Neutrality Studies

Originally published on 25 Aug 2025. Today I’m talking to Dr. Richard Overy, a Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter and a historian of the Second World War. Professor Overy wrote many books and just recently published the great work “Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan” in which he discusses not only the atomic bomb, but the larger context of arial bombings, the mi...

Originally published on 12 Oct 2025. What if the first 80% of users flocking to a new digital ID system are hackers and fraudsters? Is this technology the dawn of a dystopian future, or are the risks just overhyped? In this episode, I’m talking to Yana Afanasieva, an expert in financial regulation, FinTech and data privacy. Yana led regional compliance teams at Amazon and PayPal in Europe, where s...

Originally published on 23 Aug 2025. Today I’m talking to Cyrus Janssen, an international business consultant, entrepreneur and fellow youtube analyst with a very large channel, nearing 1 million subscribers. With over 10 years experience doing business in China, he posts shot-form analysis as well as longer interviews often focusing on China and BRICS developments. This is what we want to discuss...

Originally published on 21 Aug 2025. Dr. Erich Vad is a former German brigadier general and adviser on security and defense policy in the Bundestag, as well as military adviser to Chancellor Angela Merkel. Links: Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies Our Shop: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...

Originally published on 11 Oct 2025. Today I’m talking again to Dr. Warwick Powell, an Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. In this part 2 of the conversation with Warwick Powell, we explore the complexities of US foreign policy. We question whether the US is in retreat or simply adapting its strategy to maintain primacy by pushing risk onto its allies. We discuss...

Originally published on 10 Oct 2025. Today I’m talking again to Dr. Warwick Powell, an Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. In this part 1 of the discussion, we dive into China's strategic economic transformation and its response to US tariffs. We explore how China successfully deleveraged its overheated real estate market, redirecting capital into high-tech ma...

Originally published on 18 Aug 2025. Dr. Jan Oberg is a Danish peace researcher in Sweden. We talk about the escalating rhetoric toward Russia in Europe and what peace-oriented folks can do about it. Links: Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies Our Shop: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...

Originally published on 9 Oct 2025. What if the official story of the Bosnian War is a carefully constructed myth? We'll explore declassified documents that ask: Did US intelligence warn against the very policies that led to disaster? And was the climactic bombing campaign not a necessity for peace, but a way to rebrand a failed policy? Today I’m talking to Dr. Harry Blain, an Assistant Profes...

Originally published on 17 Aug 2025. Second part of discussion with Glenn Diesen. First part on his channel:    • Pascal Lottaz: US-Russia Relations Decoupl...   Transcript of the Summit meeting: https://open.substack.com/pub/pascall... Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies Our Shop: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...

Originally published on 8 Oct 2025. Today I'm talking to Dirk Pohlmann, a German author and documentary filmmaker. Mr. Pohlmann is working on a book about political assassinations in Europe and America, including those of JFK, Olof Palme, Enrico Mattei, Dag Hammarskjöld, and the German banker Alfred Herrhausen. That’s what we’ll be talking about today—so, dear Dirk, welcome. Filmografie of Dir...

Originally published on 12 Aug 2025. Today I’m talking again to Dr. Joanna Lei, a former KMT lawmaker in Taiwan as well as a media executive in the US.Today is August 7th and only 10 days ago, on the last weekend of July we had a rather important extraordinary election in Taiwan. 24 KMT parliamentiarns were under the threat of being unseated in a mass-recall. Now, recalls are a proper constitution...

Originally published on 7 Oct 2025. Protesters are trying to storm the Presidential Palace in Tbilisi, but why now? With the ruling party winning another decisive victory in local elections, what is truly fueling this unrest? To make sense of it all, today I’m talking again to my colleague and friend Lasha Kasradze, a geopolitical analyst and Liaison officer for Sokhumi State University in the Uni...

Originally published on 10 Aug 2025. We’ve seen a lot of turmoil in the South Caucasus recently, from Azerbeijan’s support for the US/Israeli attack on Iran to a crack down on political opposition in Armenia and previously an attempt in Georgia to oust the elected government by something very reminiscent of the Euro-Maidan in Ukraine. Together with my co-host, Lasha Kasradze, today want to hear Je...

