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The podcast episode analyzes the shift from George H.W. Bush’s 1991 speech on a “new world order” during the Gulf War to Donald Trump’s chaotic foreign policy. It highlights the decline of American power, evidenced by strategic failures in Iran and the fragility of the petrodollar, signaling a dangerous global landscape ahead.
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A familiar narrative following the dissolution of the USSR is that Cold WarCold War The geopolitical and ideological confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that dominated global politics from 1947 to 1991. It was fought not through direct military conflict between the superpowers but through proxy wars, arms races, espionage, and ideological competition across the developing world. The Cold War began before the Second World War had fully ended: American and Soviet disagreements over the post-war order in Europe were visible at Yalta in February 1945 and had hardened into open confrontation by 1947, when the Truman…
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A 2015 article on UK libraries described efforts by Parliament to amateurise public library services following widespread closures (Dickens, 2015). Given the desire of nearly every country in the world to create an “Information Society” such actions appear counterproductive. This sentiment is also stressed in Library and Information Studies (LIS) literature, especially if the author is writing about information literacy. It could be argued that these writings express a belief in Utopianism, i.e that the work and practices of Information Professionals can overhaul and improve both the individual and society as a whole. More specifically the dream of many Information professionals…
