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Disorder
Gone are the days of coherent international coordination. Rather than working together to solve pressing crises, many of the world’s most powerful states are actively making those crises worse. The result? We’re living through a novel historical era: The Global Enduring Disorder. The Disorder Podcast explains why.
New Books Network Podcasting Fellow Jason Pack delves deeply into issues from climate change to tax havens to corruption to the wars in Ukraine, Gaza, and Syria to uncover the coordination failures that connect these seemingly disparate challenges. Through its Partnership with the New Books Network, Disorder is proud to present a special subset of its podcasts as a 'New Books Series' featuring some of the world's most impactful geopolitical thinkers: such as New York Times Best Selling Author Robert Kaplan, Atlantic Columnist Anne Applebaum, famous public intellectuals Julia Ebner, Harvey Whitehouse, and Brian Klaas, and Award winning journalists Stephanie Baker, Tom Burgis, and Peter Geoghagan. Delve into these cutting edge geopolitical books via the 'New Books Series' of Disorder episodes below:
July 28, 2025
Is International Diplomacy Dead?
The UN is demonstrably powerless in Gaza; unable to facilitate elections in Libya; and blocked by Russia from doing anything meaningful on major issue…
June 17, 2025
Can NATO Survive?
At different engagements throughout the month, NATO allies will meet in Brussels and the Hague to discuss Ukraine and defense spending – with Trump’s …
June 2, 2025
Could Nationalism Save Germany?
With Friedrich Merz officially at the helm, Germany is entering a new era. But with the AfD breathing down his neck – the country is actually more int…
May 20, 2025
The Danger of Complete Anarchy
Disorder is a show where we look for historical parallels to better understand our current age of Global Enduring Disorder… It is also a show where on…
March 25, 2025
How to Combat Extreme Ideas (Part 2)
This is the second part of a two-part interview with Julia Ebner -- the princess of extremist infiltration, the queen of counter radicalization, and a…
March 19, 2025
The Hidden Logic of Extremist Conspiracy Theories (Part 1)
Extremist ideologies and the conspiracy vehicles that carry them are now heard throughout mainstream social and political discourse. Whether it’s Trum…
March 11, 2025
Neoliberalism: The Ultimate Disorderer?
Forget Christianity, Judaism, New Age Spirituality, and Buddhism, a new type of religion drives 21st century Western thought. It goes by the shadowy n…
October 17, 2024
Can Sanctions help us Order the Disorder?
Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the West initiated the most comprehensive economic war in human history. The US, EU, and UK…
September 3, 2024
Former Armenian President Sarkissian: Can a Club of Small States Order the Disorder? (Part 2)
Small states like Qatar, Ireland, Singapore, Jordan, and Botswana are thriving in our disordered world. They’re smart, agile, and are implementing nov…
September 3, 2024
Nationalism – Can it be reclaimed for Order? (Part 2)
Harvey Whitehouse, author of Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World, rejoins Jason Pack for part 2 of their discussion. The duo dis…
August 27, 2024
Does our biology facilitate our Global Disorder? (Part 1)
Over the last two decades the seemingly ‘connecting’ phenomena of globalization and the internet have not made human communities more united. Seemingl…
August 6, 2024
Could a new global institution help Order the Disorder? (Part 2)
In part 2 of our discussion with Jamie Metzl, author of Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform our Lives, Work…
July 30, 2024
Will the Burgeoning Bioeconomy be a force for Order or for Disorder? (Part 1)
Advanced biotech (CRISPR gene editing, gene drives, personalized medicine) could be the most Disordering technology ever invented. Techniques like gen…
June 11, 2024
Are Corruption and Kleptocracy at the very heart of the Enduring Disorder? (Part 1)
Corruption, in one form or another, is as old as civilization. As long as there have been governmental authorities, private businesspeople have foun…
June 11, 2024
Is Britain in the Moral Superiority Industry? (Part 2)
The sordid tale of Tory mega donor, Mohamed Amersi, and his libel suit against Charlotte Leslie was an attempt to turn money into control over the tru…
April 23, 2024
Former Armenian President Sarkissian on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (Part 1)
April 24th marks Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, but the tragic Ottoman massacres of Armenians of over a century ago have been largely forgotten in…
March 26, 2024
Is there Order in the universe? Or are we all the playthings of chance?
Can we ever truly achieve Order in the international system? Or is life itself just a deterministic jumble of uncontrollable events? Do humans crave o…
October 17, 2023
Dirty money is everywhere, as Wall St and St Petersburg are on the same page
From London to Miami, illicit cash has been flowing through the West’s financial systems. Coordination failures have allowed disruptors like Russia to…
September 20, 2023
The Rise of the Neo-Populists
Over the past few decades leaders like Trump, Orban, and Bolsonaro have ridden a wave of popular outrage to rise to power. But what came first: the Ne…