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The Un-Diplomatic Podcast — 320 episodes
Killing Empire, Abandoning Asia, or Rescuing the Asian Peace? A Radical Rethink of the US in Asia’s Balance of Power | Ep. 319
US Territorial Confession | The Economist Loves Australian Empire | ICE Raids Are Bad for the Economy | Keeping Climate Protest Alive | Ep. 318
Inside the Tech Worker Movement Against Oligarchy, w/ Clarissa Redwine and JS Tan | Ep. 317
Can DSA Go Global? | Twilight of the "Resistance Liberal” | Drone Dominance Farce | Bond Market Crisis | Korea War Games and Peace Talk | Ep. 316
Tupac Against Marco Rubio | The Token Black Professor Problem | The Poverty of Capitalist Education | International Relations After BLM w/ Robbie Shilliam | Ep. 315
Ta-Nehisi Coates and Hasan Minhaj Define Empire | The Left-Populist Wave is Here | UAE As Sub-Imperial Power | Interview w/ William Lawrence | Ep. 314
What is Left Populism? | The Forever Missile Gap | American Colonies in 2026 | Far-Right Deep State | Inside The Pentagon’s Secret Munitions Meeting | Ep. 313
Think Tank Legitimacy Crisis | Red Scare 6.0 | Nuclear Disarmament Dismay | Rubio's Cuba Witch Hunt | Democrat Iran-War Kayfabe | Ep. 312
China Election Conspiracy | Far-Left Terrorism Deflection | How Great-Power Rivalry Causes Repression Politics | Ep. 311
Geopolitical Insider Trading | China’s Pacific Missile Test | Iran-War Ceasefire Lie | Graham Platner | Ep. 310
Socialist Foreign Policy | Zach Woods Attacks James Carville | The Billionaire's Coup Playbook | Independence Day (1996) w/ Morgan Spector | Ep. 309
Post-Liberal International Relations and the End of Ideology, w/ Daniel Bessner | Ep. 308
Pacific Power Rebrand | Iran War Peace Deal | Peter Theil’s Secret Society | The Politics of Antimilitarism | Ep. 307
Who Should Run Democratic Party Foreign Policy? Not the Genocide Squad! With Harrison Mann | Ep. 306
Anti-Tech Extremism, or Populism? | China-Data Center Conspiracy Theory | New Zealand’s Military Trap | Bernie’s A.I. Proposal | Hegseth’s Shangri-La Primacy Fantasy | Ep. 305
Comedians Against Nuclear War, War Crimes, and Wars on Democracy, w/ Orli Matlow and William Hartung | Ep. 304
Live! Imperial End Times: The Geopolitics of Class War in a Post-American World | Ep. 303
China Summit Realism | Graham Platner Defines the Working Class | Gorka's Counter-Terrorism Anxiety | Ep. 302
A Non-Aligned Global Order and the Post-American World, w/ Nils Gilman | Ep. 301
Imperialist Worldmaking | Graham Platner’s Victory | Israeli Piracy | China Threat Decline | Rubio’s Panama Problem | Ep. 300
Palantir’s Fascist Manifesto | Substack Controversy | Iran Blockade Contradiction | Graham Platner’s NYT Debut | SecNav Fired | Ep. 299
Peace or Barbarism! Guest Morgan Spector on Leftist Foreign Policy, Anti-Imperialism, and a Crisis of Capitalism | Ep. 298
Live! Iran War Ceasefire Fail | Trump Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz | US As Anti-Hegemon | Ep. 297
Live! Iran Ceasefire and the (ongoing) Risks of Nuclear War | Ep. 296
AOC Against Arming Israel | Iran War as Class War | “3,000 Targets Left” is Not A Strategy | NATO’s America Problem | Ep. 295
Oil Crisis, Food Crisis, and Revolution | Iran War Casualties | Bombing Ecuador | Cuba Blockade | Far-Right Death Threats | Ep. 294
The Anti-Imperialist Opportunity w/ Morgan Spector: A Bang-Bang Podcast Crossover | Ep. 293
The Iran War is a Global financial Crisis | China Doesn't Want Hegemony | Joe Kent's Resignation | Ep. 292
Trading War with China for War with Iran? The Truth About A Munitions Shortfall | Ep. 291
Techno-Industrialism and the Plot to Save America, w/ Maddy Crowell | Ep. 290
Five Uncomfortable Truths About War Against Iran | Ep. 289
Iran War Conspiracy | A.I. Nuclear Escalation Threat | Joint Staff Purge | Palantir Democrats | Ep. 288
AOC's Anti-Fascist Foreign Policy | Iran War Dilemma | Anthropic A.I. Against the War Machine? | Democratic Party in Crisis | Ep. 287
Peace Activism, the Iraq War, and the New Militarism w/ David Cortright | Ep. 286
