# The stage is set for a new WWI

An episode of [UnHerd with Freddie Sayers](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1540134798), 30 Apr 2026, 40 min.

Audio: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5fad6d24bc034454b53fe011/e/69f36b01e1fad0f98aea98c4/media.mp3

UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers talks with Odd Arne Westad – Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University – about his new book The Coming Storm, which argues that rather than entering a new Cold War, we are actually reliving the high-tension multipolarity of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a dangerous era where rapid technological shifts, the collapse of globalisation, and the friction between a rising China and a nervous United States mirror the exact structural conditions that caused the world to sleepwalk into the catastrophe of World War 1. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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