American Prestige
Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison
A podcast from Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison that provides listeners with everything they need to know about what’s going on in the world.americanprestige.supportingcast.fm
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Episodes (196)
Special - Geopolitics, the Military, and the War in Iran w/ Spencer Ackerman (Sp...
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Special - International Law and the War on Iran w/ Maryam Jamshidi
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Special - Tehran Fuel Depot Strike, Mojtaba Khamenei Succession, Oil Market Chao...
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E240 - Espionage and Empire in the Cold War w/ Alfred McCoy
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Bonus - A Kurdish Front in the Iran War? w/ Djene Bajalan (Preview)
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Special - War in the Gulf and the Global Economy w/ Esfandyar Batmanghelidj
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Special – Iran War: Airstrikes Intensify, Oil Routes Choked, Lebanon Bombarded (...
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News - Iran War Widens, Afghanistan–Pakistan Fighting, New U.S. Operation in Ecu...
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AP x NonZero - Trump's Gulf War
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E239 - Iran and the End of Restraint w/ Trita Parsi and Akbar Shahid Ahmed
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Special - Iran War: U.S. Jets Down, Gulf Oil Targeted, Lebanon Combat (Preview)
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Special - Ayatollah Khamenei is Dead and the Iran War Spreads w/ Séamus Malekafz...
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Special - The U.S. and Israel Attack Iran (Preview)
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News - Iran Talks Under Strike Threat, Mexico Cartel Killed, Pakistan Attack in...
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E238 - On the Brink with Iran w/ Dalia Dassa Kaye
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Bonus - The SDF After Bashar Al-Assad w/ Alexander McKeever (Preview)
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News - Iran War Threat, UN Report on Israel Ethnic Cleansing, U.S. Withdraws Fro...
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E237 - Inside the American War Machine w/ Ben Freeman and William Hartung
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Bonus - Homeland Empire and Trump 2.0 w/ Nikhil Pal Singh (Preview)
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News - U.S.-Iran Talks, West Bank Rule Changes, Cuba Fuel Crisis
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E236 - The Decline of Newsrooms w/ Borzou Daragahi
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Bonus - Gaza’s “Ceasefire” and the Kushner Plan w/ Tariq Kenney-Shawa (Preview)
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News - Iran Strike Delayed, Biden Suppressed Gaza Aid, Nigeria Militant Attack
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The Nation’s “A Day for Gaza” w/ Jack Mirkinson
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E235 - The End of the Postwar Consensus w/ Paul Starr
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Bonus - The Decline of Area Experts w/ Alex Thurston (Preview)
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News - U.S. Signals Possible Iran Strike, Myanmar Junta Consolidates Power, Syri...
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E234 - The Rise of Shareholder Primacy w/ Sean Delehanty
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Bonus - Davos 2026: Trump, Greenland, and the End of the Rules-Based Order w/ Is...
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AP x NonZero - The Trump Foreign Policy Roller Coaster w/ Robert Wright
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News - Syria Offensive Against SDF, Israel Moves on Rafah, Trump and Greenland
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E233 - Film and Cold War Industrial Power w/ Alice Lovejoy
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Bonus - Green Energy and Fossil Capital w/ Thea Riofrancos (Preview)
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News – U.S. Plan for Venezuela’s Oil, Gaza Ceasefire Phase Two, Iran Protests w/...
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E232 - Can American Power Be Redeemed? w/ Shadi Hamid
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Bonus - Prediction Markets and the Financialization of Death w/ Sam Biddle and J...
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News - U.S. Kidnaps Maduro, Israel Escalation, Yemen Separatist Collapse
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Re-Post - The Global Turn of American Policing w/ Stuart Schrader
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E231 - Venezuela, Latin America, and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy w/ Greg G...
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Bonus - Regime Change in Venezuela w/ Gabriel Hetland (Preview)
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Special - The U.S. Kidnaps Nicolás Maduro w/ Alex Jordan (Preview)
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Bonus - Fort Bragg and U.S. Special Operations Post-9/11 w/ Seth Harp
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E230 - Manosphere Politics and the Climate Crisis w/ Daniel Waite Penny
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Bonus - Venezuela, the Drug War, and U.S. Power in the Caribbean w/ Aileen Teagu...
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Re-Post - The Medievalist's Guide to Christmas w/ Eleanor Janega
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Bonus - The Muppet Christmas Carol w/ Justin Boyd and VJ Boyd (Preview)
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E229 - Lula and the Rise of the Workers’ Party in Brazil w/ Andre Pagliarini
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Bonus - Protests Without Politics w/ Vincent Bevins (Preview)
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News - Thailand–Cambodia Fighting, Venezuela Escalation, Yemen Separatists
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Special - Who Controls Southern Yemen? w/ Annelle Sheline
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