Dominic Lieven: Author, Award-winning Historian, and Scholar

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🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Dominic Lieven is an award-winning historian and scholar. He was a lecturer, senior lecturer, and professor at the London School of Economics from 1978 to 2011. He was head of the department of government there from 2001 to 2004 and head of the department of international history from 2009-2011. Dominic graduated from Cambridge University, where he graduated top of the class. He was also a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University. He has been an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge since 2019. Other honors include being a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His new book is IN THE SHADOW OF THE GODS: The Emperor in World History, In it he examines the strengths and weaknesses of the emperors and empresses who ran and shaped our world. It is an intimidating tome that examines leadership and power through history around the world. What a perfect guest for these insane times. This episode is a short course in European history and dysfunction. He explains the situation in Ukraine as few people in the world can. He also applies his knowledge to the current situation in the United States. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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1:04.4	I'm Guy Kawasaki. This is the Remarkable People podcast. I'm on a mission to make you remarkable. And helping me in
1:13.0	this episode is Professor Dominic Levin. He is an award-winning historian and scholar. He was a lecturer,
1:21.5	senior lecturer, and professor at the London School of Economics from 1978 to 2011. During that time, he was head of the
1:30.3	Department of Government from 2001 to 2004 and head of the Department of International History
1:36.6	from 2009 to 2011. Dominic graduated from Cambridge University at the top of his class. He was also a Kennedy scholar at Harvard University.
1:47.0	He's been an honorary fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, since 2019.
1:52.0	Other honors include being a fellow of the British Academy
1:56.0	and an honorary accommodation of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
2:00.0	His new book is called In the Shadow of the Gods, the Emperor in World History.
2:04.6	In it, he examines the strengths and weaknesses of the emperors and empresses who ran and shaped our world.
2:11.6	It is an intimidating tome that examines leadership and power through history around the world.
2:18.1	What a perfect guess for these insane times.
2:22.0	This episode is a short course in European history and dysfunction.
2:26.4	He explains the situation in Ukraine as few people in the world can.
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