Episode 165
EI Weekly Listen — Peter Heather on empire and development in first millennium Europe
The story of first millennium Europe is one of remarkable economic change and demographic ...
March 22, 2024
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Episode 164
EI Weekly Listen — Barry Strauss on Ancient Greek geopolitics
The Greeks invented the notion of the interrelationship of geography and politics; indeed,...
March 15, 2024
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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
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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