Past Events

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, […]

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 […]

Dr Rebecca Lissner will discuss her new book, co-authored with Dr Mira Rapp-Hooper, which puts forward a new vision for American foreign policy and international order. They argue that the United States global leadership crisis is not a passing shock created by the Trump presidency or COVID-19, but instead the product of forces that will […]

Joint event with Centre for Geopolitics and Cambridge in America Donald Trump’s recent suggestion that he might not accept the outcome of the forthcoming presidential election in November 2020 has provoked further controversy after what has already been a notably stormy tenure. However, the United States has been here before, albeit in different ways and […]

Dr Flavia Gasbarri (King’s College London) launches her new book ‘US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa’ in conversation with Dr Marco Wyss (Lancaster University). The iconic images from the night the Berlin Wall came down, and of the Soviet flag being removed from the top of the Kremlin have […]