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Disorder
Disorder
Goalhanger & Global Enduring Disorder Ltd

Gone are the days of coherent international coordination. Rather than working together to solve pressing crises, many of the world’s most powerful... more

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Episodes

Ep101. Munich Security Conference 2025 – What does it mean for European Security?

In Munich last weekend, J.D. Vance shocked Europe with his speech castigating Europeans as having the ‘wrong values’ and not... more

18 Feb 2025 · 42 minutes
Ep100. Britain's Military: A Tool for Global Ordering?

With a major war raging in Europe, a seemingly more expansionist Trump in the Whitehouse, and China’s long held desire... more

11 Feb 2025 · 50 minutes
Ep.99 The New Age of Political Influence

We’re entering a new age of political influence, where money generates attention, and attention generates influence. In this meta-verse, old... more

06 Feb 2025 · 42 minutes
Ep.98 Disorder Emergency cast – Tariffs, Impoundment, Gaza, AID Freeze, and plane crash

Disorder is a podcast where we hate being right. Totally hate it. Jason truly loves being wrong.  But fudge and... more

04 Feb 2025 · 55 minutes
Ep97. Does Diplomatic Secrecy actually Work? And What’s Next for Centre-Left Politics?

In this episode, Jason and Alex tackle some probing listener questions. They return to a theme from previous episodes (especially... more

30 Jan 2025 · 45 minutes
Ep96. Saved by God to Make American Great Again

During his second inaugural speech, Trump declared January 20th, 2025 as Liberation Day. His indoor inauguration kept the hoi polloi... more

28 Jan 2025 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
Ep95. Fox News, Elon, and Neo-populists: Engines of Deliberate Disorder?

In 2022, Nina Jankowicz was appointed to a brand new role within the US Government – Executive Director of the... more

21 Jan 2025 · 49 minutes
Ep94. Gaza Ceasefire: What’s Next?

A tentative ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas has been announced by the US and Qatar.  The deal would see... more

16 Jan 2025 · 57 minutes
Ep93. Africa in the Age of Disorder

In 2024, the Disorder podcast looked a lot at Ukraine, Syria, Israel-Palestine, India, Bangledesh, and even north Africa… but we... more

14 Jan 2025 · 52 minutes
Ep92. Trump 2.0: A Shift Away from Neoconservatism?

With Trump due to be inaugurated in less than 15 days, it is high time to come to grips with... more

07 Jan 2025 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
Ep91. An Orderly or Disorderly New Year?

From the Trump election win to the ongoing conflicts across the Middle East, Sudan and Ukraine… 2024 was certainly a... more

31 Dec 2024 · 1 hour, 5 minutes
Ep90. A Disorderly Christmas Special

As 2024 draws to a close, Jason and Alex celebrate Chrismukkah (when Christmas and Hanukkah fall on the same date,... more

24 Dec 2024 · 59 minutes
Ep89. Canada: 2025’s stealth mega orderers?

From its important but underrecognized role in the World Wars of the 20th century to its key advocacy for the... more

17 Dec 2024 · 49 minutes
Ep88. Syria: New Order or Fresh Chaos?

Assad has fallen! The Tyrant is no more! Long live the revolution!    There has been a genuine outpouring of jubilation among... more

11 Dec 2024 · 1 hour, 1 minute
Ep.87 Syria, Georgia, South Korea, France, Ireland, Hunter Biden, oh my

This week was par for the course… We are living through Peak Disorder. Two democratic capital cities were convulsed by... more

09 Dec 2024 · 1 hour, 5 minutes
Ep86. Is Democracy Dead? Or actually alive and kicking?

Do elections work anymore? 2024 was the biggest year of elections in human history. Major contests were held in the... more

03 Dec 2024 · 1 hour, 5 minutes
Ep85. Thanksgiving Special: Taiwan, Identity Politics, and Can Taylor Swift Order the Disorder?

Amidst post-election malaise and seasonal depression, Jason is thankful for the Mega-Ordering listeners who sent in their questions to his... more

28 Nov 2024 · 48 minutes
Ep84. Through the Looking Glass: Trump’s Appointments and Can Starmer do Global Leadership?

We have crossed through the looking glass – Up is Down, Disorder is Order, Vice is Virtue, Felony is a... more

26 Nov 2024 · 49 minutes
Ep83. Trump Derangement Syndrome with the Two Matts

The Post-Mortem autopsy continues. How could liberal elites have had eight and half years to prepare for the twenty thousand... more

19 Nov 2024 · 40 minutes
Ep82. Fool me twice: Shame on me

The Disorderer-in-Chief is now President-Elect. We can’t say we didn’t see it coming. In fact, we predicted on the pod... more

