Brian Roper

What is eco-socialism? How do eco-socialists view the causes of climate change, neoliberal policy responses and the politics of Green parties? We ask University of Otago political historian A.Prof… Audio

The UN climate talks in Paris last year - "COP 21" - gave rise to the Paris Climate Agreement, hailed by world leaders as an historic breakthrough towards preventing catastrophic climate change. But… Audio

University of Otago political historian A.Prof Brian Roper deconstructs public policies from around the globe... The politics of Senator Bernie Sanders, America's longest-serving independent… Audio

University of Otago political historian Professor Brian Roper deconstructs public policies from around the globe. This time Brian analyses the National party, which according to Brian, is New… Audio

University of Otago political historian A. Prof Brian Roper deconstructs public policies from around the globe. The economics and politics of austerity in the wake of the global financial crisis. Audio

University of Otago political historian Assoc. Prof Brian Roper deconstructs public policies from around the globe... is Marx still relevant? Audio

University of Otago political historian A. Prof Brian Roper deconstructs public policies from around the globe. Trotskyism – the socialist current defined by its critique of both Stalinism and social… Audio

University of Otago political historian A. Prof Brian Roper deconstructs public policies from around the globe - whether or not Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky's analysis of the corporate media in… Audio

Can a democratic Palestinian state with equal citizenship rights for both Israelis and Palestinians become a possibility? Audio

University of Otago political historian Prof. Brian Roper deconstructs public policies from around the globe. What makes a revolution possible? Audio

University of Otago political historian Associate Professor Brian Roper deconstructs public policies from around the globe and looks at the question of the four-year term for New Zealand elections -… Audio

Left-leaning political historian Brian Roper from University of Otago deconstructs public policies from around the globe. Tonight, NZ Treasury and some of their long-term fiscal projection documents… Audio

Left-leaning political historian Brian Roper from the University of Otago deconstructs public policies from around the globe. What role does Treasury play in the government's economic management and… Audio

Left-leaning political historian Assistant Professor Brian Roper from the University of Otago deconstructs public policies from around the globe. Are people right to be concerned about the GCSB bill? Audio

Left-leaning political historian Assistant Professor Brian Roper from University of Otago deconstructs public policies from around the globe. Tonight, finding solutions to the problem of global… Audio

Left-leaning political historian A. Prof Brian Roper from University of Otago deconstructs public policies from around the globe... the Green Party's response to climate change. Audio

Left-leaning political historian, Prof Brian Roper from University of Otago deconstructs public policies from around the globe. Audio

Left-leaning political historian from the University of Otago, A.Prof. Brian Roper deconstructs public policies from around the world. Tonight, lessons to learn from the 2010 Pike River mining… Audio

Left-leaning political historian from the University of Otago, Brian Roper, deconstructs public policies from around the world. Brian discusses the impact of tax and welfare reform on inequality in… Audio

Left-leaning political historian from the University of Otago, Brian Roper deconstructs public policies from around the world. This week, the changing nature and role of universities within society -… Audio