The Department of War Studies, King's College London, focuses on promoting understanding of war, conflict and international security. The podcasts highlight the department's research and teaching activities. They also cover events the department organises for its students and the public. DISCLAIMER: Any information, statements or opinions contained in these podcasts are those of the individual speakers. They do not represent the opinions of the Department of War Studies or King's College London.

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War Studies

Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History in the department, gives his perspective of the Crimean crisis.
Dr Alan James and current student Rachel Blackman talk about the department's MA History of Warfare. 
Jayne Peake provides details of next week's events. 
Presented by Dr Peter Busch 
 DISCLAIMER: Any information, statements or opinions contained in this podcast are those of the individual speakers. They do not represent the opinions of the Department of War Studies or King's College London.

2013/14 podcasts: Russia & Crimea: past & present

C. Christine Fair discusses her new book with Theo Farrell, 'Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War'

http://amzn.to/1qZM5E6

Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War

The work of master economist John Maynard Keynes has been key in the resolution of successive crises from the Great Depression to the recent global financial crisis. An IMF economist gives an overview of the man, his ideas and their impact on economic policy.

The Long Life of Keynesian Economics

Eliot Higgins, known by his online pseudonym Brown Moses, talks to MA graduate Gus Constantinou about his open source intelligence methods that he used in analysing recent events like the 2013 attacks in Syria.
We also have a conversation between our Head of Department Professor Theo Farrell and Dr C Christine Fair of Georgetown University about her new book 'Fighting to Win: the Pakistani Army's Way of War' (Oxford University Press 2014).
Jayne Peake and our new media intern and MA student Charlie de Rivaz talk about next week's events.
Presented by Dr Peter Busch
DISCLAIMER: Any information, statements or opinions contained in these podcasts are those of the individual speakers. They do not represent the opinions of the Department of War Studies or King's College London.

Brown Moses on Open Source Intelligence / Dr Christine Fair on Pakistan's army

Recorded 7 March 2014: Against the background of the crisis in the Ukraine, Oscar Jonsson, doctoral student in the department, discusses Russia's way of warfare. 
In our series 'Where are they now?' we hear from our alumnus Adrian Johnson who is now the Director of Publications and Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). 
Jayne Peake provides details of next week's events. You can also watch (or listen to) some of our previous events on our YouTube channel.  
Presented by Dr Peter Busch  
DISCLAIMER: Any information, statements or opinions contained in this podcast are those of the individual speakers. They do not represent the opinions of the Department of War Studies or King's College London.

2013/14 podcasts: Russia's understanding of war

Anatol Lieven, Professor of International Relations in the department, gives his views on the crisis in Ukraine and its international implications.
Jayne Peake provides details of next week's events.
Presented by Dr Peter Busch 
DISCLAIMER: Any information, statements or opinions contained in this podcast are those of the individual speakers. They do not represent the opinions of the Department of War Studies or King's College London.

2013/14 podcasts Anatol Lieven on crisis in Ukraine

Dr Helen Thiollet, Sciences Po Paris, talks about Eritrean refugee camps in Eastern Sudan. Her research challenges the view that refugees in camps are just victims who are trapped in their situation and have not agency.  
Dr Gaurav Kampani, researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, investigates the question if India’s nuclear posture and use philosophy is undergoing radical transformation. Jayne Peake provides details of next week's events. 
You can also watch (or listen to) some of our previous event on our YouTube channel.  
Presented by Dr Peter Busch  
DISCLAIMER: Any information, statements or opinions contained in this podcast are those of the individual speakers. They do not represent the opinions of the Department of War Studies or King's College London.

2013/14 podcasts: Refugees in Eastern Sudan / India's nuclear policy

Dr Christopher Hobbs, Deputy Director for Knowledge Transfer at the department's Centre for Science and Security Studies talks about his work on nuclear security education. 
BBC Newsnight's diplomatic and defence editor Mark Urban gave this year's War Studies lecture. We have a clip here in which he discusses his experience of covering the Iraq war. His lecture on War and the British media is available in full on our YouTube Channel.  
MA students Luciana Tellez and Hillary Briffa talk about the 2014 Conflict, Security and Development Conference on 'Organised Crime in Conflict Zones'. 
We also have details of next week's events. 
Presented by Jayne Peake  
DISCLAIMER: Any information, statements or opinions contained in this podcast are those of the individual speakers. They do not represent the opinions of the Department of War Studies or King's College London.

