
How America Built A Durable Dollar Empire | Mary Bridges
In Episode 489 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with historian Mary Bridges, a senior fellow at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator and author of Dollars and Dominion, about the origins of Amer...
16 Juli 47min

The Strong Do What They Can and Suffer What They Must | Jonathan Kirshner
In Episode 488 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with political scientist Jonathan Kirshner about the origins of the Peloponnesian War, the enduring misreading of Thucydides, and what the arc ...
13 Juli 1h 13min

Iran's New Grand Strategy | Vali Nasr
In Episode 487 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Vali Nasr — professor of international affairs and Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins University, non-resident senior advisor in the Mid...
9 Juli 50min

Schrödinger's Strait and the New Energy Order | Daniel Yergin
In Episode 486 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and leading authority on energy and geopolitics Daniel Yergin about the surprising resiliency of the global ...
6 Juli 45min

After the Fall: Reckoning with the End of History | Ian Shapiro
In Episode 485 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Yale political scientist Ian Shapiro—author of After the Fall—about how the widespread optimism of the post–Cold War era gave way so rapid...
29 Juni 55min

AI Governance and the National Security State | Dean W. Ball
In Episode 484 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with AI policy researcher, writer, and incoming Head of Strategic Futures at OpenAI, Dean Ball, about the intellectual foundations of machine i...
25 Juni 52min

Ending the Iran War: a New Balance of Power in the Middle East | Hamidreza Azizi
In Episode 483 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Hamidreza Azizi — expert on Iranian foreign policy and international security, and author of The Axis of Resistance: Iran, Israel, and the...
22 Juni 55min

Why History Can't Prepare Us for What's Coming | Alap Shah
In Episode 482 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with hedge fund manager Alap Shah, co-author of "The Global Intelligence Crisis," a three-part essay series examining the economic, political, ...
1 Juni 54min


















