Episode 202
EI Weekly Listen — David Butterfield on Epicurus, Lucretius, and the myth of mythlessness
Myths frame and tailor the past in a way that can ground and stabilise a community, howeve...
December 6, 2024
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Episode 201
EI Weekly Listen — Elisabeth Braw on the importance of understanding the West’s adversaries
With deterrence and compellence becoming more crucial than they have been in over three de...
November 29, 2024
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Episode 200
EI Weekly Listen — Henrik Meinander on Gustaf Mannerheim, leader of a free Finland
Gustaf Mannerheim's rise from a troubled youth to Finland's great wartime leader illustrat...
November 22, 2024
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Episode 199
EI Weekly Listen — Rory Medcalf on the Australian way of war and peace
Australia stands at the forefront of democratic resistance against China's expanding influ...
November 15, 2024
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Episode 198
EI Weekly Listen — Andreas Rödder on Konrad Adenauer and the German realignment
Konrad Adenauer combined Realpolitik and German values and interests with international co...
November 8, 2024
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Episode 197
EI Weekly Listen — Kenneth Payne asks: will machines make strategy?
The emergence of Artificial Intelligence capable of deducing human intentions signals a ne...
November 2, 2024
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Episode 196
EI Weekly Listen — Alina Polyakova on Ukraine and the future of US global leadership
If Russia is allowed to walk away with any of its ill-gotten gains in Ukraine, the deterre...
October 25, 2024
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Episode 195
EI Weekly Listen — Philip Zelikow on the study of statecraft
The study of statecraft would profit by spending less time on ‘should’ and more time on ‘h...
October 18, 2024
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Episode 194
EI Weekly Listen — Kristin Ven Bruusgaard on the paradox of nuclear strategy
The vision of nuclear strategy as a means to prevent war remains a powerful but contested ...
October 11, 2024