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Northwestern Ambassador-in-Residence Ian Kelly Discusses Ukraine (BBC)
BBC interview with Ian Kelly, Ambassador-in-Residence at Northwestern University. Kelly is a steering committee member of the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program and teaches in the International Studies Program at Northwestern. Kelly served as United States Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (2010-2013) and to Georgia (2015-2018). He holds a PhD in Russian Studies from Columbia University.
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The Russia-Ukraine Crisis from the German Perspective
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Wolfgang Mössinger, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Midwest, based in Chicago since July, 2019, discusses the Russia-Ukraine crisis as part of the Russia Policy Forum Speaker Series hosted by the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies (REEES) Research Program of Northwestern University on February 16, 2022. This event was co-sponsored by the Department of German ...
30 Years After the Soviet Collapse: Firsthand Recollections & Reflections
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This discussion reflecting on the collapse of the Soviet Union three decades later was hosted by Northwestern University's Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies (REEES) Research Program (part of the Weinberg College Center for International & Area Studies) on December 10, 2021. Participants: Ann Cooper is professor emerita at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She has m...
Intersections of Dalit & Black Lives-A Conversation with Suraj Yengde
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On May 6, 2021, the Comparative Literary Studies Program and the South Asia Research Forum at Northwestern University hosted this conversation with Suraj Yengde, author of the critically-acclaimed book Caste Matters (2019). The event was moderated by Northwestern professors Laura Brueck and Ivy Wilson. About Caste Matters: In this explosive book, Suraj Yengde, a first-generation Dalit scholar e...
Reckoning with the Syrian Uprising a Decade On - A Conversation with Lisa Wedeen & Yasser Munif
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This program reflecting on the 10th anniversary of the Syrian uprising was presented by Northwestern University's Center for International and Area Studies and the Evanston Public Library on March 15, 2021. The program took the form of a conversation with Lisa Wedeen, author of Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria, and Yasser Munif, author of The Syrian Revolut...
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present - A Discussion with Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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This conversation with historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat about her book Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present was presented by Northwestern University's Center for International & Area Studies and the Evanston Public Library on February 15, 2021. Ruth Ben-Ghiat is Professor of Italian and History at NYU. A historian and cultural critic, her work focuses on fascism, authoritarianism, war, propaganda, and t...
U.S. Foreign Policy under Biden: Africa, China, Latin America, the Middle East-Roundtable Discussion
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A roundtable discussion on the foreign policy agenda of the Biden administration hosted by Northwestern University’s Center for International and Area Studies and the Evanston Public Library on January 18, 2021, two days before President Biden's inauguration. Roundtable participants: Mariano Aguirre is an Associate Fellow in the International Security Programme at the think tank Chatham House. ...
Billionaires, Viruses & Vaccines: Private Philanthropy in the Fight against COVID - Linsey McGoey
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This third installment in the Global Governance in the Age of COVID series hosted by the Center for International and Area Studies at Northwestern University featured a discussion with Linsey McGoey, a leading authority on philanthropic foundations and their role in the global economy. McGoey is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation ...
COVID, Governance & Society-Beth Redbird & Helen Tilley in Conversation with Ian Hurd
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This was the second dialogue in the Global Governance in the Age of COVID series hosted by the Center for International and Area Studies at Northwestern University. This installment featured sociologist Beth Redbird and historian Helen Tilley in conversation with political scientist Ian Hurd. Beth Redbird is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern and a Fellow of the Institute for Poli...
A Crisis in the Making: The 2020 U.S. Election in Global Perspective - Panel Discussion
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This panel discussion was hosted by Northwestern University’s Center for International & Area Studies in partnership with the Evanston Public Library. Speakers: June Cross is a writer, filmmaker, and Professor of Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School, where she is Director of the Documentary Journalism Program. She is the director of the PBS Frontline documentary WHOSE VOTE COUNTS, which...
The World Health Organization (WHO) & the COVID Pandemic: Myth vs. Reality (Gian Luca Burci)
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is the main global body responsible for international public health crises and a central player in the response to the COVID pandemic. This conversation with Gian Luca Burci, former General Counsel of the WHO, was the launch event of the Global Governance in the Age of COVID initiative of Northwestern University’s Center for International & Area Studies. The ...
Empire of Dune: Indigeneity, U.S. Power and a Science Fiction Classic - A Talk by Daniel Immerwahr
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A talk by Daniel Immerwahr on the historical, political, and biographical contexts of Frank Herbert's science-fiction classic Dune. Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune is one of the best-selling and most influential science-fiction works of all time. Among historians, it's best known for introducing many readers to ecological thinking. But Dune was also about empire. Frank Herbert worked for some o...
Ambassador Ian Kelly Discusses the Crisis in Belarus on BBC World News
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Ian Kelly is Ambassador (ret.) in Residence at Northwestern University, where he serves on the Steering Committee of the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies (REEES) Research Program. A 33-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service, Kelly's last two overseas assignments were Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (2010-2013) and to Georgia (2015-2018). Other...
Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination - A Dialogue with Adom Getachew
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Political theorist Adom Getachew discusses her book Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination in dialogue with Danny Postel of Northwestern University's Center for International & Area Studies. Adom Getachew is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. She is on the faculty board of the Pozen Center for Human R...
Dockworker Power: Race & Activism in Durban & the San Francisco Bay Area-A Talk by Peter Cole
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Historian Peter Cole discuses his book Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area in this Zoom event presented by the Center for International and Area Studies at Northwestern University and the Evanston Public Library, and co-sponsored by the Program of African Studies and the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies at Northwestern. Peter Cole is Professor of H...
Amazonian Stories from a Far East, or from the Anthropocene's Frontier-A Talk by Jorge Marcone
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Amazonian Stories from a Far East, or from the Anthropocene's Frontier-A Talk by Jorge Marcone
A New Cold War? A Dialogue on Authoritarianism, Democracy & Ukraine
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A New Cold War? A Dialogue on Authoritarianism, Democracy & Ukraine
What’s Going on in Brazil? Brazil Scholars Brodwyn Fischer & Rafael Ioris in Conversation
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What’s Going on in Brazil? Brazil Scholars Brodwyn Fischer & Rafael Ioris in Conversation

