The stage is set for a new WWI

UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers talks with Odd Arne Westad – Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University – about his new book The Coming Storm , which argues that rather than entering a new Cold War, we are actually reliving the high-tension multipolarity of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a dangerous era where rapid technological shifts, the collapse of globalisation, and the friction between a rising China and a nervous United States mirror the exact structural conditions that caused the world to sleepwalk into the catastrophe of World War 1. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The stage is set for a new WWI is an episode from Lockdown TV with Freddie Sayers by Sebastian Giraud.

This episode is 40:16 long.

This episode was published on Apr 30, 2026.

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