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  1. The Middle Corridor: Finance and Security

    The Middle Corridor: Finance and Security

    MECACS Seminar Series Event - Ms Arzu Abbasova (RUSI, London) - Chair: Dr Filippo Costa Buranelli

    Arzu Abbasova is a Research Analyst at the Centre for Finance and Security at Royal United Services Institute. She leads the research on the pathways to...

  2. Mercenary: genealogy of a concept in international relations

    Mercenary: genealogy of a concept in international relations

    CGLG Event with Guest Speaker Dr Malte Riemann

    At this CGLG event, Malte Riemann, Assistant Professor at Leiden University, will join us to discuss his book proposal, Mercenary: Genealogy of a Concept in...

  3. British codebreaking and American secrecy in the First World War
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    British codebreaking and American secrecy in the First World War

    ISWS Seminar Series: Guest speaker Daniel Larsen

    Beginning in late 1915, British codebreakers cracked the US diplomatic codebooks and were reading all of American diplomats' transatlantic telegraphic...

  4. Digital Sovereignty in the European Union

    Digital Sovereignty in the European Union

    CGLG Talk with Guest Speaker Michal Czerniawski

    Michal Czerniawski works in the Justice Committee of the European Parliament, specialising in digital laws, personal data protection, and transparency. As part...

  5. To the Rescue --- Rupture and Resilience of the UN Charter Order

    To the Rescue --- Rupture and Resilience of the UN Charter Order

    CGLG Talk with Special Guest - Antje Wiener

    Abstract: The rule-based international legal order is under duress. Recent breaches of international law on behalf of members of the United Nations (UN)...

  6. Non-violent mobilisation against terrorism: why and how it matters

    Non-violent mobilisation against terrorism: why and how it matters

    Guest Speakers: Dr Javier Argomaniz, Dr Tim Wilson and Dr Boris Tsokov

    When studying terrorist campaigns, analysis typically centres on the two principal protagonists: the state and militant organisations. This narrow focus...

  7. Anniversary of the full scale invasion of Ukraine: four years later

    Anniversary of the full scale invasion of Ukraine: four years later

    St Andrews Ukrainian Society with guest speaker Vitaliia Turchyn

    Tuesday 24 February 2026 marks the fourth year since the full invasion of Ukraine. This event will include student speakers sharing their own experiences of...

  8. Geopolitics of Ports and Islands: the case of Yemen

    Geopolitics of Ports and Islands: the case of Yemen

    Speaker: Dr Khaled Fattah (United Nations) Chair: Dr Hsinyen Lai

    Details to be added

  9. International law and emotions: challenges and prospects

    International law and emotions: challenges and prospects

    CGLG Seminar with Guest Speaker Professor Andrea Bianchi

    At this CGLG event, Professor Andrea Bianchi of the Geneva Graduate Institute will present his work on international law and emotions. Andrea's research...

  10. Emotions as sites of embodied learning in the classroom

    Emotions as sites of embodied learning in the classroom

    Distinguished Teacher Lecture: Professor Naomi Head, University of Glasgow

    Emotions have become a recognised element of International Relations curricula, shaping modules and taking up intellectual space within our disciplinary...

  11. Book talk: Axis of Empire: A history of Iran-US Relations

    Book talk: Axis of Empire: A history of Iran-US Relations

    MECACS Seminar Series Event via MS Team email [email protected] for the link

    Axis of Empire: A History of Iran--US Relations by Afshin Matin-Asgari A chronicle of intrigue and influence in the Iran-US entanglement Ironic plot twists...

  12. The problematic association between foreign military assistance and increased terrorist attacks in recipient nations

    The problematic association between foreign military assistance and increased terrorist attacks in recipient nations

    ISWS Seminar Series with Guest Speaker Aoife McCullough

    Foreign military assistance is intended to support security forces in recipient nations to fight insurgencies, and maintain stability and political order....

  13. Before the attack: what we are learning about preventing public violence

    Before the attack: what we are learning about preventing public violence

    Paul Wilkinson Memorial Lecture with guest speaker Professor Jessica Stern

    Public violence, including mass public shootings and terrorist attacks, accounts for a very small fraction of overall homicide, yet it produces an outsized...

  14. Azerbaijan's war and peace: political strategy and vision for the future

    Azerbaijan's war and peace: political strategy and vision for the future

    Speakers: Dr Murad Muradov (Topchubashov Center, Baku, Azerbaijan) Chair: Professor Rick Fawn

    Murad Muradov graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from the Academy of Public Administration of the Republic of Azerbaijan...

  15. Military effectiveness and the rise of military professionalism under Louis XIV

    Military effectiveness and the rise of military professionalism under Louis XIV

    the Artillery -- Cutting Edge or Laggard? with guest speaker Guy Rowlands

    Few historians bandying around the terms 'military professional' and 'military professionalism' have given much space to explaining what...

  16. Book launch -- Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict

    Book launch -- Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict

    ISWS Book Launch Event

    Book launch -- Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict Edited by Michael Finch, Aimée Fox & David Morgan-Owen...

  17. Pedagogy as success and failure: what happens when teaching doesn't always look like learning?

    Pedagogy as success and failure: what happens when teaching doesn't always look like learning?

    DTL Teaching Forum with Professor Naomi Head - Staff and PGR Students of International Relations Only

    Within the context of the increasing pressures of teaching evaluations and metrics of success, how do we make sense of what goes on under the surface in our...

  18. Life on the legitimacy frontier: understanding the authority struggle between the UN Security Council and the office of the Ombudsperson

    Life on the legitimacy frontier: understanding the authority struggle between the UN Security Council and the office of the Ombudsperson

    Speakers: Dr Anette Stimmer and Professor Christian Kreuder-Sonnen

    At this CGLG event, we will discuss Professor Christian Kreuder-Sonnen's (Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena) and Anette Stimmer's (University of...

  19. If it's not a bug, it's a feature: how the normalisation of hate speech has made games vulnerable to extremism

    If it's not a bug, it's a feature: how the normalisation of hate speech has made games vulnerable to extremism

    Guest speaker: Dr Rachel Kowert, Research Psychologist

    What happens when hate speech becomes so routine in a cultural space that it's treated as unremarkable background noise? This talk will examine how...