Dr Gautam Sen argues that Venezuela’s economy is near collapse after a mass exodus of its educated population, leaving the state fragile despite limited oil revenues sustaining political support. He warns that the arrest of an elected president signals how decisively and professionally US interventions can be executed. Watch the full interview here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xyu2ZO27q0&t=3s

In this wide-ranging and incisive conversation, Hindol Sengupta speaks with Dr Gautam Sen, political economist, on the shifting contours of global power, U.S. interventionism, and the strategic implications for regions far beyond Latin America. Moving past headline-driven narratives, the discussion examines U.S. involvement in Venezuela through multiple lenses: political control versus regional destabilisation, historical parallels with Iraq, and the unintended consequences of regime change. Dr Sen unpacks how interventions framed as short-term solutions often evolve into long-term entanglements, reshaping regional and global priorities. The conversation also explores the ripple effects of these actions on India and the Indo-Pacific, raising critical questions about international precedent, great-power behaviour, and whether selective silence today could legitimise future interventions elsewhere, particularly in contexts such as China and Taiwan. Energy politics form a crucial part of the discussion, as the speakers analyse the contradictions of falling oil prices, U.S. extraction profitability, and the broader uncertainties shaping global energy markets. This conversation also delves into: •⁠ ⁠U.S. intervention in Venezuela and possible future trajectories •⁠ ⁠Regime change, power vacuums, and the risk of regional conflict •⁠ ⁠Implications for India’s strategic autonomy •⁠ ⁠The Indo-Pacific, China, and the Taiwan question •⁠ ⁠Oil prices, energy markets, and geopolitical uncertainty 📌 Watch to understand: •⁠ ⁠How U.S. actions in Latin America affect global power balances •⁠ ⁠Why regional interventions rarely remain regional •⁠ ⁠What these shifts mean for India’s foreign policy choices •⁠ ⁠How energy and geopolitics intersect in shaping world order Chapters - 0:00-1:33 Opening 2:12-6:33 Trump, Venezuela, and the Donroe Doctrine 8:04-16:54 U.S. Intervention in Venezuela: Managed Control or Regional Entanglement? 17:43-19:16 The Risk of Destabilisation in Latin America 19:54-22:17 Regional Stability and the Future of Latin America 22:43-28:30 Implications for India and the Indo-Pacific 28:32-28:51 Closing #Geopolitics #InternationalRelations #USForeignPolicy #VenezuelaCrisis #IndiaAndTheWorld #IndoPacific #ChinaTaiwan #PoliticalEconomy #EnergyPolitics #OilMarkets #WorldOrder #ForeignPolicy #GlobalPower #PolicyDiscussion #StrategicAutonomy

Watch the full conversation - https://youtu.be/AQM-9ShQsRw

Watch the full conversation - https://youtu.be/AQM-9ShQsRw

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In this compelling conversation with Ishan Dhar, economist and historian Prasenjit K. Basu delves into his new book titled India Reborn, which charts the economic decline of the world’s oldest civilization from 1757 to 1990. The book also explains how the turnaround began under Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and outlines how Prime Minister Narendra Modi could complete the process of restoring India's civilizational state to its rightful place on the global stage. Link to Prasenjit K. Basu's new book 'India Reborn: The Epic Story of a Civilization's Rebound from Two Centuries of Decline' - https://www.amazon.in/India-Reborn-Civilizations-Rebound-Centuries/dp/9365473241 Chapters 00:00 - 02:19 - Opening 02:20 - 15:51 - India, the civilisational state 15:52 - 27:31 - Anglocentric dismissals of India’s contributions to the world 27:32 - 46:00 - Contributions of Indian revolutionaries to the collapse of Britain’s Asian paramountcy 46:01 - 01:03:29 - Strategic naivete and the other failures of the Nehruvian model 01:03:30 - 01:09:19 - How criminality and political parties became intertwined in India 01:09:20 - 01:19:53 - What must India do next in the pursuit of superpower status? 01:19:54 - 01:20:15 - Closing #IndiaReborn #IndianCivilisation #CivilisationalState #IndianHistory #EconomicHistory #ColonialLegacy #PostColonialIndia #Decolonisation #EconomicRevival #NationalResurgence #RisingIndia #NewIndia #IndiaOnTheGlobalStage #EmergingPower #IndiaGrowthStory #IdeasThatMatter #HistoryAndEconomics #PolicyAndProgress #LongViewOfHistory #IndianThought #CivilisationAndState #UnderstandingIndia #IndiaPastPresentFuture

Shashi Ranjan Kumar argues that India’s true contribution to zero was transforming it from a mere placeholder or marker, as seen in Babylonian, Chinese, and Egyptian systems, into a number in its own right, enabling arithmetic and giving birth to the fully developed decimal system. Watch the full interview here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv3zulY1L1s&t=1s

Shashi Ranjan Kumar explains that Kautilya’s Arthashastra places deception and outwitting the enemy at the core of strategy, yet from the 12th century onward, Indian forces were often outmanoeuvred, citing the Second Battle of Tarain, where Muhammad Ghori attacked Prithviraj Chauhan’s unprepared army at dawn. Watch the full interview here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv3zulY1L1s&t=1s