Is the Middle East Falling Apart? (Robert Wright & Joshua Landis)

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🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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1:41 How US-China rivalry is shaking up the region 12:44 Why Washington wants to control the Middle East oil spigot 25:01 The odds of an imminent confrontation with Iran 30:49 Is America breaking international law in Syria? 42:55 What would a Middle East without US intervention look like? 48:25 Why Israel lacks a written constitution 55:27 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Joshua Landis (University of Oklahoma, SyriaComment.com). Recorded August 08, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcasts.
0:33.4	Hi, Josh.
0:35.3	How are you, Bob?
0:36.8	I'm doing okay. How are you?
0:39.0	Excellent. Very well.
0:41.2	Good. Let me introduce this. I'm Robert Wright, publisher of Non-Zero Newsletter. This is a Non-Zero podcast.
0:47.6	You are Josh Landis, a professor at the University of Oklahoma. In fact, you occupy the Sandra Mackey chair there, I guess,
0:57.7	and your director of the Center for Middle East Studies there.
1:01.6	Is that right?
1:03.9	Yes.
1:05.1	And you're director of something else, aren't you?
1:07.5	Yes, the Farzani family Center for Iran Studies
1:11.0	and Perrin Galvestons, yes.
1:13.2	Okay, good. Well, congratulations
1:14.8	on all that. And
1:16.5	you are still publishing
1:18.7	at Syria Comment. You've long had
1:20.7	a blog. Yes,
1:22.8	not as active as used to be. During the
1:24.8	opening years of the Syrian Civil War,
1:29.5	I was writing every day on that.
1:30.8	Much less so.
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