On this episode of New Order, we speak to Prof. Charles Kupchan, who served as Barack Obama’s and Bill Clinton’s director of European affairs at the US National Security Council and is professor of international affairs at Georgetown University. He discusses why the old world is indeed dying, with the gradual death of the US-led liberal order accelerated by Donald Trump, the “schizophrenic” US foreign policy that oscillates between global domination and Western hemispheric domination, why Donald Trump started the war on Iran and fell into the same “black hole” as other US presidents in waging another fruitless war in the Middle East, whether a coherent strategic vision of a campaign against China is guiding Trump’s foreign policy, how the West’s political leaders have no solutions for their electorate’s problems, the ineffectiveness of Western sanctions against Iran and Russia, whether the world will allow the US to shape the emerging new order, and much more.
Finally, New Order’s Zarah Khan puts questions from you the viewers to Afshin Rattansi. You can send your questions to @AfshinRattansi on X, and they may be answered on next week’s episode!
And a question for you the viewers: Are secondary sanctions turning middle powers into frontline actors in great power rivalry?
