Frank Gavin, Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and Director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University SAIS and author of Thinking Historically: A Guide to Statecraft and Strategy, joins the show to discuss the promise and peril...
Frank Gavin, Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and Director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University SAIS and author of Thinking Historically: A Guide to Statecraft and Strategy, joins the show to discuss the promise and perils of using history to guide today’s statecraft.
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02:20 Political Science vs. History
05:37 The Importance of Historical Thinking
08:13 Historical Interpretation
11:22 Counterfactuals
14:26 The Misuse of History in Policy Making
17:19 Thinking in Time
22:27 Errors When Thinking Historically
31:57 Putin’s View of History
40:01 Philosophical Understanding
47:05 Does History Have a Direction?
53:34 A Checklist for Historical Thinking
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