Room 138, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, University of Cambridge 2012-11-02 12:00: Competing Models of Development Aid: the Role of Rising Powers (Dr. Emma Mawdsley (Geography, Cambridge), and Dan Kim (CRP, Cambridge)) 2013-03-08 12:00: Soft Power and Global Sports Mega Events: The Hosting Strategies of Emerging Powers (Professor Donna Lee, Professor of International Organisations and Diplomacy, University of Birmingham) 2013-06-12 17:00: A (more) outward-looking Brazil: growth challenges ahead (Dr Danilo Igliori, Professor of Economics, Universidade de Sao Paolo) 2014-02-04 12:00: ‘Why the German Empire and the European Union fell or are fallling, and why Anglo-America rose’ (Professor Brendan Simms, Professor of History of International Relations Director, Centre for International Studies University of Cambridge) 2014-06-04 12:00: ‘The Triumph of Democracy and the Eclipse of the West.’ (Dr Ewan Harrison (Rutgers University)) 2015-10-14 14:00: Elite Competition and Cooperation in China: Institutional Evolutions in Power Succession ( Dr Wang Zhengxu (University of Nottingham))