Post-Liberal International Relations and the End of Ideology, w/ Danny Bessner
Why is America no longer the global hegemon? What is world order becoming after liberal hegemony? What’s happening to international relations as a discipline? What does it mean to say that the era of ideology is over? In what way does Daniel Bessner sort of agree with G. John Ikenberry? Why does the dominance of liberal capitalism mean shedding liberalism, and why does that help explain the world’s ongoing polycrisis?
Danny Bessner (from the American Prestige Podcast) joins me to make sense of the world by way of his essay in The Ideas Letter, “Power Without Ideology: Welcome to the Multipolar World.” We debate a few of the finer points but mostly it’s an enriching back and forth with one of the sharpest minds in the global commentariat.
Read Danny’s essay in The Ideas Letter: https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/power-without-ideology/
Listen to American Prestige: https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm
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Imperial End Times: The Geopolitics of Class War in a Post-American World
This week I delivered a public lecture at the New Zealand Fabian Society. It was a packed house, and the folks who turned up had a range of really engaged questions, comments, and provocations. They were more amenable to my point of view than I expected.