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How Did We Get Here?

BBC Radio 4

The deep back-stories behind the most consequential events in the world right now.

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S2 · E6
August 31 · 35 min
No World Order: 6: A Multipolar World
Where next for the rules-based order?
S2 · E5
August 24 · 34 min
No World Order: 5: Bonfire of the Agreements
Obama's peace prize, populism's rise, and America walks away from its own order.
S2 · E4
August 17 · 34 min
No World Order: 4: This Sucker Could Go Down
The Beijing Olympics, the financial crash and the Arab Spring reshape the world.
S2 · E3
August 10 · 34 min
No World Order: 3. Russia goes its own way
From 9/11 to Iraq, assassinations and the invasion of Georgia in 2008
S2 · E2
August 3 · 32 min
No World Order: 2. The View from Beijing
The decade in which China reshaped its relationship with the international system.
S2 · E1
July 27 · 35 min
No World Order: 1. The Responsibility to Protect
Tristan Redman and guests discuss the first decade after the end of the Cold War.
July 22 · 3 min
No World Order: Trailer
Tristan Redman and guests trace the fall of the post-Cold War world order
S1 · E10
February 9 · 28 min
Israel and the Palestinians: 10: From 2010 to the present day
Jonny Dymond and guests explore the complicated back-story of the Middle East conflict.
S1 · E9
February 9 · 28 min
Israel and the Palestinians: 9: From the Second Intifada to Netanyahu’s Re-election
Jonny Dymond and guests explore the complicated back-story of the Middle East conflict.
S1 · E8
February 9 · 29 min
Israel and the Palestinians: 8: From the First Intifada to the Camp David Summit
Jonny Dymond and guests explore the complicated back-story of the Middle East conflict.
S1 · E7
February 9 · 28 min
Israel and the Palestinians: 7: From the Six Day War to the Lebanon War
Jonny Dymond and guests explore the complicated back-story of the Middle East conflict.
S1 · E6
February 9 · 28 min
Israel and the Palestinians: 6: From Israel’s Early Years to the Six Day War
Jonny Dymond and guests explore the complicated back-story of the Middle East conflict.
S1 · E5
February 9 · 28 min
Israel and the Palestinians: 5. From WWII to the First Arab-Israeli war
Jonny Dymond and guests explore the complicated back-story of the Middle East conflict.
S1 · E4
February 9 · 28 min
Israel and the Palestinians: 4: The Balfour Declaration to the Arab Revolt
Jonny Dymond and guests explore the complicated back-story of the Middle East conflict.
S1 · E3
February 9 · 28 min
Israel and the Palestinians: 3: From the Nineteenth Century to the First World War
Jonny Dymond and guests explore the complicated back-story of the Middle East conflict.
S1 · E2
February 9 · 28 min
Israel and the Palestinians: 2: From the Muslim Conquest to the Nineteenth Century
Jonny Dymond and guests explore the complicated back-story of the Middle East conflict.
S1 · E1
February 9 · 28 min
Israel and the Palestinians: 1: From Earliest Times to the Romans
Jonny Dymond and guests explore the complicated back-story of the Middle East conflict
February 4 · 2 min
Israel and the Palestinians: Trailer
Jonny Dymond and guests explore the complicated back-story of the Middle East conflict

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