Today’s podcast guest is Jason Pack, Senior Analyst for Emerging Challenges at the NATO Defense College Foundation and Associate Fellow at RUSI. He is the Host of the Disorder Podcast, and author of Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder.
In this episode, we discuss the end of the post-WWII global order and the prevailing disorder since 2011, the loss of American leadership, the Memorandum of Understanding between Iran and the United States, particularly in comparison to the 2015 JCPOA, and the broader regional fallout from the war with Iran.
Listen now; link in bio.
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Jason Pack is the Founder of Libya-Analysis LLC, and the host of Disorder, a geopolitics podcast co-produced with Goalhanger Podcasts. He is an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and the Senior Analyst for Emerging Challenges at the NATO Defence College Foundation in Rome.
His most recent book, Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder (Hurst 2021 / Oxford University Press 2022) is a ‘cross-over’ academic book that explores what Libya’s dysfunctional economic structures and its ongoing civil war reveal about our era of 21st-century geopolitics. Jason’s ‘Enduring Disorder’ concept – that we no longer inhabit the post-Cold War World, but have entered a new era – the ‘Enduring Disorder’ – was conceived to describe the collective action failures that have come to define international politics.
Jason has lived in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, Israel/Palestine, Oman, Qadhafi-era Libya, and Trump-era Washington, DC. Proficient in Arabic, French, and Hebrew, he has been kidnapped twice, and served as the Executive Director of a K St-based Trade Association. He is open for media appearances about US foreign policy, conspiracy theories, the state of the global system, neopopulism, and especially the Middle East.
When not podcasting or consulting on the Middle East, Jason plays backgammon semi-professionally. He was the 2018 World Champion of Doubles Backgammon, came 2nd place in the 2024 World Championship of Speedgammon, and has achieved the rank of Grandmaster – placing him in the top 100 players in the world. He also writes about gambling’s connections to geopolitics.
Today’s guest is Dr. Daniel Bar-Tal, Professor Emeritus at the School of Education, Tel Aviv University. In this episode, we discuss differing narratives between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs and how to bridge that gap, the decline of the Israeli peace movement, and changing public opinion toward Israel abroad.
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Dr. Daniel Bar-Tal is Professor Emeritus at the School of Education, Tel Aviv University. Dr. Bar-Tal received his graduate training in social psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, and completed his doctoral thesis in 1974. He previously served as a Director of the Walter Lebach Research Institute for Jewish-Arab Coexistence through Education, Tel Aviv University and as President of the International Society of Political Psychology, and was Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Israel Journal. In 2013 he received honorary membership in the Polish Society of Social Psychology.
Since the early eighties his interest has shifted to political psychology and the study of the socio-psychological foundations of intractable conflicts and peace building, including reconciliation. In the latter area, he studied the evolvement of the socio-psychological infrastructure in times of intractable conflict that consists of shared societal beliefs of ethos of conflict, collective memory, and emotional collective orientations. He also studied socio-psychological barriers to peacemaking and ways to overcome them, and acquisition of the conflict repertoire by children and adolescents.
Within this scope of studies he developed with his collaborators theoretical frameworks for concepts like siege mentality, intractable conflict, delegitimization, collective victimhood, socio-psychological infrastructure, culture of conflict, effects of lasting occupation, barriers to peace making, construction and struggle over conflict supporting narratives, acquisition of intergroup psychological repertoire, early development of the ethos of conflict, transitional context, collective identity, and peace education, among many others.
Elizabeth Hoffman, Executive Director, North America at ONE, joined me on my podcast to discuss the urgent humanitarian situation in Sudan as a result of its ongoing civil war. She speaks about the background to the civil war and the players involved, and discusses the techniques of fear being used in the war, and the horrific crimes against humanity being committed by both the RSF and the SAF.
Listen to this and more in my latest episode, available now - link in bio.
Human Rights Watch warns that the abrupt US foreign aid cuts in 2025 devastated organizations working to document abuses, protect vulnerable communities, and defend fundamental freedoms worldwide. These cuts weakened accountability at a time when authoritarianism, repression, and global conflict are rapidly expanding.
As the United States marks its 250th anniversary—a testament to endurance, sacrifice, and democratic aspiration—it does so in a dark, foreboding shadow. At this defining moment, the nation finds itself led not by steadiness or vision, but by a figure whose erratic conduct, corrosive narcissism, and moral decay mock the very ideals this milestone is meant to honor. How has a republic forged in defiance of tyranny succumbed to the sway of a self-styled savior, elevated by a following that seems willfully blind, placing partisan loyalty above the fate of the nation itself? I watch America, once the continent of conscience, sink into the gray fog of decree and fear, a de facto kingdom draped in a flag. Authoritarianism blooms where solidarity dies; when the heart no longer binds us, power arrives with batons and whispered laws, imposed like chains mistaken for gains.
alonben-meir.com/writing/america-at-250-a-reckoning-and-a-call-to-conscience/
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The Hooey you spew is belied by 100s of Millions of Americans who believe in our Great Country and Great President! And your pathetic negativity is never gonna bring us down!
