Jason Pack on Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder

According to Jason Pack, we no longer inhabit a world governed by international coordination, a unified NATO bloc, or an American hegemon. Traditionally, the decline of one empire leads to a restoration in the balance of power, via a struggle among rival systems of order. In his latest book Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder, Pack draws on over two decades of research in Libya and Syria. He shows how even the threats posed by the Arab Spring and the Benghazi assassination of US Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, couldn't bring about a unified Western response.

Join us on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI 99.5FM, where Pack will discuss what he calls, the ‘Enduring Disorder’, where superpowers have undercut global collaboration, self-reinforcing the progressively collapsing world order.

Interview and text by the Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York. Read more here.