Christopher Mott's guest appearances

Christopher Mott

Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael

Gorilla Radio from Pacific Free Press

Frank Morano

Probably Cancelled Podcast

Max Blumenthal 

OwlTail

Frank Morano interviews Dr. Christopher Mott, Research Fellow with the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, international relations scholar and the author of  “The Formless Empire: A Short History of Diplomacy and Warfare in Central Asia,” about Russia-Ukraine war and the implications for national security.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Frank Morano interviews Dr. Christopher Mott, Research Fellow with the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, international relations scholar and the author of  “The Formless Empire: A Short History of Diplomacy and Warfare in Central Asia,” about Russia-Ukraine war and the implications for national security.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Dr. Christopher Mott, Research Fellow with the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, International Relations Scholar | 05-10-2023

The Woke Imperium: the confluence between neoconservatism and social justice Christopher Mott of the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy joins Max Blumenthal to discuss his provocative white paper on the Woke Imperium. According to Mott, "The rise of a ‘woke’ activist-driven, social justice-oriented politics—particularly among the members of academia, media, and the professional managerial class—has provided the latest ideological justification for interventionism, and it has become readily adopted by the U.S. foreign policy establishment." Read his paper here: Woke Imperium: The Coming Confluence Between Social Justice and Neoconservatism The video is on Rokfin and YouTube.  Christopher Mott: https://peacediplomacy.org/christopher-mott/ https://twitter.com/chrisdmott  Max Blumenthal: https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal https://rokfin.com/MaxBlumenthal  ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com  Support our original journalism at Patreon: https://patreon.com/grayzone  Facebook: https://facebook.com/thegrayzone Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegrayzonenews Instagram: https://instagram.com/thegrayzonenews Minds: https://minds.com/thegrayzone Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@thegrayzone

The Woke Imperium: the confluence between neoconservatism and social justice Christopher Mott of the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy joins Max Blumenthal to discuss his provocative white paper on the Woke Imperium. According to Mott, "The rise of a ‘woke’ activist-driven, social justice-oriented politics—particularly among the members of academia, media, and the professional managerial class—has provided the latest ideological justification for interventionism, and it has become readily adopted by the U.S. foreign policy establishment." Read his paper here: <a href="https://peacediplomacy.org/2022/06/27/woke-imperium-the-coming-confluence-between-social-justice-and-neoconservatism/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Woke Imperium: The Coming Confluence Between Social Justice and Neoconservatism</a> The video is on <a href="https://rokfihttps://rokfin.com/stream/19968/Rogue-academics-targeted-by-UK-intelmedia-campaign-speak-outn.com/stream/20099/NATO-escalates-and-edges-toward-world-war" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rokfin</a><a href="https://rokfin.com/stream/20099/NATO-escalates-and-edges-toward-world-war" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a>and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFTbohtyRYY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube.</a> Christopher Mott: <a href="https://peacediplomacy.org/christopher-mott/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://peacediplomacy.org/christopher-mott/</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/chrisdmott?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/chrisdmott</a> Max Blumenthal: <a href="https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal</a> <a href="https://rokfin.com/MaxBlumenthal" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://rokfin.com/MaxBlumenthal</a> ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at <a href="https://thegrayzone.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://thegrayzone.com </a> Support our original journalism at Patreon: <a href="https://patreon.com/grayzone" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://patreon.com/grayzone </a> Facebook: <a href="https://facebook.com/thegrayzone" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://facebook.com/thegrayzone</a> Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/thegrayzonenews" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/thegrayzonenews</a> Instagram: <a href="https://instagram.com/thegrayzonenews" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://instagram.com/thegrayzonenews</a> Minds: <a href="https://minds.com/thegrayzone" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://minds.com/thegrayzone</a> Mastodon: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@thegrayzone" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@thegrayzone</a>

