Past Events - Centre for Geopolitics

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Diplomacy, Military, Security

Thursday 11th July, 2024

Zeitenwende: The changing role of Germany in the Baltic

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Borders, Diplomacy, History

1st - Saturday 6th July, 2024

Baltic Geopolitics Summer School 2024: Great power competition and the national state of Lithuania

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Human rights, Risk, Security

Monday 24th June, 2024

Whose security? Balancing humanitarian need during complex crises

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Risk, Security, War

Friday 21st June, 2024

New security challenges in the Baltic Sea Region in the context of the war in Ukraine

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Military, Peace building

Tuesday 18th June, 2024

On the road to NATO Washington Summit

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Risk

Friday 14th June, 2024

Geopolitical risk analysis study group

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Thursday 13th June, 2024

The U.S.-Korea alliance: Why it might fail and why it must not

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Diplomacy, Security

Monday 10th June, 2024

Global Germany

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Diplomacy, Economics, Human rights

Monday 10th June, 2024

India, now and future: What voters chose in the 2024 elections

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History

Monday 10th June, 2024

Ancient Geopolitics: Ruling through nomos – democracy and law-making in Ancient Greece

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Borders, Grand Strategy, War

Friday 31st May, 2024

What does Russia want and what does it mean for the West? Interests, motivations and long-term strategy in the Russo-Ukrainian war

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Authoritarianism

Saturday 25th May, 2024

Indo-Pacific Roundtable 2024: Authoritarianism, democracy, and stability

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Security

Friday 24th May, 2024

Indo-Pacific Roundtable 2024: Security

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Human rights

Friday 24th May, 2024

Indo Pacific Roundtable 2024: Rights, resources, and representation

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Economics

Friday 24th May, 2024

Indo-Pacific Roundtable 2024: Markets, finance, and equality

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Economics, History, Security

Friday 24th May, 2024

Indo-Pacific Roundtable 2024: The United Kingdom in the Indo-Pacific

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Grand Strategy

Wednesday 22nd May, 2024

Is the UK capable of grand strategy? with William James

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Culture, History

Saturday 11th May, 2024

The Geopolitics of Eurovision

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Elections, Intelligence

Wednesday 8th May, 2024

Democracy after deepfakes: elections, disinformation, and artificial intelligence (AI)

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Economics, Populism

Tuesday 7th May, 2024

Unfinished Quest: India’s Search for Major Power Status, with T.V. Paul

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Diplomacy, Economics

Friday 3rd May, 2024

The Political Thought of Xi Jinping, with Dr Olivia Cheung

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Economics, History

Wednesday 1st May, 2024

Made in China, with Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson

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Maritime, Security

Tuesday 30th April, 2024

Sea change in the Baltic? Protecting trade, energy security and supply after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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History, Law

Monday 29th April, 2024

Ancient Geopolitics: Ancient law for modern politics

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Economics, Maritime, Security

Friday 26th April, 2024

Challenges in the South China Sea

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History, Intelligence, World War II

Friday 26th April, 2024

The Spy Who Came in from the Circus: The Secret Life of Cyril Bertram Mills

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Diplomacy

Thursday 25th April, 2024

Southeast Asia between the Superpowers: Who is where and why?

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History

Wednesday 24th April, 2024

Five hundred years of English and British violence in Europe

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Culture, History

Thursday 18th April, 2024

Addressing thorny legacies – Ethics of Political Commemoration and the Caucasus

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Diplomacy, Military, Security

Wednesday 17th April, 2024

NATO at 75: Assessing the alliance’s past, present, and future

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Diplomacy, Military, Security

Tuesday 16th April, 2024

Why Sweden joined NATO, with the Swedish Foreign Minister

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Economics

Monday 15th April, 2024

Goodbye Globalization, with Elisabeth Braw

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History

Friday 12th April, 2024

Ancient Geopolitics: Iran

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Diplomacy, Security, War

Thursday 4th April, 2024

2014 revolution in Ukraine and the Baltic

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Diplomacy, Security

Thursday 14th March, 2024

Enabling Japan’s security policies: The role of domestic institutions

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Authoritarianism, Economics

Tuesday 12th March, 2024

What are China’s ambitions for the world order?

