Episode 163
EI Weekly Listen — Josef Joffe on the end of ‘the end of history’
We equated a brief respite from history with the dawn of a new age. Read by Leighton Pugh.
March 8, 2024
EI Weekly
A series of audio essays featuring our writers.
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Episode 162
EI Weekly Listen — Michael Broers on how Napoleon built a continent
Napoleonic geopolitics didn't make much impression on Europe's maps, but its influence was...
March 1, 2024
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Episode 161
EI Weekly Listen — Norman Stone on the 1860s
In the 1860s, commentators might have been justified in forecasting 'the end of history' a...
February 23, 2024
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Episode 160
EI Weekly Listen — David Frum on how empire-states are changing the game
From the Engelsberg Ideas Archive. States are back and they're out to challenge the intern...
February 16, 2024
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Episode 159
EI Weekly Listen — Elisabeth Kendall on Jihadist poetry as propaganda
Al-Qaeda's success in Yemen can in part be explained by the group's adept use of poetry as...
February 9, 2024
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Episode 158
EI Weekly Listen — Malise Ruthven on the appeal of ISIS
From the Engelsberg Ideas Archive. The organisation that emerged under the name ISIS is no...
February 2, 2024
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Episode 157
EI Weekly Listen — Andrew Preston on the invention of American national security
By the time Kennedy and Johnson held the presidency in the 1960s, the definition of US nat...
January 25, 2024
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Episode 156
EI Weekly Listen — Charly Salonius-Pasternak on how Nordic and Baltic countries are preparing for war
Thinking about 'war in our time' and our region is no longer an activity restricted to his...
January 19, 2024
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Episode 155
EI Weekly Listen — Kimberly Kagan on the United States and the new way of war
The United States, still the dominant military power in the world, is immersed in a new er...
January 12, 2024