In this episode, Giselinde Kuipers, Robert van Krieken and Andreas Hepp depart somewhat from the work of Elias himself, and instead ask questions that may strike the listener as considerably more contemporary than the forks and etiquette books that most people think of when Elias is mentioned....

There are a number of aspects of Elias’s approach to state-formation and the process of civilization that have important implications for the study of international relations and the impact of a developing politics of human rights, and in this episode Robert van Krieken, Andre Saramgo, and...