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/254/ Three Articles: Ukraine

by Alex__1789April 12, 2022Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6qud8-11f84ff [Patreon Exclusive] On US proxy wars, Russia's elite, Ukrainian neutrality. 'Three Articles' aims to provide serious political discussion on current affairs that we feel is lacking elsewhere, drawing out the logical conclusions of the three pieces' arguments.…

/250/ Oil & Disorder ft. Helen Thompson

by Alex__1789March 29, 2022Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qi2un-11e4194 On energy, the material basis for all our politics?Helen Thompson, podcaster and professor of political economy at Cambridge and author of Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century, joins us to talk about the geopolitics of oil, stretching from…

Excerpt: /237/ Three Articles: Italy, Ukraine, Matrix

by Alex__1789January 25, 2022February 1, 2022Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-u4e4b-118a74f We take on Italy's election of a new president and what that tells us about permanent crisis, the EU and the curtailing of democracy; we ask how serious the risk of war in Ukraine actually is; and review a…

Excerpt: /234/ Three Articles: Restoration?

by Alex__1789January 4, 2022January 5, 2022Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xrene-116ccfc On Millennial homeowners, the USA falling apart, and restoration in the UK. As better-off 30-somethings start to get on the property ladder, does this put paid to 'Generation Left'? Will American decline be accompanied by a second civil war…

/213/ The Leopard Lockdown ft. Adam Tooze

by Alex__1789September 7, 2021September 7, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xwrtn-10d3129 On Covid and the end of the end of history. Adam Tooze joins us to discuss his new book, Shutdown. In 2020 everything changed... so that everything might remain the same. What were the reasons behind the global shutdown? Was…

/204/ Three Articles: People’s Republic of Fleeing

by Alex__1789July 20, 2021July 27, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7xbrq-109384d On Chinese investment, Swiss democracy, and fleeing from Afghanistan. In this Three Articles, we discuss flight or departure in various ways: China opening the gates for its huge savings to spill onto world markets; Switzerland leaving (or remaining outside)…

Excerpt: /196/ Cosmopolitan Dystopia

by Alex__1789June 8, 2021June 10, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tz4ai-1051112 On atrocity and sovereignty. This episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast The disasters of Iraq, Libya, Syria and beyond are there for all to see. Why hasn't an emphasis on Human Rights led to fewer atrocities?…

/193/ The New 20 Years’ Crisis

by Alex__1789May 18, 2021May 21, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-g3zqb-103a9cc On liberal idealism and imperial overreach. Why did the winners of the Cold War turn 'revisionist', undermining their own order? How has utopianism come to dominate the discipline of IR, such that we have lost the means to critique…

/189/ Pink Tide Paradoxes ft. Fabio Luis

by Alex__1789April 27, 2021April 27, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pjt87-1008de0 On Latin America's progressive wave and its discontents. A new book on Latin America argues that 'pink tide' governments tried to treat the symptoms of neoliberal capitalism while allowing the underlying situation to worse. We talk to the author,…

Excerpt: /171/ Fukuyama & the End of History ft. Daniel Bessner

by Alex__1789January 19, 2021January 30, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-e9k3e-f7f3f2 This episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast If liberal democracy has been dethroned, what next? Francis Fukuyama famously declared the "end of history" in 1989. Has he been misunderstood? Should we understand the declaration in…