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History, Military

Monday 11th March, 2024

Military History Working Group, with Dr Daniel Cowling and Cherish Watton

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Business, Technology

Friday 8th March, 2024

Taiwan, technology and trade

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Diplomacy, Feminism, Security

Friday 8th March, 2024

Gender and political representation in the Indo-Pacific

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History, War

Thursday 7th March, 2024

Art & War

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Diplomacy, History, World War II

Tuesday 5th March, 2024

Geopolitics of memory in contemporary German-Polish relations

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Economics, Environment, Security

Tuesday 27th February, 2024

The future of the Pacific regional order

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War

Monday 26th February, 2024

Uncivil War: the British army and the troubles, 1966–1975

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Diplomacy

Thursday 22nd February, 2024

Japanese diplomacy – the power of influence

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Economics, Security

Tuesday 13th February, 2024

China in the Pacific

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Economics, War

Monday 12th February, 2024

Pat Cox on the war in Ukraine and the future of the EU

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Security

Monday 5th February, 2024

Geopolitics, order, and influence in the Pacific Islands

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Human rights

Friday 2nd February, 2024

Normalisation of evil: how to defend humanity and human rights in 21st century?

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Elections

Monday 15th January, 2024

What voters chose: responses to Taiwan’s election

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Peace building

Thursday 11th January, 2024

Peace initiatives of the Moon Jae-in administration in Korea: their legacy

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Security

Friday 17th November, 2023

The UK-Japanese defence and intelligence relationship, past, present, and future

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Populism

Wednesday 15th November, 2023

Populism in the Indo-Pacific

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Economics

Monday 13th November, 2023

Negotiating the border – what would an economic border between Scotland and England mean for the British Isles?

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War

Tuesday 7th November, 2023

Thinking about war and power and failing to understand the Russo-Ukraine war

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Authoritarianism

Wednesday 1st November, 2023

Understanding Putin’s Russia

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Elections

Friday 20th October, 2023

Key elections in Southeast and East Asia

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Authoritarianism

Thursday 19th October, 2023

Learning to love big brother: Chinese attitudes toward online privacy after the pandemic

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World War II

Wednesday 18th October, 2023

The Forest Brotherhood: Baltic Resistance against the Nazis and Soviets

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Military

Monday 16th October, 2023

Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits

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Peace building

Friday 13th October, 2023

The changing geopolitics of the Middle East and the prospects for peace

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Peace building

Friday 29th September, 2023

Korea Global Forum 2023

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Authoritarianism

Thursday 28th September, 2023

‘Stand up like a Taiwanese!’: PRC Coercion and Public Preferences for Resistance

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Business, Economics

Wednesday 6th September, 2023

Xiconomics: What China’s Dual Circulation Strategy Means for Global Business

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Authoritarianism

Thursday 17th August, 2023

Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China

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Risk, Security

Wednesday 19th July, 2023

Nuclear risk reduction in the Baltic Sea region

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Peace building

Tuesday 4th July, 2023

The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement: 25 years on

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Maritime, Security

Thursday 22nd June, 2023

All at sea? Testing the UK’s resolve in the Pacific region

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History, Military

Wednesday 21st June, 2023

Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland: A life in Geopolitics

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Authoritarianism, Security

Thursday 15th June, 2023

North Korean human rights abuses and security concerns: A parallel challenge, with Ambassador Shin-wha Lee

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Peace building

Tuesday 13th June, 2023

What is solidarity? Reconstructing the meanings of the modern idea

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Elections

Monday 12th June, 2023

Northern Ireland’s local election results, with Freya McClements

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History, Military

Monday 5th June, 2023

Military History Working Group, with Dr Dan Larsen and Dr Matilda Greig

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Elections

Friday 2nd June, 2023

Thailand’s election: What happened, what does it mean, and what’s next?

