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Read more at: Podcast: The Secret Pigeon Service and an Untold Story of WW2 Resistance, with Gordon Corera
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Podcast: The Secret Pigeon Service and an Untold Story of WW2 Resistance, with Gordon Corera

July 20th 2021 Suzanne Raine talks to Gordon Corera, BBC Security Correspondent, about a story of bravery, belief, hope, patriotism, loyalty and pigeons. Part of our series on Resistance, Radicalistion & Religion. The Centre for Geopolitics Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts , Spotify and the Centre's Youtube...

Read more at: A tale of two Unions
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A tale of two Unions

14 July 2021 By Professor Brendan Simms Now that Brexit has been completed, for better or for worse, the immediate challenge facing the UK government will be how to deal with the growth of centrifugal forces on our archipelago. This is partly a question of mitigating the effects of Brexit, but it is also a matter of...

Read more at: Podcast: Berlin, Brussels and Brexit, with Nicolai von Ondarza
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Podcast: Berlin, Brussels and Brexit, with Nicolai von Ondarza

1 July 2021 Series 4: Germany and the World Episode 3: Philipp Hirsch and Nicolai von Ondarza from the German Institute for International and Security Affairs discuss the role and importance of Europe for German politics as well as German perspectives on Brexit. The Centre for Geopolitics Podcast is available on Apple...

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Read more at: Video - The Spectre of War. International Communism and the Origins of World War II
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Video - The Spectre of War. International Communism and the Origins of World War II

13 July 2021 - One does not immediately think of communism as in any way involved in the outbreak of war in 1939. But it was centrally involved. In the 1920s not only did it play a critically destabilising role immediately after World War I, resulting in the emergence of fascism in Italy and an overriding fear of...

Read more at: Video - The cultural politics and geopolitics of the borderlands; the case of Czeslaw Milosz
The cultural politics and geopolitics of the borderlands; the case of Czeslaw Milosz

Video - The cultural politics and geopolitics of the borderlands; the case of Czeslaw Milosz

7 July 2021 - The renowned Polish-Lithuanian writer Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) would have been 110 years old this year. Born in Šeteniai and growing up in Vilnius, the capital of present-day Lithuania, he was a survivor of the Nazi occupation of Poland, a member of the Polish Foreign Service under the communist regime, and...

Read more at: Video - What can we learn from the geopolitical consequences of Spanish Flu?
What can we learn from the geopolitical consequences of the Spanish flu?

Video - What can we learn from the geopolitical consequences of Spanish Flu?

25 June 2021 - Prior to the current pandemic, the impact of the Spanish Flu pandemic 1918-20 was largely neglected in studies of 20 th century geopolitics. As the Liberal International Order, whose foundations were laid by statesmen during the height of Spanish Flu, stands at a crossroads, we ask how the confluence of a...

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Centre holds first graduate student research seminar on Baltic geopolitics

24 June 2021

On 23 June the Baltic Programme at the Centre for Geopolitics held its first graduate research seminar on Baltic Geopolitics.  John Freeman, PhD student at Cambridge University, presented his research on the outward perspective of the Dukes of Courland in the 17th century.  Ida Christine...

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,...

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