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  • @nicolasdelaforge7420
    @nicolasdelaforge7420 Місяць тому

    Right now, American Imperialism, even with its police state domestic terrorists is to be favored over the criminal gang that is Putin- China- Iran- N Korea- India and myriad such others. In fact, American and European power is now needed more than ever; the police state (policing agencies; veterans: marines and navy; contractors, militias; far right gangs; part of the legitimate government, part of the judicial system), not so much.

  • @hn6187
    @hn6187 2 місяці тому

    Destabilising countries by finding far right movements is the CIA's speciality isn't it?

  • @UrbaNSpiel
    @UrbaNSpiel 2 місяці тому

    GREAT BEN GHIAT

  • @johnstallings4049
    @johnstallings4049 2 місяці тому

    Definitely do ISRAEL NEXT! 😶

  • @phillipsprangiii3112
    @phillipsprangiii3112 3 місяці тому

    Listening to this on July 1st, 2024, post-debate debacle. Underscores the idea that chump should not be anywhere NEAR politics, much less at large...and still so. Breathtaking.

  • @findbridge1790
    @findbridge1790 3 місяці тому

    do Israel

  • @Emanon...
    @Emanon... 5 місяців тому

    The Dune saga are a cyclical tale of humanity - as far as we know, and extrapolated... More than that, they are also a tragedy about the Atreides family and lienage as a whole. Part of me thinks this is why their lieage in the lore is Greek as an homage (Atreus, father of Agamemnon and Menelaos).

