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Buy David's Book: The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today - https://amzn.to/49gWrfX David Stasavage is an American political scientist known for his work on democracy and political economy. He is the Dean for the Social Sciences and the Julius Silver Professor at New York University's Department of Politics and an affiliated professor in NYU's School of Law. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015. Stasavage earned a bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1989, then obtained his doctorate from Harvard University in 1995. He subsequently went to Europe, working successively for the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Centre for the Study of African Economies, and the Bank of England. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more!

Buy Matthews Book: Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right - https://amzn.to/48XiM1J Matthew Dallek is a historian and professor of political management at George Washington University. His research and teaching interests include 20th-century U.S. politics, extremism, and the conservative movement. 0:00: 🕵️ What is the John Birch Society 18:44: 🔍 Supporters 25:15: 🤔 Politicians 31:16: 💰 Funding 43:14: 🔍 Anti-Elite Narrative 54:38: 🗳️ Trump 1:00:59: 🗳️ Campaign Management 1:06:32: 🗣️ Should Politicians do what people want? 1:13:31: 🔍 Rapid Fire Questions Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more!

Get Mark's Book: Angrynomics - https://amzn.to/3u8NZ3A Mark McGann Blyth is a Scottish-American political economist. He is currently the William R. Rhodes Professor of International Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. At Brown, Blyth additionally directs the William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. His research focuses upon how uncertainty and randomness impact complex systems, particularly economic systems, and why people continue to believe stupid economic ideas despite buckets of evidence to the contrary. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more!

Buy Ayşe's Book: Before the West - https://amzn.to/47JjIq6 Ayşe Zarakol is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge, where she also has an appointment as a Politics Fellow at Emmanuel College. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more! 0:00: Intro 4:30: 🌍 different historical periods of world order 9:10: 🌍 disorder 14:20: 📚 shared historical experiences 18:59: 🌍 global North and global South. 28:42: 🌏 similarities and differences between Asian and European empires 33:28: 🤝 Turkish Election & Israel 36:27: 🎓 Rapid Fire Question

Buy Sergei's Book: Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century - https://amzn.to/46tDswQ Sergey Maratovich Guriyev is a Russian economist, who is provost and a professor of economics at the Instituts d'études politiques in Paris (Sciences Po). He is a former member of the Russian government. From 2016 to 2019, he was the chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He was a Morgan Stanley Professor of Economics and a rector at Moscow's New Economic School (NES) until he resigned on 30 April 2013 and fled to France. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more! 0:00: Intro 0:20: 📚 What are Spin-Dictators 5:23: 🌍 Why? 21:08: ⚠️ Trump 26:21: 🔍 combating disinformation 31:24: 📱 Social Media 41:50: 💬 gathering Information 47:27: 💬 defending Democracy 53:15: 💪 Ukraine-Russia War

Buy Matthew's Book: Belarus under Lukashenka - https://amzn.to/49UnwGU Dr. Frear is Assistant Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Leiden University. He researches the politics the region and his book Belarus under Lukashenka: Adaptive Authoritarianism was published in 2019. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more! 0:00: Intro 0:52: 📚 beginnings of Lukashenko 5:08: 🗳️ the role Political parties 10:48: 🤔 Ukraine - Russia 16:32: 🌍 rhetoric adaption 22:02: 🇧🇾 reliance on Russia 39:25: 📰 informing oneself / media / sources 45:24: 🌍 Rapid Fire Questions

Buy Paul's Book: Belarus in Crisis - https://amzn.to/3MglZkp Paul Hansbury is a UK-based consulting political analyst and the author of the book Belarus in Crisis. Educated at Birkbeck, University of London, and St Antony's College Oxford, his doctoral research was into the foreign policies of small powers - using Belarus as his primary case study. Website: www.paulhansbury.com Twitter: paulhansbury1 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-hansbury/ 0:35 📚 Belarus the last dictatorship in Europe 8:02 ! Lukashenkos Rise 15:44 🗳️ Fair Elections?! 22:33 🗳️ Massive Protests 30:33 🔮 The future of Belarus! 37:54 🌍 Belarussian allies 45:22 💼 Economy 52:23 🗒️ Paul's Research Process 58:59 🗳️ Rapid Fire Questions

