Liberal Foreign Policy's Limits, Dictator Dilemmas, Oil Wars, and the China Debate's McCarthyist Turn | Ep. 40 episode artwork

EPISODE · Mar 17, 2020 · 40 MIN

Liberal Foreign Policy's Limits, Dictator Dilemmas, Oil Wars, and the China Debate's McCarthyist Turn | Ep. 40

from The Un-Diplomatic Podcast · host Van Jackson

Why liberal foreign policy is a bad fit for dark times.  What Netflix's Narcos can tell us about order and stability in international relations. Why Russia started an oil price war with Saudi Arabia.  Why the critical left doesn't understand power as well as it thinks.  If your think tank gets money from Ali Baba, that doesn't automatically make you a Chinese agent.  What does Bernie Sanders really think about China?  Also this episode: A brief history lesson on the politics of the American Progressive Era.  Matt Stoller tweet: https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1237580289888505856Rush Doshi tweet: https://twitter.com/SolomonYue/status/1237579397483261952Jeff Colgan tweet: https://twitter.com/JeffDColgan/status/1237075224446881792Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes on democracy's decline: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/opinion/democracy-eastern-europe.html

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Why liberal foreign policy is a bad fit for dark times. What Netflix's Narcos can tell us about order and stability in international relations. Why Russia started an oil price war with Saudi Arabia. Why the critical left doesn't understand power as well as it thinks. If your think tank gets money from Ali Baba, that doesn't automatically make you a Chinese agent. What does Bernie Sanders really think about China? Also this episode: A brief history lesson on the politics of the American Progressive Era.

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