https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-z6a2j-1050273 On China, economic reform, and the future. While the USSR famously succumbed to destructive neoliberal "shock therapy", China managed to avoid it. How and why? Isabella Weber, author of How China Escaped Shock Therapy, tells us about China's opting for…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7n2ru-10073d6 On Covid state failure + responses to listeners. The full episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast We start off by discussing listener points and criticisms – e.g. is PMC a useful category? Is a…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6gmk6-ffc7d9 On the uprising in Myanmar, plus Covid state failure. Southeast Asia scholar (and Bunga recidivist) Lee Jones joins us to talk about the coup in Myanmar (and why the word “coup” can be misleading), and explains the nature of…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zqn25-f03404 Internationalism used to be a defining characteristic of the Left. Globalism is a defining characteristic of neoliberal capitalism. Both seem to be characteristic of Islamist jihadism. How did Islamist reaction become globalised? How far does Islamist globalism connect to…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7z4qr-ed741b On Iran at the End of History. When the US assassinated Iran's 'shadow commander', Qassem Soleimani, everyone thought WW3 would break out. What happened instead? We talk to the author of a new book on Soleimani about the "local…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-u3kid-e37333 Singapore is held up as a free-market utopia: rich, orderly and clean. But the reality is quite different. Why does Singapore exert such a magnetism for neoliberals, when its reality strays from orthodox prescriptions? What and who made this…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5sijq-e27fbf This is a sample. For the full episode, sign up at patreon.com/bungacast The three of us discuss some of the themes that emerged from our interview with Krithika Varagur (ep.133) - the entanglement of the US state with Islamism,…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-uyzd7-e24db2 On Saudi religious proselytism. Saudi Arabia has actively sought to export Salafism. How has it done this - and what have been its effects, in countries like Indonesia, Nigeria and Kosovo? Why was fighting against the Soviets in Afghanistan in…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yxyew-daf362 On The Jakarta Method. We're joined by Vincent Bevins to discuss his new book on the 1965-66 mass killings in Indonesia, Cold War anti-communism, and the destruction it wrought around the world. The mid-60s proved pivotal, with US-backed coups in…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yxyew-daf362 On The Jakarta Method. We're joined by Vincent Bevins to discuss his new book on the 1965-66 mass killings in Indonesia, Cold War anti-communism, and the destruction it wrought around the world. The mid-60s proved pivotal, with US-backed coups in…
