International Conflict, Western World Threats and Geopolitical Intelligence
Watch this video of a talk by historian Niall Ferguson where he discusses risk in the 21st century.
Learn how today is like the time right before World war I. We could be at risk of a major war breaking out.
What went wrong before World war I? We need to know this because it could happen again.
Link to the Sixth Annual Spring Symposium
The Global Empire of Niall Ferguson - Doing history on a sweeping scale
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Charlie Rose - Carly Fiorina / Niall Ferguson Segment 1: Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina talks about her time at the company and her new book, "Tough Choices". Segment 2: Niall Ferguson, author of "The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West". Tags: charlie_rose, news, tvshow |
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Conversations with History: Niall Ferguson Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harvard historian Niall Ferguson for a discussion of his new book The War of the World. Ferguson analzyes the role of ethnic conflict, economic volatility, and the decline of empires in making the twentieth century the most violent one in human history. Series: "Conversations with History" [12/2006] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 12082] Tags: economics, ferguson, history, human, niall, violence |
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War of the World - Guate Cut Edit of the series of section referring to Guatemala. The War of the World: A new history of the 20th century. First shown on Channel 4 in June--July 2006 Niall Ferguson presents a major six-part series proposing an explosive challenge to common assumptions about the 20th century. This, he argues, comprised a single Hundred Years' War powered, not by nationalism, but by empires. It was race, not class or socialism, that was the 'big idea', and ethnic conflict ultimately underpinned the violence. Tags: Ferguson, Guatemala, Niall, War, World |
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War of the Worlds - 20th Century history revised The War of the World by NIall Ferguson.....Think your sure about 20th century History, maybe not. Heres the quick summary of The New History of the 20th Century. Tags: 100, fascist, Ferguson, FOX, michael, Neocon, Niall, of, Savage, the, War, wars, world, worlds, years |
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In Defense of WWII Victor Davis Hanson and Christopher Hitchens take on the World War II revisionists, focusing first on Patrick J. Buchanan, the author, most recently, of Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War. They counter the essential claims in Buchanans book that Britains guarantee to protect Poland in the event of a German invasion made the war inevitable; that the Holocaust was a consequence of the war and that, without it, the Holocaust may not have occurred; and that Germany invaded Russia only because Britain under Churchill was determined to partner with Russia against Germany. Finally they address two claims made by author Niall Ferguson that [the Allies] adopted the most brutal tactics of those they were fighting and that the principal beneficiary of the Second World War was Stalins Soviet... Tags: Churchill, consequences, Defense, Hitler, hoover, Poland, Soviet, Stalin, Union, WWII |
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In Defense of WWII: Part 4 of 5 Niall Ferguson, author of The War of the World, describes the Allies in WWII as just as brutal as the German and Japanese opposition. In rebuttal, Hitchens makes the point that Germany and Japan were nurtured back to health following defeat, something that never would have happened to Russia or Britain under German occupation. Hanson adds that any atrocities committed by the Allies were incidental, not premeditated. Tags: Atrocities, Christopher, Churchill, Ferguson, Hanson, history, Hitchens, Hitler, II, Niall, PBS, revisionist, Two, Victor, War, World |
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A Conservative's Critique of U.S. Foreign Policy Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/10/29/Niall_Ferguson_After_the_Bush_Doctrine Harvard University historian Niall Ferguson offers a conservative's critique of U.S. foreign policy under the Bush Administration. ----- Niall Ferguson discusses "After the Bush Doctrine: What Next for American Foreign Policy?" This event was part of the Hoover Institution's Fall Retreat 2007. Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is a regular contributor to television and radio on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2003... Tags: americans, debt, deficit, global, iraqis, military, neocons, on, opinions, public, superpower, surge, terrorism, terrorists, war |
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Historian vs Futurist on Human Progress Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/28/Niall_Ferguson_and_Peter_Schwartz_on_Human_Progress Historian Niall Ferguson debates futurist author Peter Schwartz on the overall nature of human progress. ----- Niall Ferguson and Peter Schwartz present Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress as part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminars about Long-term Thinking. Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is most recently the author of the books The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the... Tags: beings, civilizations, elites, foratv, future, history, humanity, humans, peace, people, progressive, science, technology, wars |