Finally, and gratefully, the Supreme Court has spoken. In a landmark ruling, the justices rejected Donald Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship for children born to undocumented immigrants on American soil. They reaffirmed a principle as old as the Republic itself: that nearly every child born in the United States is, by right, an American citizen. This decision matters profoundly. To deny citizenship to a child simply because of a parent's status would betray the very foundation upon which American justice rests—a principle the Constitution itself enshrines. And so, for once, we have cause to celebrate—a welcome break from a long string of Supreme Court rulings that favored Trump nearly 20 times in the past year and a half. This verdict, arriving just days before the Fourth of July, could not be more fitting. It is exactly the right time.
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Absolutely untrue. SCOTUS simply ruled the Executive Branch didn’t have the authority to override.. 🙄🤡.
I am among those whose very life has been ennobled by the letter and the spirit of the Constitution—the noblest document ever to flow from the mind of man, born of a vision that finds no equal in all the long chronicle of human history. And I tell you: it is my deepest and most abiding wish that every soul who draws breath upon this earth might one day live beneath its shelter, might one day be guarded by this moral manifesto, and might one day know the dignity it bestows. For this is no mere parchment. It is a covenant—a sacred promise passed from one generation to the next. And so, I say to every American in whom conscience still burns: we must stand ready to honor it, ready to guard it, ready to defend it with all our might, with all our heart, and with all the courage our forebears summoned to bring it into being. Thus, it pains me to witness actions taken by Trump that tarnish or undermine the Constitution’s profound integrity.
alonben-meir.com/writing/america-at-250-a-reckoning-and-a-call-to-conscience/
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He is giving it a bloody good attempt. Thankfully, with the exception of the Heritage Foundation SCOTUS flunkies, the Court system is still holding the line! Many in Congress are working hard, too! May the power of the people shift the current toxic trajectory misguiding the nation, BACK towards support for the Constitution, respect for the Rule of Law, and a legislature that works FOR ALL OF THE PEOPLE and not predominantly for the Oligarchs, Israel and the Arms Industry!!!
Impeach
While Stealing All The Money He Can In A Hundred Different Ways !
I too., honor the Constitution! Maybe we're old fashioned,but it's the way it's suppose to be,a very important part of America!Along with everything else that Thump is trying to tear apart!👿👿👿👿
And no one is stopping him😯
Examples?
So sad and so true.
True
8647
Aren’t you adorable?
It's fun to just repeat bogus shit you hear. He's not doing any of that and there isn't one person who can make sense using that argument. Go sit down
Amen
Americans voted for him because he is protecting us and it!
About time someone said something
8647!
Alon does his mom
You mean like Pelosi after the State of the Union Speech? No problem there, huh? 🤨
We didn't make it to 250. Only about 248.
Sadly but true.
Tragically true.
Jacob Blake Sr. still possesses 1 of the largest stomachs in human history
💯
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He has been since his first day in office!!!
😂🫵🤡
Today’s podcast guest is Jason Pack, Senior Analyst for Emerging Challenges at the NATO Defense College Foundation and Associate Fellow at RUSI. He is the Host of the Disorder Podcast, and author of Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder.
In this episode, we discuss the end of the post-WWII global order and the prevailing disorder since 2011, the loss of American leadership, the Memorandum of Understanding between Iran and the United States, particularly in comparison to the 2015 JCPOA, and the broader regional fallout from the war with Iran.
Listen now: soundcloud.com/alon-ben-meir/on-the-issues-episode-155
Full bio
Jason Pack is the Founder of Libya-Analysis LLC, and the host of Disorder, a geopolitics podcast co-produced with Goalhanger Podcasts. He is an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and the Senior Analyst for Emerging Challenges at the NATO Defence College Foundation in Rome.
His most recent book, Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder (Hurst 2021 / Oxford University Press 2022) is a ‘cross-over’ academic book that explores what Libya’s dysfunctional economic structures and its ongoing civil war reveal about our era of 21st-century geopolitics. Jason’s ‘Enduring Disorder’ concept – that we no longer inhabit the post-Cold War World, but have entered a new era – the ‘Enduring Disorder’ – was conceived to describe the collective action failures that have come to define international politics.
Jason has lived in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, Israel/Palestine, Oman, Qadhafi-era Libya, and Trump-era Washington, DC. Proficient in Arabic, French, and Hebrew, he has been kidnapped twice, and served as the Executive Director of a K St-based Trade Association. He is open for media appearances about US foreign policy, conspiracy theories, the state of the global system, neopopulism, and especially the Middle East.
When not podcasting or consulting on the Middle East, Jason plays backgammon semi-professionally. He was the 2018 World Champion of Doubles Backgammon, came 2nd place in the 2024 World Championship of Speedgammon, and has achieved the rank of Grandmaster – placing him in the top 100 players in the world. He also writes about gambling’s connections to geopolitics.
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Amen
