The Eurasian Century, by Hal Brands

In this special series at Engelsberg Ideas, leading historian and geopolitical commentator Hal Brands guides us through the major conflicts of the past century and the lessons they offer us now.

Podcast episodes

Detail from Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse, 1903.
A political caricature, 'Political Dreams, Visions of Peace, Perspective Horrors', by James Gillray of Pitt the Younger.
Digital espionage is on the rise.
French paratroops at the beginning of the First Indochina War.
A large Sèvres presentation plate celebrating Nazism's alleged debt to Charlemagne.