American Prestige

Danny and Derek welcome Nu-Anh Tran, assistant professor at the University of Connecticut, for a discussion on her book Disunion: Anticommunist Nationalism and the Making of the Republic of Vietnam. In this first episode, they discuss the ideologies of independence movements dating back to the 1920s, the Japanese occupation of World War II, the Việt Minh, the roles of the Cao Đài and Hòa Hảo religious movements in anticolonial resistance, the outbreak of the Anti-French Resistance (First Indochina) War, and more until the Geneva negotiations of 1954.

Grab a copy of Dr. Tran’s book here: https://bit.ly/3cKggnG

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Danny and Derek talk about Biden's Middle East trip (0:33), the apparent Turkish attack in Northern Iraq (4:05), Putin's and Erdoğan's trip to Iran (7:16), Sri Lanka's new president (12:49), Bolsonaro's claims of election fraud (15:36), Draghi's resignation in Italy (19:21), Ukraine (23:02), and the European heatwave (31:02).

Recorded July 21, 2022

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Danny and Derek welcome back Samuel Huneke, assistant professor of history at George Mason University, to discuss his book States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany. In this first episode, they begin in the era of German unification in the 19th century, discussing the contemporary scholarship on sexuality, German liberalism and the rights available to homosexuals in Germanic states, the influence of the Enlightenment and French Revolution on proto-German laws, conservative ennobling of homoerotic bonding, and more until the WWI.

Check out Dr. Huneke’s book here: https://bit.ly/3OdZMBn

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Danny and Derek wish you a happy day-after-Bastille Day! They discuss tensions around Kaliningrad Oblast (1:19), the war in Ukraine (4:13), protests in Sri Lanka (8:50), the Pacific Islands Forum (13:36), the UN Security Council and Syria (15:35), and Biden's Middle East trip (18:18).

Recorded July 14, 2022

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Danny welcomes Jamie Martin, assistant professor of history and of social studies at Harvard University, to talk about his new book, The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance. They discuss global economic governance, the League of Nations, interwar imperialism, the transition from dollar diplomacy to the IMF, and more.

Check out Dr. Martin’s book here: https://bit.ly/3AEMLOh

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Danny and Derek welcome Chelsea Szendi Schieder, author of Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left, for a special episode in the wake of former prime minister of Japan Abe Shinzo’s assassination. They discuss postwar Japan and the “peace constitution”, the Abe family’s political history, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Nippon Kaigi, Abe’s terms as PM, and more.

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Derek and Danny—through Covid and the sniffles, respectively— reunite for a news update. This week, they cover the fraught Iran nuclear discussions in Doha (0:31), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) meeting (3:47), the start of the Chilean constitutional campaign (8:05), Ukraine (11:00), Finland and Sweden inching towards NATO membership (17:11), and dear Boris Johnson’s resignation (21:23).

The music played under our Bojo sendoff is “Nimrod” from the Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar.

Recorded July 7, 2022

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Danny and Derek welcome Matthew Specter, senior fellow at the Institute for European Studies at UC Berkley and lecturer of history at Santa Clara University, to talk about his pathbreaking book The Atlantic Realists. They discuss the origins of realism, thinkers at the fin de siècle, the national interest, Hans Morgenthau, the finer points of liberal internationism vs. realism, and more.

Grab a copy of The Atlantic Realists here: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28906

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*Derek is on vacation, so no news recap this week!*

With Derek out of town, Producer Jake takes the opportunity to chat with Danny a bit about his new article in Harper’s, “Empire Burlesque”. They discuss some of the concepts presented in the piece, including the American century, liberal internationalists and restrainers, the latter two ideologies’ approaches towards US-China relations, where the American public stands on US armed primacy, and more.

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Danny and Derek welcome Margaret Peacock and Erik Peterson, associate professors at the University of Alabama, to discuss their book A Deeper Sickness: Journal of America in the Pandemic Year. They discuss the book’s aims, how history informs the COVID moment, where the pandemic intersects with the political, the state of the historian profession, and more.

Grab a copy of the book here: https://bit.ly/3NpZhE8

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