HeyJaredStatecraft
Statecraft is an interview series about how policy actually gets made. www.statecraft.pub
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How to Build an Authoritarian Regime (opens the original)
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A while back, Edward Luttwak explained to us how to stage a coup. Julian Waller focuses on the next step: how authoritarian regimes are built and maintained. We discuss: * Authoritarian regimes as the historical norm * Why military juntas don’t last and party states do * Autocracies: Iran, North Korea, and the Papacy * How the Kremlin has reacted to the Wagner mutiny * What a “pacted transition” looks like in Venezuela * Why the US shouldn’t worry about authoritarianism This is a public episode.
The James C. Scott Memorial Episode (opens the original)
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Today, my guest is writer, thinker, and friend Dan Wang . He was on Statecraft a year ago, but this time, we're talking about a scholar who has shaped both of our thinking: the late great James C. Scott , author of (among many other classics) Seeing Like a State . We discuss: * How Scott’s fieldwork helped him understand peasant life and state capacity * How mountains impede state power, in Southeast Asia and the USA * How peasants and civil servants resist authority * The advantages of tubers o
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