About this podcast
Charting The Rise Of A Multipolar World Order
Philip Pilkington is an unorthodox macroeconomist.
Andrew Collingwood is an equally skeptical journalist.
Lately, both have realised that - post-Ukraine, post-Afghanistan withdrawal - the old, unipolar, US-led world order is in its death throes.
In its wake, something new is being born. But what shape will that take? That will depend on a combustible combination of economics and geopolitics; trade and military muscle.
Each week, our duo take three off-radar news stories and explain how each is shaping our multipolar reality.
Episodes
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- The Revolution In Serbia · 12 min · Season 1 Episode 213This week: a tale of two essays. Philip Pilkington is 'live from Belgrade' (almost), as he picks over the embers of the Serbian election. Is this really the picaresque rise of…
- Multipolarity Dialogues: Anusar Farooqui (Policy Tensor) on why he changed his mind on Hormuz · 1 h 55 min · Season 1 Episode 212A gutbuster blockbuster this week: Policy Tensor, our sometime Friend Of The Show , has been taking some serious flak online in recent weeks over his view that the Hormuz crisis…
- Europe's Weirdest Country Is On Fire (Not France) · 1 h 3 min · Season 1 Episode 211Last time Albania blew up it was because the entire country had become embroiled in a Ponzi scheme, led by a gypsy soothsayer. That incident was generally classed as a Civil War…
- The Saudis Are About To Pay The Price For Trump's Oil Market Fix · 1 h 2 min · Season 1 Episode 210We've been tracking the story for weeks, and now the authorities are waking up to it. The CFTC, the US commodities markets watchdog, is investigating oil futures bets that…
- Twelve Tankers Hit: The End of The Hormuz Narrative and the Start Of The Bond Wars · 15 min · Season 1 Episode 209A record-breaking week down in Hormuz, where twelve oil tankers have been hit in a matter of days. Back on Wall Street, the cost of oil has pipped $100 a barrel. Last week, a…
- Surfing the 'Oil Glut': Satellites, Transponders, and the Commodities Info War · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 208What can we know about the oil that gets through Hormuz? Turns out most of what we know filters through a single data point: a company called Kpler. Before the war, Kpler's…
- Call Time At The Casino: Europe's Bad Bets Come Due · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 207Lately, European leaders seem panicked. By the beginning of July, the EU had begun acting in an increasingly assertive, confident way. On China – they announced new anti-dumping…
- The Irish Kraken Awakens: British Interests After American Power · 1 h 24 min · Season 1 Episode 206Donald Trump’s year of smashing things continues apace. Iran, Greenland, Canada… At some point, there is no more china in the shop for the bull to break. But not yet. With his…
- Super Size Me II: Malcom Kyeyune on The Burger Theory of History, Revisited · 1 h 9 min · Season 1 Episode 205Super-Size Me II. 140 episodes ago, Malcolm Kyeyune launched a piece of verbal artillery into the mess hall of online discourse. The Burger Theory of History. It quickly became…
- Special Edition: The Horizons · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 204September is here. As the calendar page tugs away, the madness of the dog days of summer blows away. The madness of the autumn is upon us. With the Pina Colada mix in the…
- Two Audio Essays: A Japanese Unwinding vs An Iranian Tightening · 11 min · Season 1 Episode 203Two audio essays, one smouldering fuse. This week, Philip Pilkington takes on a financial cascade emerging from the Japanese Bond situation. Ever since its one-day bond market…
- Multipolarity Dialogues: AI and the future of warfare with Steve Hsu · 1 h 6 min · Season 1 Episode 202Multipolarity Dialogues is a series of special multipolarity interviews that scan the geopolitical horizon. We talk to some of the sharpest analysts, thinkers, and experts about…
- The Pod To End All Pods: Part 3 · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 201Coming up this week, last week, and the week before… A massive multi-part episode. The world is shifting in unpredictable ways. The old order is with the death doula right now…
- The Pod To End All Pods: Part 2 · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 200The world is shifting in unpredictable ways. The old order dies of smoke inhalation in a dumpster fire. The new one has yet to be lifted out by C-Section. The only thing that can…
- The Pod To End All Pods: Part 1 · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 199Coming up this week and next week and the week after… A massive multi-part episode. The world is shifting in unpredictable ways. The old order dies of smoke inhalation in a…
- All Your Base Are Belong To Us, The People’s Carcrash, Our Democracy · 1 h 5 min · Season 1 Episode 198You’ve heard of de-Baathification? Now what about de-baseification? The gradual chipping back of US strategic assets in the Gulf as each in turn comes under pressure from drone…
- Iran: The Oil Price War With Conventional War Characteristics · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 197This week: two audio essays, on one big Iran cluster-frig. In the Collingwood corner: Donald Trump has become an unreadable politician. His credibility has burst through various…
- Slipping and Sliding, Spit and Polish · 57 min · Season 1 Episode 196It’s an oil rush. Fill your boots, fellers, America is releasing its strategic petroleum reserves, ostensibly to see down Iranian pressure. Good news for voters, great news for…
- Pilkington Vs Collingwood: A Multipolarity Q&A Special · 12 min · Season 1 Episode 195This week on Multipolarity, we’re taking your questions. It’s a Q&A episode, involving queries sent in by our loyal listeners. Questions like: How did you guys meet? (Drunk, at a…
- No Deal Is Better Than An Islama-bad Deal, The Godmother, Two Year Keir · 1 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 194Iran’s 14 points: making the world safe for Shia Theocracy. Obviously, Donald Trump putting his John Hancock to the Islamabad Memorandum at Versailles carries absolutely no…
