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A channel dedicated to neutrality in international relations and analysis of world affairs. For more info, visit neutralitystudies.com

  1. US Retreats. Multipolar War Escalates. | Prof. Saul Takahashi

    20 HR AGO

    US Retreats. Multipolar War Escalates. | Prof. Saul Takahashi

    US alliances now look less like protection and more like danger. Pascal Lottaz speaks with international human rights lawyer Saul Takahashi about living through the UAE missile alerts, the Gaza genocide, US bases turning allies into targets, Japan’s risks, failed deterrence, and the breakdown of the old order. Links: Saul Takahashi Researchmap: https://researchmap.jp/saul_takahashi Neutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com (Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/academic) Merch: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourthwall.com Donation: https://neutralitystudies.com/donate Timestamps: 00:00:00 Saul Takahashi and UAE experience 00:07:36 Gaza genocide and Gulf fallout 00:12:13 Neutrality law and legal gray zones 00:17:40 US bases as magnets in Gulf and Japan 00:26:08 Takaichi Trump and Japan China ties 00:37:44 Proxy war risk and old order collapse 00:44:18 Regional security and multipolar shift 00:49:14 Colonialism clarity and public pressure

    55 min
  2. American Power Plunges Under Iran Shock | Prof. Radhika Desai

    1 DAY AGO

    American Power Plunges Under Iran Shock | Prof. Radhika Desai

    US power looks trapped, brittle, and in decline. Pascal Lottaz speaks with political economist Radhika Desai about Trump’s Iran war speech, a deepening Middle East quagmire, oil shock, NATO strain, lost US credibility, imperial decline, domestic decay, and the risk of an AI and debt crash.  Links: Radhika Desai website: https://radhikadesai.com ([radhikadesai.com](https://radhikadesai.com/?utm_source=openai)) Radhika Desai Substack: https://radicaldesai.substack.com ([sidestack.io](https://sidestack.io/directory/substack/radicaldesai))  Neutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com (Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/academic) Merch: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourthwall.com Donation: https://neutralitystudies.com/donate  Timestamps: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:49 Trump speech and war trap 00:05:00 Middle East quagmire and lost control 00:08:15 Gulf bases oil shock and allies 00:12:45 Iran war and imperial decline 00:16:37 US revolution capitalism and empire 00:24:51 Global backlash against US power 00:31:32 Trump antiwar brand collapse 00:39:14 AI bubble and crash risk 00:44:28 Where to follow Radhika

    45 min
  3. Scientist Confirms Iran Is Unbeatable | Dr. Patrick Ringgenberg

    1 DAY AGO

    Scientist Confirms Iran Is Unbeatable | Dr. Patrick Ringgenberg

    Western views of Iran are deeply distorted. Patrick Ringgenberg, EPFL lecturer and longtime Iran researcher, discusses media bias, Iran’s social and religious complexity, failed regime change thinking, war misreading, internal power factions, and the gap between diaspora narratives and life inside Iran. Links: Patrick Ringgenberg Website: https://patrickringgenberg.com/home/ Academia: https://unil.academia.edu/PatrickRinggenberg Article: https://forumgeopolitica.com/fr/article/la-guerre-contre-liran-un-tournant-pour-teheran-et-lordre-international Neutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com (Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/academic) Merch: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourthwall.com Donation: https://neutralitystudies.com/donate Timestamps: 00:00:00 Introduction and war assessment 00:03:55 Real life inside Iran 00:09:40 Wine tradition and private life 00:13:13 Military misread and war delusion 00:21:32 Media bias and missing experts 00:28:30 The mullah regime label 00:35:09 Minorities and national identity 00:40:03 Power factions and state structure 00:53:56 Closing critique of Iran coverage

    1 hr
  4. Eurocrats Trying To KILL This German Journalist (with his Family) | Hüseyin Dogru

    2 DAYS AGO

    Eurocrats Trying To KILL This German Journalist (with his Family) | Hüseyin Dogru

    This is a grave case of political punishment without due process. Pascal Lottaz speaks with journalist Hüseyin Doğru, who says EU sanctions turned him into a non-person inside Germany. The discussion covers the lack of trial or hearing, the struggle to challenge sanctions in court, frozen bank access, the seizure of his wife’s accounts, and the danger this creates for his children. They also discuss the silence of major media and unions, the wider use of sanctions and debanking against dissent, and the need for public protest and political pressure. Links: Hüseyin Doğru on X: https://x.com/hussedogru Neutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com (Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/academic) Merch: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourthwall.com Donation: https://neutralitystudies.com/donate Timestamps: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:59 Sanctioned inside Germany 00:07:07 German court and blocked payments 00:12:02 Wife accounts frozen 00:22:23 Fear and the test case claim 00:26:31 Media unions and silence 00:33:06 Courts politics and no remedy 00:42:13 Wider crackdown across Europe 00:46:05 Political resistance and final appeal

    51 min
  5. Iran War FALLOUT: It Gets Worse for USA | E. Mamedov and Dr. P. Shakarian

