Today’s release is a reading of our Great power conflict problem profile, written and narrated by Stephen Clare.

If you want to check out the links, footnotes and figures in today’s article, you can find those here.

And if you like this article, you might enjoy a couple of related episodes of this podcast:

• #128 – Chris Blattman on the five reasons wars happen
• #140 – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn’t in decline

Audio mastering and editing for this episode: Dominic Armstrong
Audio Engineering Lead: Ben Cordell
Producer: Keiran Harris