The Un-Diplomatic Podcast

The Global Far Right is a Protestant Reformation for Idiots, Think Tank Dark Money, Getting Real on The Indo-Pacific Game | Ep. 80

Episode Summary

Why the threat of our time is the global far right, and what it has in common with the protestant reformation. What's wrong and right about the Indo-Pacific. Dark money in think tanks. Kim Jong Un's authoritarian savvy. The real meaning of the Third World--or, is Marco Rubio a white supremacist? Also this episode: Why Trump has changed how we teach international relations.

Episode Notes

Why the threat of our time is the global far right, and what it has in common with the protestant reformation.  What's wrong and right about the Indo-Pacific and the Quad.  Dark money in think tanks.  Kim Jong Un's authoritarian savvy.  The real meaning of the Third World--or, is Marco Rubio a white supremacist?  Also this episode: Why Trump has changed how we teach international relations.

Sensible Human 96 Tweet: https://twitter.com/sensiblehuman96/status/1351296226235453442?s=11

Patrick Iber Tweet: https://twitter.com/patrickiber/status/1351921439759339523?s=11

Paul Poast Tweet on Teaching IR: https://mobile.twitter.com/ProfPaulPoast/status/1352970521110048769

Aaron Connelly Tweet: https://twitter.com/ConnellyAL/status/1351750108895821828?s=20

Kishore Mahbubani on the Quad and the real game in Asia: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/27/anti-china-alliance-quad-australia-india-japan-u[…]dium=email&utm_campaign=29615&utm_term=Editors%20Picks%20OC&

Van Jackson on bro culture and the Capitol insurrection: https://inkstickmedia.com/the-liberal-internationalist-origins-of-right-wing-insurrection/

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