School of War

Ep. 25: Waller Newell on Putin and Tyranny

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Waller Newell, Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Carleton University, joins the show to discuss tyranny and tyrants—and Vladimir Putin in particular. 


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  • 02:05 Introduction
  • 03:43 Let's talk about Vladimir Putin
  • 05:40 What is the Russian "Soul"?
  • 07:19 Quote from "The Russian Idea"
  • 08:40 Who was Nikolai Berdyaev?
  • 09:54 Is Berdyaev an influence on Aleksandr Dugin?
  • 11:05 The West has a hard time understanding non-economic motivations. Why?
  • 13:06 Who is Aleksandr Dugin?
  • 15:21 “Eurasian Nationalist Bolshevism” 
  • 16:55 Rehabilitating Stalin
  • 18:40 Are we seeing a perpetuation of Tsarist Russia?
  • 20:40 What is fascism?
  • 22:35 The many types of tyranny
  • 25:12 What kind of tyrant is Putin?
  • 26:50 Why has millenarian tyranny appeared so relatively recently in history?
  • 29:51 The relationship between liberalism and millenarian tyranny
  • 31:25 The next ten years in Russia
  • 34:00 Did Putin know what he was getting himself into in Ukraine?
  • 35:36 The prospect of Russian and Chinese collaboration in the future
  • 36:55 Who drives Chinese policy - Xi Jinping or the Chinese Communist Party?
  • 38:56 Staying sane while studying tyrants
  • 42:10 What should we be reading to better recognize hostile actors for what they are?
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