Why An Empire Eats

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Conquest is back baby! Eastern Europe, Taiwan, Greenland, Canada? It’s all on the table—and maybe up for grabs. Here to help us sort through this new age of empire building is University of Chicago political scientist Michael Albertus.

• As always, climate change
• Whither Canada?
• The coming Canadian century
• “Territorial ambitions sometimes bite back”
• The biggest caveats ever uttered on the show
• “An empire eats”
• The stories nations tell themselves
• “Getting more America”
• Picking the winners and losers
• A little optimism at the end
• How land confers power
• Those Were The Days
• The false promise of abundance

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