Geopolitical Tour de Force with Richard Heydarian
Liako Lebakeng
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Richard Heydarian<br/><br/>In this episode, I go on a whirlwind tour of global geopolitics with author, academic, serial columnist, policy adviser and TV host, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-heydarian-75aa0662/">Richard Heydarian</a>. We discuss…<br/><br/>Why the Middle East is the best starting point for a geopolitics analyst (02:00)<br/><br/>India’s place as a ‘pivot power’ in the Indo-Pacific (8:00)<br/><br/>The real ‘Silk Roads’ and Eurasia’s new multicentric geopolitical order (10:00)<br/><br/>Neo-Ottomanism and the resurgence of Turkish adventurism (12:00)<br/><br/>Biden’s Indo-Pac strategy not as Obama 2.0 but as “Trump with more finesse” (18:00)<br/><br/>The inverse dynamics of Xi Jinping’s and Shinzo Abe’s statecraft (22:00) <br/><br/>‘Strategic suasion’ best practices and why it works on China (25:00)<br/><br/>The ‘Three Indo-Pacifics’ and where the Philippines fits (35:00)<br/><br/>Whether or not China really needs allies (40:00)<br/><br/>Network effects of US alliances and the power of deterrance (43:00)<br/><br/>The “dual foreign policy” of the Philippines (44:00)<br/><br/>Celebrity candidates in the Philippine’s election and the Duterte Dynasty (52:00)<br/><br/>The “aborted nation” and the libertarian legacy in the Philippines (1:05:00)<br/><br/>Whether Indonesia or the Philippines is “Southeast Asia’s Brasil” (1:14:00)<br/><br/>The “invisible state’” Indonesia’s miracle and Southeast Asia’s new middle powers (1:20:00)<br/><br/>Why ASEAN should abandon multilateralism for “minilateralism” (01:22:00)<br/><br/>What event could trigger global conflict in South China Sea and historical parallels to WWI (01:30:00)<br/><br/>Asia’s ‘cauldron of national humiliations’ and rising aggression across the region (01:40:00)<br/><br/>Richard’s upcoming book on China’s new empire (01:50:00
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Geopolitical Tour de Force with Richard Heydarian
Liako Lebakeng