Jason Pack

Jason Pack is the Founder of Libya-Analysis LLC, and the host of Disorder, a Top 20 UK podcast partnered with RUSI. In addition to being an Associate Fellow at RUSI, he is the Senior Analyst for Emerging Challenges at the NATO Defence College Foundation in Rome. His most recent book, Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder (Oxford University Press 2022) explores what Libya’s dysfunctional economic structures and its ongoing civil war reveal about our era of 21st-century geopolitics. Jason’s 'Enduring Disorder' concept – that we no longer inhabit the post-Cold War World, but have entered a new era – the ‘Enduring Disorder’ – was conceived to describe the collective action failures that have come to define international politics. 

At present, Jason is producing a series of articles, media, and podcasts applying this concept to climate change, neo-populism, tax havens, conspiracy theories, and the geopolitical crises in Ukraine, Syria, Gaza, and Afghanistan. Jason has lived in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, Israel/Palestine, Oman, Qadhafi-era Libya, and Trump-era Washington, DC. Proficient in Arabic, French, and Hebrew, he has been kidnapped twice, and served as the Executive Director of a K St-based Trade Association. He is open for media appearances about US foreign policy, conspiracy theories, the state of the global system, neopopulism, and especially the Middle East.

When not podcasting or consulting on the Middle East, Jason plays backgammon semi-professionally. He was the 2018 World Champion of Doubles Backgammon, came 2nd place in the 2024 World Championship of SpeedGammon, and has achieved the rank of Grandmaster - placing him in the top 100 players in the world. He also writes about gambling's connections to geopolitics.

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