Christopher Mott: The Woke Imperium

Samantha Power

On this edition of Parallax Views, Christopher Mott, a Research Fellow at the Institute for Peace &amp; Diplomacy and author The Formless Empire: A Short History of Diplomacy and Warfare in Central Asia, joins Parallax Views to discuss his recent CovertAction Magazine piece "Samantha Power and the Cosmopolitan Crusaders". Applying his knowledge as someone who has worked inside the U.S. State Department, Chris explains the foreign policy thought of the diplomat and government official Samantha Power, whose influential book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide was foundational to R2P (Responsible to Protect) doctrine. R2P, Mott explains, holds that powerful nations (ie: the U.S. and NATO-aligned states) have a duty to stop human rights abuses around the world. Although a noble cause in theory, Mott argues that R2P in practice has not always worked perfectly in practice. In this regard Mott examines the Obama-era intervention into Libya on humanitarian grounds and how Libya has turned into a chaotic failed state that's led to the return of the slave trade to North Africa. In addition to all of this Mott and I also discuss:  - Fear of another Weimar moment haunting beltway foreign policy circles and the role that plays in driving interventionist policymaking - The question of isolationism, the specter of WWII, and Stephen Wertheim's Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy - Foreign policy realism and its variations including offensive realism and defensive realism - Sun Tzu, the risks of war, diplomacy vs. military force, and the question of grand strategy - The role of ideological, systemic, and economic factors in U.S. foreign policy - Democratic Peace Theory, American exceptionalism, and Kantian liberal cosmopolitanism - Sanctions, the potential critique of their effectiveness in achieving state policy goals, and the Iran deal/JCPOA; sanctions as a form of economic warfare - Jihadism, cosmopolitanism, and state collapse - U.S.-China relations, human rights rhetoric, and whataboutisms - American exceptionalism as having a right, left, and center form - U.S. foreign policy, puritanical morality plays, and protagonist syndrome - Tyler Cowen's Bloomberg op-ed arguing for using "Wokeism" (a very vague term removed from its original context on Black Twitter) to rebrand American exceptionalism - And much, much more!

On this edition of Parallax Views, Christopher Mott, a Research Fellow at the <a href="https://peacediplomacy.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Institute for Peace &amp; Diplomacy</a> and author The Formless Empire: A Short History of Diplomacy and Warfare in Central Asia, joins Parallax Views to discuss his recent <a href="https://covertactionmagazine.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CovertAction Magazine</a> piece <a href="https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/12/21/samantha-power-and-the-cosmopolitan-crusaders/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Samantha Power and the Cosmopolitan Crusaders"</a>. Applying his knowledge as someone who has worked inside the U.S. State Department, Chris explains the foreign policy thought of the diplomat and government official Samantha Power, whose influential book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide was foundational to R2P (Responsible to Protect) doctrine. R2P, Mott explains, holds that powerful nations (ie: the U.S. and NATO-aligned states) have a duty to stop human rights abuses around the world. Although a noble cause in theory, Mott argues that R2P in practice has not always worked perfectly in practice. In this regard Mott examines the Obama-era intervention into Libya on humanitarian grounds and how Libya has turned into a chaotic failed state that's led to the return of the slave trade to North Africa. In addition to all of this Mott and I also discuss: - Fear of another Weimar moment haunting beltway foreign policy circles and the role that plays in driving interventionist policymaking - The question of isolationism, the specter of WWII, and Stephen Wertheim's Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy - Foreign policy realism and its variations including offensive realism and defensive realism - Sun Tzu, the risks of war, diplomacy vs. military force, and the question of grand strategy - The role of ideological, systemic, and economic factors in U.S. foreign policy - Democratic Peace Theory, American exceptionalism, and Kantian liberal cosmopolitanism - Sanctions, the potential critique of their effectiveness in achieving state policy goals, and the Iran deal/JCPOA; sanctions as a form of economic warfare - Jihadism, cosmopolitanism, and state collapse - U.S.-China relations, human rights rhetoric, and whataboutisms - American exceptionalism as having a right, left, and center form - U.S. foreign policy, puritanical morality plays, and protagonist syndrome - <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-19/woke-movement-is-global-and-america-should-be-mostly-proud" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tyler Cowen's Bloomberg op-ed</a> arguing for using "Wokeism" (a very vague term removed from its original context on Black Twitter) to rebrand American exceptionalism - And much, much more!