Originally published on 9 Aug 2025. Today I’m talking to Evarist Bartolo, a labor politician of the beautiful island state of Malta. Mr. Bartolo was a member of Malta’s parliament for 30 years, and he served as Minister of European and Foreign Affairs, between 2020 and 2022.Links:Article mentioned in the video (Mirage of a Common Home): https://timesofmalta.com/article/mira... Minister Bartolo&#39...

Originally published on 5 Aug 2025. Today I’m talking to Benoît Paré, a French army reserve officer and former defense ministry analyst. Most importantly, Mr. Paré worked for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), as part of the seize-fire monitoring mission in Eastern Ukraine. He also wrote a book about this experiences in the Donbas with the title “What I saw in Ukraine...

Originally published on 4 Aug 2025. Today I’m talking to Eva Bartlett, a US/Canadian Journalist in Russia who has been reporting for many years from wars and non-western conflict zones, including Gaza, North Korea, and the Donbas. Links:Eva's Substack: https://evakarenebartlett.substack.com/ https://t.me/Reality_Theories https://ingaza.wordpress.com/ https://x.com/EvaKBartlett Neutrality Studi...

Originally published on 3 Aug 2025. Today I’m talking again to the Australian historian and writer, Jeff Rich. Jeff publishes on his substack and on YouTube. Today we want to discuss the general development of world politics and the forces that are shaping the 8 billion people planet. Links:Jeff's Substact: https://substack.com/@jeffrich Jeff's YouTube channel: ‪@theburningarchive‬ Neutral...

Originally published on 2 Aug 2025. Today I’m talking again to Dr. Ezequiel Luis Bistoletti, a political scientist working for the University of Buenos Aires and an international lecturer based in Berlin. Ezequiel is also a fellow youtuber and the host of the Spanish-language channel Demoliendo Mitos de la Politica - "Demolishing Political Myths.”Links:Ezequiel's channel (Spanish): ‪@demo...

Originally published on 5 Oct 2025. While the West is trapped in a self-imposed fantasy world regarding Russia, clinging to outdated views of Moscow while simultaneously abandoning international norms in acts of "piracy," the US domestic structure is undergoing a revolutionary shift toward American-style autocracy. Is this internal decay making US foreign policy even more reckless and di...

Originally published on 31 Jul 2025. Today I’m talking to the Australian author and historian, Michael Pembroke. Michael is based in Sydney, has written several books and for various outlets, including Time Magazine, Al Jazeera, the South China Morning Post. He was also a Supreme Court Judge (2010–20) for Australia’s state of New South Wales. His most recent work came out this July and carries the...

Originally published on 29 Jul 2025. Today I’m talking to Dr. Benjamin Abelow, the author of the book „Ho the West Brought War to Ukraine“ which I have reviewed on this channel before. Dr. Abelow graduated from the Yale School of Medicine, where he also served as Lecturer in Medicine. Links:Free PDFs in English, German, and French: https://benjaminabelow.com/download/ Translation versions availabl...

Originally published on 4 Oct 2025. I’ve always felt uneasy calling the period after the Soviet Union’s collapse the  “Post–Cold War.”  To me, it was a temporary label—anything “post” must eventually become “pre” to something else. History never really stops. Even when 9/11 and the “War on Terror” seemed to change everything, I sensed that the world’s basic structure hadn’t shifted. Despite the ch...

Originally published on 28 Jul 2025 Today I’m talking to Stanislav Krapivnik, a former US Army officer, supply chain executive and military-political expert. Links:Stanislav Krapivnik's YouTube Channel: ‪@MrSlavikman‬ Stanislav Krapivnik's Telegram: https://t.me/stastydaiobratno Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies Neutrality Studies Goods Shop: ht...

Originally published on 27 Jul 2025. Dr. Warwick Powell is an Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology and a Senior Fellow at the Taihe Institute. Links: Warwick Powell's Substack: https://warwickpowell.substack.com/ Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies Neutrality Studies Goods Shop: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth...

Originally published on 26 Jul 2025. The military tensions at the Thai-Cambodian border have exploded this week into all-out artillery warfare. Military personnel and civilians have died and the political fallout in Thailand has cost the prime minister her job. What is going on? To discuss this, I'm joined today by Dr. Digby J. Wren. Based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Dr. Wren has been connected t...