EI Weekly Listen

Josef Joffe on the future of the European Union

Simon Mayall on the history of the modern Middle East

Lawrence James on the invention of jingoism

Steven Grosby on the persistence of nationhood

Adrian Wooldridge on meritocracy

Mariano Sigman on how language has shaped human consciousness

Nathan Shachar on ideology in science

Gregory Feifer on the mirage of Russian power

Peter Heather on empire and development in first millennium Europe

Barry Strauss on Ancient Greek geopolitics

Josef Joffe on the end of 'the end of history'

Michael Broers on how Napoleon built a continent

Norman Stone on the 1860s

David Frum on how empire-states are changing the game

EI Weekly Listen — Elisabeth Kendall on Jihadist poetry as propaganda

EI Weekly Listen — Malise Ruthven on the appeal of ISIS

EI Weekly Listen — Andrew Preston on the invention of American national security

EI Weekly Listen — Kimberly Kagan on the United States and the new way of war

EI Weekly Listen — Pascal Vennesson on the rise of transnational war-making

EI Weekly Listen — Rolf Ekéus on how to end wars