Buy Manfred's Book: Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction - https://amzn.to/49QTYtN Manfred B. Steger is a Professor of ⁠Sociology⁠ at the ⁠University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa⁠.⁠ He is most known for his work in social and political theory, primarily discourses of ⁠globalization⁠. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more! 0:00: Intro 0:30: 📚 What is Neoliberalism? 11:52: 💼 the IMF and World Bank 17:42: 💼 privatization 23:47: 💼 The globalization of labor 29:57: 🌍 China & the Future 53:21: 📚 How Neoliberalism can be fixed 59:18: 📜 neoliberalism and democracy Keywords (ignore): Globalization in Five Minutes: The Basics - Manfred B. Steger In just five minutes, Manfred B. Steger summarises the basics of globalization: Manfred B. Steger is Professor of Global and Transnational Sociology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Global Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Culture & Society at Western Sydney University, and Distinguished Global Fellow 2021 at the Center for Advanced Studies of Eurac Research.

Buy Erica's Book: Water Always Wins - https://amzn.to/3tUTPEU Erica Gies is an independent journalist, National Geographic Explorer, and the author of Water Always Wins: Thriving in an age of drought and deluge, published in the U.S., the U.K., and China. Her reporting on water, climate change, plants and critters appears in Scientific American, Nature, The New York Times, bioGraphic, The Guardian, and others. She has given keynote talks at the United Nations 2023 Water Conference, scientific and water industry conferences, and to government agencies, community organizations, NGOs, and classrooms. Media appearances include CBC’s What on Earth; National Public Radio's Morning Edition; CNN International; and many public radio broadcasts in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, the United States. 00:00: Intro 00:38: 💧 What does Water want? 06:24: 🌱 the importance of soil health 12:29: 🌊 the Problems with levees and dams 18:08: 🌊 ancient water management systems 24:03: 🌊 urban flooding in China 30:01: 🌾 negative consequences of levees 35:55: 🦫 Beavers are water engineers 41:54: 🌊 positives of Beavers 47:45: 🌊 Hydropower and carbon emissions 53:29: ! considering water in climate solutions 1:00:04: 🌍 Rapid Fire Questions

Buy Chrisanthi's Book: Borderland: Decolonizing the Words of War - https://amzn.to/3GdPlfJ Dr. Chrisanthi Giotis lectures in journalism at the University of South Australia. She researches decolonized journalism which connects marginalised communities to public discourse and connects local realities with global currents. Chrisanthi's Twitter/X handle: @chrisanthi_g Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more! 0:00: Intro 0:43: ! What makes good Journalism? 6:17: 📺 balancing informative and entertaining Media 11:51: 🌍 the start of foreign journalists 24:08: 🌍 Collaboration 36:13: 📚 Biases & Fallacies 54:59: 📚 this is important 42:09: 🌍 Borderlands 48:26: ! Propaganda 1:00:22: 📰 Rapid Fire Questions

Buy Michael's Book: Korea at War - https://amzn.to/46L1i8a Michael J Seth is a professor of history at James Madison University where he teaches World and East Asian history. His research has focused mostly, although not exclusively, on Korea. He has lived, worked and travels frequently to the country. Before becoming an academic he spent fourteen years working in developing countries in Africa and Asia and was initially attracted to the study of Korea by trying to understand how South Korea became a successful example of economic, social and political modernization. His published works include: Education Fever: Society, Politics and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea (2002), North Korea: A History (2018), A Concise History of Korea (Third Edition, 2020), Korea: A Very Short Introduction (2020), and Not on the Map: The Peculiar Histories of De Facto States (2021), Korea at War (2023). 00:00 Intro 00:41 East Asia vs the West. 06:40 🌍 Westerns influence on Korea 13:28: 🌍 How Korea managed to survive through history 19:23: 🌍 US vs. Japan vs. France influence over Korea 26:13: 🌍 Why Japan was able to take over Korea 32:20: 🇰🇷 resentment and nationalism in Korea 39:42: 🌐 US vs. Soviet Union in Korea 45:58: 🌍 The division 51:49: 🇰🇵 North Korea's constitution 58:27: 💰 Reunification? 1:04:51: 🏅 South Korea's economic development 1:11:11: 🌏 The same people developed into radically different societies 1:16:50: 📚 Rapid Fire Questions

