Kapitelklicken springt direkt hin
Shownotes
Where did the nation-state come from—and what happens if the conditions that made it powerful are now disappearing?
Thomas discusses these questions and much more in this wide-ranging Conflicted Conversation with award-winning novelist and essayist Rana Dasgupta, whose new book After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order (amzn.eu/d/03js11kc) sets out to explain where our world order came from and where it could be going.
Rana explains:
• The origins of the modern nation-state and the decline of universal sacred empires
• Louis IX, the Crown of Thorns and the sacralisation of the French state
• How Enlightenment political theology transformed God, sovereignty and individual rights
• Industrialisation, mass democracy, welfare states and the political power of workers
• Liberalism, populism and the changing relationship between elites and mass democracy
• The origins of international law in empire, property rights and global capitalism
• Why the postwar rules-based international order is now weakening
• The East India Company, Silicon Valley and the rise of quasi-sovereign corporate power
• China as an alternative model of state power and control over private capital
• Climate change, mass migration and whether the nation-state can survive a new ‘nomad century’
Find Rana on X: x.com/byranadasgupta
Join the Conflicted Community here: conflicted.supportingcast.fm/… (conflicted.supportingcast.fm)
Find us on X: x.com/MHconflicted (x.com/MHconflicted)
And Facebook: facebook.com/MHconflicted… (facebook.com/MHconflicted)
And Instagram: instagram.com/conflictedpod… (instagram.com/conflictedpod)
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (megaphone.fm/adchoices)
Conflicted is a Message Heard production.
Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren.
Produced and edited by Thomas Small .
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
