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Taunggyi, Myanmar - 11 March 2021: Myanmar military cracks down on peaceful protesters

Historical dimensions of ‘Humanitarian’ Intervention

20 April 2021 By Patrick Milton , Research Fellow at Peterhouse An important focus of the Centre for Geopolitics’ work is on the challenges facing the implementation of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). In recent weeks, this issue has again become salient as the military regime of Myanmar has massacred hundreds of...

Read more at: LISTEN NOW - Podcast: Tear down this Wall! With Timothy Garton Ash
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LISTEN NOW - Podcast: Tear down this Wall! With Timothy Garton Ash

18 April 2021 With Suzanne Raine , Affiliated Lecturer E pisode 4 : Tear down this Wall! With Timothy Garton Ash Suzanne Raine talks to Professor Timothy Garton Ash about resistance to the Iron Curtain and the scars it left behind. Part of the Resistance, Radicalisation and Religion Series: Suzanne Raine, Affiliate...

Read more at: LISTEN NOW - Podcast: Financing the Tilt to the Indo-Pacific, with James Crabtree
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LISTEN NOW - Podcast: Financing the Tilt to the Indo-Pacific, with James Crabtree

15 April 2021 With Hugo Bromley , Research Assistant. Episode 3: Financing the Tilt to the Indo-Pacific, with James Crabtree Hugo Bromley speaks with James Crabtree, the incoming Executive Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies Asia, about the role of financial services in supporting the ‘tilt to the...

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Read more at: Video - Whither the EU and UK after Brexit: Lecture by Ambassador Vale de Almeida

Video - Whither the EU and UK after Brexit: Lecture by Ambassador Vale de Almeida

30 April 2021 - Now that the formal process of ‘Brexit’ has been completed, attention is turning to the question of how the two principal unions in Europe, the United Kingdom and the European Union, will relate to each other in the future. Will they find a new equilibrium and concentrate on meeting the challenges of the...

Read more at: Video - The power of geography: Ten maps that reveal the future of our world
Power of Geography

Video - The power of geography: Ten maps that reveal the future of our world

29 April 2021 - Napoleon once said that the policy of every state lay in its geography. The connection between location and grand strategy is now commonplace, but also little understood. Tim Marshall has done more than most to make geopolitics accessible to a wider audience through his books, which have gained a global...

Read more at: Video - IHR Partnership Seminar 2

Video - IHR Partnership Seminar 2

28 April - Applied history and contemporary geopolitics - Seminar 2: Geopolitics, History and the US-China Rivalry Institute for Historical Research Partnership Seminar Series convened by the Engelsberg Applied History Programme; the Centre for Grand Strategy at King’s College London; the Centre for Geopolitics at the...

Latest news

Event report: Israel and the Gulf: a new chapter for the Middle East?

2 April 2021

by Philipp Hirsch, Research Assistant

On the 24 March, the Centre for Geopolitics hosted a panel on Israeli-Gulf relations, discussing the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and both the UAE and...

IR2P Symposium - Call for Papers

30 March 2021

The journal Global Responsibility to Protect, the Centre for Grand Strategy at King’s College London, and the Centre for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge will convene an online symposium between 6-7 September 2021 on Intervention and Responsibility to Protect: Past,...

Centre for Geopolitics launches podcast channel

10 March 2021

The Centre for Geopolitics has this week launched Cambridge Geopolitics Conversations, our new podcast channel. The podcast will feature conversations with people across academia, government, civil society, politics and business to discuss major geopolitical issues, past,...

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