Guest host Alice Evans, Senior Lecturer in the Social Science of Development at King’s College London speaks with Saumitra Jha, Associate Professor of Political Economy at Stanford University, on political polarization.

Professor Jha's research focuses on the effectiveness of organizations and innovations that societies have developed to address the problems of violence and political risk in the past and to develop new lessons for contemporary policy. He also convenes the Conflict and Polarization Lab within the Stanford King Center on Global Development and manages the Democratic Fragility and Conflict program at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Affairs (FSI).