How Did We Get Here? No World Order Episodes Episode guide

Back up to: How Did We Get Here?

1. 6. A Multipolar World

   6/6 Where next for the rules-based order?
2. 5. Bonfire of the Agreements

   5/6 Obama's peace prize, populism's rise, and America walks away from its own order
3. 4. This Sucker Could Go Down

   4/6 The Beijing Olympics, the financial crash and the Arab Spring reshape the world.
4. 3. Russia goes its own way

   3/6 From 9/11 to Iraq, assassinations and the invasion of Georgia in 2008

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   Mon 10 Aug 2026 09:30

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5. 2. The View from Beijing

   2/6 The decade in which China reshaped its relationship with the international system.

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   Mon 3 Aug 2026 09:30

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6. 1. The Responsibility to Protect

   1/6 Tristan Redman and guests discuss the first decade after the end of the Cold War.

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   Monday 09:30

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7. Trailer

   Tristan Redman and guests trace the fall of the post-Cold War world order