The EI Podcast
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
The EI Podcast brings you weekly conversations and audio essays from leading writers, thinkers and historians. Hosted by Alastair Benn and Paul Lay. Find the EI Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or search The EI Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
China projects its power and secures its national interests in three ways: exercising migh...
December 8, 2023
Paul Lay and Alastair Benn are joined by Matthew Hefler, post-doctoral fellow at the Ax:so...
December 7, 2023
Putin uses history not only to fit a narrative that Russia is strong when it stands togeth...
December 1, 2023
What went wrong for the western alliance in Afghanistan? Paul Lay and Alastair Benn are jo...
November 30, 2023
Religion is often ignored as a political factor; in the Middle East, this is not possible....
November 24, 2023
Paul Lay and Alastair Benn are joined by Calder Walton, author of Spies: The epic intellig...
November 24, 2023
Wherever we insist on truth in order to win over our adversaries, we awaken a spirit of vi...
November 17, 2023
Paul Lay and Alastair Benn are joined by Kate Cooper, author of Queens of a Fallen World, ...
November 15, 2023
Mystical experience is the missing link in modern accounts of how human beings came to be ...
November 11, 2023