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EI Talks... Horace
Llewelyn Morgan, author of Horace: A Very Short Introduction, joins EI's Paul Lay to explore the Augustan poet's vast and complex legacy.
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2 years, 1 month ago
EI Weekly Listen — Elisabeth Kendall on Jihadist poetry as propaganda
Al-Qaeda's success in Yemen can in part be explained by the group's adept use of poetry as propaganda. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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2 years, 1 month ago
EI Talks... the Edwardians: the calm before the storm
Alwyn Turner, author of Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era, speaks to Paul Lay about the early 20th century, an age of anxiety.
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2 years, 1 month ago
EI Weekly Listen — Malise Ruthven on the appeal of ISIS
From the Engelsberg Ideas Archive. The organisation that emerged under the name ISIS is not simply a terrorist group. It is a hybrid organisation com…
2 years, 2 months ago
EI Talks... can Israel win the peace?
Ahron Bregman, author of Cursed Victory: A History of Israel and the Occupied Territories, outlines his vision for a lasting peace between Israel, Pa…
2 years, 2 months ago
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…
2 years, 2 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…
2 years, 2 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…
2 years, 2 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…
2 years, 2 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, 2 months ago