What Can Europe's Borderlands Tell Us About Its Future? With Hannah Lucinda Smith
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorrenti. What can the places at the edge of Europe tell us about the continent's future and of some of the most important political struggles of our time unfolding far from the sense of power where most of the world's attention is focused? On today's episode Han Lucinda Smith, Journalist and author joins Adam Macaulay to discuss her new book, Hinterlands, Journeys through Europe's Unfinished Frontiers, and what Europe's borderlands reveal about conflict, identity and the shifting balance of power across the continent.
Let's join our host, Adam McCauley, now with more. Welcome to Intelligence Squared. I'm Adam McCauley. The refrains are common, history rhymes but doesn't repeat, and yet we stand today both amidst and on the precipice of crisis, perhaps of a new Cold War, or, more worrisome still, tipping ever closer to another great war. Strategists, historians, experts, and journalists alike feel that same creeping friction, and try where they can to divine signs of what yet might come.
Today's guest has spent much of her career working to understand what the slow and sometimes inflective changes in geopolitics might tell us about a changing world and the global powers jogging to define its shape. Hannah Lucinda Smith is a writer, consultant, and reporter for The Times and The Economist. She is a repeat grant recipient from the Pulitzer Center, and in her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Wired, and The Times literary supplement. She is the author of Erdogan Rising and the co-author of Zarifa. Hannah joins us today to discuss her newest book, Hinterlands, the new Cold War Brewing at the Peripheries of the West.
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