HeyJaredIsmail Lagardien
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- Sep 23, 2026
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ISMAIL LAGARDIEN | China can reel in the runaway world and rogue behaviour of AI firms (opens the original)
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Twenty European countries got together on May 17 1865 to sign the International Telegraph Union (ITU). Those 20 countries ruled the world until 1945. The late historian Richard Pipes, by no means a radical (he worked for the CIA and served in Ronald Reagan’s National Security Council) explained this “rule”: “Until the end of World War 2 the world was dominated by Europeans, who by virtue of superior political and military organisation as well as economic preponderance had succeeded in subjugatin
ISMAIL LAGARDIEN | Capitalism’s ecological disasters in fire and rain of Borneo and Italy (opens the original)
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I am wrapping up a working visit to Southeast Asia, where I have been reading, writing and talking about subjects ranging from geostrategic tensions in the South China Sea to the way European colonial divisions continue to shape societies in the littoral. The maritime political economy and history of Southeast Asia, especially the Malacca Strait, are especially insightful as the world’s attention is focused on maritime trade routes. But that is for a later discussion. Now, I am battling with bre
ISMAIL LAGARDIEN | The imminent nemesis of recklessness and folly of Bessent’s threats of sanctions (opens the original)
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The flexing of Washington’s financial muscles is portentous for the power of the dollar as a global reserve currency. Last month US treasury secretary Scott Bessent warned countries that do business with Iran to sever those financial ties or face sanctions. With this statement Bessent set the dollar on the same type of passage as the florin during the glory days of Florence (between 13th and 15th centuries) and the guilder of Amsterdam’s golden age (between the 17th and 18th centuries). Both fel
ISMAIL LAGARDIEN | Why Trump and the US live ‘rent-free’ in our heads (opens the original)
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There’s an idiom that appears on social media platforms every so often. This or that person, the idiom goes, “lives rent-free” in someone’s head. There is some merit to that claim. We cannot ignore silliness as a driver of public discussions. There is, however, a better and much more logical explanation for why some issues (or persons) remain in focus in the daily work of public intellectuals. For example, I have been given cause recently to reflect on the questions, “Why the US?” And, “Why now?
ISMAIL LAGARDIEN | The curious case of trauma bonding between Japan and the Philippines (opens the original)
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My travels on the littoral of the South China Sea, where I am a guest, have brought me in confrontation (again) with the legacies of Japanese atrocities in East and Southeast Asia during World War 2. In one particular instance I have been trying to make sense of a type of traumatic bonding between Japan and the Philippines, apparently on the side of the US, which is preparing for its next war, probably against the people of China. The US has about 130 military installations in Japan and nine in
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