EI Weekly Listen — the fake history of civilisational states by Christopher Coker

March 11, 2022

So-called civilisational states, including Russia, China and India, invoke fake histories to justify and buttress their contemporary political settlements. But those who cannot let go of the past are always at risk of finding themselves imprisoned by it. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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