GeoPol:Episode 1 — The Place of Diplomacy in a New World Order

The rules-based order everyone used to invoke is looking thin. Wars run past every ceasefire, multilateral bodies get overruled or ignored, and the big players increasingly act first and negotiate later if at all. In the first episode of GeoPol, Nelson Kwaje and Akol Dok ask what's left for diplomacy. Is it still the main instrument of statecraft, or a formality that follows decisions already made elsewhere? They look at where quiet negotiation still delivers, where it has clearly failed, and what smaller states can actually do when the powerful stop pretending the rules apply to them. GeoPol is a podcast about power and how it moves across the world. Each episode, Nelson Kwaje and Akol Dok unpack the forces shaping global and regional affairs. Shifting alliances, contested borders, trade and technology, the interests behind the headlines — and what it all means from where they sit. Two curious minds, thinking out loud about a world that rarely explains itself.