In this our first episode of our second season, Drs. Brearley and Neumann discuss new studies on the perspectives of women and men and what they want out of relationships: Gen Z women increasingly don’t want traditional family structures (while their men do) and Gen X women have grown tired of ‘mankeeping,’ causing them to walk out of marriages they find exhausting.
Meanwhile, Europe is finding a renewed sense of purpose — and identity — in its rearmament. The recently fragile EU political experiment now has vim and vigour, where ‘European’ is a stand in for ‘NATO Member State.’ Feeling abandoned by the U.S. and threatened by Russia, the milieu of European defense innovation talks about building weapons systems that are “from Europe, for Europe, and in a European way.” The EU no longer wants its traditional relationship with the U.S. either, it proclaims; Europeans want a partnership of equals, not ‘U.S. keeping.’ Will Europe succeed?
In this shorter format of our podcast, Dr. Brearley analyses how Kamala Harris’s speech on Trump’s First 100 Days missed the mark for the future of the Democratic Party.
Follow Dr. Neumann on X: @vanessaneumann, on Instagram: @drvneumann, and on LinkedIn: vanessaneumannphd. Her new work website is: asymmetrica.eu
Follow Dr. Brearley on X: @drejbrearley, and on LinkedIn: Emily-Brearley-PhD-93071b2. Her work website is: solution42.org
In this shorter format of our podcast, Drs. Brearley and Neumann discuss why an African cardinal should be our next Pope.
Follow Dr. Neumann on X: @vanessaneumann, Instagram: @drvneumann, and on LinkedIn: vanessaneumannphd
Follow Dr. Brearley on X: @drejbrearley, and on LinkedIn: Emily-Brearley-PhD-93071b2
In this shorter format of our podcast, Drs. Brearleys and Neumann discuss the likely causes and definite lessons of Spain’s mass outage: cyber attack, distrust in government, and more cash, transistor radios, neighbourly relations.
Follow Dr. Neumann on X: @vanessaneumann, Instagram: @drvneumann, and on LinkedIn: https://www.LinkedIn.com/in/vanessaneumannphd
Follow Dr. Brearley on X: @drejbrearley, Instagram: @embrearley, and on LinkedIn: https://www.LinkedIn.com/in/emily-brearley-phd-93071b2/
In this episode of Asymmetric Power, Drs. Brearley and Neumann discuss strategies both US and EU businesses can use to navigate the trade war, from near shoring with new partners (Ecuador) and getting more aggressive strategic risk assessment in-house, to innovate without losing disparate unique identities that give a competitive edge.
In this episode of Asymmetric Power, Drs. Brearley and Neumann discuss America Crece 2.0: an equity investment plan for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) advocated by POTUS Trump’s Special Envoy to the region, Mauricio Claver-Carone, and supported by the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the first Latino to hold the position. It is particularly notable in light of the fact that LAC has been largely exempt from the tariff wars: except for the egregious dictatorships, the region just got the de minimus blanket 10%, giving it a global competitive advantage.
Just as we launched this episode, the Trump administration announced moves to restructure its foreign aid, as we previously advocated and delved into here: some emergency programs and otherwise a more strategic investment fund that knits together alliances designed to make U.S. citizens safer, stronger, and more prosperous.
HURRAH! It’s as if they watched our podcast… ;-)
While we await its launch, you get to vote on what we should call it: Triage Fund, Pax Próspera, Prosperity Alliance.
If you COMMENT AND SUBSCRIBE, we will answer you.
In this episode of “Asymmetric Power,” Drs. Brearley and Neumann discuss the waning power of the Oscars, BlackRock’s acquisition of the Panama Canal ports (to keep them under U.S. influence), what Trump’s non-State of the Union teaches us about being an effective political opposition.
RELAUNCH!!! Now we welcome development economist Dr. Emily Brearley as our permanent co-hostess. Hurrah! In this our inaugural joint episode we discuss the future of James Bond (and his swimming trunks), why we should be calmer about Pres. Trump’s tariffs, and why immigration reform is not all bad.
D is for Development in the MIDFIELD paradigm of national power. Now that President Trump has eliminated USAID, what does that mean for American power, American citizens, and the world’s most vulnerable it was established to help?
Today we hear from eminent development economist Dr. Emily Brearley, who is writing a book on the pitfalls of foreign aid, based on her decades of experience working with USAID and others in the Global South. She dishes all that and also tells us how Ivanka Trump did good for USAID.
You can visit Dr. Brearley’s website: www.solution42.org
You can follow her on X at the handle: @DrEjBrearley
You can connect with her on LinkedIn: Emily-Brearley-phd-930671b2
¿Qué es USAID, la Agencia Estadounidense de Desarrollo Internacional, y porqué lo ha eliminado la administración de Trump, particularmente Elon Musk? En este episodio, nuestro primero en español, examinamos sus implicaciones para el poder nacional. ¿Se debería reemplazar con otra cosa?
What is USAID, and, through the asymmetric power lens, why do we care about its elimination by the Trump administration? Does it weaken US power? What might (or should) the U.S. do instead?
In this episode, we look through the asymmetric power lens at two interesting events this week: the panic generated by Deepseek’s AI launch and President Trump’s renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. Wait, is this really a thing? Yeah, it is, with hundreds of years of precedent, and we can foresee how it will play out. As for Deepseek, for sure some Big Tech and their regulators should be worried, but it’s good news for AI venture studios and for the general public.
News stories about the EU + UK 2024 task force on the impacts of a #Trump presidency, plus Ursula von der Leyen’s speech in Davos proved me right on one of my top predictions for 2025: the #EU will seek to bind together with the #UK to avoid being picked apart in tough negotiations.
Plus, I discuss the flip flop on #tiktok: what the national security concerns are and why Presidents Trump has changed his mind, as well as why #Google and #Apple have gone so quiet on the controversy.
Personally, I hope it creates the space for the UK-based AI tech I’m invested in: Time Machine Capital 2 and DAACI.
We look at two of the week’s events through the asymmetric power lens: why was Venezuela’s democratic leader captured then released? Also, what does Mark Zuckerberg’s newly relaxed content moderation tell us about his expectations of a Trump presidency versus Europe?
January 8, 2025: learn how information is key to all great power competitions, where it fits in the theoretical frameworks, and how you can apply this to your own competitions, in any realm.
January 1, 2025: from the family ranch in Montana I introduce my new podcast: Asymmetric Power with Dr. V. It will help you “cowboy up and git ‘er done” in 2025 by learning and applying the principles of competition (centered on information) for you to better understand the news and win your own competitions.