12 Nov 2024 · 1 hour, 5 minutes
Ep81. Disorder Trumped Order

After a night of trepidation at Jason’s watch party the results came in faster and more furiously than expected… Trump... more

06 Nov 2024 · 1 hour,
Ep80. What does the Post-Election Future hold?

What do professional ‘futurists’ think about global disorder? With our current world seemingly in never ending Disorder that won’t be... more

05 Nov 2024 · 40 minutes
Ep79. Trick or Treat? Spooky Trump or Visionless Harris?

To celebrate Halloween, Jason goes on the Keen On show hosted by friend of the Disorder Pod, Andrew Keen, to... more

31 Oct 2024 · 47 minutes
Ep78. China’s Economic Disorder: Overproduction, Oversupply, Overcapacity, oh my!

Whether it is solar panels or steel, clothes or tech, many of the world’s manufactures are made in China. But... more

29 Oct 2024 · 54 minutes
Ep.77. The System is Rigged: Conspiracy theories and the revenge of the losers

From immigrants eating pets, to Jewish space lasers starting wildfires, to 9/11 ‘trutherism’, our disordered world – and particularly the... more

22 Oct 2024 · 56 minutes
Ep76. Can Sanctions help us Order the Disorder?

Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the West initiated the most comprehensive economic war in human history. The... more

17 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 8 minutes
Ep75. What can Backgammon teach us about Ordering the Disorder?

What can games of skill and chance, of risk and reward – like Poker and Backgammon– teach diplomats, policymakers, and... more

15 Oct 2024 · 38 minutes
Ep74. Part2: The Case for Palestinian Statehood

(This episode flows from Ep 73 Part I: Commemorating the October 7 Massacre – please listen to it first if... more

08 Oct 2024 · 39 minutes
Ep73. Part1: Commemorating the October 7 Massacre

A year ago today, the Middle East and the world changed forever. Hamas terrorists and Gazan civilians broke through the... more

07 Oct 2024 · 54 minutes
Ep72. JD Vance vs Tim Walz: A gentlemanly Disorderer in a crisp suit vs a folksy Midwestern Orderer

Tuesday night’s vice-presidential debate between Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz was a breath of fresh air in some... more

03 Oct 2024 · 50 minutes
Ep71. Nasrallah Killed in Lebanon – What’s Next?

Over the weekend, Israel confirmed that they had killed Hezbollah’s charismatic leader – and terrorist master mind --  Hassan Nasrallah.... more

01 Oct 2024 · 48 minutes
Ep70. Peak Disorder in Bangladesh

‘Peak Disorder’ is Jason’s coinage for: the democratic world’s inability to exert ordering capacity to respond to new challenges except... more

26 Sep 2024 · 55 minutes
Ep69. Life in North Korea, Kidnapping Stories, and Why Symbolism Matters with Dictators -- Jordan Harbinger on Tyrants and Disorderers

What does getting kidnapped in Mexico City have in common with taking Western backpackers on tours of North Korean? Each... more

24 Sep 2024 · 50 minutes
Ep68. Disorder’s One Year Anniversary

To celebrate Disorder’s One Year Anniversary, Alex and Jason recap the shows Greatest Hits, share their thoughts on their favourite... more

19 Sep 2024 · 1 hour, 9 minutes
Ep67. Dictators’ Disordering Quest for Internal Security

From Putin to Qadhafi, from Mohammed bin Salman to Trump… our current era of Enduring Disorder is filled with many... more

17 Sep 2024 · 57 minutes
Ep66. Harris taunts Trump; the Disorderer implodes, Order appears to prevail

Jason and Alex explain the implications for global order of the first, and possibly onl,y 2024 Presidential Candidates Debate btw... more

12 Sep 2024 · 54 minutes
Ep65. Why is Harris not appealing to middle - aged white men? Plus listener questions on migration, the NHS, and Ukraine

This week, Jason and Alex catchup after an eventful summer. Alex discusses her main takeaways from her trip to Tbilisi... more

10 Sep 2024 · 59 minutes
Ep64. Part 2: Nationalism – Can it be reclaimed for Order?

Harvey Whitehouse, author of Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World, rejoins Jason Pack for part 2 of their... more

03 Sep 2024 · 42 minutes
Ep63. Part 1: Does our biology facilitate our Global Disorder?

Over the last two decades the seemingly ‘connecting’ phenomena of globalization and the internet have not made human communities more... more

