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Official Positions ©

Davis Ellison

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Frequency: 1 episode/21d. Total Eps: 7

Official Positions is a podcast that tries to shake the hornet's nest of the security and defense world and see what comes out.

It asks questions about security studies, working in defense, and unpacks the assumptions that we have about the world that claims to keep us all safe.

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Episode 6: Understanding the attacks on higher education with Professor Hussein Banai

Season 1 · Episode 6

Monday, July 28, 2025 • Duration 01:06:10

I am excited to be joined in this episode by my friend (and former IU undergraduate thesis advisor) Professor Hussein Banai to discuss all the ins and outs of the attacks on higher education happening across the US and the wider world.

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Be an Ellsberg not a Kissinger

Season 1 · Episode 5

Sunday, June 15, 2025 • Duration 31:14

What's better, being an academic with a conscience that flips on corrupt folks in power and takes on the defence system for decades? Or being a servant to wealthy power brokers your whole life, while also being a shit academic?

Come one people, you know the answer...

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Decolonising our reading lists

Season 1 · Episode 4

Wednesday, May 21, 2025 • Duration 31:15

The good, the bad, and the ugly of our security studies reading lists....

From the episode:

The meta-writers:

Empires Without Imperialism: Anglo-American Decline and the Politics of Deflection by Jeanne Morefield
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
The Atlantic Realists: Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United States by Matthew Specter

The bad:

Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by Niall Ferguson
The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror by Michael Ignatieff
The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century by Robert D. Kaplan
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar
Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq by Melvyn Leffler

The good:

Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David van Reybrouck
Congo: The Epic History of a People by van Reybrouck
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
Culture and Imperialism + Orientalism by Edward Said (amongst many others)
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces by Radley Balko
The Wretched of the Earth + Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
Primitive Rebels + On History by Eric Hobsbawm
Uncivil War: The British Army and The Troubles, 1966-1975 by Huw Bennett
Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life by Richard Beck
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

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How I went from 'hawk' to 'dove'

Season 1 · Episode 3

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 • Duration 29:33

How does a Midwestern American raised to be a Republican, who worked as a military strategist at NATO, become a progressive arms control and decolonization advocate?

Studying security between the US and Europe

Season 1 · Episode 2

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 • Duration 24:44

What's it like to study defense and security between two different continents? Maybe its more similar than you think...

What is (wrong) with security studies?

Season 1 · Episode 1

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 • Duration 23:20

Welcome to the first episode of Official Positions!

Like the title says, what's wrong with security studies?

From the insider's perspective, let's unpack the issues endemic to the security studies academic field, the defense research world it feeds, and its relationship to politics.

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