About CoGoPod
a podcast for AP Comparative Government & Politics
The CoGoPod offers political analysis of Britain, Russia, China, Iran, Nigeria, and Mexico. Daniel Lazar is an instructor of politics and history at the John F. Kennedy School in Berlin, Germany. He has taught in three countries over two decades and has been teaching CoGoPo since 2005. He is podcasting through a pandemic, seeking to support students and teachers.
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Heya GoGoPod Squad. I am pleased to share with you that my vision for this podcast is evolving. What began as a pandemic project to share lectures with students who were in lockdown (the bad old days!) now aspires to be a space for more voices than my own. I plan to reach out to high school teachers and college instructors for insights into their research and their best classroom practices. If you...
The CoGoPod Vision is Evolving
Jun 12, 2023
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I just published a new talk which explores how and why Yeltsin and the rest of the world failed to see the revolutionary situation in which Russia found itself in the 1990's and how Putin capitalized on that chaos. This is pretty close to the tone, spirit, and run time I was hoping for when I commenced this project. If you enjoy the CoGoPod, please buy me a coffee (read: beer)
The Quandaries of Russia’s Anti-Revolutionary Revolution
Oct 31, 2021
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