Live! What's Causing America's Imperial Decline? | Ep. 285
The End of Arms Control | Pentagon Concentration Camps | Bezos Kills the Washington Post | Neocons Still Run DC? | Ep. 284
US-Far Right Separatism Collab Threatens Canada | Denmark's Debt Weapon | Industrial Manufacturing Fetish | Russia's Drone War of Attrition | Ep. 283
The Military is Trapped Between Fascism and Civil War | Ep. 282
The Rupture of the “Rules-Based International Order” w/ Seva Gunitsky | Ep. 281
Iranian Revolution? | Joseph Stiglitz Wants to Contain America | Network-State Neocolonialism in Greenland | Nationalizing the Defense Industry | Ep. 280
Venezuela’s Blood for Oil “Performative Accumulation" | NATO’s Greenland Threat | Economics of Empire | A.I. Data Centers | Ep. 279
A House of Dynamite (2025) w/ Scott Sagan | Ep. 278
Decoding Trump’s National Security Strategy w/ American Prestige Pod | Ep. 277
Primitive Accumulation, Imperialism, and Culture-War Grand Strategy w/ Jacob Shapiro | Ep. 276
Netflix’s Marines (2025) w/ Sam Carliner | Bang-Bang Podcast Crossover | Ep. 275
Leaving Washington | NATO Hawk to NATO Dove | Teaching International Relations | Realities of PhD Life | Ep. 274
"Seditious" NatSec Democrats | MAGA’s A.I. Rupture | Venezuela Regime Change | Ukraine Peace Plan | Ep. 273
Bret Stephens' Case for Iraq-ing Venezuela | Palantir Democrats | G-7 Imperialist Multilateralism | Real War on Fake Antifa | Ep. 272
The Geopolitics of Jeffrey Epstein and Hegemonic Decline w/ Jeet Heer | Ep. 271
Bombing Latin America | Who’s Afraid of Zohran? | Economic Depression Hiding in Plain Sight | Trump Embarrasses Asia | Ep. 270
Did Trump End Great-Power Rivalry with China? Tactical Economic Detente Explained | Ep. 269
WarGames (part II) w/ Sam Ratner and Andy Facini | Ep. 268
WarGames w/ Sam Ratner and Andy Facini | Ep. 267
RAND Corporation Crisis of Capital | Bannon Says Trump 2028 | Graham Platner Tattoo-Gate | China Decoupling | CIA Rethinks China | Ep. 266
CIA in Venezuela | The Pentagon’s War on Journalists | China Trade Crisis | Ashley Tellis Scandal | Gaza Ceasefire | Ep. 265
Inter-Capitalist War and the End of the Nation-State (as we know it) w/ Jamie Merchant | Ep. 264
Hegseth's War on Fat Generals | Gaza Flotilla | China Soybeans | NSPM-7 is Trump's War on the Left | Government Shutdown | Ep. 263
Live Lecture! Left and Right Visions of Global Order: Why Liberal Internationalism is Dead | Ep. 262
Live Lecture! What Was the “Liberal International Order?” | Ep. 261
Militarized Commons: How Territorial Competition is Destroying the South China Sea | Ep. 260
Antifa, Jimmy Kimmel, and Emergency Politics | TikTok Deal with China | Oligarchy’s Economic Recession | The National Defense Strategy Still Hates China
Ezra Klein Loves (some) Political Violence | The War Department and the Asia-Pacific Debate | Israel Attacks Qatar | South Korea and ICE | Ep. 258
An Oral History of the Progressive Foreign Policy Moment (and what comes next) | Ep. 257
Trump's War on Soros | US Covert Action in Denmark | Nationalizing Lockheed Martin | MAGA’s China Contradiction | Ep. 256
Tulsi Gabbard’s War on Intelligence | Blowback on the NatSec Elite | White Nationalist State Dept | Warmongering Asia Hands | Ep. 255
D.C. Military Occupation | Trump-Putin Summit | Guesting on Hasan Piker | Bloody Blinken’s WSJ Op-Ed | Ep. 254
Anti-Intellectualism in Pentagon Life | BRICS and Civilizational War | Palestine Action | ICE Recruiting Fascists | Ep. 253
Live! Roots Action National Teach-In on Militarism Under Trump | Ep. 252
White Nationalist Social Democracy | Oil v. Israeli Primacy | Post-American Korean Peninsula | Japan’s Failure of Imagination | Ep. 251
Spencer Ackerman's New York State of Mind: Peace, Populism, and Zohran Mamdani | Ep. 250
Run For Your Life: A Nostalgia Trap Podcast Crossover | Ep. 249
The Art of Memoir and Stories of Conversion: A Bang-Bang Podcast Crossover | Ep. 248
Project 2029 Farce | The Zohran Mamdani Model | Peter Thiel, Anti-Christ? | Fascist Public Policy | Nobody Likes Hegemony | Ukraine-China Missiles | Ep. 247
