It ended actually rather sooner than most experts anticipated, but there's no guarantee that Cold War II will last as long because China is a far more formidable adversary than the Soviet Union was. Cold War I was really a four decade affair. Niall Ferguson: Oh, it's much worse than that because you are assuming that it's gonna be very protracted.

Am I being melodramatic, or is that a fair summary of what Cold War is? We'll find ourselves living under nuclear threat again, and the very existence of our civilization is at stake. And now we are in Cold War II.' Alright, here's what I take the term Cold War to mean, the conflict with China will last two or three generations. But they were sufficiently similar for no one to argue about the nomenclature. Niall Ferguson in National Review, 'There was a First World War. Ferguson is now completing his second volume of the two volume biography of Henry Kissinger. Ferguson is the author of more than a dozen major works of history, including 'The Pity of War, Explaining World War I', 'The Ascent of Money', 'Empire, How Britain Made the Modern World', and we come now to today's topic, 'Kissinger, the Idealist', the first volume of his two volume biography of Henry Kissinger, one of the most important figures of the first long Cold War. Before coming here to Stanford, he held posts at Oxford, Cambridge, New York University, Harvard, and the London School of Economics. A fellow at the Hoover Institution, Niall Ferguson received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Oxford. Peter Robinson: Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, I'm Peter Robinson.

Historian Niall Ferguson on Uncommon Knowledge now. Peter Robinson: Just how serious is the emerging conflict with China? It has already turned into Cold War II. On June 17th, the Manhattan Institute hosted a virtual book talk with Niall Ferguson and City Journal editor Brian C.To view the full transcript of this episode, read below: Investigating the common features of geological, geopolitical, biological, and technological disasters, Ferguson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, offers a general theory of catastrophes and explains why our responses to them so often falter. Niall Ferguson’s new book, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe, offers a corrective, arguing that we must understand past calamities to put today’s into proper perspective.

While 2020 was an uncommon year, the tendency to think that our time has no historical analogue is a common error-one that can have serious consequences if it causes us to ignore the lessons of the past. As a deadly pandemic and civil unrest swept across the world last year, “unprecedented” became the word of the hour.

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