Buy Sam's Book: Iraq Against the World - https://amzn.to/49l9NJ5 Samuel Helfont is an Associate Professor in the Naval War College program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. His research focuses on international history in the Middle East. https://www.samuelhelfont.com/ Twitter/X: @HelfontSamuel Bluesky: @samuelhelfont.bsky.social Email: samuel.helfont@nps.edu 00:00: Intro 00:41: ! The Middle East vs. the West 07:14: 🌍 Iraq in the Middle East 13:33: 🌍 Iraq' advantages and opportunities 25:51: 🔑 Saddam Hussein's rule 32:43: 🔥 violence in Iraq from 1998 to 2003 39:24: ! Iraq-Kuwait dispute 45:38: 🌍 Iraq's allies 52:08: 🔴 Iranian forces in Iraq 58:29: 💰 Iraq's potential to develop its oil wealth and achieve state stability. 1:04:59: 🔑 Saddam Hussein vs. Sectarianism 1:10:58: 📚 Sam's Archive Work 1:16:41: 📰 Best Sources

Buy Philip's Book: How to Build a Stock Exchange - https://amzn.to/3SxL2mM Dr. Philip Roscoe is an Academic, Podcaster, and Author of several Books on the Economy. Website: https://philiproscoe.net/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Philip_Roscoe 0:00: Intro 0:27: 💼 Why is Finance Important 4:22: 💰 History I : Joint-Stock Companies 9:04: 📊 History II : RealTime Trading 13:43: 📈 Brokers 18:11: 💼 Ownership structure of stock exchanges 23:12: 📊 Stock exchanges around the world 27:30: 📉 Unfair-Markets 32:13: 💡 Valuating Stock Exchanges 36:48: 💰 Building successful markets 41:52: 📺 problems with finance 47:14: 🔍 Rapid-Fire Questions

Buy Prof. Goldgeier's Book: Evaluating NATO Enlargement: From Cold War Victory to the Russia-Ukraine War - https://amzn.to/3sPU30b Prof. James Goldgeier is a member of the Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board a Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a Professor at the School of International Service at American University. Additionally he has written several books on foreign policy. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more! 0:00: Intro 5:45: 🤔 differing views 11:08: 🌍 US and Europe 22:16: 🤔 Russia as a NATO-Member 27:45: 🌏 NATO in Japan 33:39: 🗺️ How big can NATO become 39:05: 🇺🇸 Republicans against NATO 44:52: 📚 Career Advice 50:00: 📰 Information Sources & News 55:47: 🌍 Rapid Fire Question

Buy Stephen's Book: Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change - https://amzn.to/47ErvW6 Stephen Gross is an assistant professor in the department of history and the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more! 0:00: Intro 0:21: 🌍 Energy Basics 6:13: 🔒 Geopolitics/Energy security 12:23: 🔥 1. Phase 18:22: 💡 Nuclear 24:01: 🌍 Anti-Nuclear movement 42:02: 🌍 Nuclear De-Transitioning 47:32: ⚡️ Renewables 59:27: 💡 Rapid Fire Questions

Buy Martin's Book: Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War - https://amzn.to/474KUzm Martin Plaut is a journalist and academic specializing in conflicts in Africa, especially the Horn of Africa. He worked as a BBC News journalist from 1984 to 2012 and is a member of Chatham House. As of 2019, Plaut was a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies of the University of London. 00:00: Intro 00:44: 🌍 What makes Ethiopia unique in Africa 05:45: 🌍 Ethiopia's expansion and formation during the Scramble for Africa 11:26: 🌍 history of Eritrea's independence from Ethiopia and Italy. 16:57: 👑 Amhara and Tigray minority groups 22:26: 📺 the influence of media and cultural identity in Somalia and Ethiopia 27:30: 🇪🇹 Ethiopia's corporate world 33:11: 🌍 Ethiopia's role in the Horn of Africa 38:39: 📚 Best Sources on Ethiopia 43:31: 🌍 racism and the complexity of understanding Ethiopian culture and politics

Buy Scott's Book: Let There Be Money - https://amzn.to/3RJP9ez Scott Santens has been researching and advocating for the concept of unconditional universal basic income (or UBI) since 2013. Acknowledged by former U.S. presidential candidate Andrew Yang as one of those who helped shape his thinking. He is the founder and president of the Income To Support All Foundation (ITSA Foundation), the Senior Advisor for Humanity Forward, and also serves on the board of directors of the Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity and as the editor of Basic Income Today — a daily UBI news hub. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more!