Andor Season 2 Finale + Rogue One w/ Matt Duss and Paul Adlerstein | Bang-Bang Podcast Crossover | Ep. 246
Tucker Carlson Ruins Ted Cruz | No War with Iran | “No Kings” Protests | Democrats Need a Peace Agenda | Ep. 245
War on California, United Farm Workers, and Leaving the “Lockheed Left” w/ Antonio De Loera | Ep. 244
Abolish Palantir | Ukraine Drones | White Supremacy State Department | South Korea's Bernie Sanders | Ep. 243
Live! The Pacific Sovereignty Deficit and Sino-US Rivalry | Ep. 242
Andor Season 1 Finale with David Austin Walsh | Bang-Bang Cross-Over | Ep. 241
Labor Strategy at the End of the World w/ Eric Blanc | Ep. 240
Katrina vanden Heuvel on Europe's Far Right, European Rearmament, and the Trump Effect | Ep. 239
Kashmir Nuke Crisis | Houthi Ceasefire | China's 6th-Gen Fighter | Post-American Asia | Fascist Budgeting | Ep. 238
Andor, Episodes 1–3 w/ Jenny G. Zhang | Bang-Bang Podcast Cross-Over | Ep. 237
Nuke-You-Lear Strategy w/ Emma Claire Foley | Ep. 236
The Siege (1998) w/ Kevin Fox | Bang-Bang Podcast Cross-Over | Ep. 235
Zombie Economic Nationalism | Antifascist Protest | Arundhati Roy | Who Tariffs Are Good For Ep. 234
The Four Books Billionaires Think Explain International Relations (and why they're wrong!) | Ep. 233
Tariffs as Unwinnable Economic War in an Emerging Post-American Order | Ep. 232
Understanding Economic Crisis: Three Charts That Explain What’s Wrong With Capitalism Today | Ep. 231
Live! Dr. Van Jackson Speaks to the Catholic University of America about Progressive Foreign Policy | Ep. 230
US War Crime Confessions | Europe's Militarism Risk | Taiwan's Angst | BYD Versus Tesla | Ep. 229
Pete Hegseth’s War Plan Leak | JD Vance’s War on Europe | Fentanyl Isn’t WMD | Mineral Geopolitics in the Congo | Bernie-AOC Popularity | Ep. 228
The Sum of All Fears (2002) w/ Max Read | Ep. 227
Grand Strategy for (War Crime) Dummies | Rahm Emmanuel for Exile | AUKUS Politics | Mahmoud Khalil | Ep. 226
Palestine at the Oscars | China Tariffs NBD | Working-Class Homeless | Ukraine's Peace Problems | Ep. 225
Non-Aligned Europe | Primacy-Multipolarity | Nuking the Nuclear Triad | Ukraine's Critical Minerals | Ep. 224
Three Kings (1999) w/ Kevin Fox | Bang-Bang Podcast Crossover | Ep. 223
White Nationalism and China | Ukraine's Imperial Peace | Tupac and the Pentagon | Mercenary Monroe Doctrine | Democratic War Hawks | Ep. 222
Live Lecture! What Good is the National Interest? Rethinking the Foundations of Peace, Democracy, and War
Palantir is Evil | USAID w/out World War III | ICE Performing Terror | Imagining Restraint in Asia | Foreign Influence is the New Cocaine | Ep. 220
Perils of Christian Patriotism | We're All Antifascist (Right?) | How to Cut the Pentagon Ep. 219
How Saudi Arabia Bought Trump, DEI and Militarism, Nuclear No First-Use, Elon Musk and the Far Right | Ep. 218
Live! Guest Daniel Bessner on The Crisis of Liberalism, The Failure of Democrats, and the Truth About Chomsky | Ep. 217
Ender's Game w/ Alexander McCoy (2013) | Bang-Bang Podcast Crossover | Ep. 216
Live! Silicon Valley's Class War and the New Defense-Industrial Complex w/ Max Read | Ep. 215
Live! Stephen Wertheim on War and Peace in Europe and Asia Ep. 214
Live Dumpster Fire: Military Primacy is Anti-LGBTQ | Amazon’s Union-Busting | Economic Anxiety and the Right | Ep. 213
Livestream! Confronting China Wargames and Nuclear Escalation | Ep. 212
Dumpster Fire: MAGA Views Syria, North Korea Crisis, China and the Bully Pulpit, Annexing Mexico and Canada | Ep. 211
Dumpster Fire: South Korean Self-Coup Attempt, NZ Labour Against AUKUS, Canada Annexation Threat | Ep. 210
Beating Ethnonationalism, Trump’s Appointees, the AntiWar Myth, Asia’s Hottest Flashpoint, Imperial Foreign Policy | Ep. 209
Dumpster Fire: People Hate Cheney, Primacy is Bipartisan, Plundering Ukraine, Philippines Assassination Threat, Fareed Zakaria as Sychophant, Hungary’s Lessons | Ep. 208
European Self-Reliance, Hopefully (w/ Nevada Lee) | Ep. 207
Dumpster Fire: Temu Supply Chains Gig-ified, The Russian Missile Crisis, New Zealand’s Hikoi | Ep. 206
