Glenn Diesen: Leading Insight
New programs of informed, international political analysis continue to be born. Diesen is blazing a stellar trail of astonishing breadth, radiating insight.
Published: 2025-03-23
Glenn Diesen
Readers of this newsletter will hopefully have become aware of Professor Glenn Diesen from the Department of Business, History and Social Sciences at the University of Southeastern Norway. His study of political and economic relations between Europe, the US and Russia over his adult lifetime and the decades preceding it included extensive study in the Russian Federation. He is, notably, an Associate Editor at the premier Russian academic journal in international relations (in English), Russia in Global Affairs.
Outside of academic gatherings, Diesen participated in numerous gathering in Norway informing audiences of accurate and relevant historical data to place a counter to emotionally motivated, narrative driven presentations of the now 11 year old war in Ukraine. The Duran quickly recognized his depth of knowledge and expertise and created an interview program for Diesen to lead with Alexander Mercouris, as both a commentator and interviewer, and a guest providing the body of the discussion.
With this exposure and experience Diesen begun his own series of one-on-one interviews in February. In March, 2025, he has led 23 published interviews in 23 days.
The volume of his work is prodigious. The range and quality of guests is astonishing.
Structures of Power
This newsletter is product of its author's study of power, a super-set of international relations. That study has always been driven by a search for historically informed, insightful commentary and analysis. This has forced an incidental, though interesting, study of media. It has been a joy to see over the 18 odd months of Judge Andrew Napolitano's program Judging Freedom commentators already unearthed in the research appear with Napolitano. The same can be said of Nima Alkorshid's Dialogue Works.
Diesen has outclassed them all in two months. Here are the names of interviewees, which this newsletter's editor already knew of and considers insightful, including Doctorates, Professors, Ambassadors, Foreign Ministers, journalists and former intelligence analsyts.
Diesen's stellar beginning to his popular work in video based political analysis, in reverse chronological order, includes (yes, there are more):
Gilbert Doctorow,
Nicolai Petro,
Jeffrey Sachs,
Alastair Crooke,
Jacques Baud,
Ted Postol,
Chas Freeman,
Alfred de Zayas,
M.K. Bhadrakumar,
Karin Kneissl,
Max Blumenthal,
Pepe Escobar,
Richard Sakwa,
Pascal Lottaz and
Ray McGovern
Leading with humility
This newsletter occasionally refers to the political equivalent of Newton's Third Law, that political actions generate political responses. The same is true of political analysis publications in popular media.
The lack of relevant context and informed historical perspective in English language media covering current affairs created a vacuum into which programs like Judging Freedom and Dialogue Works moved. There is a "market" of curious individuals unsatisfied by the talking-point dominated blather offered by aging publishing organisations. They made themselves irrelevant.
A deeply informed, humble, respectful and erudite Diesen is offering a new class of insight, uniquely informed by the breadth of his interlocutors.
Long may it continue.
If you also are thankful for his work, may I suggest that you use whichever form of acknowledgment you are comfortable with, via Diesen's publishing platforms (Substack, Youtube), to let him know that you value his work.
A thumbs up goes a long way in independent media.
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Sources
Glenn Diesen, Professor; University of Southeastern Norway
“The EU in its current form is a tragic mistake of the European history”; Prof. Diesen with Václav Klaus; Russia in Global Affairs; 2019-10-10
"Russia in Global Affairs Associate Editor Glenn Diesen talks with former President of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus ..."
US Control of Ukraine's Power Plants and Europe's Preparation for War; Glenn Diesen interviews Gilbert Doctorow; Glenn's Substack; 2025-03-22
Will the Nationalists Turn Against Zelensky?; Glenn Diesen interviews Nicolai Petro; Glenn's Substack; 2025-03-22
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: Peace Negotiations & the End of NATO; Glenn Diesen interviews Jeffrey Sachs; Glenn's Substack; 2025-03-18
Europe and Israel Decline & Fragment; Glenn Diesen interviews Alastair Crooke; Glenn's Substack; 2025-03-15
Col. Jacques Baud: The Origin and Solution to the Ukraine War; Glenn Diesen interviews Jacques Baud; Glenn's Substack; 2025-03-14
Striving for Nuclear Armageddon; Glenn Diesen interviews Ted Postol; Glenn's Substack; 2025-03-14
Ceasefire Without Political Settlement - Another Minsk Agreement?; Glenn Diesen interviews Chas Freeman; Glenn's Substack; 2025-03-13
Civilians Massacred in Syria & the EU Blames the Victims; Glenn Diesen interviews Mohammed Marandi; Glenn's Substack; 2025-03-10
Prof. Alfred de Zayas: A Peace Plan For Ukraine in a Broken Europe; Glenn Diesen interviews Alfred de Zayas; Glenn's Substack; 2025-03-06
Can India Become a Global Powerhouse?; Glenn Diesen interviews M. K. Bhadrakumar; Glenn's Substack; 2025-03-06
Europe's Growing Irrelevance: Speaking with the Former Foreign Minister of Austria; Glenn Diesen interviews Karin Kneissl; Glenn's Substack; 2025-03-03
America Aggressive Approach to a Multipolar World; Glenn Diesen interviews Max Blumenthal; Glenn's Substack; 2025-03-02
Pepe Escobar: BRICS versus the Unipolar World Order; Glenn Diesen interviews Pepe Escobar; Glenn's Substack; 2025-03-01
End of the Political West; Glenn Diesen interviews Richard Sakwa; Glenn's Substack; 2025-02-21
EU Elites Are in Panic Over the US Leaving Ukraine and Europe; Glenn Diesen interviews Pascal Lottaz; Glenn's Substack; 2025-02-17
Ray McGovern: Trump versus the Deep State; Glenn Diesen interviews Ray McGovern; Glenn's Substack; 2025-02-06
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