Two thousand and 16 seemed like one of those years where everything got kind of upended. In a way, i think that we shouldn't have been so shocked by what happened in two thousand and 60 but the reality is that we were. And any allusions that there were left in the west, that in some sense, history had ended, and that big dramatic changes were over, has just gone away. So i think it's actually now, in a way, harder to get two thousand and 16 into a clear perspective than than than it was back then.
Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge, a columnist for The New Statesman, and has been a regular contributor to the Talking Politics podcast. Her new book, Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century, looks at decades of geopolitical history that have fed into our current moment: one of war and conflict, nations competing for dwindling natural resources, and the climate emergency casting a long shadow. She joins journalist and author Andrew Mueller to discuss how we got here.
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