How did you come to isolate those three themes? I actually wanted initially to do something that was a about a fourth one, which would have been more focused on culture. It's not that i didn't think that culture was important. The disruption, in some sense, was like moving around between arthat the spheres,. You couldnot understand any single thing by itself without connecting it to what else was going on.
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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