Tectonic Plates
A podcast series on international relations and world order.
Episodes
Episode 5, ‘Back to the Future’, addresses two fundamental questions: firstly, are we witnessing the coming of a New World Order? and secondly, are the US and China locked in or headed towards a New Cold War?
The international order is undoubtedly accelerating back to a kind of multipolarity which interpolates increasingly more elements of the Yalta world—of great powers and spheres of influence—and lesser elements of the Helsinki ...
The fourth episode, Trump’s World Continued, is about the foreign policy strategies, beliefs, and power plays shaping the US Republican camp and the second Trump Administration.
As mentioned previously in this podcast, President Trump’s first mandate was formally guided - at least initially - by what he called ‘principled realism’, which emphasised a foreign policy driven by outcomes, not ideology, yet balanced by Western and Repu...
President Trump has demonstrated time and again that he values unilateralism over multilateralism, coercion and threats over inducements and persuasion, economic warfare over militarism, and a strange mix of social media and now TV diplomacy over traditional diplomatic channels.
The question is: does all this amount to a carefully designed foreign policy? Is there such a thing as a Trump world view of sorts? This matters a grea...
You are listening to the second episode, Game of Theories, which is about the study of international relations and the theories that seek to explain the behaviour of states when they interact with each other, with a particular focus on great power conflict and US-China relations.
The first part of the podcast provides a brief overview of the history of International Relations as a distinct political science, and the main theories th...
The geopolitical order of the world is changing, and just as tectonic shifts happen all the time below our feet, so our international order experiences constant change. This change is typically gradual and slow, but just like big earthquakes make our very own foundations shake, sometimes to devastating effect, when the plates that make up the international order cannot find the right accommodation, they too can unleash violently. A...
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