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A discussion series with leading thinkers focused on issues at the intersection of business, politics, and culture.
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Ep. 37 - "It Wasn't Lack of Conversation, It Was a Lack of Understanding": Bancroft Prize-Winning Historian Odd Arne Westad on What 1914 Teaches Us About 2026 (opens the original)
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In 1914 the heads of state of Germany, Russia, and Britain were cousins. They knew each other intimately and they corresponded constantly. What they could not do was understand what the others were actually trying to achieve, and historian Arne Westad thinks that failure is the lesson from 1914 that we have the most to learn from today. Westad's new book is The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict,and Warnings from History , published in March by Henry Holt in the United States and Penguin in the Unite
Earlylands in Conversation - Ep. 36 - Good Intentions and Bad Ideas: Historian Bronwen Everill on Two Centuries of Western Economic Advice in Africa (opens the original)
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It can be argued that each generation of Western development expert arrives in Africa convinced the previous generation got it wrong, and leaves having made a version of the same mistake. Trade, then agricultural productivity, then trade again, then structural adjustment, followed by microcredit. Historian Bronwen Everill, in her book Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance (The New Press, 2025; William Collins, 2024), traces that cycle from the abolition of the slave trade to the current c
Earlylands in Conversation - Ep. 35 - "Russia Has Leaned Into Its Worst Impulses": RUSI’s Dr. Jack Watling on Ukraine's Changed Battlefield Dynamic (opens the original)
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Russia's military is materially weaker today than it was a year ago, and Ukraine has established an asymmetric approach that drives up the cost of every Russian advance. Yet those facts still do not guarantee Kyiv the ending it wants. Dr. Jack Watling is Senior Research Fellow for Applied Military Sciences at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London and one of the world's leading experts on the war in Ukraine. He is also the author of Statecraft: The New Rules of Power in a Divided W
Earlylands in Conversation - Ep. 34 - "Do More With Less": Traxtion CEO James Holley on Turning Africa's Rail Bottlenecks Into a Continental Business (opens the original)
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Rail rarely makes headlines, but it may be doing more to shape Africa's economic trajectory than any single mine or trade deal. James ('Jamie') Holley is CEO of Traxtion, the largest privately owned rail operator on the continent, with a deployed fleet of over 55 locomotives across ten countries, from South Africa's core network to the Tazara line linking Zambia to the Tanzanian coast. Earlylands Advisory's Todd Johnson sits down with Jamie to unpack what it actually takes to revive neglected ra
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