Listen "18: EI Weekly Listen - Iskander Rehman: Why applied history matters"
Episode Synopsis
Forget the seduction of grand theories and presentist moral judgments. To learn the lessons of the past, the great foreign policy analysts of our age must rediscover the art of historical discernment. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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