Buy Bradley's Book: The Super Age - https://amzn.to/406Mj5Y Bradley Schurman is the author of THE SUPER AGE: DECODING OUR DEMOGRAPHIC DESTINY (Harper Collins) and the founder and CEO of the demographic strategy firm "The Super Age", which helps public and private-sector organizations navigate disruptive population change and improve organizational resilience. The Super Age: https://www.thesuperage.com LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyschurman/ X Profile: @bradleyschurman 00:00 Intro 00:30 🌍 birth rate collapse and population growth 05:56 📉 Birth rates in Korea and China 12:23 🌍 resources and support 18:51 🌍 Do we need more people in the world? 25:17 🌍 implications of overpopulation and the potential solutions. 31:45 ✅ Education and food and water insecurity globally 37:48 📊 impact on the economy 44:10 📊 overall health of the nation and prediction of future trends 57:44 💰 China Crisis 1:03:39: 🌍 Migration Keywords (ignore): Tim Ferriss; Peter Zeihan; Valuetainment; Patrick Bet-David; Joe Rogan; Joe Carr; Lex Friedman; Podcast; Geopolitics; Macroeconomics; Investing; World; Global Relations; Public Relations; Demographics; World Order; Jordan Harbinger; Demographic Collapse; Overpopulation; It's time to come out from under your rock and face the music - China is collapsing. If that comes as a shock to you, watch this video to get up to speed. The Super Age, coined by demographic futurist Bradley Schurman — author of The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny — is a future fast approaching: where those over 65 will outnumber our youth, driven by longer lifespans and declining birth rates. This seismic demographic shift presents both opportunities and challenges for society. Countries like Italy, Japan, and Germany have already reached the Super Age, and many others will follow suit. If we fail to prepare, we risk economic stagnation, increased isolation of at-risk populations, and the decline of rural communities — as witnessed in present-day Russia, exacerbated by its high-mortality invasion of Ukraine. In this episode, Bradley Schurman joins us to shed light on the road ahead. Governments and businesses must be nimble, adapting to a dwindling workforce and the strains it may impose on social programs. Architects and designers, in turn, bear the responsibility of creating inclusive environments that cater to individuals of all ages. And let us not forget the marketers, who must keenly attend to the needs and desires of our older consumers. Through these proactive measures, we can harness the immense potential of the Super Age, a future defined by extended and healthier lives, intergenerational cooperation, and the exciting exploration of new markets. Listen, learn, and enjoy!

Buy Marlene's Book: The Tribalization of Europe - https://amzn.to/3N5CD6x Dr. Marlene Wind is a Danish professor of Political science and law at the University of Copenhagen. She is educated at the EUI in Florence and works on the interplay between law and politics. She is also Special Advisor to the EU’s Foreign Policy chief Josep Borrell. She has published 8 books and many academic articles and has been an active part of the public debate for the past 25 years. She is currently working on a new book on democracy where she asks the basic question of whether Europe can survive without counter-majoritarian courts to defend human rights as several writers in recent years increasingly claim. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more! 0:00: Intro 0:08: 🌍 rising tribalism 12:37: 📰 Controlling Narratives 24:47: 📈 Reasons for Populism 30:42: 📚 Majoritarian Thinking 36:36: 🗳️ Institutions to protect democracy 42:35: 🔍 manipulating public opinion 48:47: 🗳️ defining democracy 54:45: 🔍 corruption in the EU 1:00:24: 📰 Where to get information from? / News 1:06:53: ⚖️ Rapid Fire Questions

Buy John's Book: Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It - https://amzn.to/4a9x15j John Abramson MD, MS, has served as a family physician for 22 years. He has been on the faculty at Harvard Medical School for 16 years, where he currently teaches health care policy. He currently consults as an expert in litigation involving the pharmaceutical industry and has served as an unpaid consultant to the FBI and Department of Justice. Dr. Abramson has appeared on more than 65 national television shows. He was written op-ed pieces in the New York Times LA Times and others. He is the author of the national best-selling book Overdo$ed America. Thank you for watching! My name is Timon Wunderlich. Please Like, Subscribe and Share if you want to see more! 00:00 🌐 Overview of Pharmaceutical Industry 04:54 🌍 Differences in U.S. Healthcare System 11:22 💊 Challenges and Solutions 26:19 🏥 Issues in Prescription Recommendations 27:39 📚Challenges with Evidence-Based Medicine 28:49 💊Issues with Drug Recommendations 29:16 🔄Sociological Impact on Medical Education 31:38 🔄Paradigm Shift and Commercial Influence 34:17 🌐Addressing the Systemic Issue 38:39 🛑 Potential Challenges in Reform 39:08 🤝 Alternative Information Sources 41:49💡 Journal Practices and Financial Interests 44:59 🌍 Science in Service of Humanity 46:19 🎯 Rapid Fire Questions 52:49 💸 Healthcare Investment and Transparency 55:46 💉 Booster Shots and Lack of Information Keywords (please ignore): John Abramson: Big Pharma | Lex Fridman Podcast #263 The Troubling Story of Vioxx

