In this episode, I go on a whirlwind tour of global geopolitics with author, academic, serial columnist, policy adviser and TV host,
Richard Heydarian. We discuss…
Why the Middle East is the best starting point for a geopolitics analyst (02:00)
India’s place as a ‘pivot power’ in the Indo-Pacific (8:00)
The real ‘Silk Roads’ and Eurasia’s new multicentric geopolitical order (10:00)
Neo-Ottomanism and the resurgence of Turkish adventurism (12:00)
Biden’s Indo-Pac strategy not as Obama 2.0 but as “Trump with more finesse” (18:00)
The inverse dynamics of Xi Jinping’s and Shinzo Abe’s statecraft (22:00)
‘Strategic suasion’ best practices and why it works on China (25:00)
The ‘Three Indo-Pacifics’ and where the Philippines fits (35:00)
Whether or not China really needs allies (40:00)
Network effects of US alliances and the power of deterrance (43:00)
The “dual foreign policy” of the Philippines (44:00)
Celebrity candidates in the Philippine’s election and the Duterte Dynasty (52:00)
The “aborted nation” and the libertarian legacy in the Philippines (1:05:00)
Whether Indonesia or the Philippines is “Southeast Asia’s Brasil” (1:14:00)
The “invisible state’” Indonesia’s miracle and Southeast Asia’s new middle powers (1:20:00)
Why ASEAN should abandon multilateralism for “minilateralism” (01:22:00)
What event could trigger global conflict in South China Sea and historical parallels to WWI (01:30:00)
Asia’s ‘cauldron of national humiliations’ and rising aggression across the region (01:40:00)
Richard’s upcoming book on China’s new empire (01:50:00)
and many more topics threaded through!
You can listen to the episode right away in the audio player embedded above, or right below it you can click “Listen in podcast app” — which will connect you to the show’s feed. Alternatively, you can click the icons below to listen to it on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Richard Heydarian is the author of
Rise of Duterte,
The Indo-Pacific: Trump, China, and the New Struggle for Global Masteryand
How Capitalism Failed the Arab World. He has written for or/and interviewed by Aljazeera, BBC, Bloomberg, CNN, CNBC, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, The Australian, The Atlantic, Reuters, Time, Spiegel, NBC, The Nation, Sydney Morning Herald, Christian Science Monitor, among others. He is a widely sought consultant for government officials, presidential candidates, civil society groups, as well as investment groups, including Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs. He is also Professorial Chairholder on Geopolitics at Polytechnic University of the Philippines. You can also connect with Richard on
LinkedIn, follow him on
Facebook or on Twitter at the handle @
Richeydarian.
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