For today’s show, Thursday host Allen Ruff talks to historian Alfred McCoy about the long history of empire through the lens of his new book, To Govern the Globe.

Alfred McCoy is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he teaches and researches modern Philippine social and political history, U.S. foreign policy, colonial empires in Southeast Asia, global illicit drug trafficking, and CIA covert operations. He is the author of many books, most recently In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power (Haymarket, 2017) and To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change (Haymarket, 2021).

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