The Battle of Algiers (1966) | A Bang-Bang Podcast Crossover | Ep. 205
Militarized Police: Women for Weapons Trade Transparency and the Imperial Boomerang | Ep. 204
Counterterrorism Copycats w/ Sarah Yager and Yumna Rizvi | Ep. 203
Who Matters? Foreign Policy’s Place in the Presidential Election, w/ Chris Shell | Ep. 202
Ukraine, Israel-Palestine, Political Campaigns, and China Rivalry--Block & Build Crossover | Ep. 201
Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Free Preview of Bang-Bang Podcast | Ep. 200
Veep Debate, Ta -Nehisi Coates Slays Anti-Semitism, Middle East War, China War Fanatics | Ep. 199
Combat Obscura--A Bang-Bang Podcast Cross-Over | Ep. 198
Live! World War III and the Presidential Election | Ep. 197
China Tripping, Israel's Horizontal Escalation, Pakistan's Climate-Debt Nexus | Ep. 196
MAGA foreign policy influencers, democratic party contradictions, manufacturing fetishes | Ep. 195
Anti-War Organizing, Student Activism, and the Uncommitted Movement | Ep. 194
Nuclear Disarmament v. Nuclear Abolition | Ep. 193
Understanding Primacy: Hegemonicon Podcast Cross-over | Ep. 192
Gaza and the Moral Question of Public Service | Ep. 191
The Truth About Venezuela, w/ Michael Paarlberg and Maria Espinosa | Ep. 190
Kamala’s Opportunity, War on the Homeless, Trade Wife Resurgence, Economic Nationalism, Netanyahu’s Nonsense
Myanmar’s Gen Z Revolutionaries on an Everyday Grind | Ep. 188
Live: Biden's Electoral Crisis, Foreign Policy Gaslighting | Ep. 187
Kamala Harris and the Race to Replace Biden | Ep. 186
Think Tank Life, Chiquita Banana Death Squads, The New Yorker Treatment, Defund ICBMs | Ep. 185
The Logic of Peacemaking: A Live Event on Nukes and Statecraft | Ep. 184
Fake 'peace through strength,' Mexico's election, A.I. hasn't changed War, D-Day's Legacy | Ep. 183
Working-Class Foreign Policy and the Pivot to Asia | EP. 182
Best of: Daniel Immerwahr on Star Wars as Low-Key Anti-Imperialism | Ep. 181
Best of: Daniel Immerwahr on Why Geopolitics is a Racket | Ep. 180
Live Event! US Foreign Policy and the 2024 Elections | Ep. 179
Chinese Capitalism v. Debt Geopolitics w/ Shahar Hameiri | Ep. 178
The Possibilities of Progressive Worldmaking | Ep. 177
Guam, War, and the Non-Sovereign Pacific, w/ Kenneth Gofigan Kuper | Ep. 176
Inequality, IR Theory, and the Imperial Blind Spot | Ep. 175
The Left Debates Foreign Policy! | Ep. 174
Silicon Valley’s Galactic Colony Fetish, w/ Alina Utrata | Ep. 173
The Reactionary Worldmaking of Counter-Insurgency, w/ Joseph Mackay | Ep. 172
Death of the Think-Tanker w/ Matthew Petti | Ep. 171
Robbie Shilliam on Frontier Imperialism and Post-BLM International Relations | Ep. 170
Adom Getachew: W.E.B. Du Bois’s International Thought | Ep. 169
The Writers' Strike, Global Film, and Entertainment Multipolarity, w/ Kevin Fox | Ep. 168
Live Show! China, US Grand Strategy, and the Inequality Problem | Ep. 167
Fighting Pentagon Graft, w/ William Hartung and Julia Gledhill
Dissident Thinking, Foreign Policy for the Middle Class, and Progressive Fissures Around Militarism | Ep. 165
Part II: Classical Realism Versus International Relations, Interview w/ Jonathan Kirshner | Ep. 164
Part I: Classical Realism Versus International Relations, Interview w/ Jonathan Kirshner | Ep. 163
Rethinking International Order: 15th Century Maritime Asia and Today w/ Manjeet Pardesi | Ep. 162
American Hegemony v. New Zealand's 'Independent' Foreign Policy | Ep. 161
How China Thinks About Asian Security Order, w/ Carla Freeman | Ep. 160
Where is Thailand Now? w/ Aim Sinpeng and Greg Raymond
Unmaking Asian Exceptionalism, w/ Gaiutra Bahadur | Ep. 158
Kissinger's Cambodia Killings, w/ Nick Turse | Ep. 157
Is Fukuyama Liberalism the 'End of History?' w/ Daniel Bessner | Ep. 156
Narrating the Pacific in Indo-Pacific, w/ Sandra Tarte | Ep. 155
Democracy Over Authoritarianism w/ Charles Dunst | Ep. 154
Solving the Security Puzzle with Security in Context | Ep. 153
Part II: On a Third Nuclear Age and Multipolar Order w/ Benjamin Zala | Ep. 152
