title: The Return of History: Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century (CBC Massey Lectures)
author: Jennifer Welsh
description: Welsh offers an engaging and thought-provoking argument that history has not ended but, in fact, has returned with a modern twist. (<i>National Post</i>)<br /><br />This is where Welshs unusual perspective serves her well and distinguishes this book from other return-of-history jeremiads. Not only is she exceptionally fluent in the debates and histories of political science, but she has a unique understanding of the actual workings and breaking points of the formal international order and its failings. (<i>The Globe and Mail</i>)<br /><br />Insightful, frighteningly timely, and highly accessible. . . . a seamless, finely honed argument deserving of broad readership and study. (<i>Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW</i>)<br /><br />Of the authors who have contended with Fukuyamas intellectual legacy, Jennifer Welsh is in the company of the most reasonable and reflective. (<i>The Literary Review of Canada</i>)<br /><br />Outright inspirational . . . Whether you are interested in history, political science, economics, or are simply concerned about the state of the world, this book will force you to think long and hard. (<i>Quill & Quire, STARRED REVIEW</i>)<br /><br />Welsh mounts a forceful moral argument. (<i>Macleans</i>)
zlib_text: THE MASSEY LECTURES SERIES
  
  The Massey Lectures are co-sponsored by CBC Radio, House of Anansi Press, and
  Massey College in the University of Toronto. The series was created in honour
  of the Right Honourable Vincent Massey, former Governor General of Canada, and
  was inaugurated in 1961 to provide a forum on radio where major contemporary
  thinkers could address important issues of our time.
  
  This book comprises the 2016 Massey Lectures, “The Return of History:
  Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century,” broadcast
  in November 2016 as part of CBC Radio’s _Ideas_ series. The producer of the
  series was Philip Coulter; the executive producer was Greg Kelly.
  
  JENNIFER WELSH
  
  Jennifer Welsh is Professor and Chair in International Relations at the
  European University Institute in Florence (Italy) and a Fellow of Somerville
  College, University of Oxford. From 2013 until 2016, she was the Special
  Adviser to the United Nations Secretary General on the Responsibility to
  Prote