Global Power, Local Meaning
Video conversations at the intersection of geopolitics, language, culture, and power. New episodes every two weeks.
"Iran Is Not a Small Country" — What Happens Once You Go In
One of Europe's most cited IR scholars on why the Iran war exposes the limits of American power, why the US was never the true anchor of the rules-based order, and what Europe, China, and the rest face as the old system fractures.
How Drones Changed Warfare Forever: From Kyiv to Tehran
How full-scale war transformed Ukraine — and what a US–Iran escalation means for its future. Security guarantees, European defence after Trump, and why Middle East tensions could reshape Ukraine's strategic position and European energy security.
The Iran Trap: Why Every Strategy to 'Break' Tehran is a Failure
Six days in, the US campaign against Iran had already cost $11 billion. Dr. Khatiashvili unpacks the GOP fracture, why Iran's "deep state" is more resilient than Washington admits, and how rising oil prices could detonate the midterms.
The Hidden History of the Caucasus: Why 60 Languages Still Defy Empires
Roughly 60 languages, five families, millennia of contact — and wave after wave of imperial pressure. Prof. Diana Forker on the Circassian genocide, Soviet alphabet wars, and what endangered languages like Sanzhi Dargwa reveal about power and survival.