Episode 81
EI Weekly Listen — Lawrence of Arabia on war: How the past haunts the present
The Lawrence legend continues to win new devotees while his pragmatic contribution to warf...
July 1, 2022
EI Weekly
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Episode 79
EI Weekly Listen — The importance of the individual in history by Vernon Bogdanor
Throughout the ages, oracles, journalists and political scientists have attempted to guess...
June 24, 2022
Episode 78
EI Weekly Listen — Geopolitics, geoeconomics and Russian revisionism by Mikael Wigell
Traditional geopolitical solutions (accommodation or military containment) are unlikely to...
June 17, 2022
Episode 75
EI Weekly Listen — Containing and deterring Russia: can Europe act strategically? By Janne Haaland Matláry
The condemnation of the annexation of the Crimea was unified and strong, but the sanctions...
June 1, 2022
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Episode 73
EI Weekly Listen — The long peace and nuclear deterrence by Lawrence Freedman
For the past sixty years, the use of nuclear weapons has become unthinkable. But with ever...
May 27, 2022
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Episode 72
EI Weekly Listen — Variety in Judaism by Martin Goodman
In a religious system which presupposed a covenant not just between God and the individual...
May 20, 2022
Episode 71
EI Weekly Listen — America’s problem with unconventional warfare by Frederick Kagan
For more than thirty years, the US has sought to avoid deploying ground forces into protra...
May 13, 2022
Episode 70
EI Weekly Listen — Suffering, the price of being alive: an Islamic perspective by Mona Siddiqui
Islam — unlike Christianity — may not have a central motif of pain, sin and suffering, but...
May 6, 2022
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Episode 68
EI Weekly Listen — Reassessing Christian history by Diarmaid Macculloch
While Christianity may strive to sing in a single voice, no one modern denomination ought ...
April 29, 2022