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Why the nation beat the empire in the battle of nineteenth century ideas by Jeremy Jennings
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A history of the nineteenth century tells not just of newly-formed nations, but of newly-developing nationalism. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Image: Carving Up The World A satirical cartoon by James Gillray, showing British Prime Minister William Pitt and the French leader Napoleon Bonaparte, carving up the world between them. Entitled &#39;The Plumb Pudding in Danger&#39; - pub. 26th February 1805
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Worldview — Pressure on the power network
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The West must have an adaptable power grid to meet the challenges of this geopolitical energy crisis.

In this episode of Worldview, Adam Boulton is joined by Margarita Balmaceda, Magnus Henrekson, Olamide Oguntoye and Ariana Kiran Singh to discuss generating and transmitting power in the face of growing geopolitical and environmental concerns.

Image description: Electricity pylon. Credit: Dav...
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The joy of suffering by Candida Moss
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The crucifixion lodged suffering at the heart of Christianity: to suffer was to be like Christ. This reframing of suffering had far-reaching consequences for world history. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Image: Jesus Christ on the Cross with St. Mary and St John, painted by Albrecht Altdorfer, circa 1512. Credit: Niday Picture Library / Alamy Stock Photo.
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Worldview — The nuclear threat today
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There are currently around 13,000 nuclear warheads worldwide, with Russia possessing the largest nuclear arsenal.

And yet, nuclear weapons have not been deployed in combat since the US bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima seventy-seven years ago.

So, how and why has the nuclear taboo remained intact and what may jeopardise it in the future?

In this episode of Worldview, Adam Boulton is joined by Pr...
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The Revolt of the European Masses: the disintegration of accountability in supra-national politics by Janne Haaland Matlary
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With forces such as identity politics and supra-national bodies gaining traction across Europe, the concept of the nation state has never been more important. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Image: A painting of the Dutch envoy Adriaan Pauw entering Münster around 1646 for the peace negotiations, painted by Gerard ter Borch. Credit: Wikipedia Commons/Stadtmuseum Münster
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Worldview — The global struggle for microchip supremacy
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When the pioneers of computer engineering created the first integrated circuits in the 1950s they could not have envisaged how this technology would infiltrate all elements of our daily lives.

The production of microchips is now rapidly becoming the defining force in geopolitics and will play a fundamental role in the conflicts of the future.

In this episode of Worldview, Adam Boulton is join...
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Rethinking geopolitics by Jeremy Black
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Geography and politics are closely intertwined, although that no more means that all geography is political than that all politics is geographical. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Image: An American map of the West Coast of Africa from Sierra Leone to Cape Palmas, &#39;including the colony of Liberia&#39;. Credit: Everett Collection Historical / Alamy Stock Photo
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Why the idea of Carthage survived Roman conquest by Richard Miles
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The Romans burnt Carthage’s books and buildings – but ‘Punic’ identity remained influential throughout Antiquity. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Image: Print of ancient Carthage. Source: Wiki Creative Commons
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EI Weekly Listen — The end of history ends by Walter Russell Mead
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The era in world history that began with the fall of the Soviet Union is drawing to its close. The post-Cold War Eurasian settlement that the United States and its allies imposed after 1990 has three big challengers - Russia, China and Iran. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Image: A symbol of American power, the National Capitol in Washington, DC. Credit: Christian Offenberg / Alamy Stock Photo.
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The restless search for the fun wars by David J Betz
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The West, more specifically the United States, with its major allies alongside it, has been chasing the &#39;fun wars&#39; for forty years and serially coming up empty. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Image: British Prime Minister Tony Blair greets an ethnic Albanian by holding up his hand in central Pristina, Yugoslavia during a one-day visit Saturday July 31, 1999. It was Blair&#39;s first visit to Kosovo since ...
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The impact of the First World War on strategy by Hew Strachan
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The First World War fundamentally altered our understanding of strategy — we should heed the insights of the era&#39;s leading thinkers and generals. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Image: First World War Commanders looking at a battle plan. Painting by Francois Flameng (1856-1923), 1916. Army Museum, Paris. Credit: Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1665151384" data-format="short_date">Oct 07, 2022</span></span>
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46m
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32m
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32m
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21m
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21m
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27m
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31m
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The Gospel of Thomas: casting a new light on Early Christianity by Elaine Pagels
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While there may have been striking similarities between the Gospel of Thomas and those of the four Evangelists, closer examination reveals a subtle yet crucially different perspective on salvation. Read by Leighton Pugh.

https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-gospel-of-thomas-casting-a-new-light-on-early-christianity/

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Worldview — The battle for energy resources
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In this episode of Worldview, Adam Boulton is joined by Professor Helen Thompson, Tim Marshall and Daniel Yergin to discuss the global energy market.

The fallout of Putin&#39;s invasion of Ukraine has overthrown energy norms in Europe. However, over the past decade the energy market has been far from stable. With concerns surrounding climate change and the discovery of new resources, we are on the...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1657729140" data-format="short_date">Jul 13, 2022</span></span>
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Why 16 billion cortical neurons are not enough by Suzana Herculano-Houzel
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Humanity has come quite some way in the past 200,000 years but are we really anything more than primates with a few million more neurons than our closest relatives? Read by Leighton Pugh.

https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/why-16-billion-cortical-neurons-are-not-enough/

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Worldview — Leadership in war
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What&#39;s a war without its leaders? In this week&#39;s Worldview, Adam Boulton speaks to leading historians Margaret MacMillan and Andrew Roberts on how leadership shapes both conflicts and their resolutions.

