The EI Podcast
1821 and the invention of world order
Historian Damian Valdez on international order’s 19th-century origins.
October 31, 2025
In this special series at Engelsberg Ideas, leading historian and geopolitical commentator Hal Brands guides us through the major conflicts of the past century and the lessons they offer us now.
Historian Damian Valdez on international order’s 19th-century origins.
October 31, 2025
Critic Malcolm Forbes investigates Graham Greene’s troubled childhood. Read by Leighton Pu…
October 24, 2025
Historian Luka Ivan Jukic explores how Stalin hijacked the Slavic cause to forge the Sovie…
October 17, 2025
Aaron MacLean, host of the School of War podcast, on AI’s threat to the life of the mind.
October 10, 2025
Alastair Benn on the magic of Mick Herron’s Slough House series. Read by Leighton Pugh.
October 3, 2025
EI’s Paul Lay discusses a world order in flux with Stephen Kotkin, historian and biographe…
September 26, 2025