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EI Weekly Listen — Andrew Preston on the invention of American national security
By the time Kennedy and Johnson held the presidency in the 1960s, the definition of US national security had been stretched and expanded in previousl…
1 year, 11 months ago
EI Talks... the Soviet Union's bid for Africa
Daniela Richterova, Senior Lecturer in Intelligence Studies at the Department for War Studies, King's College London, reflects on the efforts the Sov…
1 year, 11 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Charly Salonius-Pasternak on how Nordic and Baltic countries are preparing for war
Thinking about 'war in our time' and our region is no longer an activity restricted to historians or military planners. Politicians and citizens in t…
1 year, 11 months ago
EI Talks... Studio Ghibli
Alastair Benn is joined by Christopher Harding, cultural historian of Japan and author of The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with th…
1 year, 11 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Kimberly Kagan on the United States and the new way of war
The United States, still the dominant military power in the world, is immersed in a new era of warfare that it has not yet recognised as endemic and …
2 years ago
EI Talks... December, 1941
In December 1941, the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor, making the Second World War a truly global conflict. Paul Lay is joined by Charlie Lad…
2 years ago
EI Weekly Listen — Pascal Vennesson on the rise of transnational war-making
Political success for the global insurgents can arise not only from a military victory on the ground, but from a military stalemate and even a milita…
2 years ago
EI Weekly Listen — Rolf Ekéus on how to end wars
There is only one way out of total destruction and collapse, which is creative diplomacy. Read by Leighton Pugh.
Image: Dutch envoy Cornelis Calkoen…
2 years ago
EI Weekly Listen — Philip Bobbitt on the new global disorder
We cannot understand what is going wrong in the international order without first understanding what is going wrong in the constitutional order of st…
2 years ago
EI Talks... 2023
What is the deep meaning of 2023? Alastair Benn is joined by Paul Lay and Iain Martin to set a dramatic year in perspective.
Image: A woman lights a…
2 years ago