Zineb Riboua: Rising Tides of the Third World

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Razib Khan interviews Zineb Riboua about Third Worldism and its implications in contemporary politics and foreign policy.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com Today on Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Zineb Riboua , a research fellow and program manager of Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East. She specializes in Chinese and Russian involvement in the Middle East, the Sahel, and North Africa, great power competition in the region, and Israeli-Arab relations. Riboua’s pieces and commentary have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy , the National Interest , the Jerusalem Post and Tablet among other outlets. She holds a master’s of public policy from the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. She did her undergraduate studies in France, where she attended French preparatory classes and HEC Paris’ Grande Ecole program. Her Substack is Beyond the Ideological . Razib and Zineb Riboua discuss the concept of Third Worldism (following up on an earlier podcast ), its historical context, and its contemporary relevance. Riboua explains that Third Worldism positions the decolonizing world as a historical actor seeking revenge and redistribution from the West, emphasizing the West’s role in global South…

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Host: Razib Khan

Guest: Zineb Riboua

Topics covered

• Third Worldism
• decolonization
• great power competition
• Israeli-Arab relations
• foreign policy
• Middle East politics

Keywords

• Third Worldism
• decolonization
• Middle East
• foreign policy
• great power competition
• Israeli-Arab relations
• Iran
• politics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hudson Institute, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, National Interest, Jerusalem Post, Tablet

Books & works: Beyond the Ideological

Places: Middle East, Sahel, North Africa, Iran, US, Europe

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