Neutrality Studies

Dr. Arta Moeini, Managing Director of U.S. Operations and Research Director at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, discusses radical realism, regional power, and the limits of global hegemony. The conversation covers China, Iran, neutrality, middle powers, Ukraine, Israel, U.S. strategy, Europe’s dependence on America, and why a post-unipolar world may be shaped more by regions, cultures, and c...

Journalist reveals what Washington tried to hide forever: The USA is the world's largest democracy killer with an unbroken track-record of foreign interventions. Finian Cunningham discusses regime change, media control, and Western imperialism with Pascal Lottaz. They cover Iran 1953, CIA influence on major media, Ukraine coverage, censorship, class politics, and the return of open imperialism...

Former British diplomat Ian Proud joins Neutrality Studies to discuss Russia-NATO escalation, Western support for Ukraine, Europe’s lack of diplomacy, and the risk of a wider war. He also talks about Europe’s dependence on the US, the need for direct Europe-Russia talks, Iran diplomacy, the Abraham Accords, and his new novel Searching: A Love Story. Links:Substack: https://thepeacemonger.substack....

Why did Yugoslavia have to die? And what exactly happened in Europe to the Slavs? Why is eastern Europe routinely left out in popular histories of the continent? Dr. Višeslav Simić is a professor from Mexico and former Yugoslav emigré. We speak about how Slavs have been erased from Western history, Yugoslavia as a test case for foreign pressure, and deep Russophobia in Europe and the US. Simić arg...

Multipolar deals are here. India’s most recent pragmatic foreign policy toward Russia defies the Western dictate. Professor emeritus Anuradha Chenoy from Jawaharlal Nehru University joins to discuss India’s foreign policy shifts: Putin’s India visit, US tariff and oil pressure, Modi’s Israel and Iran stance, BRICS, China, and how India tries to keep strategic autonomy while balancing the US, Russi...

If you think US politics happens only in the White House and on Capitol Hill, then think again. The US as a political system—the totality of it—is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Luckily, some brave researchers dare going into the deep. Dr. Aaron Good, author of American Exception: Empire and the Deep State, joins me today to challenge simplistic view of the US system. He argues...

Barely able to supply its troops in the region or keeping them out of harms way, the US has struck again sites in Iran and Israel has been escalating the war against Lebanon. How long will Iran still accept the salami-slicing away of the ceasefire? At the same time, the US media claims 70 ships had been "escorted" secretly through the Strait of Hormuz. Is there any reason to believe this...

With every passing day, every new genocide, every atrocity committed by the Washington elite, they are losing more people on the ground. The little guy and girl. Some of whom voted for Trump. Some who didn't. But people who share the disillusionment about the violence America carries into all corners of the world, much as it once carried millions of unwilling subjects to its shores in chains....

Hegemony is over not only on the outside but within the US, too. The decline is irreversible says my guest today, Colonel Douglas Macgregor. We talk about Russia’s next moves in Ukraine, the risk of wider NATO escalation, U.S. support for foreign wars, and why America’s base network and war spending may be unsustainable. Macgregor argues the U.S. is losing control, the economy is the real pressure...

US handling of the Iran peace process is by now mostly un-readable but also self-sabotaging. Subscribe to Substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com Our store: https://neutralitystudies-shop.fourth... 00:00 Trump’s Iran peace process looks incoherent 02:24 Why the Abraham Accords demand makes little sense 05:00 Iran’s enriched uranium as a hard red line 06:00 Where the U.S. and Iran could theoret...

Updates on the Ukraine-Proxy War and the Iran War with Larry C. Johnson: Both wars are about to get worse as NATO is trying to expand the fight into Russia. Moscow will now escalate in Kiev to send final message to Collective West. At the same time, the global economic shock from the Iran War will only grow deeper and more intensive with every day. Links:Larry Johnson Sonar21: https://sonar21.com...

NATO's proxy war in Ukraine is morphing into a direct EU-Russia war. And the war hawks in Brussels are further escalating by attacking civilians in the Donbas and Russia proper. The doves in the Kremlin, including Vladimir Putin, are running out of options to keep their own hawks under wraps. As things stand now, an all-out EU-Russia war is not only a possible, but by now a likely scenario. Bu...

Today, I speak with Richard Falk, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, about the state of international law in 2026, power and reciprocity, the UN order after 1945, unipolar decline, US militarism, neutrality, Gaza and Israel, media framing, and whether law can still restrain great powers in a more unstable world. Links:Richard Falk blog: https://richardfalk.org TRANSCE...

