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Read more at: Video - An American Nightmare: What will a Contested Election Mean for the World?

Video - An American Nightmare: What will a Contested Election Mean for the World?

8 October 2020 - Following its traditional 'nightmare' model, the Centre for Geopolitics draws on expertise from history, politics, journalism, and diplomacy to explore the possible geopolitical consequences of a contested US election.

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Read more at: Video - The Global Colour Line

Video - The Global Colour Line

23 September panel discussion organised jointly with Cambridge in America as part of the 2020 Alumni Festival. Nearly 120 years ago, the African-American writer W.E.B. du Bois first spoke of the 'colour line' and predicted that it would define the twentieth century. More recently, the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis...

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Read more at: Video - Tackling Inequalities from the Pandemic

Video - Tackling Inequalities from the Pandemic

9 September 2020 - The Covid-19 pandemic may not strengthen the strong, but it has certainly pushed the weak to the edge of the precipice. Even as the pandemic rages on, global and local politics have drawn battle lines along socioeconomic, institutional, technological, realpolitik, ideological and identity divides. To...

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Read more at: Video - Hong Kong's Future under China's National Security Law

Video - Hong Kong's Future under China's National Security Law

The 18 August 2020 panel discusses the legal and societal responses to the National Security Law, and suggests an urgent stake for the international society to take a stance on China’s breach of treaty obligations and the rights of the people of Hong Kong.

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Video - Beyond Coronavirus?

21 July 2020 - Kings College, the Centre for Geopolitics and the Centre of Governance and Human Rights bring together a panel of experts from the worlds of biological science, engineering, biotechnology, and political science. How have societies bounced back in the past? How will we identify and trace infections as the...

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Read more at: Video - Foreign Intervention in Middle East Geopolitics

Video - Foreign Intervention in Middle East Geopolitics

2 July 2020 - The panel discusses the interests which foreign powers pursue in the region and consider whether a framework might be established which channels violent interventions into guarantees for peace.

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Latest news

New report on 'Pandemic Politics in South Asia'

25 September 2020

The Centre for Geopolitics has published a new report on Pandemic Politics in South Asia...

Dr Kun-Chin Lin appointed Acting Director as Professor Brendan Simms goes on sabbatical

23 September 2020

Dr Kun-Chin Lin has taken over as Acting Director of the Centre for Geopolitics this month. Kun-Chin’s appointment comes at an exciting time for the Centre, which has been one of Cambridge’s most active research institutes in 2020. Since March, the Centre has hosted almost...

Boris reads Brendan: “Britain’s Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation”

15 September 2020

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