# Explorations on War - Episode 8, with Prof Ian Hurd

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Podcast: [On Geopolitics](https://stenobird.com/podcast/on-geopolitics-3626222)
Published: 2026-02-23T08:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/
Audio file: https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6a310ec9-e6b2-4e37-bafd-895af718f33e.mp3
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Professor William Hurst is joined by Ian Hurd, Professor of Political Science and President of the Faculty Senate at Northwestern University. They discuss how norms, laws and expectations can prevent and impact wars. They analyse how waging wars became less legally permissible in the 20th century, and how the use of new technologies developed in the 21st century have greyed legal constructs around war.

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