Centre of Gepolitics and Grand Strategy


2019-10-11 17:30: To Capture or Kill bin Laden: Understanding Presidential Decisionmaking (Nick Rasmussen, Senior Director for National Security and Counterterrorism Programs at the McCain Institute for International Leadership in Washington, D.C)

2019-10-24 17:30: Iran ‘sans frontieres’: influence, war-fighting and geography in the Middle East (John Raine CMG OBE is Senior Advisor for Geopolitical Due Diligence at the International Institute of Strategic Studies)

2019-10-31 17:00: Conquering Peace? How Can Three Centuries of Europe’s Past Help its Future? (Stella Ghervas is Professor of Russian History at Newcastle University and an Associate of the Department of History at Harvard University.)

2019-11-08 17:30: Exploring the Jerusalem Question: Historical Approaches to Shared Sacred Spaces (His Excellency Ambassador Hossam Zaki (Deputy Secretary General of the Arab League), Prof. Wendy Pullan, Prof. Menachem Klein, Rami Dajani, and Dr. Lena Oetzel.)

2019-11-08 17:30: Exploring the Jerusalem Question: Historical Approaches to Shared Sacred Spaces (His Excellency Ambassador Hossam Zaki (Deputy Secretary General of the Arab League), Prof. Wendy Pullan, Prof. Menachem Klein, Rami Dajani, and Dr. Lena Oetzel.)

2020-01-21 12:30: Russia: Understanding cultural, behavioural and historical factors (Dr. Hubertus F. Jahn is Reader in the History of Russia and the Caucasus in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.)

2020-01-21 12:30: Russia: Understanding cultural, behavioural and historical factors (Dr. Hubertus F. Jahn is Reader in the History of Russia and the Caucasus in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.)

2020-01-27 18:00: The Tragic Critic After 9/11: Reading Today’s World (Dr Jennifer Wallace, Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies in English at Peterhouse, and affiliated lecturer in the Faculty of English)

2020-02-05 17:30: Reconciling Competing Forces in the Global Economy: What’s Driving Uncertainty? (Mohamed A. El-Erian, President, Queen's College)

2020-02-18 17:00: John Sfakianasis, Chief Economist Gulf Res. Center, Riyadh, speaks on political uncertainty and instability in Middle East (John Sfakianakis, Chief Economist and Head of Research, Gulf Research Center)

2020-02-18 17:00: John Sfakianasis, Chief Economist Gulf Res. Center, Riyadh, speaks on political uncertainty and instability in Middle East (John Sfakianakis, Chief Economist and Head of Research, Gulf Research Center)

2020-02-24 17:30: The Pacific Arctic in the Geo-Economics of 21st Century Eurasia: regional governance, and role of technology (Tim Reilly, PhD Candidate at Scott Polar Research Institute)