Episode Details

This is the second of two episodes interviewing Dr. Dan Nexon, a former adviser to Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign, a proponent of progressive internationalism, scholar of empires, and much more. In this episode, we talk about:

--how he ended up advising Sanders's campaign in 2016, 

--what led him to think seriously about progressive foreign policy, 

--his beef with the anti-imperial left, 

--why the "liberal international order" is on death's door, 

--how to think about the rise of far right movements in Europe, 

--Chinese versus US imperialism, 

--what he likes about the convergences and divergences in Warren versus Sanders as presidential candidates,

-- and more!

Dan's blogging: https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/author/dnexon

Dan's forthcoming book w/ Alex Cooley (Exit from Hegemony): https://global.oup.com/academic/product/exit-from-hegemony-9780190916473?cc=us&lang=en&

Dan's influential Foreign Affairs piece on progressive foreign policy: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2018-09-04/toward-neo-progressive-foreign-policy