Westlessness with Samir Puri

Westlessness with Samir Puri

Have we entered a post-Western world? What does that mean and how does it look from the other side of the world? Singapore based academic and former British diplomat has published a new book, Westlessness about this idea and I spoke to him for a wide-ranging discussion on the decline of the west, the rise of Asia and the potential implications. Check out our Bookshop.org affiliate site behindthelines and please sign up for my substack at arthursnell.substack.com and/or follow me on Bluesky @snellarthur.bsky.social. You can sometimes find me on other podcasts - most often Disorder which I am involved with in partnership with RUSI, the Royal United Services Institute, the world's oldest think tank. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The Post Western World and the Trump Regime

The Post Western World and the Trump Regime

Dr Samir Puri works at Chatham House and has written a brilliant book called Westlessness. If you would like to support this podcast please consider taking out a paid subscription to my Substack arth...

27 Jan 51min

Everything, everywhere all at once: what 2026 might hold, with Dan Kaszeta

Everything, everywhere all at once: what 2026 might hold, with Dan Kaszeta

I spoke to Dan about many things. Better to have a listen. If you are looking for the chart about AI financing that he mentioned, it's here. You can find Dan on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/dankas...

20 Jan 47min

Iran in Crisis: Charlie Gammell on the protests

Iran in Crisis: Charlie Gammell on the protests

Charlie Gammell is one of Britain's leading Iran experts and he joined me in a conversation recorded on 13 January about the rapidly evolving situation in Iran. You can find Charlie's work here on Sub...

14 Jan 47min

EMERGENCY EPISODE: Maduro, Chavez, Delcy Rodriguez and where we're going in Venezuela

EMERGENCY EPISODE: Maduro, Chavez, Delcy Rodriguez and where we're going in Venezuela

Catherine Royle was Britain's Ambassador to Venezuela, making one of very few people to have met and worked with all of Nicolas Maduro, his predecessor Hugo Chavez and Maduro's (perhaps temporary) suc...

4 Jan 45min

A Storm of Princes: Saudi Arabia and the UAE fight over South Yemen

A Storm of Princes: Saudi Arabia and the UAE fight over South Yemen

A struggle over who controls South Yemen might not seem particularly important, but it's a proxy for a far bigger conflict that has been bubbling for years between two of the key countries in Gulf reg...

30 Des 202541min

The New Total War: Bob Seely on Russia's Strategy

The New Total War: Bob Seely on Russia's Strategy

From the revolutionary use of drones to staged coups, child abduction and psychological warfare, the war in Ukraine is like no other. It is a new form of total war, combining traditional military forc...

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America First: A New Era in Foreign Policy with Jonathan Terra

America First: A New Era in Foreign Policy with Jonathan Terra

In this episode, Arthur Snell and Dr. Jonathan Terra delve into the Trump administration's National Security Strategy, exploring its ideological underpinnings, rejection of globalism, and implications...

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Crisis in the Sahel: the end of Western intervention and the collapse of Mali

Crisis in the Sahel: the end of Western intervention and the collapse of Mali

Mali, a vast country larger than most of Western Europe added together is a country whose central authority has largely collapsed and whose capital city Bamako is surrounded by radical Islamist milita...

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