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Energy Geopolitics & the Remaking of the Modern World | Helen Thompson

Hidden Forces

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This week's episode features author and professor of political economy at the university of cambridge, helen thompson. Helen's current research concentrates on the political economy of energy; she explores it magisterially in her new book, disorder. The last two decades have brought a powerful tide of gpolitical, economic and democratic shocks on to the world. Their fall out has led central banks to create over 25 trillion dollars of new money,. d stabilized the midde east, ruptured the european union and exposed old political fault lines right here in the united states. Tre's conversation endeavors to draw a line of continuity between those turbulent years and the present political moment. We try

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