Tuesday 23 April 2024
19:00
Niall Ferguson
The World in 2024: Crisis, Conflict and Consequences (in collaboration with Intelligence Squared)
How can the West deal with the geopolitical and ideological threats posed by what Ferguson calls the axis of ill will – Russia, China and Iran? With localised wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and the threat of a crisis next year over Taiwan, are we sleepwalking towards a Third World War? And what are the likely consequences of the ongoing conflicts for the world economy?
Niall is one of the UK’s most renowned historians. He is Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard. He is the author of sixteen books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, Empire, Civilization and Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, and The Square and the Tower. He writes a column for Bloomberg Opinion, and he is the founder and managing director of the advisory firm Greenmantle LLC. His new book is Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe.
The point of studying the past is to understand our present predicament
Historian, author, opinion writer
Niall is one of the UK’s most renowned historians. He is Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard. He is the author of sixteen books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, Empire, Civilization and Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, and The Square and the Tower. He writes a column for Bloomberg Opinion, and he is the founder and managing director of the advisory firm Greenmantle LLC. His new book is Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe.