Image description: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, stands for a moment of silence during a ceremony to award medals to service members to celebrate the Day of Defenders of Ukraine in t...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1657296960" data-format="short_date">Jul 08, 2022</span></span>
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Modern France and the ghosts of the past by Peter Ricketts
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France, like all countries, is haunted by events and mistakes of times past. These ghosts will guide modern policy until they are overridden and laid to rest. Read by Leighton Pugh.

https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/modern-france-and-the-ghosts-of-the-past/

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Lawrence of Arabia on war: How the past haunts the present by Rob Johnson
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The Lawrence legend continues to win new devotees while his pragmatic contribution to warfare is neglected. Read by Leighton Pugh.

https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/lawrence-of-arabia-on-war-how-the-past-haunts-the-present/

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1656664612" data-format="short_date">Jul 01, 2022</span></span>
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The importance of the individual in history by Vernon Bogdanor
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Throughout the ages, oracles, journalists and political scientists have attempted to guess the course fate may take. But should they fail to take the specifics, particularly specific individuals, into account, they are doomed to fail. Read by Leighton Pugh.

https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-importance-of-the-individual-in-history/

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1656089866" data-format="short_date">Jun 24, 2022</span></span>
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Worldview — Conflict in space
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In our latest episode of Worldview hosted by Adam Boulton we consider the role outer space will play in the future of conflict. How soon will conflicts on Earth spill out into space? What form might these conflicts take and how can we regulate them? Adam speaks to Jacob Geer, Dr Stuart Eves and Professor von der Dunk to find out.

Image description: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off, Cape Cana...
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Geopolitics, geoeconomics and Russian revisionism by Mikael Wigell
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Traditional geopolitical solutions (accommodation or military containment) are unlikely to work with Putin’s Russia. Instead the West should pursue a unified geo-economic strategy. Read by Leighton Pugh.

https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-carrot-and-the-stick-geo-economics-and-russian-revisionism/

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1655486504" data-format="short_date">Jun 17, 2022</span></span>
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Worldview — The Battlefield
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How does the war in Ukraine look on the ground? What does the future of the battlefield hold? In this week&#39;s episode of Worldview, Adam Boulton speaks to Professor Hew Strachan and Dr Rob Johnson to discuss these issues and more.

Image description: A drone operator from field medicine division, Ukraine. Credit: Mykhailo Palinchak / Alamy Stock Photo.
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Worldview — The Russia Problem
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Our new series of Worldview, presented by Adam Boulton is considering the future of warfare and geopolitics in response to Russia&#39;s invasion of Ukraine.

In this week&#39;s episode, Adam Boulton is in conversation with Vladislav Zubok and Sir Roderic Lyne, the former British Ambassador to Moscow. While both were horrified by the invasion of Ukraine last February, they offer varying views on how thi...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1655050380" data-format="short_date">Jun 12, 2022</span></span>
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https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/containing-and-deterring-russia-can-europe-act-strategically/

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1654116539" data-format="short_date">Jun 01, 2022</span></span>
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1654099860" data-format="short_date">Jun 01, 2022</span></span>
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https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/can-nuclear-deterrence-preserve-the-long-peace-between-major-powers/

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1653653658" data-format="short_date">May 27, 2022</span></span>
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1653064290" data-format="short_date">May 20, 2022</span></span>
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https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/suffering-the-price-of-being-alive-an-islamic-perspective/

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1651241401" data-format="short_date">Apr 29, 2022</span></span>
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https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-gods-in-love/

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1650653705" data-format="short_date">Apr 22, 2022</span></span>
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https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/jesuit/

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1649946524" data-format="short_date">Apr 14, 2022</span></span>
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1649431820" data-format="short_date">Apr 08, 2022</span></span>
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1648814383" data-format="short_date">Apr 01, 2022</span></span>
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If a peace deal is not reached, all the key ingredients are present for Yemen to become a failed state. Read by Leighton Pugh.

https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/making-sense-of-the-yemen-war/

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1648223040" data-format="short_date">Mar 25, 2022</span></span>
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Acts of extreme self-sacrifice – such as suicide bombing – are not aberrations. They tell us something about our deepest instincts for group loyalty. Read by Leighton Pugh.

https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-dark-side-to-loving-a-group/

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So-called civilisational states, including Russia, China and India, invoke fake histories to justify and buttress their contemporary political settlements. But those who cannot let go of the past are always at risk of finding themselves imprisoned by it. Read by Leighton Pugh.

https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-fake-history-of-civilisational-states/

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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1646993520" data-format="short_date">Mar 11, 2022</span></span>
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https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-flag-wars-are-here-to-stay/

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https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/disinformation-in-the-information-age/

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https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/roman-geopolitics-an-exercise-in-myth-making/

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The US once enjoyed the esteemed position of being the &#39;city on the hill&#39;, a beacon of hope and an example to the rest of the world. Post-9/11, however, the superpower&#39;s conduct in the Middle East has left its reputation tarnished. Read by Leighton Pugh.

https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/how-us-policy-failure-post-9-11-undermined-international-order/

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