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Brigadier General Kevin Ryan (US Army retired), Director of the Defense and Intelligence Projects at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Simon Saradzhyan, Fellow and Assistant Director of the Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism at the Belfer Center joined Dr. Alexandra Vacroux, Executive Director, at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies in a discussion surrounding the upcoming Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The panel was moderated by former CNN Foreign Affairs Correspondent and Spring 2014 Shorenstein Fellow Jill Dougherty and focused on security, human rights concerns, Russian foreign policy and the future of country’s domestic politics.

Russian Politics from Snowden to Sochi | Institute of Politics

The news tends to focus on the antagonism between India and Pakistan. A distinguished panel of academics – Dr Kamal Munir, Dr Ornit Shani, Dr  Bhaskar Vira and Professor Joya Chatterji –
look at the common ground between the two countries. 


India-Pakistan: the common ground at Hay Festival

Ideas about states of emergency go back to Ancient Rome in which it was said that necessity knows no law. This idea took on different meanings during the early modern period and was employed again in 1848 to justify emergency rule in Paris. The idea was inverted by Marx. It was no longer emergency that justified dictatorship—dictatorship was posited as a desirable outcome in a transition to new forms of society.

The genesis of 20th C political authoritarianism by Prof Gareth Stedman Jones

In 1815, two large armies faced each other at Waterloo. Unknown either to Napoleon or Wellington, the battle would be decided by a small, ordinary group of British and German troops.

Did the Germans win the battle of Waterloo? by Professor Brendan Simms

In the age of Charlemagne, Rome was not just associated with the glory of classical and late antique empire, but above all with an authentic Christianity. North of the Alps, rulers and aristocrats created a virtual Rome by importing relics as well as liturgical practices that were thought of as typically Roman.

Charlemagne, Rome and the management of sacred space by Professor Rosamond McKitterick

Despite recent assertions to the contrary, Prof Matthew Kramer argues that there can never be any moral justification for torture.

Torture, morality and law by Professor Matthew Kramer

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