  • @paulrudgley1682
    @paulrudgley1682 5 місяців тому

    what do you think of this scary catchy slogan? Biden: "This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated" How is the so-called unvaccinated a danger to the so-called vaccinated, how does that logic work.

  • @paulrudgley1682
    @paulrudgley1682 5 місяців тому

    Ruth,what do you think of this scary catchy slogan?

  • @paulrudgley1682
    @paulrudgley1682 5 місяців тому

    Ruth,what do you think of this scary catchy slogan? Biden: "This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated"

  • @paulrudgley1682
    @paulrudgley1682 5 місяців тому

    youtube censoring comments again.

    • @johnstallings4049
      @johnstallings4049 2 місяці тому

      Unfortunately we can see ur pointless blather! 😅

  • @aperez10
    @aperez10 7 місяців тому

    The book is about the danger of imperialism.

  • @Maya_Ruinz
    @Maya_Ruinz 7 місяців тому

    Definitely the most important book I ever read, it really opened my eyes to deeper subjects like colonialism, religion, ecology, cults, philosophy and culture. I did a book report on it in 1999 when I was a freshmen in high school, it has always been in the back of mind all throughout my adulthood.

  • @morganhanam9522
    @morganhanam9522 10 місяців тому

    Soul Catcher is very interesting.

  • @gunner9936
    @gunner9936 Рік тому

    This snake is a paid brown sahib or house N, who will do or say anything to defame Hinduism for his racist leftist neo colonial masters

  • @marilynnyoung7026
    @marilynnyoung7026 Рік тому

    Fast forward to NOW, 9/18/23...since this lecture first aired & how much of what Ruth speaks of has not only come to light but has worsened, intensified, and thus her predictive models are extremely on point. But, it also has educated, motivated & intensified the inspiration to fight back...to push back to fight FOR democracy! Its highlighted and inspired our need to collectively fight back, forming coalitions & pushing back in the war against disinformation.

  • @user-gj4hn1hl2q
    @user-gj4hn1hl2q Рік тому

    People with 0 marketable skill work in useless academia. This woman is a jew fyi. Their opinions are presented as respectable and credible, due to their pretigious ability to interperet a book. Dont put these people on a pedastool, the real terrorist are her middle eastern family and their control of the media. Btw, jews arent white.

  • @FrancescMorales
    @FrancescMorales Рік тому

    The story about Indian Henry reminds me of the one about Pardot Kynes, as presented by Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson

  • @rubenhernandez1608
    @rubenhernandez1608 Рік тому

    Great and informative discussion. Thank you. One thing I missed about the rise of Trump, and in my opinion not discussed enough by journalists and authors covering him, is his unwavering support from white evangelicals. The seeds of authoritarianism have found fertile ground in them, and their unsurpassed contribution to an idealized (toxic) masculinity has been well documented in Kristin Kobes Du Mez‘a book, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.

  • @patrickday4206
    @patrickday4206 Рік тому

    His wife was a writer I'm positive she contributed to his writing in dune!!!

  • @patrickday4206
    @patrickday4206 Рік тому

    Dune was written as a warning about charismatic leaders religions and governments!!!!

