S04E02: Geopol­i­tics of the War in Ukraine

This episode explores the geopo­lit­i­cal, eco­nom­ic, and social impli­ca­tions of the cur­rent war in Ukraine. The in-depth his­tor­i­cal analy­sis, both of the cur­rent Russ­ian inva­sion in Ukraine, and the larg­er glob­al con­text out­lines how the war can be under­stood as a world war, which involves the rethink­ing and remak­ing of a world order.

Guests fea­tured in this episode 

Geor­gi Der­luguian, Pro­fes­sor of Social Research and Pub­lic Pol­i­cy at New York University’s Abu Dhabi cam­pus. Born in the Sovi­et Union, Georgie then expe­ri­enced its breakup as a young social sci­en­tist. Hav­ing pur­sued African stud­ies in Moscow, Geor­gi spent two years in Mozam­bique dur­ing the civ­il war in the 1980s, and then  moved to the Unit­ed States right after that to work with Immanuel Waller­stein, grad­u­at­ing with a PhD in soci­ol­o­gy from the State Uni­ver­si­ty of New York at Binghamton. 

His dis­ser­ta­tion research formed the basis of a ground­break­ing and idio­syn­crat­ic book of his­tor­i­cal soci­ol­o­gy: Bourdieu’s Secret Admir­er in the Cau­ca­sus: A World-Sys­tem Biog­ra­phy (Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go Press, 2005).