2013/14 podcasts: Hobbs on Nuclear security education / Urban on UK & media

Dr Matthew Moran, Deputy Director for Research Development at the Centre for Science and Security Studies (CSSS) in the Department comments on the interim agreement on Iran's nuclear programme. 
Professor Mark B. Salter of the University of Ottawa compares methods in critical security studies. He was invited to speak to the Department by the Research Centre in International Relations (RCIR). 
Jayne Peake provides details of next week's events. 
Presented by Dr Peter Busch  
DISCLAIMER: Any information, statements or opinions contained in this podcast are those of the individual speakers. They do not represent the opinions of the Department of War Studies or King's College London.

2013/14 podcasts: Moran on Iran Deal / Salter on Methods in Security Studies

Dr Thomas Rid, Reader in the Department of War Studies, talks about his new Foreign Affairs article 'Cyberwar and Peace'. More about Dr Rid here. 
You can follow Dr Rid on twitter: @RidT 
Jayne Peake provides details of next week's events. 
Presented by Dr Peter Busch  
DISCLAIMER: Any information, statements or opinions contained in this podcast are those of the individual speakers. They do not represent the opinions of the Department of War Studies or King's College London.

2013/14 podcasts: Cyberwar and Peace

Despite his reputation as the father of greedy capitalism, Adam Smith did a great deal of thinking about the human condition and how to be a better, more generous person. One economist believes that Smith could change your life.

Listen to Russ Roberts on economics as entertainment: 


The World According to Adam Smith

Measuring Russian Power' - an expert panel discussion that seeks to examine and understand various aspects of Russian power.
This event is hosted by the War Studies Departmental Research Group on Russian and Eurasian Security. 

1) Dr Natasha Kuhrt (chair) is lecturer in International Peace and Security at the Dept of War Studies, King’s College London. 
Dr Kuhrt began teaching on the M.A. International Peace and Security Programme at King's in the School of Law, on a part-time and occasional basis in 2002, before taking up a full-time position in the Dept of War Studies in 2009. Her main interests are Russian foreign policy – in particular Russia’s relations with Asia-Pacific;. Regionalism -regional security complexes; regionalisation and regionalism; nationalism and identity; International law, sovereignty and debates on intervention. She is co-convenor of the British International Studies Association Working Group on Russian and Eurasian Security, and also co-convenes the War Studies Departmental Research Group on Russian and Eurasian Security.

2) Professor Roy Allison: (speaker) Professor of Russian and Eurasian International Relations (School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford). Formerly Reader in International Relations at the London School of Economics, and Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) (1993-2005). Prof Allison has broad research interests in the international relations, foreign and security policies of Russia and Eurasia. 

3) Dr Richard Connolly, Associate Fellow, Chatham House, Russia and Eurasia programme. Senior Lecturer in Political Economy, University of Birmingham.  Co-Director of CREES, Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies. Dr. Connolly's research and teaching on the political economy of Russia focuses on industrial development and structural transformation, economic policy, trade and investment, and Russia's role in the wider global economy. He is currently working on a book exploring the relationship between Russia's role in the global economy and its system of domestic political economy. 

4) Dr Tracey German (speaker) is senior lecturer in defence studies at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Dept of Defence Studies, King’s College London (joined 2004). Prior to this she lectured at RMA Sandhurst and the University of Aberdeen, and worked as a research manager for a business intelligence company, specialising in energy security. She is a graduate in Russian from the University of Edinburgh and was awarded a PhD on the topic of Russia's conflict with Chechnya. Her current research interests are the ongoing conflict in Chechnya, security in the Caucasus and Central Asia, and energy issues in the former Soviet states. 