  • @ksp3697
    @ksp3697 Рік тому

    This idiot is always in the past talking about dalit vysya caste system. This fool yengde does not know exploitation as he is being again exploited by the abrahmic agenda in harvard. Did he study in India and took use of the reservation given to SC/ST and who funded for his reservation? Who ruled India in last 1000 yrs? Did the brahmins vysya etc ruled India or the muslim and british? Is this caste system amplified by the muslim and british rulers in last 1000 yrs to achieve their goal of converting the non believers and khafirs (hindus)to Islam and christianity? Who wrote ramayan and mahabharat was it written by brahmin ? Did the muslim league use this caste system in partitioning india and the so called dalits did they vote for muslim league ? Where the abrahmic agenda of partitioning India successful with the help of these pawns who play in their hands ? Don't you have poor uneducated people in Europe and America? Do you think they are not exploited by people who are rich? , there are some works which the rich don't want to do, so ultimately that work is done by poor . The british French and Americans and islamic rulers have done pogrom of cultures in the name of paganism, crusades, jihad in last 2000yrs and are the ideal free society now after looting the entire world and they want everyone to forget the past atrocities and this fellow is going and licking the ---- of these abrahmic forces . When you compare the atrocities committed by Christian and islamic forces in name of religion, is the caste system an iota which can be corrected if fools like this fellow work towards it instead of critisizing? This fellow instead of critisizing the caste system should talk about exploitation but after going abroad is a opportunist pawn playing in the hands of abrahmic agenda he should have used his energy in removing vices in indian society . He should have been respected if he had stayed in India and worked towards removing all the exploitation of the poor instead of playing in the hands of Christianity / Islamic agenda. Is Dr suraj biased? Is Dr Suraj not neutral? The upper caste does not have reservation though you find them in high posts. Is it because of their hard work and value for knowledge? Has this fool misunderstood exploitation and keeps ranting discrimination? You go to any part of the world there is exploitation of weak and have nots by those who have , so will he tell there is discrimination in all the world? Ask him who has funded reservations in education and jobs of dalits which they are proud to call themselves as dalits ? As per vedas is a sudra a lazy uneducated bad decision maker, so any one with above quality is a sudra and will he not be exploited by the some learned people in the society ?

  • @shengcer
    @shengcer Рік тому

    FH really roasted religions in all forms in the due saga, he also showed some disdain about constitutionalism for he believed state could not handle vastly dynamic realities with “dead” texts, which all made me feel he was pretty liberal maybe somewhat anarchic.

    • @patrickday4206
      @patrickday4206 Рік тому

      Not true he showed a dangerous figurehead that didn't have respect for constitution

  • @robertcarleo6846
    @robertcarleo6846 Рік тому

    Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a superb writer and speaker. This interview of her was one of her best I have seen due to the expert questioning. The book "Strongman" helped me understand in a very direct way not only why America is in this very difficult situation, but how this situation has arisen and what continues to drive it.

  • @sanjayks00
    @sanjayks00 Рік тому

    This joker doesn't even know what caste system is. He's just peddling the lies that the european perpetrators fed to the !d!ots like him. Go find out about the Spanish and Portuguese Casta System and you will know how they superimposed their discrimination on top of the much more scientific Varna Vyavastha that is totally merit based. Stop listening to such poison sellers. #ews #saynotoreservations #castasystem vs #castesystem vs #VarnaVyavastha

  • @thomante
    @thomante Рік тому

    This has clarified the origins of Dune in FH's mind for me. Thank you.

  • @motherearth1147
    @motherearth1147 2 роки тому

    It’s Scamdemic political virus ✔️

  • @garyfinneyfrock9024
    @garyfinneyfrock9024 2 роки тому

    is this on foreign policy, or a black and brown thing

  • @garyfinneyfrock9024
    @garyfinneyfrock9024 2 роки тому

    Ho I', not all white, quarter red

  • @garyfinneyfrock9024
    @garyfinneyfrock9024 2 роки тому

    Black and brown black and brow, black and brown what about white, black and brown

  • @geoffreyharris5931
    @geoffreyharris5931 2 роки тому

    So authoritarians tend to be narcissists but narcissists are often not authoritarians. She mentioned that these autocrats tend to strike out when folks try to take them away from the offices to which they cling. I had an epiphany and realized that is the exact same mindset and behavior that one sees with domestic abusers (usually men) who seek to possess, control, confine, and isolate their mates and attack them violently if they try to get out of the relationship. The relationship between autocrat and public is much like that between the domestic abuser and the usually woman whom he holds captive.

    • @jc.1191
      @jc.1191 2 роки тому

      It's specifically malignant narcissists. It's not normal narcissism, it has high sociopathy. Pretty much a very narcissistic psychopath, because they are sadistic. Every autocrat shares that personality. I looked at social worker opinion on that a while back, and it's a consensus view. And you are right basically, sociopaths and malignant narcissists are domestic abusers.

