https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-x9tf4-12dbc87 On the meaning of Gorbachev. [Patreon Exclusive] Mikhail Gorbachev continues to be lauded in Western circles for overseeing the collapse of the Soviet Union without much bloodshed. But given the historic societal disaster that followed, is this…
Tag: international relations
/286/ What Was Communism? ft. Branko Milanovic
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pgv57-12b743a On Communism's historic role. We talk to renowned Serbian-American economist Branko Milanovic about growing up in Yugoslavia and how, in much of the world, History never ended. We then dedicate much of the episode to discussing Branko's claim…
/281/ Foreign Fighters, Left & Right (I) ft. Stefan Bertram-Lee
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-j4pj7-129d61d On Rojava and Ukraine.We talk to Stefan Bertram-Lee, former volunteer fighter for the the YPG in Rojava, about whom a Hollywood movie is being made. We ask him about the type of person who volunteers, and how this compares…
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Excerpt: /280/ Three Articles: Liberal Nationalism
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t468r-12938f2 [Patreon Exclusive] With European liberals waving Ukraine flags, how might the war and escalating geopolitical tensions between major power be prompting a return to nationalism and patriotism? Is it just a means for elites to extract sacrifices from the…
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/276/ Broken Promises ft. Fritz Bartel
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kv4bb-128234f On the end of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism. Fritz Bartel talks to us about his new book in which the 1970s crisis and its aftermath takes centre-stage. How did the response to this global crisis…
/270/ Russia vs the West ft. Richard Sakwa
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2st8d-125e567 On the endgame to war in Ukraine. Eminent Russian expert, Putin and Gorbachev biographer and ex-Sovietologist, Prof Richard Sakwa, joins us in advance of his imminent retirement from the University of Kent. We talk about the geopolitics of…
/254/ Three Articles: Ukraine
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
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
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…
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Excerpt: /234/ Three Articles: Restoration?
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…
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