HeyJaredGeopolitics Recharged
Flipping open the chassis of geopolitics. Ex Chatham House research director, IISS-Asia Senior Fellow and one-time UK diplomat. Lecturer and author of 'Westlessness' & 'Great Imperial Hangover'. Informed and entertaining.
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What if Ukraine is coerced and Iran is not? (opens the original)
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Consider the contrasting Transatlantic priorities around these wars: the American government is obsessed with coercing Iran economically and militarily but doesn’t care overly much about how the Russia-Ukraine war ends. Conversely, the Europeans are over-energised by the cause of defeating Russia in Ukraine, or as the strategy goes, coercing Russia sufficiently that it approaches future negotiations to end the war ‘seriously’.In simple terms the US’s big priority right now is that Iran is coerce
Triggering World War over the Philippines? Why it is the New Fulcrum State (opens the original)
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In an underreported episode, on 12 July, the Philippines marked the ten-year anniversary of the international law ruling against Beijing’s claims to control much of the South China Sea. A Philippines think-tank decided to hold a modest conference in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, to mark the anniversary of the ruling. Indonesia hosting the conference is significant: it is the largest ASEAN state and it was going to send official speakers to the event. Even if these Indonesian officials delivered
American imperialism at 250: beginning of the end or end of the beginning? (opens the original)
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How would an Ottoman Vizier, a Spanish Conquistador, and a British Colonial Administrator advise today’s US empire? Given that their empires each lasted well over 250 years, they may well sympathise with the onset of imperial rot. They would certainly recognise the impulse to expand continuously in the face of rivals. US imperialism has experienced an astonishing resurgence through a roll-call of entanglements in Greenland, Venezuela and Iran. Using Israel as a ‘praetorian guard’. Juggling disti
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