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How China Thinks About Asian Security Order, w/ Carla Freeman | Ep. 160
Episode 161
Van sat down with China watcher Carla Freeman (US Institute of Peace) to explore this thing Xi Jinping announced last year called the “Global Securit…
2 years, 6 months ago
Where is Thailand Now? w/ Aim Sinpeng and Greg Raymond
Episode 160
Opposition parties carried the day in Thailand's recent multiparty elections on May 14. The Move Forward Party, led by Pita Limjaroenrat, and Phue Th…
2 years, 6 months ago
Unmaking Asian Exceptionalism, w/ Gaiutra Bahadur | Ep. 158
Episode 159
What does it mean to write with not just logos but pathos? How has racial violence in America shaped the identity of Asian-Americans? Why is the "mod…
2 years, 7 months ago
Kissinger's Cambodia Killings, w/ Nick Turse | Ep. 157
Episode 158
The award-winning, New York Times best-selling author, Nick Turse, has done some deep investigations at the intersection of Southeast Asia; the intel…
2 years, 7 months ago
Is Fukuyama Liberalism the 'End of History?' w/ Daniel Bessner | Ep. 156
Episode 157
What makes neoconservatives different from Cold War liberals? Why did Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History and the Last Man" lament the end of the …
2 years, 7 months ago
Narrating the Pacific in Indo-Pacific, w/ Sandra Tarte | Ep. 155
Episode 156
How does the narrative of a Blue Pacific complicate strategic narratives about the "Indo-Pacific?" How do the nations of the Pacific Islands region t…
2 years, 7 months ago
Democracy Over Authoritarianism w/ Charles Dunst | Ep. 154
Episode 155
From a freelance journalist in Southeast Asia to becoming a “foreign policy person,” and how to publish your first book. Can authoritarian countries …
2 years, 8 months ago
Solving the Security Puzzle with Security in Context | Ep. 153
Episode 154
Why is it that we're spending more money and resources than ever on this thing we call “national security,” and yet not only does the world feel perp…
2 years, 8 months ago
Part II: On a Third Nuclear Age and Multipolar Order w/ Benjamin Zala | Ep. 152
Episode 153
What is multipolarity? Is the unipolar moment totally over? What is a great power?How do nukes fit into these questions? And how do the left, the ri…
2 years, 8 months ago
Part I: On a Third Nuclear Age and Multipolar Order w/ Benjamin Zala | Ep. 151
Episode 152
What is the nuclear revolution and why can't we agree on it? What is the Third Nuclear Age, why is it problematic as a concept, and what special dang…
2 years, 8 months ago