Part I: On a Third Nuclear Age and Multipolar Order w/ Benjamin Zala | Ep. 151
Michael Kazin! The Democratic Party, Leftism, and Global Policy | Ep. 150
AUKUS, Arms-Racing, and the Dollar Supremacy Debate | Ep. 149
How Black Americans View Ukraine, Taiwan, and America's Global Role, w/ Chris Shell | Ep. 148
Movie Night: Bulworth, w/ Colette Shade and Matt Duss | Ep. 147
Fearing Atlantic Revolution and the Geopolitical Literacy of Slaves, w/ Samantha Payne | Ep. 146
Raging Against the Foreign Policy Conversation | Ep. 145
Pacific Power Paradox Book Launch Talk at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy | Ep. 144
Realism's Imperial Origins Part II, w/ Dr. Matthew Specter | Ep. 143
Realism's Imperial Origins Part I, w/ Dr. Matthew Specter | Ep. 142
An Oral History of the Pivot to Asia, and Confronting the National Security State | Ep. 141
Empathy, Strategy, and Statecraft, w/ Claire Yorke | Ep. 140
Getting Southeast Asia Right, with Elina Noor, Sebastian Strangio, and Evan Laksmana | Ep. 139
A Better Biden Doctrine, w/ Matt Duss and Stephen Wertheim | Ep. 138
Part II: Star Wars as Anti-Imperialism? The Politics of George Lucas, w/ Daniel Immerwahr | Ep. 137
Part I: Geopolitics is a Racket, w/ Daniel Immerwahr | Ep. 136
Red-Baiting, the CIA's War in China, and Repression Politics: Interview w/ John Delury | Ep. 135
Part II: Unsettling Liberal Hegemony with Jeannie Morefield | Ep. 134
Part I: Unsettling Liberal Hegemony with Jeannie Morefield | Ep. 133
China's Mass Uprisings, Anti-Semitism as Weapon, the Origins of Rivalry, Left v. Right Radicalism | Ep. 132
Unipolarity's Nostalgia Trap: Interview w/ David Parsons | Ep. 131
A Global Economy for the Ruling Class? Interview w/ Adam Dean and Tim Barker | Ep. 130
Best of: Peace Intellectuals, Unf**king Rivalries, Russian Kleptocracy, the Trouble with Sanctions | Ep. 129
Whataboutism and the China Debate: A Panel at Australian National University | Ep. 128
From Imperial Agent to Anti-War Advocate: Interview w/ Lyle Jeremy Rubin | Ep. 127
Pacific Paranoia, Central Banks are the Opp, Trumping Bush's Fascism, Red-Scare Politics Against Democracy | Ep. 126
Best of: How the Left Fights the New Global Right: Interview with John Feffer | Ep. 125
US Pacific Hypocrisy in Guam, Capital Loves Ethnonationalism, Taiwan-sanity, Jiu Jitsu v. IR | Ep. 124
California Radical: Interview w/ Malcolm Harris, Author of Kids These Days and Palo Alto | Ep. 123
How'd We Get North Korea So Wrong? Guest Lecture with Dr. Andrew Yeo | Ep. 122
The Myth of Security versus Human Rights, Taiwan Ambiguity, Realism about Cambodia, the Conservative Foreign Policy Debate | Ep. 121
What's Good Strategy? Interview w/ Dr. Jeff Meiser | Ep. 120
Unrestrained Right and Democrats as the War Party, Military Keynesianism, Putin's Prospect Theory, Dictatorship in the Philippines | Ep. 119
When Realists Meet the Left, Peace Is Non-Partisan, Oligarchs Take All, Kamala Harris's Space Boogie | Ep. 118
Red-Brown Alliances Suck, Singapore's Post-American Asia, War as the Enemy of Progress, Military-Climate Change Tradeoff | Ep. 117
Environmental Anarchy w/ the Kurt Vonnegut of International Relations: Interview w/ Dr. Mark Beeson | Ep. 116
Security Studies in the Utopian '90s, Game Theory v. Nostradamus, Kanye West and the Hustle Culture, Coherent Anti-Imperialism | Ep. 115
Neoliberal Strategy Kills Asian Security: Big Reveal on the Pacific Power Paradox Book with Asia Society Korea Branch | Ep. 114
Special Roundtable Event: The Closest Presidential Election in South Korean History | Ep. 113
Oligarchy is Global, Piketty's Socialism vs. China, Mearsheimer's Realism Controversy, OG Wars and Deterrence Success | Ep. 112
Ice Cream Peace Theory, Red-Baiting Down Under, No Lames for President, South Korean Nukes, Russia-Ukraine | Ep. 111
Guest Host James Palmer Talks the Russia Debate, Escalation Ladders, China Watching | Ep. 110
Writing a Best-Seller While Broke: Interview w/ James Palmer of Foreign Policy Magazine | Ep. 109
How the Left Fights the New Global Right: Interview with John Feffer | Ep. 108 Hustle