    • @shirleyburnett7090
      @shirleyburnett7090 Рік тому

      Interesting analogy. Thank you

  • @philipjuniorkives3716
    @philipjuniorkives3716 2 роки тому

    Linsey You speak Eloquently I listened for a bit you sounded very studied in Corporate policies and Mr Gates Philanthropy I'm proud of my Daughter 😊

  • @mrhodes9160
    @mrhodes9160 2 роки тому

    Ruth B-G's Strongman analysis is a bunch of cherry-picked armchair psychology psychobabble. Feeling as though the target of a "Witch hunt" is a trait, but Clintons with their "vast right wing conspiracy" don't fall in her totalitarian orbit. "Sexually abusive" is another trait, but again...no Clinton adds to her naughty list. "Family involvement" yet another trait...Hillary pushing national healthcare while Bill was prez still doesn't register them as tyrannical either. What gives? What gives is that her thesis is complete utter garbage. Bottom line...all the modern day Horst Wessels (aka George Floyd and similar), the street mob violence (aka antifa/BLM), the book burning (aka cancel culture on social media and elsewhere)...these are all almost exclusively left wing phenomena with key members of said parties having been regular visitors to the Obama White House. Mao, Mussolini, Hitler, and similar all for years if not over a decade well before they came to power were community organizers. Go figure!

  • @MrEkly
    @MrEkly 2 роки тому

    Strategic ignorance is very interesting. Perfect for the political/managerial class. McGoey sees good intentions. Probably only wrong point throughout. Gates is a monopolist, one of the most successful in human history; he is playing on a different level.

  • @anthonykishko1711
    @anthonykishko1711 2 роки тому

    Excellent poli sci background breakdown. Yes, Brian Herbert completed Dune 7. Using the original notes. A worthy end ? That connects to the prequels ...

  • @vijayjagadhane4896
    @vijayjagadhane4896 2 роки тому

    This is the reality of Casteism in India. 1)ua-cam.com/video/bJLKqPPCtN8/v-deo.html 2)ua-cam.com/video/in5gjuWPAvg/v-deo.html 3)ua-cam.com/video/P8idvu5zJ8c/v-deo.html

  • @Tuitarlos.
    @Tuitarlos. 3 роки тому

    Excellent talk, this is the first time I got attached into a talk in this format, huge work, i've seen the movies, both the 80's film and this new one, i think probably that's why this came to me, it remind me inmensly to the middle east and colonialist dilemas more than to indigenous groups, but im inmensly greatfull for this sneak peak of reality and the backround of the author. I as a mayor in IR studies and politics got to extend some of my perspective with this, I am going to try to make contact with this proffessor eventually, great work.

  • @danielspear8973
    @danielspear8973 3 роки тому

    Both Paul and Duke Leto are described as having "olive" skin in the book, for whatever that is worth. Moreover, Paul Atredies isn't the hero of the Dune. To the degree that there is any hero, it is Duncan Idaho and Murbella.

    • @patrickday4206
      @patrickday4206 Рік тому

      Yeah exactly listening to dumb people treat it as just another shallow book is frustrating!! In children of dune Leto quotes a French cartoon I was able to find it from like 1580 it was real not shallow writing!! Lol

  • @_Wai_Wai_
    @_Wai_Wai_ 3 роки тому

    All nations should be wary of the effects of religious agents operating within and without their borders. It was Jesuits who inspired the Taiping rebels in China during the 1830s to 1840s, resulting in 10s of millions dead people.

