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This interview with the Review of Democracy podcast is the deepest dive to date on Van Jackson’s book, Grand Strategies of the Left: The Foreign Policy of Progressive Worldmaking. 

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In this cross-over episode with the Security Dilemma podcast, Van speaks with Patrick Fox and John Allen Gay of the John Quincy Adams Society about a range of issues: dissident thinking and intellectual diversity in foreign policy; how to think about China and deterrence; what’s wrong with a "foreign policy for the middle class”; fissures in the progressive movement on foreign policy; and more! 

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Opposition parties carried the day in Thailand's recent multiparty elections on May 14. The Move Forward Party, led by Pita Limjaroenrat, and Phue Thai party of Thaksin Shinawatra's family, won a sizeable majority, with the military's coalition parties losing resoundly. What does the recent election mean for the country's path forward? Will the military's election commission let the opposition form a government, or will it stage another coup like in 2014? Has Thai society finally moved on from the Yellow Shirt-Red Shirt divide that paralyzed the country's politics for the past two decades? Hunter Marston sits down with ANU professor Greg Raymond and University of Sydney professor Aim Sinpeng to discuss Thailand's democratic crossroads.

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The legendary New Leftist and historian Michael Kazin joins the pod to talk about his recent essay in Dissent, "Reject the Left-Right Alliance in Ukraine." We also talk he ended up on the New Left, socialism in the Democratic Party, why he supported Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, the politics of being anti-war, the role of World War I in leftist historical memory, and his recent book What It Took To Win: A History of the Democratic Party.

Dissent Essay: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/reject-the-left-right-alliance-against-ukraine

What It Took To Win Book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374200237/whatittooktowin

War Against War Book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/War-Against-War/Michael-Kazin/9781476705910

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How's Biden doing on foreign policy?  Where is the "Biden doctrine" going wrong?  Matt Duss and Stephen Wertheim--leading voices in progressive foreign policy--come on the pod to hit all the issues with Van and Kate--Ukraine-Russia, a disastrous defense strategy, Iran, Saudi-Yemen war, China, Afghanistan and counter-terrorism, and more. 

Matt and Stephen's essay in The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/169598/better-biden-doctrine

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Why the Biden administration is performing its rivalry with China.  What the Afghanistan withdrawal decision says about global punditry.  Why UFOs might not be as sexy as Van hopes they are.  Theories for avoiding war.  Winners may write history, but that doesn't make it right.  Creating a talent pool for progressive technocrats.  How to think about the UK/EU jumping into the China-competition game.  Also this episode: Why "Foreign policy for the middle class" is the right goal with the wrong implementation.  

Kelsey Atherton Tweet: https://twitter.com/AthertonKD/status/1382858221329608706?s=20

John Lee Tweet: https://twitter.com/koreanforeigner/status/1382360593374449673?s=19

Rita Konaev Tweet: https://twitter.com/RitaKonaev/status/1382305484233916426?s=19

Andrew Carr Tweet: https://twitter.com/AOCarr/status/1381744190682361857

Contributors: Gaby Magnuson, Alex Auty, Jake Dellow, Hunter Marston

Why we need to wait before debating whether to defend Taiwan.  How good is the Netflix show Cobra Kai?  Why Martha Nussbaum has evolved about the cosmopolitan tradition.  How much of China's foreign policy is imperial?  And a new poll finds that the people want progressive foreign policy!

Gordon Flake Tweet: https://twitter.com/lgflake/status/1300577595956756480

James Schoff Tweet: https://twitter.com/SchoffJ/status/1299407113320624130?s=19

Stephen Wertheim Tweet: https://twitter.com/stephenwertheim/status/1300954470218641415

ReThink Media Poll: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2020/08/26/ending-endless-war-progressive-foreign-policy-what-democrats-want/

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Martha Nussbaum: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/interview-cosmopolitan-tradition-martha-nussbaum/

Contributors: Jake Dellow, Gaby Magnuson, Pete McKenzie, Ciara Mitchell

The contradiction of military superiority and China threat deflation.  How many " left technocrats" are actually out there?  Is dollar hegemony good for national security?  And why do Millennials shun American exceptionalism while Boomers still revel in it?  Also this episode: blowing up the landmine ban triggers Van's inner activist, military superiority is politically unsustainable, more Chinese imperialism, and what the defense budget shouldn't be spending money on.  

Emma Ashford's tweet: https://twitter.com/EmmaMAshford/status/1223274059800203264

Matt Duss's tweet: https://twitter.com/mattduss/status/1224324932814938112

Chris Clary's tweet: https://twitter.com/clary_co/status/1224705466800001024

Chicago Council on Global Affairs Survey: https://www.thechicagocouncil.org/publication/lcc/ok-boomer-youth-hesitant-use-force-shun-us-exceptionalism-foreign-policy

Joshua Zoffer on Dollar Dominance: https://newrepublic.com/article/156417/end-forever-war-keep-dollar-globally-dominant 

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⟨=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