Decline of the Liberal Global Order | Prof. Doug Stokes

In this Direct Interview, John speaks with Doug Stokes, Professor of International Security and Strategy at the University of Exeter. As the liberal global order is further eroded by identity politics and woke ideology, Professor Stokes and John consider the impacts of these progressive movements and a way forward. They seek sources of hope for a divided West and discuss how we can properly equip our young people to wrestle with the many contentious issues they are facing.

Doug Stokes is Professor of International Security and Strategy in the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter. He specialises in US foreign policy, international security and debates on grand strategy. Professor Stokes has published a number of books, journal articles and book chapters in these areas including his most recent books; Global Energy Security and American Hegemony, (Johns Hopkins, 2011) US Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 2018).

His major developed research focus is on the durability of the US led liberal international order and the ways in which great powers can use military power to shape international relations in ways they deem desirable. This question becomes especially interesting in the context of economic power shifting to East Asia, the crisis of Western strategic agency and complex forms of global interdependence in a world of many states.

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00:00 Intro
00:20 Introducing Professor Doug Stokes
01:38 Opening remarks
02:51 Living and working in Bosnia
08:32 The nature of our international order
16:24 Can we maintain a liberal global order?
21:08 Does the divided West still hold a bigger vision?
27:02 The misery of devastating revolutions
37:26 Flaws in the new Woke 'religion'
43:13 Progressives ignore evidence and reason
51:15 Parallels between WWII and the growing threat of China
59:47 Does AUKUS mark a significant turning point?
01:07:30 Equipping young people for the future
01:15:53 Conclusion
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