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Niall Ferguson on Cold War 2, Middle East Conflict and Woke Students
Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center at Harvard, where he served for twelve years as the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History. He is the author of sixteen books. This includes the international bestseller, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. His most recent book is Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe. In addition to his academic work, he is the founder and managing director of Greenmantle LLC, an advisory firm. In this podcast we discuss:
- The proper way to do historical analysis
- The correct historic parallels to today’s geo-politics
- The start of Cold War 2
- The new conflict on AI and quantum
- How US policy has shifted on China
- Can there be no Cold War 2?
- Will China attack Taiwan?
- Can Europe become a superpower?
- The new Trans-Pacific alliances
- The role of India
- New Middle-East conflicts coming soon
- Geological risks
- What’s wrong with US universities
- Books recommended by Niall: War And Peace (Tolstoy), The Struggle For Mastery In Europe (A.J.P. Taylor), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon)
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