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Why Václav Havel's 1978 essay is "eerily relevant today"
When Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney gave his rousing speech on middle powers at Davos, he quoted Václav Havel - the Czech dissident, and later president - from his 1978 essay The Power of the Powerless.Carney’s references to Havel’s essay prompted Australian Catholic University Professor of History Darius Von Guttner to write about The Power of the Powerless in The Conversation, where he described it as “eerily relevant today” Guest: Darius Von Guttner, Professor of History at the Australian Catholic University
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