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