What the Russia-Ukraine War Teaches Us About Today's Economic and Military Order ft. Daniel Immer Wahr

Full Episode Link: https://youtu.be/7CL_8jnKBRk?si=S3dgqoeCM6-8ef-p Anirudh and Daniel engage in a deep dive into the evolving nature of warfare and geopolitical dynamics, with a focus on the unexpected conventional military strategies used by Russia in Ukraine, contrasting with the widely anticipated cyber warfare. They explore the broader global shift away from the optimistic globalization of the 90s towards a re-territorialization of politics, highlighted by Russia's strategic moves to achieve self-sufficiency and leverage over global food supplies. The discussion also covers the critical importance of territorial resources like rare earth materials for technological advancement and the enduring significance of geopolitics in shaping the modern world. Through their analysis, Anirudh and Daniel illuminate the complex interplay between military tactics, economic politics, and the strategic value of resources, underscoring a pivotal moment in international relations that recalls the economic politics of the 1930s and emphasizes the unavoidable link between geopolitics and economics in today's decisions. 00:00 Cyber Warfare vs. Traditional Military Tactics: A New Era of Conflict 00:49 The Geopolitical Shift: From Global Unity to Territorial Politics 02:33 Economic Politics and the Return to Geopolitical Strategies 03:23 The Tech Wars and the Importance of Territory in Modern Conflict Book Links: AnirudhSuri: The Great Tech Game by Anirudh Suri : https://amzn.eu/d/1Su38My How to Hide an Empire: https://amzn.eu/d/hssq9QF About Daniel Immerwahr: Daniel Immerwahr (Ph.D., Berkeley, 2011) is Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities. His first book, Thinking Small (Harvard, 2015), offers a critical account of grassroots development campaigns launched by the United States at home and abroad. It won the Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians and the Society for U.S. Intellectual History's annual book award. His second book, How to Hide an Empire (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), is a narrative history of the United States that brings its overseas territory into the story. It was a national bestseller, a New York Times critic's choice for one of the best books of 2019, and the winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Immerwahr's writings have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, the Washington Post, Harper's, The New Republic, The Nation, and the New York Review of Books, among other places. More information and many of Immerwahr's writings are available at his website (https://history.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/daniel-immerwahr.html) #Russia, #Ukraine, #CyberProwess, #MilitaryTactics, #Geopolitical, #WorldHistory, #Territorialization, #LiberalWorldOrder, #EconomicPolitics, #Geopolitics, #TechWars, #RareEarthMaterials, #TerritoryGeography, #ArtificialIntelligence, #MarketPurchasing, #GlobalConflicts, #ModernWarfare, #EconomicManeuvers, #WarfareTactics, #GeopoliticalShifts