NATO is causing the very mass-migration its members then claim to be solving through more violence at home and oversees. It's a sick game in which the powerful once again pit the poorest and most abused people abroad against the poorest and most abused people at home to feed the West's system of violent domination. But cracks are now more than visible. Patrick Henningsen, journalist, write...

Pascal Lottaz speaks with Dr. Jonas Tögel, a German propaganda researcher and author, about war messaging in Germany and Europe, Bundeswehr outreach in schools, youth resistance, NATO narratives, the role of the US and EU, the collapse of antiwar politics, and the way propaganda, fear, and media overload shape public opinion. They also discuss public resistance, self-care, and keeping a peace move...

Pascal Lottaz speaks with Sheng Zhang, visiting fellow at Koç University’s Center for Asian Studies, on China’s changing view of Iran after the war, Beijing’s split between Iran and the Gulf states, military lessons from Iranian strategy, the Strait of Hormuz, Trump’s Beijing visit, and the wider message for US bases, trust, and power in West Asia and East Asia. Links: Sheng Zhang at Johns Hopkins...

Giles Chance joins Pascal Lottaz to discuss China’s rise, from Deng Xiaoping’s reforms and WTO entry to the 2008 crisis, BRICS, Belt and Road, and rare earth leverage. Chance, author of Doing Business in China and China and the Credit Crisis, also examines Xi Jinping’s impact on the private sector, tensions with Washington, and the outlook for a more multipolar world. Links: Doing Business in Chin...

Pascal Lottaz and Benjamin Schoendorf speak with Explosive Media, the creator behind the viral Iranian Lego videos, about using Lego and AI to break through Western media habits, the team’s roots in Iran, creative speed, humor, empathy, audience feedback, narrative warfare, cultural identity, direct media between people, and the spiritual drive behind the work. Links: Resistance is Fertile Podcast...

Pascal Lottaz speaks with Ivana Nikolić Hughes of Columbia University and Peter Kuznick of American University about the NPT review conference, nuclear deterrence, first strike thinking, Trump and launch power, pressure for more states to seek nuclear weapons, the role of US allies in the Gulf, Europe and Japan, and the small but real hope offered by the nuclear ban treaty and public action. Links...

Pascal Lottaz speaks with Dr. Kees van der Pijl, emeritus professor of international relations at Sussex, about ruling class formation, Marxism, finance, tech, intelligence, Zionism, and the shift from nation states to transnational power networks. They discuss Europe’s decline, war, BRICS, social collapse, collective values, migration, and the limits of resistance against a violent Western-led or...

Pascal Lottaz speaks with Dr. Warwick Powell of Queensland University about Trump’s China visit, the thin planning behind it, the US business team, and the lack of real progress on Iran, trade, and wider strategy. They also discuss the Strait of Hormuz, US limits, China’s growing weight, and Xi Jinping’s use of the Thucydides trap as a call for serious diplomacy. Links: Warwick Powell on Substack:...

Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi joins Pascal Lottaz to assess the war with Iran, the failed ceasefire, Gulf state pressure, Lebanon, and the risk of a new US attack. They discuss claims about Iran’s missile strength, Saudi and Qatari moves, nuclear enrichment, Trump’s China trip, blockade plans, and the wider threat of economic shock, proxy war, and a deeper regional crisis. Links: Professor Seye...

Pascal Lottaz welcomes back friend and colleague Stanislav Krapivnik for a hard look at Russia, Ukraine, and Europe. They discuss claims that Russia has stalled, repeat stories of Russian collapse in Western media, ceasefire talk, NATO escalation, nuclear risk, the loss of trust in peace deals, and the growing debate over whether the war can freeze or spread into a wider European conflict. Links:...

Ambassador Chas Freeman, former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia and former assistant secretary of defense, discusses the Trump-Xi meeting, Taiwan, Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, China’s growing role, US war powers, Europe’s drift toward conflict with Russia, and the decline of diplomacy in the West. The talk also covers Gulf politics, Ukraine, media control, and the wider crisis of constitutional gover...

Pascal is joined by Eugene Doyle of Solidarity to discuss the Sumud flotilla raid near Greece, reports of beatings and detention, the lack of help from New Zealand, Western support for Israel, the meaning of state duty to protect citizens, the Rainbow Warrior comparison, media silence, rising public concern, and the courage of activists trying to break the siege on Gaza. Links: Solidarity https://...