  • @williamminamoto.7535
    @williamminamoto.7535 3 роки тому

    And you know... especially for those born from 9-11-2001... This special generation must learn their history lesson in TRUTH... in 20 years I will be 96 going on 97... how old will you be... and will be always standing up for truth..✍️🔥😃🎺🎺🐇🐇🎹🎹🎶🎶🇺🇸🥾🥾🐓💩🔥🔥🔥🔥🥾🥾👿🔥🔥🔥🔥✍️😊🤚🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🇺🇸🏠❤️💎☝️

  • @africandefender5174
    @africandefender5174 3 роки тому

    What the hell was Star Trek all about also these globe trekkers going around the Earth advertising other people's countries not yet taken by billionaire dogs⛷️🤺🏇

  • @GGirl99
    @GGirl99 3 роки тому

    Merci beaucoup, Mon. Daniel Immerwahr. Much food for thought. And I do have time for a complete re-read before Mon. Denis Villeneuve's version arrives in theaters. I read DUNE at age 15. It burst on me like a bomb, and I say that as a person who had already been ravished by Tolstoy. I was also in Arizona--so far north it was mostly the southern Utah canyonlands. So IMAGINE being surrounded by the vermillion cliffs, the sage plains, the drifts of dunes that changed every time a storm came through, and you may understand why, for the rest of my life, whenever I have been marooned somewhere above the Mason-Dixon line & freezing during winter--DUNE was always there to send me into the cocoon of warmth I craved. Books change every time we read them--because we, the readers, have changed. The nice thing about DUNE (the first book particularly) is that, like a good symphony or a Van Gogh or any film by Wong Kar-Wai, there is always more to discover. I am sure that Frank and Beverly are happy, wherever they are beyond the Rainbow Bridge.

  • @swirlcrop
    @swirlcrop 3 роки тому

    This is a really great talk. Thanks for posting it. :-)

  • @studyportal1074
    @studyportal1074 3 роки тому

    There are only two categories in world . .. Haves and have nots

    • @123xyzabccba
      @123xyzabccba 3 роки тому

      The haves have it because of caste and the have nots don’t have it only because of caste

    • @KeharSingh-of9hk
      @KeharSingh-of9hk 11 місяців тому

      Dude they have free donation in temple because of varn vyavastha which they have other don't have because they don't take donation by running relgion business understand

  • @sheshadrid7976
    @sheshadrid7976 3 роки тому

    Hats off to your presentation.... Good wishes on your journey

  • @fishdude666ify
    @fishdude666ify 3 роки тому

    Keep in mind that those 2,000 odd pages span some 35,000 years. Side note: the theme of a noble and righteous cause descending into corruption through the greed of the religious/state bureaucracy is a little prophetic when applied to today.

  • @fishdude666ify
    @fishdude666ify 3 роки тому

    Not enough fingers and toes to count how many times I've read the whole series.

    • @GGirl99
      @GGirl99 3 роки тому

      fishdude666ify: I'm with you, dude!

  • @bluefarie10
    @bluefarie10 3 роки тому

    Very interesting lecture. Is there any evidence you are aware of to suggest that Herbert was familiar with either MacKinder (the father of geopolitical theory) or von Clausewitz? I mention the latter as on a recent re-read I was struck by a series of triadic power relationships (e.g. the Landsraat, the Emperor and the Navigation Guild, but also the interrelations between Houses Corrino, Atreides and Harkonnen, and in terms of the various enhancements and abilities the spice brings, the Mentats, Bene Gesserit and the Guild Navigators) the text contains.

    • @GGirl99
      @GGirl99 3 роки тому

      bluefarie10: THAT is a very interesting question. I had always interpreted the "triangular" nature of so many of the forces as being either 1) a backhanded reference to the Triune God embraced by many Christians, or 2) basic strategic narrowing for plot purposes (possibly based on history) because triangles are notoriously tricky--ever been in one? The interpersonal, very small-scale triangle is usually the only type people have ever experienced personally. I do not recall it being terribly pleasant.

  • @perunseles8791
    @perunseles8791 3 роки тому

    The good part that this is daying out ….yes we see it in turkey hungary but nowhere else

  • @eatright131
    @eatright131 3 роки тому

    Superb man