Interview recorded - 23rd of September, 2024

On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming on Glenn Diesen. Glenn is a Norwegian political scientist and professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway.

During our conversation we spoke about the current geopolitical outlook, US hegemon, risk of the collapse of the US hegemon, a multipolar war, increasing geopolitical tensions, economic optionality and more. I hope you enjoy!

0:00 - Introduction
1:03 - Current outlook on geopolitics?
2:56 - US hegemony being challenged?
4:04 - US hegemony and unipolar world
10:11 - World leaders seeing US as hypocrites?
19:27 - Could US have prevent challenge of hegemon?
24:09 - What is a multipolar world?
30:04 - Economic optionality for economies
35:56 - One message to takeaway from conversation?

Professor Diesen is an academic, author, editor, and political commentator. His research focus is primarily on Russian foreign policy and the geoeconomics of Greater Eurasia and the emerging strategic partnership between Russia and China. Diesen’s latest books are The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order (2024); Russophobia: Propaganda in International Politics (2022), Europe as the Western Peninsula of Greater Eurasia: Geoeconomic Regions in a Multipolar World (2021); Russian Conservatism: Managing Change under Permanent Revolution (2021); Great Power Politics in the Fourth Industrial Rivalry: The Geoeconomics of Technological Sovereignty (2021); The Return of Eurasia (2021); Russia in a Changing World (2020); The Decay of Western Civilisation and Resurgence of Russia: Between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft (2018); Russia’s Geoeconomic Strategy for a Greater Eurasia (2017); and EU and NATO relations with Russia: After the collapse of the Soviet Union (2015).

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