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• /467/ Mosques & Malls & Nation-States ft. Djene Bajalan

  On Syria, the fall of Assad, and nationalism in the Middle-East. [Patreon Exclusive] Historian Djene Bajalan talks to Alex about a major rearrangement in the Levant. We discuss: Who are Syria's new rulers HTS, and what is their vision – if any? Did geopolitics really determine the fall of Assad and the Ba'ath Party? How HTS's victory is so profoundly different from Islamism in Iran 1979 Why 2025 finally closes the book on the Arab Spring – and on secular Arab nationalism Were the Kurds wrong to rely on US protection? And in the full episode we continue by discussing... Is Turkey the big winner of the decade? What the Left gets wrong on nationalism Civic versus ethnic nationalism, revisited What was democratic, liberal and revolutionary about nationalism – and whether it can be again How conservatives recuperate left-wing ideas, which were always conservative from the start Links: Djene's writing at Jacobin /95/ The Fall of Rojava? ft. Dani Ellis / Alexander Norton

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• /466/ Regime Change in the West?

  On disinformation, NATO vs Russia, terrorism + more. [Full episode for subscribers only. Go to patreon.com/bungacast] We look back at a turbulent last month or so with the help of guest and "disinformation bot" Tara McCormack. We put it all in the context of Trump's return, post-neoliberalism and deglobalisation. 00:13:52 – Jacob Siegel  talks to Alex about Meta's policy U-turn on censorship and what it means for the public-private partnership on digital surveillance. 00:50:11 – How will European powers react to the US's relative withdrawal of its protection? Will France, Britain and Germany double-down on the Ukraine war? 01:06:21 – Why is Luigi Mangione not understood as 'terrorism' while the Magdeburg Christmas market attack is? What drives terrorism and is that even the right term to understand explosive anomie?  01:15:24 – Letters to the Editors: on the global radical right, and Trump's foreign policy Links: /369/ Information-War and War-Politics ft. Jacob Siegel /34/ War Propaganda ft. Tara McCormack To the Finland Station, Branko Milanovic, Substack Trumpism & Geopolitics, Tim Pendry, Substack Class Patricide, Dustin Guastella, Damage

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• /465/ Quick Coups & Post-Development in Korea ft. Jamie Doucette

  On the martial law crisis in South Korea. For the full episode: patreon.com/bungacast Jamie Doucette, who researches contemporary political economy and Korea's development at the University of Manchester, talks to Alex and George about December 2024's coup attempt and the past 50 years in the Republic of Korea.  Why is South Korea western capitalism's best propaganda tool? Did Yoon Suk Yeol want to institute a dictatorship? Did he want to militarise all of society, or only politics? How "unreconstructed" is the South Korean right? Do they dream of dicatorship? What was the Park Chung-hee regime of the 60s and 70s like? What is authoritarian developmentalism? Why did S. Korea democratise? Did the workers win it or did elites concede it? What is the post-developmental state, how neoliberal is ROK, and what does the left-right spectrum look like now? What was the Candlelight movement of 2016? Links:  /420/ Fertility Freefall & Gender Strife in South Korea ft. Hyeyoung Woo The Postdevelopmental State: Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea, Jamie Doucette (OPEN ACCESS) The Logic of Compressed Modernity, Chang Kyung-Sup 

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• /464/ Decline Under The Donald ft. Daniel Bessner

  On Trump's foreign policy, the 2nd time round. Historian and podcaster Daniel Bessner joins Alex Hochuli and contributing editor Lee Jones to ask how this era of rot and decay will proceed under Trump II, from Ukraine to China and beyond. We discuss: Will we see "America First transactionalism"? Does Trump have a capable cadre to bend the state to his will? What will Trump’s relationship be to the deep state? How important are generational splits in attitudes to the US empire? Will there be a peace deal in Ukraine? Where does that leave 'Atlanticism'? Is confrontation with China baked in? Is the Middle East the key to world peace? Links: Empire’s Critic: The Worlds of Noam Chomsky, Daniel Bessner, The Nation American Prestige podcast EU blows hot and cold over Trump, Benoît Bréville, Le Monde diplomatique America First, Russia, & Ukraine, Lt. General (Ret.) Keith Kellogg, Fred Fleitz, AFPI /171/ Fukuyama & the End of History ft. Daniel Bessner  /142/ Dollar Empire (2) ft. Daniel Bessner

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• /463/ Reading Club: Place 3 – Sennett

  On The Fall of Public Man. [Patreon Exclusive] We continue working through the 2024/25 syllabus and the first theme, The Future of Place. We ask is politics possible without a sense of place. Here we discuss chapter 13, "Community becomes uncivilised", and deal with listener questions. How does the changed relationship between public and private impact notions of community and of place? How does the maintenance of impersonal relations signify 'civility'? Is impersonality really the summation of all the worst evils of industrial capitalism? What is wrong with yearning for community, or specifically “love of the ghetto, especially the middle-class ghetto” How does "fratricide" become "logical" when people use intimate relations as a basis for social relations? Why is fratricide "system-maintaining"? Links: 2024/25 Bungacast Syllabus (with links to readings) Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence, Christina B. Hanhardt The Making of a New Political Subject, George Hoare, Café americain

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