The Un-Diplomatic Podcast

How the Left Fights the New Global Right: Interview with John Feffer | Ep. 108 Hustle

Episode Summary

In this episode, Dr. Van Jackson sits down with John Feffer, co-director of the Foreign Policy in Focus project at the Institute for Policy Studies. They talk about John's new book, Right Across the World: The Global Networking of the Far-Right and the Left Response. They also talk about writing novels and plays as a foreign policy analyst, or doing foreign policy analysis as a playwright, as well as remembering the way arms control used to be a reactionary argument against disarmament.

Episode Notes

In this episode, Dr. Van Jackson sits down with John Feffer, co-director of the Foreign Policy in Focus project at the Institute for Policy Studies.  They talk about John's new book, Right Across the World: The Global Networking of the Far-Right and the Left Response.  They also talk about writing novels and plays as a foreign policy analyst, or doing foreign policy analysis as a playwright.  Remembering the way arms control used to be a reactionary arguments against disarmament.  

Institute for Policy Studies: https://ips-dc.org

Splinterlands Trilogy of Novels: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1039-splinterlands

Foamers Novel: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/first-edition/Foamers-Berson-Jon-Scribner-New-York/231272502/bd

Right Across the World Book: https://www.amazon.com/Right-Across-World-Networking-Far-Right/dp/0745341896