons for the Modi government’s differential approach to Pakistan and China.","meta_description":"We tend to think of populist leaders around the world as disruptive—skeptical of international institutions, impatient for change, and prone to upending f…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3063,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/grand-tamasha-340012/episodes/populism-and-the-politics-of-india-s-foreign-policy/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grand-tamasha-340012/populism-and-the-politics-of-india-s-foreign-policy.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}