Buy Avi's Book: Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars - https://amzn.to/4788dsd Loeb's Essays: https://avi-loeb.medium.com/ Loeb's Professional website: https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/ Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science (Astrophysics) at Harvard University and a bestselling author (in lists of the New York Times,Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, L'Express and more). He received a PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24 (1980-1986), led the first international project supported by the Strategic Defense Initiative (1983-1988), and was subsequently a long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1988-1993). Loeb has written 8 books and nearly a thousand papers (with h-index of 124 and i10-index of 582) on a wide range of topics, including black holes, the first stars, the search for extraterrestrial life and the future of the Universe. 0:00 Intro 0:25 👽 an object from outside the solar system, potentially of alien origin. 11:46 ! potential contamination 17:13 🌌 first Interstellar meteor 23:24 🌍 Elon Musk 28:53 🌍 reasons to go to space 40:16 🌍 Living on Mars 46:10 💧 What is needed for Life? 52:57 🔭 we may have been visited 58:54 🌌 Rapid Fire Questions Keywords (ignore): Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua | Lex Fridman Podcast #154; Will We Ever Become An Interstellar Civilisation? - Avi Loeb | Modern Wisdom 678; Avi Loeb is a theoretical physicist specialising in astrophysics and cosmology, Professor of Science at Harvard University and an author. Humanity travelling to different planets is a huge undertaking. Yet we're already looking further afield. If we are to survive out into the far future, we need to travel to different solar systems and this presents a ton of unique challenges, today we get to find out about the biggest ones. Expect to learn how Avi discovered and collected the first ever material from a different solar system that landed here on earth earlier this year, whether we will ever send generations of humans on a space craft to a different stars, how Avi is planning to propel a craft up toward the speed of light within the next decade, the dangers lurking beyond the edge of our solar system and much more...Evidence of Aliens? Harvard Astronomer Avi LoebThe Michael Shermer Show # 370; Did Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb discover the remnants of an interstellar meteor in the form of spherules on the ocean floor? Could they be of alien origin? Dr. Avi Loeb Teases BOMBSHELL From UAP Retrieval In Pacific Ocean: Rising; Astronomer Avi Loeb shares his thoughts on the hypothesis that gravitational propulsion and dark energy could be manipulated to enable humans to travel through space. #uap #ufo Does Avi Loeb Have Proof of Alien Technology?; For those of you who don't know him, Avi is a professor of science at Harvard University, theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, and cosmologist. Looking to the Sky for Extraordinary Evidence of UAP (UFO's) - with Avi Loeb | Merged Podcast EP 10; Ryan Graves sits down with Professor Avi Loeb, a renowned scientist from Harvard University, to explore the fascinating world of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). As they delve into the profound implications of these mysterious phenomena, they discuss the need for a systematic survey of the sky, the potential technological nature of UAP, and the implications for our understanding of the universe. Join them on this enlightening journey as they probe the depths of UAP and its significance in shaping our perception of the cosmos. Today on the PBD Podcast, Patrick Bet-David sits down with Abraham "Avi" Loeb, an Israeli-American theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology. In this episode, PBD and Avi discuss UFOs, the Moon landing, and the first interstellar object we've ever seen. „Wurde die Menschheit in einem Alien-Labor gezüchtet?" „Alien-Raumschiff entdeckt" etc. Die Thesen von Harvard Professor Avi Loeb sorgten in den letzten Jahren immer wieder für ordentlich Rummel in der Astro-Szene – die einen verehren ihn als Visionär, die anderen halten ihn für eine Gefahr für den seriösen Ruf der Wissenschaft. Astrophysikerin Dr. Suzanna Randall hat mit ihm gesprochen und sich selbst ein Bild gemacht. Harvard Prof FINDS Alien Proof, Attacks Brian Cox! Hat er Recht? Dieser Harvard-Professor glaubt an Aliens | Terra X Lesch & Co | Suzanna Randall