    5 DAYS AGO

    Iran War FALLOUT: It Gets Worse for USA | E. Mamedov and Dr. P. Shakarian

    Iran looks far harder to break than many in the West assumed. Pascal Lottaz talks with Dr. Pietro Shakarian and Eldar Mamedov about Iranian Azerbaijan, Armenia, Israel, Turkey, failed diplomacy, and the wider South Caucasus fallout from the war. Links: Eldar Mamedov at Quincy Institute: https://quincyinst.org/author/eldar-mamedov/ Eldar Mamedov on X: https://twitter.com/EldarMamedov4 Dr. Pietro A. Shakarian at AUA: https://people.aua.am/team_member/dr-pietro-a-shakarian/ Pietro A. Shakarian at The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/pietro-shakarian/ Neutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com (Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/academic) Merch: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourthwall.com Donation: https://neutralitystudies.com/donate Timestamps: 00:00:00 Guests and Iran background 00:04:43 Iranian Azerbaijan reality 00:13:26 Soviet myths and deep integration 00:16:11 Armenians and Christians in Iran 00:22:16 Iran as a civilizational state 00:27:05 Gaza Israel and failed diplomacy 00:36:46 Azerbaijan Turkey and war risks 00:55:21 Armenia politics and corridor fallout 01:00:34 Regional solutions and closing

    1hr 5min
  6. Next US Crime Against Humanity: Caribbean Mass-Slaughter | Dr. Richard Byron-Cox

    6 DAYS AGO

    Next US Crime Against Humanity: Caribbean Mass-Slaughter | Dr. Richard Byron-Cox

    Not just Cuba, but the entire Caribbean region is under intense US threat from blockade, hunger, bombing, and old colonial habits dressed up as foregin policy. Today, I speak with Dr. Richard Byron-Cox, a Caribbean-born author with a PhD in public international law, about Cuba’s deep crisis, Haiti’s long suffering, and the wider struggle of small states facing raw power. The discussion moves from the history of the Monroe Doctrine and the Cuban Revolution to present claims about sanctions, energy shortages, intervention, and fear across Caribbean waters. I also push the question of whether change can come from law, diplomacy, public pressure, or reform inside the West itself. The result is a hard exchange on justice, sovereignty, resistance, and the future of shared human life. Dr. Byron-Cox's Links: Were Mama’s Tears in Vain?: https://www.abebooks.com/9781969368486/Mama%E2%80%99s-Tears-Vain-Byron-Cox-Richard-1969368489/plp Living in wisdom – an examination of human nature: https://www.abebooks.com/9781970749342/Living-wisdom-examination-human-nature-1970749342/plp The Story of Paulene Bramble: Book One: https://www.amazon.com/Story-Paulene-Bramble-Springs-Blossoms-ebook/dp/B0DDVN4JJ9 Neutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com (Opt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/academic) Merch & Donations: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourthwall.com Timestamps: 00:00:00 Cuba under blockade 00:01:07 Caribbean politics and US pressure 00:08:30 Conditions inside Cuba 00:11:00 Haiti and Caribbean neocolonialism 00:20:13 Resistance history and African roots 00:31:51 Regional alliances and coercion 00:38:29 Reform power and imperial decline 00:52:09 Common humanity and final reflections

    1 hr
  7. 🚨USA Plays for Time: Prepping Invasion, Gaming Markets, Loosing War | Larry C. Johnson

    31 MAR

    🚨USA Plays for Time: Prepping Invasion, Gaming Markets, Loosing War | Larry C. Johnson

    Former CIA analyst, Larry Johnson is quite sure; there is no "grand strategy" or "4D Chess" going on. The US/Israeli coalition war against Iran is just a rolling disaster (academics would call it "path dependent) in which one bad decision leads to the next and by now a ground invasion with US boots on the ground is basically inevitable because they already went through the built up of the forces—so you gotta use'm. But what can they do? And what will happen once Iran then obliterates them? Well, buckle up because this is ain't gonna be pretty. However, the noble men and women in Washington still manage to game the markets and make a lot of money while we are waiting for the troop build up to be completed. What a horror show. Support Larry: https://sonar21.com Support us by subscribing on substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com Shop & Donations: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourthwall.com

    56 min
  8. The Blind Empire: Why the West Can't See it's Failing so Hard | Prof. Dr. Irfan Ahmad

    31 MAR

    The Blind Empire: Why the West Can't See it's Failing so Hard | Prof. Dr. Irfan Ahmad

    This conversation is a direct challenge to the moral claims of Western philosophy in the face of Gaza. I speak with Professor Dr. Irfan Ahmad, professor of anthropology and sociology at Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul. The discussion looks at Habermas as a major German public intellectual, then moves into Western Marxism, colonial blind spots, and the way Palestine is pushed out of the moral frame. I also press the question of universalism, and the exchange shows how claims of reason, consensus, and humanism can turn into cover for power, war, and selective silence. In the end, the episode is both a critique of Habermas and a wider critique of the West’s refusal to face colonialism as a living structure.Links:DOI of Irfan's article on Habermas: https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2025.2466001Website: https://www.irfanahmad.org/Academia page: https://ibnhaldun.academia.edu/ProfIrfanAhmadResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Irfan-Ahmad-24Neutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.comOpt in for Academic Section from your profile settings: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/s/academicMerch & Donations: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourthwall.comTimestamps:00:00:00 Introduction00:01:22 Habermas and German public life00:06:22 Western Marxism and imperial blind spots00:11:14 Gaza and the erasure of history00:18:54 Colonialism missing from Western thought00:32:06 Habermas as an ethnic thinker00:42:06 Consensus talk and support for war00:58:35 Final reflections and guest links

    1hr 4min
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    Pascal
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    2025 - 2026
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