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EI Weekly Listen — Roman geopolitics, an exercise in myth-making by Richard Miles
Once established, Roman exceptionalism and empire needed to be justified and maintained. T...
February 18, 2022
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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.
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EI Weekly Listen — How US policy failure post-9/11 undermined international order by Emma Sky
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EI Weekly Listen — How US policy failure post-9/11 undermined international order by Emma Sky
The US once enjoyed the esteemed position of being the 'city on the hill', a beacon of hop...
February 11, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — Uruk and the origins of the sacred economy by Daniel T. Potts
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EI Weekly Listen — Uruk and the origins of the sacred economy by Daniel T. Potts
Peering into the hearts and minds those living four thousand years ago is an impossible ta...
February 4, 2022
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EI Weekly Listen — Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy revisited by Niall Ferguson
The second half of the last century was defined by the struggle between socialist and capi...
January 28, 2022
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History Lessons — Katja Hoyer on the rise and fall of the German Empire, 1871–1918
January 28, 2022
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EI Weekly Listen — Cool war by Noah Feldman
While the US remains the sole reigning super power, the rise of China adds complexity to t...
January 21, 2022
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EI Weekly Listen — Russia and geopolitics by Anna-Lena Laurén
As the largest country in the world, Russia's might past and present has an inherent link ...
January 14, 2022
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EI Weekly Listen — Fantasy in Middle Eastern nation-making by Nathan Shachar
January 5, 2022
EI Weekly Listen — You are not as clever as you think by Mark Pagel
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EI Weekly Listen — You are not as clever as you think by Mark Pagel
The history of man is a story of mimicry and copying rather than innovation and ‘light-bul...
December 23, 2021