Guest Host Dr. Emma Ashford Talks Asia's Power Problems, Washington's Free Trade Impasse, How to Deal with Russia | Ep. 107
Peace Intellectuals, Unf**king Rivalries, Russian Kleptocracy, the Trouble with Sanctions | Ep. 106
Intellectual Hustling: Interview with the Arms Control Wonk, Dr. Jeffrey Lewis | Ep. 105
Guest Host John Delury Talks Pacific Hypocrisy, Why Historians Avoid Prediction, China Rivalry, and South Korean Politics | Ep. 104
Nuclear Precarity: Keynote Lecture on Nuclear War Risks in East Asia | Ep. 103
A Foreign Policy for the Middle Class? Chicago Council on Global Affairs Joins the Pod | Ep. 102
AUKUS and Asia: A Night with the Australian Institute of International Affairs | Ep. 101
Guest Host Sebastian Strangio Talks Journalism, Southeast Asia, and Great-Power Ideological Competition | Ep. 100
South Korea's Bernie Sanders, Australian Submarines, Marxism Versus Liberalism, Chinese Labor Versus Oligarchy | Ep. 99
Philippines' Pacquiao Populism Problem, Why Military Grifters Love Deterrence by Denial, the Nuclear Unrestraint Problem, WTH is a Classical Liberal? | Ep. 98
Analytic Tradecraft with Future Tense Host, Abhijnan Rej | Ep. 97
The Unrestrained Quincy v. Liberalism Debate, Fighting Campism within the Left, China's Empire in Tibet | Ep. 96
Progressive Politics and North Korean Nuclear Crises: Dr. Van Jackson's Interview with NK News | Ep. 95
Using China to Kill US Democracy, New Zealand's Antiracist China Challenge, The Roosevelt Doctrine Farce, Don't Punch Left on Cuba | Ep. 94
Pacific Spheres of Influence, Fighting Filipinos, Strategy and the Progressive International | Ep. 93
China Rivalry without Racism? Wu-Tang Solidarity, Narrating Israeli Occupation v. Terrorism, Alliance Reassurance Folly | Ep. 92
The War on Critical Race, Socialists Aren't "Very Liberal," New Zealand Bashing, Coming Clean on Quincy, Taiwan Debate | Ep. 91
The Global Pundit Problem, De-Sexyfying UFOs, War-Avoidance Theories, Progressive Talent Pipeline | Ep. 90
Who's the DMX of International Relations, Neoliberal Hip-Hop, Xi Jinping's Hype Man | Ep. 89
Don't Call Yourself a Realist! Progressive Economic Statecraft, The Farce of Offset Strategies, Why NATO Can't Deter Russia | Ep. 88
The Zombie Promise of Cold War Liberalism, Myanmar's Syria Risk, Japan's Taiwan Alliance | Ep. 87
Think Tank Infighting, Guam for Dummies, Asia's Not the Indo-Pacific, Ep. 86
Deterrence by Capable Dildos, the Hawaiian Land Grab, China Hawkery, North Korean Defectors | Ep. 85
Taiwan Domino Theory Silliness, Think Tank Disinformation, Japan's Liberal International Order | Ep. 84
Does Foreign Policy Have a Career Ceiling? Defense Strategy Dilemma, DC's Patt Mottinger Problem, New Zealand's Australia Problem | Ep. 83
A Liberal's Anti-China Game, Emily in D.C., Asia's Democracy Divide | Ep. 82
From Bro Culture to Fascism, Genocidal Democracy in Myanmar, QAnon is NOT Left, South Korean Illiberalism | Ep. 81
The Global Far Right is a Protestant Reformation for Idiots, Think Tank Dark Money, Getting Real on The Indo-Pacific Game | Ep. 80
Galactic Gaslighting, Futurism v. Moneyballing, Japan's Five-Eyes Controversy, Obama's Drone Reckoning | Ep. 79
The Asia Tsar Question, McDonald's Peace Theory is Over, The Truth about Liberal IR, Israel's Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone of Death | Ep. 78
Grand Strategic Farce, How the US Lost Asia, The "Free Chosun" Question, Student Debt Cancellation | Ep. 77
China Squeezes Aussies, Kim Jong Un's Biden Surprise, Hawks Who Can't Fight, Hypersonic Missile Hype, | Ep. 76
The Fascism Debate, Interviewing at Stanford, Think Tank Corruption, Jonah Ryan's Veep Wisdom | Ep. 75
Taiwan is the O.G. China, Stanford's Hoover Controversy, Totalitarian Elon Musk, Milton Friedman and LL Cool J | Ep. 74
Franz Fanon v. Ice Cube v. 50 Cent, Taiwan's No Pawn, China Fighting in the Pacific Islands, Exit from Hegemony | Ep. 73
Washington's War against Peace, Rivalries are Dumb, Real Diversity, Literary Agent Lessons | Ep. 72
