Moral Mass-hysteria Happens Regularly And On Purpose. From Russiagate to Baloongate | Dr. Chris Mott

With a good moral mass-hysteria, you can do pretty much anything: from eliminating political rivals under the espionage act of WWI or with McCarthyism in the Cold War, to invading Iraq because of imaginary "WMDs". You can justify support for a relentless trench-war in Europe and again discredit political enemies as "Putin puppets" while simultaniously arguing against the integrity of one election (2016) due to "Russiagate" while upholding the next one (2020) and tarnishing any dissent again as the machinations of evil. It is truly fantastic.

Join me talk through this issue with Dr. Christopher Mott who recently wrote a brilliant piece about just that issue: https://www.agonmag.com/p/cycles-of-mania-and-the-cancelling

Dr. Christopher Mott, an IR scholar at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy.

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Pascal’s academic articles about neutrality studies:

“In Defense of Neutrals: Why They’re More Than Fence Sitter” Foreign Policy, June 6, 2023. https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/06/06/ukraine-russia-war-neutrality-nonalignment/

“The Future of Neutrality”. Geneva Center for Security Policy, Policy Briefs, no.4, 2023. ISBN: 978-2-88947-407-3.

“Dual-Neutrality for the Koreas: A Two-Pronged Approach toward Reunification.” Defense & Security Analysis, 2022, http://doi.org/10.1080/14751798.2022.2085109

“The Politics and Diplomacy of Neutrality.” Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations, New York: Oxford University Press, 2022, http://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199743292-0307

“Neutrality Studies.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, New York: Oxford University Press, 2022, http://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.680).

“Going East: Switzerland’s Early Consular Diplomacy toward East and Southeast Asia.” Traverse: Zeitschrift für Geschichte 27 no. 1, 2020, 23–34, http://doi.org/10.5169/seals-881084

“Violent Conflicts and Neutral Legations: A Case Study of the Spanish and Swiss Legations in Wartime Japan.” New Global Studies 11, no.2, 20 17. 85–100, http://doi.org/10.1515/ngs-2017-0018

Pascal’s books about neutrality studies:

Lottaz Pascal, and Ingemar Ottosson. Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War 1931–1945. London: Routledge, 2021. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003182061/sweden-japan-long-second-world-war-pascal-lottaz-ingemar-ottosson

Lottaz Pascal, Heinz Gärtner, and Herbert Reginbogin, eds. Neutral Beyond the Cold: Neutral States and the Post-Cold War International System. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666901665/Neutral-Beyond-the-Cold-Neutral-States-and-the-Post-Cold-War-International-System

Reginbogin, Herbert, and Pascal Lottaz, eds. Permanent Neutrality: A Model for Peace, Security, and Justice. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793610287/Permanent-Neutrality-A-Model-for-Peace-Security-and-Justice

Lottaz Pascal, and Herbert Reginbogin, eds. Notions of Neutralities. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498582261/Notions-of-Neutralities