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
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Episode 154
EI Weekly Listen — Pascal Vennesson on the rise of transnational war-making
Political success for the global insurgents can arise not only from a military victory on ...
January 5, 2024
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Episode 153
EI Weekly Listen — Rolf Ekéus on how to end wars
There is only one way out of total destruction and collapse, which is creative diplomacy. ...
December 22, 2023
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Episode 152
EI Weekly Listen — Philip Bobbitt on the new global disorder
We cannot understand what is going wrong in the international order without first understa...
December 15, 2023
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Episode 151
EI Weekly Listen — Yu Jie on the deep historical roots of China’s global ambition
China projects its power and secures its national interests in three ways: exercising migh...
December 8, 2023
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Episode 150
EI Weekly Listen — Andrew Monaghan on how the past shapes Russian grand strategy
Putin uses history not only to fit a narrative that Russia is strong when it stands togeth...
December 1, 2023