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Business, Economics

Wednesday 31st May, 2023

Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise, with Professor Chris Marquis

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Diplomacy, Economics

Tuesday 30th May, 2023

Germany and Ukraine, with Benedikt Franke

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Economics, Security

Friday 26th May, 2023

Britain’s role in the Indo-Pacific

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Economics

Friday 26th May, 2023

The end of globalisation?

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Environment

Friday 26th May, 2023

Environmental emergencies in the Indo-Pacific

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History, Military

Thursday 25th May, 2023 - Saturday 27th May, 2023

The annexation of the Klaipeda (Memel) region to Lithuania, 1923…

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World War II

Tuesday 16th May, 2023

The Holocaust and the Second World War

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War

Monday 15th May, 2023

Should the West fear a Russian defeat in Ukraine?

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Diplomacy

Tuesday 9th May, 2023

The geopolitical challenges of China’s growing influence in the Gulf, with Jonathan Fulton

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Borders

Wednesday 3rd May, 2023

Witness to the Union: Lord Jack McConnell

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Intelligence

Friday 28th April, 2023

Seeking intelligence in the Churchill Archives Centre collections

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Diplomacy, Economics

Friday 28th April, 2023

Timor-Leste and ASEAN: Socio-historical perspectives in the post-conflict society

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Borders, Peace building

Thursday 27th April, 2023

Witness to the Union: Baroness Arlene Foster

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Education

Wednesday 26th April, 2023

The geopolitics of academic freedom, with Michael Ignatieff

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History, Law

Tuesday 25th April, 2023

Global Discord, with Sir Paul Tucker

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Security

Tuesday 25th April, 2023

Timor-Leste and ASEAN: International politics and geopolitics

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Security

Wednesday 22nd March, 2023

The Baltic Geopolitics Programme Symposium 2023

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Diplomacy

Monday 20th March, 2023

Ireland’s future multiverse: Northern Ireland, Britain, Europe, and America, with Daniel Mulhall

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Culture

Monday 13th March, 2023

Language, identity, and diversity in Ireland, with Ola Majekodunmi

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History, Military

Monday 13th March, 2023

The Personality of American Power: Empire Imagined

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Diplomacy, Feminism

Thursday 9th March, 2023

From World War I to the 21st Century: The history of women’s role and activism in peace processes, diplomacy, and human rights in international politics

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Security

Wednesday 8th March, 2023

Ukraine and the Baltic: the past, the present and the future

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Diplomacy, Economics, History

Tuesday 7th March, 2023

Britain and the Central Mediterranean, with former Prime Minister of Malta, Lawrence Gonzi

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History, Military

Monday 6th March, 2023

Military History Working Group, with Saul Yardley and Jesús Sanjurjo-Ramos

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Authoritarianism, Military

Thursday 2nd March, 2023

Boundaries of Expertise: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and the professionalisation dilemma

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Diplomacy, Security

Monday 27th February, 2023

Anxious allies – credibility and commitments towards East Asia, with Catherine Jones

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History, Intelligence

Friday 24th February, 2023

Chips at the Foreign Office, with Simon Heffer

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Economics, Environment, Security

Monday 20th February, 2023

Energy Security in the Baltic and Northern Europe

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History, Intelligence, World War II

Monday 20th February, 2023

Military History Working Group, Visit to the Churchill Archives Centre

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Diplomacy

Thursday 16th February, 2023

Ross Allen in conversation with the Master of Trinity Hall: ‘Standing together: the UK and Estonia in 2023’

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Diplomacy

Monday 13th February, 2023

Where will Germany be in ten years? with Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

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Military, War

Monday 13th February, 2023

Military History Working Group, with Italo Brandimarte

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History, World War II

Wednesday 8th February, 2023

A world in crisis, December 1941, and what it means today

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History, Human rights

Tuesday 31st January, 2023

Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System, with Maeve Ryan

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History, Intelligence, World War II

