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American Prestige

E191 - Grand Strategies of the Left w/ Van Jackson

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Danny welcomes back to the program Van Jackson, senior lecturer in international relations at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, to explore grand strategy and a progressive foreign policy to make a more just and stable world. They discuss where grand strategy falls in the fields of political science and international relations, dominant grand strategies like offshore balancing, neoliberal institutionalism, and anti-hegemonism, how these strategies relate to what's happening in DC, and more. Grab a copy of Van's book Grand Strategies of the Left: The Foreign Policy of Progressive Worldmaking. Subscribe now and support the pod! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's all. Hello, Prestige Heads, welcome to I'm D'Neath.

1:05.0

Hello, Prestige Heads, and welcome to American Prestige.

1:09.3

I'm Danny Bessner, sad and lonely, because unfortunately, Derek couldn't make it today,

1:11.3

but I'm very excited to welcome back to the podcast today. I think you've been on two or three times at this point, but that's Van Jackson.

1:15.9

Van is a senior lecturer in international relations at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.

1:22.7

He's author of a bunch of books, but we invited him to talk about his, isn't your most recent book or another

1:28.2

one has come out more recently.

1:29.5

So far it's the most recent, but next year.

1:31.5

I know you and Mike Brennis have the book coming out, which we'll have you guys on

1:34.9

to talk about, but his most recent book, Grand Strategies of the Left, The Foreign Policy

1:39.6

of Progressive World Making, and this is a great book because I believed I am thanked in the acknowledgments, and I am cited all over the place, which is basically every book should be more like that.

1:48.6

But Van, thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for contributing to the latest book.

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