In Part IV of my very brief history of the multipolar world I offer a new image with which to narrate world history between 1900 and 1950. I call the period the era of Global Storms. I fear we are entering similarly tempestuous decades today.
I begin this essay for paid subscribers below, but first a few quick notes on a very big week in the Burning Archive.
On 27 February I appeared for my first live YouTube stream on the Duran.
It was an amazing experience and quite a few readers and viewers have been in touch with kind words since it was broadcast. Thank you.
Two days later I interviewed Sam Roggeveen, the Director of International Security at the Lowy Institute. It was a memorable conversation, and I spent the weekend editing the video and released it on my YouTube channel on Tuesday.
I was also contacted by Professor Warwick Powell to discuss one of the issues raised in both of these YouTube videos - why did the Australia-China relationship go south over the last decade or more? I will be interviewing Warwick tomorrow and expect to have that video up on my YouTube channel next Tuesday or Wednesday.
You will recall that last Saturday’s substack was about this issue too.
Lastly I have been experimenting with recording audiobooks or at least readings of the more influential essays on history. I have made a recording of Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History (1940) that I will post on my YouTube channel on Friday or early Saturday morning.
And I have made a recording of Halford Mackinder, The Geographical Pivot of History (1904). This essay is the foundation of many notions in geopolitics, including the idea of controlling Eurasia through the Heartland. If you listen to it on YouTube, when it is posted in two weeks, you will realise how much it is a foundational text of contemporary Russophobia.
Paid subscribers may read on to the first section of part IV of my very brief history of the multipolar world, Global Storms, 1900-1950.
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