Monday 30th January, 2023

Why the history of intelligence matters today, with Chris Andrew

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Authoritarianism, Education, Technology

Friday 27th January, 2023

‘The Rise and the Fall of the EAST’, with Huang Yasheng

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Feminism

Thursday 26th January, 2023

Women, peace and security in the Middle East

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Military

Monday 23rd January, 2023

Military History Working Group, with Tom Lowman and Danny Orbach

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Diplomacy, Law, Security

Tuesday 17th January, 2023

Garren Mulloy examines Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision

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Military

Monday 12th December, 2022

The army and the union in the long eighteenth century

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Diplomacy, History

Wednesday 7th December, 2022

The geopolitics of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

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Diplomacy

Tuesday 6th December, 2022

Making sense of how sense is made of Chinese foreign policy

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Security

Monday 5th December, 2022

Security and vulnerability of NATO’s Northern flank

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Economics, History

Thursday 1st December, 2022

The Indian Ocean and the multicultural origins of the global economic order

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Diplomacy, Environment

Wednesday 30th November, 2022

Taiwan’s Green Party diplomacy: Origins, evolution and impact

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World War II

Tuesday 29th November, 2022

Unanticipated outcomes of the British blockade

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Borders, History, Military

Monday 28th November, 2022

First meeting: Military History Working Group

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History, War

Wednesday 23rd November, 2022

Who were the Baltic Germans and what is their legacy?

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Diplomacy, Peace building, Security

Friday 18th November, 2022

NATO enlargement: Causes, consequences, and controversies

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Authoritarianism

Thursday 17th November, 2022

All of Xi’s Men: Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power at the 20th Party Congress

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Borders, History

Wednesday 16th November, 2022

Scotland: The Global History and the Changing Union, an event with Professor Murray Pittock

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Diplomacy, Peace building

Monday 14th November, 2022

Future of the Northern Ireland Protocol panel

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Feminism

Tuesday 8th November, 2022

Women, life, freedom: A feminist revolution in Iran and beyond?

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Culture, History

Tuesday 8th November, 2022

Scotland and the Baltic from the early modern period to the present day

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Borders, World War II

Friday 4th November, 2022

Baltic Geopolitics Graduate Seminar – Michaelmas term

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Elections

Wednesday 2nd November, 2022

Changing international alignments in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland

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Borders, Elections

Monday 24th October, 2022

Keir Starmer: Irish unity’s nemesis? with Sam McBride

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Security

Friday 14th October, 2022

Geopolitical psychology: How the psychological ownership of national territories shapes international affairs

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Economics

Thursday 13th October, 2022

States, markets, and conflict

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Military, Security

Tuesday 11th October, 2022

The security balance in the Baltic?

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Authoritarianism

Thursday 6th October, 2022

Predictions for the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (Part 2): Rana Mitter, Victor Shih and William Hurst

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Security

Wednesday 5th October, 2022

Warsaw Security Forum – European Security and the Baltic Sea: self-defence or collective defence?

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Authoritarianism

Tuesday 4th October, 2022

Predictions for the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (Part 1) with Taylor Fravel and William Hurst

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History, Military

Monday 26th September, 2022

Writing military history today

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Borders

Tuesday 20th September, 2022

The geopolitics of Kaliningrad

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Technology

Thursday 1st September, 2022

The prospects for Sino-American technological decoupling: The case of the semiconductor industry

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History

Wednesday 31st August, 2022

Defining events in the history of the CCP – Victor Shih in conversation with William Hurst

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War

Tuesday 28th June, 2022

The Visegrád Four and the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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Environment

Thursday 16th June, 2022

The geopolitics of critical metals and the green revolution

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Maritime, World War II

Wednesday 15th June, 2022

The wars at sea, 1939-1945

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Economics, War

Thursday 9th June, 2022

Trends in economic recovery, international security, and domestic politics in the Indo-Pacific

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Diplomacy, Peace building

Tuesday 7th June, 2022

New Atlantic Order, with Patrick Cohrs

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Security

Monday 6th June, 2022

The future of neutrality in a changing geopolitical context

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Diplomacy, Trade

Friday 27th May, 2022

Pearl of the world: Hong Kong and its transregional networks

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Elections

Wednesday 25th May, 2022

The Northern Ireland Assembly elections – What happens now?

