Foreign Affairs & Geopolitics

Pakistan's place in a multi-polar world — China, the Gulf, the West, and what comes next.

8 episodes

May 7, 2026

A country is energy, labor, intelligence, and raw material

Muzamil lays out the four-component framework he uses to read any country — energy, labor, intelligence, and raw material — and runs Pakistan, India, China, and the US through it, number by number.

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Apr 30, 2026

The US-Iran war is an energy war, not an ideological one

Muzamil Hasan argues that the US-Iran conflict, like most great-power wars of the last fifty years, is fundamentally about energy — pipelines, oil prices, and a solar tipping point that threatens to hand China the next century.

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Apr 27, 2026

This is a hundred-year cycle, not a recession

Muzamil argues the next five years look like a Great Depression-scale downturn, and explains why he traded outward ambition for family.

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Apr 16, 2026

Why I'm done pretending to be apolitical about Pakistan

A solo episode where Muzamil explains the two-year transition behind the camera, why he has effectively depoliticised himself, what he still believes about Imran Khan, and how he plans to cover Pakistan's politics from here on.

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