To celebrate ONE MILLION downloads (thanks mega orderers!), Jason is joined by his best friend and lecturer at the Swedish Defence College, Karl Karim Zakhour. 

The two ruminate on a host of topics including: the rather surprising interconnections between neo-liberal reforms in Sweden and Syria and what they tell us about our era of Global Enduring Disorder; whether 2004 was the worst year in geopolitics, but the best year to drink arak in Damascus; whether a certain kind of vulgar Hegelianism might just save us from the current disorder; and whether Kier Starmer might just have what it takes to be the antidote to the rise of the far-right authoritarians. The episode concludes with Jason taking stock of what he has learned from doing the Disorder pod by laying out his vision for the kind of global institutions needed to make a Global Enduring Order come into being while Karim explains why bottom-up organizing and more voluntary associations are also needed to help us Order the Disorder. 

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For more on Karim Zakhour and the Försvarshögskolan: https://www.fhs.se/sc/profile-page.html?identity=400.506a10b718cee96f44e50adb  

The Origins of AGE: From States and Markets to Scientific Methods  

(https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-13722-8_23) 

What will the world look like in a hundred years? What will the study of international relations be like? This article lays out a vision of the future, at once familiar and unexpected. 

Entrepreneurs of desperation: Young men and migration in interior Tunisia 

 (https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003353232-11/entrepreneurs-desperation-karim-zakhour) 

The article looks at how young men in Tunisia try to navigate around harsh economic realities and dream of better lives. 

While We Wait: Democratization, State and Citizenship among Young Men in Tunisia's Interior Regions 

(https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1456250&dswid=5417) 

Why did the Tunisian democratic experiment fail? Based on long fieldwork this Ph. D thesis argues that democratization creates both opportunities and deep uncertainties that are amplified by economic failures and thus creates its own authoritarian reaction.   

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Producer: George McDonagh 

Exec Producer: Neil Fearn 

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