About this episode
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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