Judd Apatow Gets China Right, What's the Indo-Pacific Quad? Turkish Empire, Indian Sphere of Influence | Ep. 71
When the Black Panthers Met Kim Il Sung: Writer's Room with Benjamin Young | Ep. 71
What is Good Strategy? Wargaming Hegemony, Black Armed Resistance, Neoliberalism Fakes Its Death, the China Security Dilemma Question | Ep. 70
The 'Asian Mind,' Biden's Credibility Non-Problem, India Trolls China, Marxist v. Progressive Foreign Policy | Ep. 69
Star Wars as America's Future, The Truth about Cheney, Korea's Anti-China Left, the US Sphere of Influence | Ep. 68
Cobra Kai Cosmopolitans, Taiwan Ambiguity, Japan Watching, and Progressive Foreign Policy | Ep. 67
Counter-Imperial Statecraft, China Competition as White Privilege, QAnon, Neocons Return to the Democratic Party | Ep. 66
How to be a Pundit: Interview with Ankit Panda | Ep. 65 Hustle
Pentagon Corruption, Money Behind the China Threat Industry, Fighting for a Foreign Policy Career | Ep. 64
Debating Sagan v. Waltz 2.0, US Military Coup Question, the Liberal's China Contradictions, Kamala's Foreign Policy | Ep. 63
How to Do Think-Tanking, Wargaming Trickery, the Thucydides Crap, Alliance Problems | Ep. 62
VP Susan Rice--Yah or Nah? Progressive Sanctions Imperative, Allies Hedging, Pentagon's Structural Violence | Ep. 61
Pulling Troops from Korea, Portland Strategy, Pompeo Worse Than Nixon, Progressive-ish Democrats | Ep. 60
Can Biden FP be Progressive? Kanye the Spoiler, Anti-Fascism for All, Taiwan Insurgents, Unserious GOP| Ep. 59
Writer's Room 1: The Book Project Begins | Ep. 58
Unipolar-Moment Hawks, Democrats' Bad Strategy, Aussie Hedging, Kiwi's Strategic Style over Substance | Ep. 57
GTFO with Anti-Progressive Leftism, Taiwan Nukes, the Military Power Fallacy, the meaning of Kim Jong Un's Restraint | Ep. 56
How NOT to Network in DC, Asia's 'Deterrence is Failing' Trap, China-India v. North Korea | Ep. 55
Bernie's Foreign Policy Brain Trust: Interview w/ Matt Duss | Hustle Ep. 54
Can Liberals and Marxists Get Along? Where's the Left on China Decoupling? Australia's Dilemma, Singapore's Warning | Ep. 53
Left Technocracy vs Kleptocracy, Black Lives Matter is Foreign Policy, China Hawks against Order, Stop Terrorizing Antifa | Ep. 52
The Anti-China Think Tank, Corrupt Cocktail Parties, India v. China, Marines v. Pentagon, North Korea v. Everyone | Ep. 51
China's Useful Idiot, Hawks Failing Up, Arms-Racing to Security, NZ Conspiracy Theory, GOP against International Order, Getting Taiwan Wrong | Ep. 50
Kissinger's Legacy, Anti-War Biden, Cancel Space Force, Wrong on Iran, Incompetence All the Way Down | Ep. 49
Creative Defense Hawks, Strategic Nihilism, Doing Korean Peace Right, and Speaking China's Language | Ep. 48
The Blob's Debate Dilemma, Orwell on Nuclear Tyranny, On Becoming a North Korea Watcher, GOP War on China, Big Data BS | Ep. 47
Korea Doves and Japan Hawks, Grand Strategy Isn't Over, the Disappearing Dictator, We're All BBC Dad Now | Ep. 46
The Chris Murphy Doctrine, Gen X Hawks and Gen Z Doves, the Neoliberal Split on China, Cyberpunk, Socialists for Biden | Ep. 45
Debating Black Swans, the War Metaphor, the Irony of Competing with China, North Korea Doesn't Want Help | Ep. 44
Korea Watcher Feud, Steinbeck v. Matt Damon, Fascist-Free NATO, Proxy Paradigm Wars in IR, Singapore has No Plan B | Ep. 43
Is US China Policy Racist? EU Expansion Debate, Dueling Chinese Diplomats, Arms-Racing with North Korea, and the Nightmare of Election Suspension | Ep. 42
The Pentagon versus Deterrence, Pompeo's War, US-China Conspiracy Theories, Beijing's Hegemony on the Cheap | Ep. 41
Liberal Foreign Policy's Limits, Dictator Dilemmas, Oil Wars, and the China Debate's McCarthyist Turn | Ep. 40
Does Taiwan Need US Nukes? War State v. Welfare State? Why Hawks Don't Get the Vietnam War, Still. Is Biden Killing the Democratic Party or Saving It? | Ep. 39
Bernie the Strategist, Pompeo Still Doesn't Get China, Japan's Price for Losing Taiwan, Hustle v. Marxism | Ep. 38
Restrainers in Foreign Policy, Fighting Oligarchs, China's Worst Nightmare in NZ, a European Defense Union, Fascism Infiltrates Intelligence
