Daily: The Age of Chaos – Why we live in turbulent times

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🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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We live in a world of chaos, with Western democracies facing overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises. How did we get here? Professor Helen Thompson is co-host of the Talking Politics podcast – and she was Ahir Shah’s Director of Studies at University. They unpack her new book Disorder, how the fault lines in the Sino-American relationship, NATO, and the EU have all been decades in the making, and the “crisi-tunities” for years to come. “Most of the commentary on Brexit and Trump was far too superficial.” “So long as oil has a place in our energy supply, then the geopolitics of oil come with it.” “There's a genuine political fear in Washington that the geopolitical winner of green energy will be China.” “We're living in a world where supply and demand is much more complicated.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Ahir Shah. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.9	theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to the bunker daily I'm Ahir Shah today disorder disorder. It may have escaped your notice, but everything is all over the place everywhere. Chaos, disruption and unpredictability are the hallmarks of our times. At the beginning of a new decade, Western Democratic societies face overlapping
1:24.4	geopolitical, economic, and political crises. But where did these crises come from?
1:28.6	Joining me to explain this is Helen Thompson, professor of political economy at the University of Cambridge and
1:34.4	co-host of the Talking Politics Podcast. Her new book, Disorder, Hard Times in the 21st century,
1:40.2	seeks to explain the historical origins of the political shocks of the past decade,
1:44.0	showing how fault lines in Western democracies, the Cino-American relationship,
1:48.0	NATO, and the European Union have been decades in the making.
1:51.0	Helen was also incidentally my director of studies at university so the last
1:55.2	time we were engaged in an interview I was an extremely nervous 17 year old and I have now
1:59.1	improved and am simply an extremely nervous 31 year old.
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