international relations – Aufhebunga Bunga

/544/ Iran War: Rogue State USA ft. Arash Azizi

by Alex__1789April 14, 2026Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-n46yy-1a99d69 On the brave new world we have entered. Historian Arash Azizi is back on the pod, talking to Alex H and Lee Jones about the ongoing war. We try to draw out some firm consequences, beyond the immediate situtation.…

/534/ Is There a Doctrine Called Donroe? ft. Juan David Rojas

by Alex__1789February 10, 2026Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-48fwd-1a3eece On Trump and Rubio, Venezuela and Cuba. Writer Juan David Rojas talks to Alex and Lee about the abduction of Maduro, what next for Venezuela, and Trump's "hemispheric" foreign policy. What is the Trump administration's policy toward Latin America?…

/532/ Is This a Paleocon Foreign Policy? ft. JF Drolet

by Alex__1789February 3, 2026Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ec2tp-1a36d83 On Trump & radical right ideology. Jean-François Drolet, a leading researcher into the 'World of the Right', talks to Alex and Lee about Donald Trump's coveting of Greenland, and puts the move into its ideological context. What is the…

/515/ State Capitalism Is Now ft. Ilias Alami

by Alex__1789October 13, 2025Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9cnte-1991c20 On the weakness of state and capital – and their fusion. Ilias Alami joins Alex and Lee to talk about his essential co-authored book, The Spectre of State Capitalism. Why is state capitalism not just a China story, but…

/503/ Effervescent Decadence in the Third Modernity

by Alex__1789July 31, 2025Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kpfp2-191ef8a On the end of the end of history and what comes next. Phil is back on the pod, talking with George and Alex about the big themes of the podcast. In particular, we look at a recent essay in…

/496/ Insane-Washing the War (Which Did Not Take Place)

by Alex__1789June 30, 2025Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-psw7t-18f0815 On the war on Iran that wasn't (yet). Alex and George review the past month in the world and on Bungacast: The crazy will-they-won't-they of a potential US war on Iran The ex post facto justifications on all sides…

/494/ National Democracy or Globalist War ft. Wolfgang Streeck

by Alex__1789June 17, 2025Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s46r8-18dcd11 On the dual crisis of the world. Wolfgang Streeck, renowned economic sociologist, is back on to talk to us about the crisis of capitalist growth and of democracy. We focus on the solutions proposed in his brilliant new book,…

/479/ El Tarifazo: Trump’s Tariff Thwack ft. Lee Jones

by Alex__1789April 8, 2025Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7y94v-18756cb On Trump's 'liberation day' tariffs and the end of globalisation. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Contributing editor Lee Jones talks to Alex about the tariffs, as they try to reconstruct the Trump admin's thinking, and consider avenues and…

/477/ Talking Turkey in the Group Chat ft. Djene Bajalan

by Alex__1789March 28, 2025Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-x6fpv-1864bb3 On Erdogan's World and the revolt against it. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Historian Djene Bajalan joins George and Alex to review the past month – ceasefires in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, winning and losing…

/472/ Munich, MAGA, Musk, Malema ft. Will Shoki / Ryan Zickgraf

by Alex__1789February 27, 2025Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8pky8-181f07b On Trumpworld: Vance in Munich; Musk in South Africa. [This contains only the interview on South Africa – for the full episode subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Alex, George and Ryan Zickgraf round up events in Germany: first the elections, then…