Bernie Bureaucracy? Fake Arms Control, Australian Nukes, Ilhan Omar's Peace Plan, Paying Interns, Kim Jong Un Embarrassed by Trump | Ep. 36
China Threat Deflation v. Military Primacy, Left Technocrats, the Economic Primacy Debate, Declining American Exceptionalism, Blowing Up the Landmine Ban | Ep. 35
Nukes You Can Use? Warren Ending Endless War, Korea's Elusive Peace, Israel's Fake Peace, and Chinese Imperialism | Ep. 34
Godfather of Progressive Foreign Policy Part II: Interview w/ Dr. Dan Nexon | Hustle Ep. 33
Godfather of Progressive Foreign Policy Part I: Interview w/ Dr. Dan Nexon | Hustle Ep. 32
The Great Warren-Sanders Convergence, Elite v. Democratic Foreign Policy, Why World War III is Trending, Fake China Trade Deal, Iran Escalation Idiocy | Ep. 31
Democrats Debate National Security, Sort Of | Raw Uncut Ep. 30
Liberalism's Soft Underbelly, Kasparov on Bothsidesism, China Red Scare Incoherence, and Taiwan at Risk | Ep. 29
Assassinations and Conflict Spirals: Does the Pentagon Suck at Deterrence or is Trump Wagging the Dog? | Raw Uncut Ep. 28
Interview w the BBC Dad, Robert Kelly: 2020 Predictions on All Things Korea and Trump | Ep. 27
Buttigieg Foreign Policy, Bernie Sanders as Film Critic, Hashtag Never Tulsi, and How Russia Invaded...International Relations | Ep. 26
The Revolution Will Be Technocratic, China Decoupling and the Capitalist Peace, Defense Budget Disaster, Advice for Presidential Campaigns
Bloomberg Foreign Policy, Nuclear No First Use, Neoliberals as the New Neocons, French Realpolitik, and Trump Won't Save Taiwan | Ep. 24
Of Idiocracy and Allies: A New Nuclear Age, Missile Decoupling, and Extortionist Foreign Policy | Ep. 23
Recorded Live: North Korea Policy and the Arms Control Taboo | Ep. 22
US Troops in South Korea, Spheres of Influence are Gross, Economic v. Political Freedom, North Korea’s Deadline, Left on Hong Kong | Ep. 21
Kushner's North Korea Doctrine Sucks, Biff Tannen Imperialism in Syria, China's Rise on College Campuses, Far-Right Fail on Kashmir | Ep. 20
Engage the Enemy: Interview with Suzanne DiMaggio, Presidential Campaign Adviser, Think Tank Co-Founder | Hustle Ep. 19
Stand with Taiwan or Else! Washington's Latest Anti-China Initiative is a Mixed Bag | Raw Uncut Ep.18
No Green Lanterns! Cartoon Imperialism, Jack Dorsey v. Zuckerberg, Climate Change Assassinations, Obama's Anti-Wokeness | Ep. 17
Bad China Punditry in 3 Easy Steps: A How-To Guide | Raw Uncut Ep. 16
Forever Wars vs. the Climate Crisis. The Parallel Diplomacy Problem. Vanishing Credibility in Asia. Giuliani's Self-Incrimination | Ep. 15
Does Nancy Pelosi Have a Shadow Foreign Policy? She Should | Raw Uncut Ep. 14
Silicon Valley Turns Anti-China. Why Steven Pinker Doesn't Get the Causes of War. Pompeo Won't Survive Impeachment. Making Enemies of Friends. | Ep. 13
Is US Global Credibility in Free Fall? Yes, But My Explanation May Surprise You | Raw Uncut Ep. 12
Writing National Security Fiction: Interview with Dr. Kathleen McInnis | Hustle Ep. 11
Bernie Sanders Iraq War Call-out of Biden's Judgment. Why It Matters in the Democratic Debate | Raw Uncut Ep. 10
Don’t Count on a Militarist to End Endless War. Count on Him to Aid Turkish Ethnic Cleansing of the Kurds and Protect Saudi Oil | Raw Uncut Ep. 9
China Can't Take a Joke, Kurds Betrayed, Strategic South Park, and John Cusack | Ep. 8
Corruption, Eminem Playing Eminem, or Conspiracy Theory? How to Understand US Foreign Policy Now | Ep. 7
It's Kim Jong Un's World, and Trump's Just Living in It | Raw Uncut Ep. 6
Progressive versus Libertarian Foreign Policy: Irreconcilable, or Allies of Convenience? | Ep. 5
American Civil War 2, Electric Boogaloo? The Unreality of a President Threatening His Country | Raw Uncut Ep. 4
Korean Peace: How to Deal with Trump's Diversionary North Korea Policy | Raw Uncut Ep. 3
Foreign Policy Civil War in the GOP? Wu-Tang Clan, Marianne Williamson, China, and Getting Out of Afghanistan | Ep. 2
Iran-sanity: The Battle of Ted Cruz versus Nuke Expert Who Knows Things | Raw Uncut Ep. 1