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EI Weekly Listen — The long peace and nuclear deterrence by Lawrence Freedman
For the past sixty years, the use of nuclear weapons has become unthinkable. But with every conflict there comes a point where the unthinkable become…
3 years, 7 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Variety in Judaism by Martin Goodman
In a religious system which presupposed a covenant not just between God and the individual Jew, but between God and Israel as a nation, the sense of …
3 years, 7 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — America's problem with unconventional warfare by Frederick Kagan
For more than thirty years, the US has sought to avoid deploying ground forces into protracted conflict. It has nevertheless done so in almost every …
3 years, 7 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Suffering, the price of being alive: an Islamic perspective by Mona Siddiqui
Islam — unlike Christianity — may not have a central motif of pain, sin and suffering, but it reveals so much about what it means to live with advers…
3 years, 8 months ago
History Lessons — Christopher Coker explains Why War?
Episode 69
On the latest episode of History Lessons, Mattias Hessérus is in conversation with Christopher Coker discussing humanity's compulsion for conflict.
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3 years, 8 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Reassessing Christian history by Diarmaid Macculloch
While Christianity may strive to sing in a single voice, no one modern denomination ought to claim a monopoly on the truth. The region's history is i…
3 years, 8 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — The gods in love by Jessica Frazier
The Hindu tradition of Radha and Krishna calls us to see passion as the kernel of all religion. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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3 years, 8 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — The story of the Jesuits: how the Society of Jesus charted the world by M.Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J.
As Jesuit missionaries spread further across the globe, the order’s founder wanted to ensure that its members remained connected. The result of this …
3 years, 8 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — The Portuguese: Pioneers of globalisation by Roger Crowley
Portugal’s commercial dominance of large swathes of the world lasted little more than a century but the images, transmissions, and trades that it eng…
3 years, 9 months ago
EI Weekly Listen — Elements of seapower, past and present by Lincoln Paine
Sea power derives from resources, a direct interest in sea-based trade, and pressure exerted by enemies. In the modern age, the importance of these f…
3 years, 9 months ago