Video: To prepare a grab-and-go bag: A tale of empires falling
What causes empires to fall, can they fall without casualties, and which are the modern empires? Natalia Kryvda is a philosopher and a director of Academic Programmes at Edinburgh Business School Eastern Europe; James Alan Robinson is a British economist and political scientist, Vakhtang Kebuladze is a philosopher, writer and translator; Oleksandr Komarov is a philosopher currently working on the frontline giving psychological support to Ukrainian service men and women; Adrian Karatnycky is author of Battleground Ukraine: From Independence to the War with Russia. Chaired by British investigative journalist Oliver Bullough.
Oliver Bullough, Adrian Karatnycky and James Alan Robinson joined the event digitally.
[Editor’s note: Since the event, James Alan Robinson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.Natalia Kryvda, James Alan Robinson, Vakhtang Kebuladze, Oleksandr Komarov, Adrian Karatnycky in conversation with Oliver Bullough, Lviv BookForum, 6 October 2024
Link below to the Hay Festival website for the English version of the video.
Discussion begins at 06:58