Speaker: Dr David Martin Jones Respondent: Prof. Michael Rainsborough Chair: Dr Flavia Gasbarri Dr David Martin Jones examines the progressive ideas behind liberal Western practice since the end of the twentieth century, at home and abroad. This mentality, he argues, took an excessively long view of the future and a short view of the past, abandoning politics in […]
Past Events
The Engelsberg Annual Lecture on International Order 2020 with Nadia Schadlow: ‘Strategy – The Pursuit of Freedom of Action’
The Engelsberg Annual Lecture on International Order 2020 is co-hosted by the Centre for Grand Strategy (KCL), the Centre for Geopolitics (University of Cambridge) and the Strategic Studies Research Theme (Security Studies, KCL). Dr. Schadlow is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and MITRE. She was […]
Britain and the Western Baltic – Centre for Geopolitics Live Webinar
The United Kingdom has a long history in the Western Baltic, the triangle bounded by Denmark, Northern Germany and southern Sweden. Long before the UK even existed, English and Scottish merchants were active there. From the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries, and again in the early twentieth century, the Royal Navy and then the […]
Engelsberg Annual Lecture in Applied History 2020 – War and Order: How China is using history to reshape global order and a new nationalism at home – Centre for Grand Strategy Live Webinar
Engelsberg Annual Lecture in Applied History 2020 with Rana Mitter War and order – How China is using history to reshape global order and a new nationalism at home For years, China was excluded from the global international order. Now, it takes pride in claiming a place as a founding member of the post-1945 order, […]
GATT and Global Order in the Postwar Era – Centre for Grand Strategy Live Webinar
Professor Francine McKenzie will discuss her new book GATT and Global Order in the Postwar Era which reveals the history of GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) and unpacks the many ways in which trade was politicised in the second half of the 20th century. Co-hosted by the Centre for Grand Strategy and Sir Michael Howard Centre […]
