World War I and the Return of Great Power Conflict

On this week's episode of History Reconsidered, Sumantra Maitra and Jarrett Stepman discuss the lead up to World War I.At the end of the Cold War the United States stood alone as the world's preeminent superpower. Following 9/11, most U.S. military engagements were with substate actors and counterinsurgents. However, with the rise of China and increasingly militancy of powers like Russia are we entering a period of renewed great power conflict?Maitra and Stepman talk about how events spun out of control in the early 20th century, leading to the greatest wars in human history, the collapse of empires, and a total reshaping of the world's political map. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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History Reconsidered is a weekly podcast dedicated to taking a deep dive into historical issues and events and relating them to the modern world. It is hosted by Sumantra Maitra and Jarrett Stepman.Dr. Sumantra Maitra is a senior editor at The American Conservative, a senior contributor to The Federalist, a senior fellow at the Center for Renewing America, and an elected, Associate Fellow at the Royal Historical Society, London. His book, “Sources of Russian Aggression” (Lexington-Rowman & Littlefield) is scheduled to be published in 2024.Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal and was a 2018 Lincoln Fellow with the Claremont Institute. He’s spent over a decade in media and wrote “The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past,” a book about how a cultural revolution aims at discrediting the foundations of the United States and the West. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.