27 Aug 2024 · 47 minutes
Ep62. Celebrating ONE MILLION Downloads

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

20 Aug 2024 · 51 minutes
Ep61. Could AI help us Order the Disorder?

We all know about the potential threats as AI becomes more advanced. They range from spreading disinformation, undermining our democracy... more

13 Aug 2024 · 59 minutes
Ep60. Question Time: The ICC, Unelected Disorderers, and why Ukraine should not be forced to make peace

In this episode, Jason and Alex answer some questions from our mega orderers. They discuss: the ICC’s role as an... more

08 Aug 2024 · 38 minutes
Ep59. Part 2: Could a new global institution help Order the Disorder?

In part 2 of our discussion with Jamie Metzl, author of Superconvergence, Jaime tells Jason about his idea for creating... more

06 Aug 2024 · 49 minutes
Ep58. Part 1: Will the Burgeoning Bioeconomy be a force for Order or for Disorder?

Advanced biotech (CRISPR gene editing, gene drives, personalized medicine) could be the most Disordering technology ever invented. Techniques like gene... more

30 Jul 2024 · 50 minutes
Ep57. Tunisia’s Postponed Presidential elections

The Economist called Tunisia a “light unto the Arab nations” just a decade ago, yet it may soon be fading... more

25 Jul 2024 · 48 minutes
Ep56. Nothing became his presidency like the leaving of it

Legend has it that when King George III heard that George Washington, had decided to retire after his second term,... more

22 Jul 2024 · 46 minutes
Ep55. NATO Summit 2024 – Did it help Order the Disorder?

A week ago today, NATO wrapped up its 75th anniversary summit. At the event genuine  support of Ukraine was on... more

18 Jul 2024 · 35 minutes
Ep54. If you come for the King, best not miss

In bye gone moons, Trump inadvertently quoted Ralf Waldo Emerson, “When you strike at the King, you must kill him.”... more

16 Jul 2024 · 33 minutes
Ep53. NATOs 75th Summit – Where the real Ordering happens?

NATO is the longest lasting and most successful military alliance in human history. Today NATOs 75th Summit in Washington, DC... more

11 Jul 2024 · 40 minutes
Ep52. Suburban Lib Dem Mums and Centrist Starmer Dads take back control

‘The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; and they that dwell in the land of the... more

08 Jul 2024 · 59 minutes
Ep51. UK Elections: A lone bright spot for global Order?

Later this week as they go to the polls, UK voters will likely celebrate their very own ‘Independence from Neo-Populists... more

02 Jul 2024 · 44 minutes
Ep50. The Emperor has no clothes - Biden’s disorderly debate performance

After months of the grandees in the Democratic party telling the public that Biden’s age was nothing to worry about:... more

28 Jun 2024 · 33 minutes
Ep49. Did WWI start our era of Disorder?

Exactly 110 years ago, a malnourished teenager with a pistol disordered the world. On Sunday the 28th of June 1914,... more

28 Jun 2024 · 49 minutes
Ep48. Hotter or Poorer? Should Gulf States care about global warming?

We celebrate 9 full months of Disorder with a live studio recording. Climate change hasn’t been acted on coherently by... more

25 Jun 2024 · 55 minutes
Ep47. Has the essence of Warfare changed?

Renowned Israeli Military historian Martin Van Creveld explains to Disorder listeners how certain essential elements of warfare have remained constant... more

20 Jun 2024 · 34 minutes
Ep46. Is a truly progressive foreign policy compatible with Ordering the Disorder?

Heretofore, this podcast has largely examined the blame that neo-liberals, neo-conservatives, and neo-populists on the Right bear in causing our... more

18 Jun 2024 · 51 minutes
Ep45. Part 2: Is Britain in the Moral Superiority Industry?

The sordid tale of Tory mega donor, Mohamed Amersi, and his libel suit against Charlotte Leslie was an attempt to... more

11 Jun 2024 · 58 minutes
Ep44. Part 1: Are Corruption and Kleptocracy at the very heart of the Enduring Disorder?

Corruption, in one form or another, is as old as civilization. As long as there have been governmental authorities, private... more

04 Jun 2024 · 1 hour,
Ep43. Are we having enough babies? And listeners questions

At the end of the 20th century many world governments sought to lower birth rates – e.g. China’s One Child... more

28 May 2024 · 1 hour, 2 minutes
Ep42. Britain's True Independence (from Neopopulists) Day

Jason is so so so excited he just just just can’t hide it. He sees the hand of a providential... more

25 May 2024 · 1 hour, 3 minutes
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Jason is so so so excited he just just just can’t hide it. He sees the hand of a providential mega orderer... more