After the ‘End of History’
After the ‘End of History’ is a podcast about International Relations Theory and History.
Episodes
[Recorded on 14 April 2025]
In this week's discussion, ATEOH take a look at the New York Times long read, "The Secret History of the War in Ukraine." What "revelations" has the article surfaced, and how does this all bode for the broader implications of the war? Is NATO headed for collapse? What are the strategic lessons for future conflicts, particularly with China?
Our conv...
[Recorded 31 January 2025]
A continuation of our discussion on Marx's "forgotten text," Herr Vogt: A Spy in the Workers' Movement.
We sat down to discuss Karl Marx's scattered writings on Latin America, where he considers the Incan communitarian societies, the War of Independence, and the modern states' 'weak' geopolitical stature. Pat helps unpack the controversy touched off by Marx's attack on Simón Bolívar, putting it into context alongside writings on the American Civil War and the anthropological turn in the Late Mar...
[Recorded on 6 September 2024]
ATEOH's second discussion on Emmanuel Todd: A Review of the Most Interesting Cultural Analyses of the West.
[Recorded on 8/28/2024]
In episode 6 of this season, ATEOH conducts a review of the most interesting cultural analyses of the West.
Texts:
- Niall Ferguson - “We’re All Soviets Now” - Niall Ferguson: We’re All Soviets Now | The Free Press (thefp.com)
- “Could Dementia in National Security Workforce Create Security Threat” RAND Corporation Study. Could Dementia in the National Security Workforce Create...
Karl Marx's Herr Vogt - Episode 1: This episode is related to our recent concentration on Debord and our interest in recuperating a tradition of how the Left has historically responded to the problem of state intelligence infiltration and propaganda.
Recorded on 4 May, 2024: a wide-ranging discussion with Bill Brown (of notbored.org) on the Situationist International.
A continuation of our wide-ranging discussion on Roberto Bolaño. ATEOH is guaranteed the only podcast to discuss eunuchs, Peso Pluma, Oswaldo Zavala, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Antonio Gramsci in the same episode.
[Recorded on January 22, 2024]
Longtime friend, ATEOH supporter and commentator of Latin American politics, Pat Cabell, joins us for a discussion on the great Chilean novelist, Robert Bolaño, and his work's relevance to themes of realism, international relations and revolutionary politics. Drawing from an array of texts including 2666, By Night in Chile and Distant Star and the works of Frederic Jameson and Guy ...
A continuation of our discussion on Stephen Brooks's Producing Security.
Mario looks at Seymour Hersh’s latest on corruption inside Ukraine and assesses those claims alongside some of the more elliptical admissions from the mainstream press.
The music you hear on After the End of History is courtesy of Matt Coakley and Jason King. Thanks for listening.
Recorded on Wednesday, April 12th, 2023.
Mario goes solo this week to share some initial thoughts on the recently leaked Pentagon documents and the lessons to be drawn for the Ukraine-Russia War.
Topics include:
- Initial reflections on the leaks
- Assessing Ukraine's capacity for a counter offensive
- Has the US infowar limited foreign policymakers' ability to think strategically?
- Lessons Ch...
ATEOH covers the legendary Seymour Hersh's latest revelations about the Nordstream II bombing.
Readings discussed in this week's episode include:
How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline (substack.com)
Alexander Zevin & Seymour Hersh, How to Blow Up a Pipeline — Sidecar (newleftreview.org)
Recorded in late October 2022 as part of ATEOH's longer discussion on the history and future of NATO.
Discussed in this episode: Wolfgang Streeck's "Pipe Dreams." Thanks for listening.
ATEOH Season 3 continues with a series of discussions on the history of NATO and its continual reinvention through internal dissent, external resistance and expansion.
Part I is about Thomas Meaney's excellent piece "How Putin's invasion returned NATO to the centre stage," published in The Guardian this May.
Recorded on 10 October 2022
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Mario presents to the Chicago Political Economy Group on Marlene Laruelle's Is Russia Fascist? Recorded on 24 August 2022.
The music you hear on after the end of history is provided courtesy of Jason King.
[Recorded in June 2022. ]
In the second episode of the season, we discuss how foreign policy intellectuals from a breadth of political views have responded to the war over these last four months. From IR theorists like Wertheim and Kupchan to the more left-oriented Alexander Zevin at the New Left Review and Thomas Meaney in The Guardian, we’ve noticed some patterns in the discussion that we’ve tracked since s...
[Recorded early June, 2022] Unlocked discussion on two editorial pieces in the NYTimes:
(1) The War in the Ukraine is Getting Complicated...
(2) What America Will and Will Not Do in Ukraine
Has Western liberal euphoria over the Ukraine-Russia war crashed on the rocks of an inevitable negotiated settlement?
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