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Roots of Conflict in the Middle East Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/28/Niall_Ferguson_and_Peter_Schwartz_on_Human_Progress Historian Niall Ferguson debates futurist author Peter Schwartz on the historical roots of modern-day conflicts in the Middle East. ----- Niall Ferguson and Peter Schwartz present Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress as part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminars about Long-term Thinking. Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is most recently the author of the books The War of the World:... Tags: arabia, arabic, arabs, conflicts, history, iran, iraq, islamic, israelis, mideast, muslims, oil, palestine, palestinians, saudi, wars |
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COMMANDING HEIGHTS: American Empire Since the end of the cold war, the United States has been the world's only superpower, accounting for 43 percent of the world's military expenditures. During this time, America has led major interventions into Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Are the United States and the world better off when America follows a unilateral, interventionist foreign policy? Or should the United States reduce its overseas presence and instead emphasize international cooperation? Peter Robinson speaks with Niall Ferguson and Ivan Eland. Tags: American, Cold, Empire, Ferguson, hoover, intervention, Niall, War |
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Reasons for Optimism on Climate Change? Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/28/Niall_Ferguson_and_Peter_Schwartz_on_Human_Progress Historian Niall Ferguson debates futurist author Peter Schwartz on reasons to feel optimistic about the issue of global climate change. ----- Niall Ferguson and Peter Schwartz present Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress as part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminars about Long-term Thinking. Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is most recently the author of the books The War of the World:... Tags: co2, controls, emissions, energy, foratv, gasses, global, green, greenhouse, ice, levels, microbes, pollution, technology, warming |
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Dom One Television - Channel Hopping Check this out! Awesome Flicking through channel Dom1. I've edited myself into television programmes and adverts/commercials in someway or another. A significant level of effort was needed for this film, literally editing frame by frame for many of shots to make it look plausible. There are literally hundreds of different files that have gone into this, with countless renderings and effects. Various music, Dilated Peoples ft Capleton, Firepower, the tables have to turn, 20/20. A-Mafia, get it poppin' instrumental. Mr Me Too instrumental by Clipse ft Pharrell. Ironside excerpt from kill Bill soundtrack. Packages used Sony Vegas 8 pro, winmorph 2.0 and text to speak packages (Sam and Michael) by Dominic Shillingford Television programmes edited are ITV 1 Doc Martin starring Martin... Tags: 10, ads, adverts, and, at, BBC, bolt, Boots, capleton, cats, channel, commercials, daily, editing, fame, funny, homer, hopping, hot, ITV, jon, lisa, More, news, No.7, of, only, out, perfect, programmes, protect, range, rod, show, shows, simpsons, sony, stewart, T.V., television, TV, usain, vegas, wimbledon, winmorph |
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Next President 2 This is part 2 of the Munk Debates here in Canada concerning the Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton was still in the race during these debates. Diplomat Richard Holbrooke,former US peace mediator for Bosnia has said, that the Republicans has done nothing about climate change and the catastrophic damage it has done to the planet. Richard charges that the Republicans mismanaged Afghanistan, allowed Iran to grow into an international threat, and allowed North Korea to go from one nuclear weapon to 10 nukes. He lays blame on the Bush Administration for opposing Bills in Congress concerning torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. He says the White House has done nothing about dictators in such countries as Zimbabwe, Sudan and Burma. Tags: Charles, democrat, fear, Ferguson, Harvard, Iran, Iraq, Krauthammer, liberal, Niall, Powers, Samantha, Troops, War, Washington |
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Channel 4 WOTW Doc intro Professor Niall Fer presents this new series, boldly billed as 'a major new history of the 20th Century'. Rather than a tale of two world wars and a Cold War, Ferguson claims the century was rather 100 years of constant conflict, the bloodiest era ever. The historian argues that what H.G. Wells forecast in his novel The War of the Worlds has come true - except that the martians are other human beings, different only in race. A quote from a British colonel during World War I - 'The only way to treat the German prisoners is to kill them' - is certainly challenging. Tags: Channel_4, HG_Wells, Niall_Fer, War_of_the_Worlds |
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In Defense of WWII: Chapter 4 of 5 Niall Ferguson, author of The War of the World, describes the Allies in WWII as just as brutal as the German and Japanese opposition. In rebuttal, Hitchens makes the point that Germany and Japan were nurtured back to health following defeat, something that never would have happened to Russia or Britain under German occupation. Hanson adds that any atrocities committed by the Allies were incidental, not premeditated. Tags: Christopher, Davis, Hanson, Hitchens, Hoover, Institution, Peter, Robinson, Victor |
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