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World War II

Friday 20th May, 2022

Best-seller to security threat. Uncovering the Holocaust in Lithuania

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Borders

Monday 16th May, 2022

Westminster, Europe and the Northern Ireland Protocol – with Tony Connelly

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Diplomacy

Friday 13th May, 2022

Transition or a new normal? China’s international relations in a time of global uncertainty

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Diplomacy, History

Friday 13th May, 2022

Old ties and new paths: the history and legacy of colonialism in Hong Kong

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Diplomacy

Thursday 12th May, 2022

Is there a single Central-Eastern Europe? Historical concepts and contemporary projects to integrate the Baltic, Black & Adriatic Seas region

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Diplomacy

Tuesday 10th May, 2022

Paul Brummell – The Thorny Business of Diplomatic Gifts

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Diplomacy

Monday 9th May, 2022

Perfect Imbalance: the past, present, and future of the Sino-Russian relationship

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Diplomacy, Security

Thursday 5th May, 2022

Does Germany need to learn geopolitics?

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History

Tuesday 3rd May, 2022

Britain and Finland

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Security, War

Saturday 30th April, 2022

Ukraine Teach-In, at the Cambridge Union

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Diplomacy, Economics

Friday 29th April, 2022

Reassessing Hong Kong: diplomacy, economics and geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific

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Military

Wednesday 27th April, 2022

Ostseepolitik: new German defence strategies and old geopolitical concerns

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Economics, History

Tuesday 26th April, 2022

Britain and the Great Divergence

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Maritime

Tuesday 19th April, 2022

A false choice? British naval power in the Baltic and the Pacific

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Religion

8th - Tuesday 9th April, 2024

Christian identity in national, transnational and local space. Perspectives from Protestantism, Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism

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Diplomacy, Security

Thursday 24th March, 2022

The Strategy of Denial by Elbridge A. Colby

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History

Wednesday 23rd March, 2022

The Baltic contribution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991

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War

Friday 18th March, 2022

The War in Ukraine

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Diplomacy, Economics, Security

Wednesday 16th March, 2022

From Spectator to Actor: Changing gear in EU foreign policy. Urmas Paet in conversation with Charles Clarke

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Culture

Monday 14th March, 2022

The role of narrative and the future of Ireland, with Lisa Dwan, performer, director, and writer

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Security, War

Monday 14th March, 2022

Russia invades Ukraine: the reaction from the Indo-Pacific

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Authoritarianism

Wednesday 9th March, 2022

Authoritarian diasporas in the Philippines and Indonesia

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Culture, Economics, History

Monday 7th March, 2022

Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia

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Maritime, Security

Thursday 3rd March, 2022

The state of the Taiwan Strait: Contemporary maritime security, cross-strait relations, and defense decision-making in Taiwan

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Diplomacy

Tuesday 1st March, 2022

Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by M.E. Sarotte

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War

Monday 28th February, 2022

EMERGENCY EVENT: The Russian invasion of Ukraine

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Diplomacy, Security

Friday 25th February, 2022

Baltic Geopolitics Graduate Seminar – Lent term

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World War II

Tuesday 22nd February, 2022

Surviving the Nazi neighbourhood. Sovereignty and neutrality: the Liechtenstein presence in Bohemia 1939-45

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Military

Thursday 3rd February, 2022

Military deployments by Baltic Sea countries

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Military

Thursday 20th January, 2022

External influences in the Baltic state-building after the Great War

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Diplomacy

Tuesday 26th January, 2021