5) Dr Andrew Monaghan is senior research fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House. He is also a visiting fellow at the Changing Character of War Programme at Pembroke College, Oxford. Additionally he is the founder and director of the Russia Research Network, an independent organization for the generation of information and expertise on Russian politics, security and economic issues based in London. 

6) Dr Victoria Hudson (speaker) is British Academy post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London (appointed January 2016). She completed her PhD, entitled ‘A Study of the Civilisational Aspect of Russian Soft Power in Contemporary Ukraine’ in 2013, at the University of Birmingham.Her current research project continues her interest in Russian soft power: ‘Russia’s Renewal of Cultural Influence and Attraction Abroad: A Comparative Study of Audience Receptivity to Russian Soft Power in Ukraine, Estonia, Kazakhstan and Armenia’. 

Measuring Russian Power

How has Russia's revolution in 1917 impacted the West? Can Russia and the West coexist peacefully? 

In this week's episode, we are bringing you an interview with Professor Alexander Sergunin from the St. Petersburg State University and a keynote address by Dr Samuel Greene from the King's Russia Institute at the conference "1917 to 2017: Russia’s unfinished revolution?”.  

Professor Sergunin examines how the ‘peaceful coexistence’ concept has impacted Russia's foreign policy since 1917 and how it continues to be applicable to the currently tense relationship between Russia and NATO.

Dr Samuel Greene reflects on the dichotomy between Russia and the West. Dr Greene is the director of the King's Russia Institute and the conference was organised by Dr Natasha Kuhrt, funded by the British International Studies Association Working Group on Russian and Eurasian Security, of which she is co-convenor, and hosted by the Department of War Studies.

UPCOMING EVENTS AT KING’S COLLEGE LONDON

(DE)VILIFICATION OF THE FARC AND THE LINGUISTIC CEASE-FIRE
27th November 2017 (12:30-14:00)
FWB (Franklin Wilkins Building), FWB 1.10
Registration: http://bit.ly/2zK1IQD

Villains need to be de-villainised for talking to begin; this is a cornerstone of negotiation literature. But what happens when villains are proscribed, or listed as a terrorist organisation?


CSSS SEMINAR: MULTILATERAL ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT: IS IT WORTH ALL THE EFFORT?
28th November 2017 (18:00-20:00)
Strand Campus, War Studies Meeting Room (K6.07)
Registration URL: https://goo.gl/forms/FvYuRoJqDEMpCCfN2

Achieving multilateral instruments of arms control and disarmament requires sustained diplomatic effort and a great deal of patience.


PROFESSIONAL USE OF WARGAMING WITHIN DEFENCE
30th November 2017 (13:00-15:00
Strand Campus, War Studies Meeting Room (K6.07)
Registration URL: http://bit.ly/2hIDriN

This will be an open guest session of Professor Sabin's MA option in Conflict Simulation. Two guest speakers will address different aspects of professional use of wargaming within defence.

This week’s podcast was produced Ivan Seifert.

Podcast: Peaceful Coexistence – Understanding Russia and the West

We have a report on right-wing 'radicalisation' on platforms like 4chan with insights from our colleague Dr Thomas Colley. We also talk to Sanjana Balu, the department's student experience and outreach officer. Adam caught up with two students and asked them about adapting to study from home. Presented by Adam Beswick, Dr Peter Busch and Sally Horspool.

Podcast: student experience / report on 4chan and 'radicalisation'

In this episode of our War Studies 'at home' series we talk to IR student Aanvi who organised a visit to the EU and January (see also her blogpost: https://kingsthinktank.com/2020/02/07/eu-brussels-visit/#more-2951
Dr Matt Moran, co-director of the Department's Centre for Science and Security talks about his research on Open Source Intelligence and Big Data (his article: with C Hobbs and C Eldridge: ‘Fusing algorithms and analysts’: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02684527.2017.1406677
And Adam tells us more about his Instagram story (the department on Instagram: kcl_warstudies). Presented by Adam Beswick, Peter Busch, Sally Horspool

Podcast: OSINT analysts and algorithms /DWS students at EU Brexit vote/ DWS on Instagram

Dr Rudra Chaudhuri, Director of Carnegie India and Senior Lecturer in the department joins us from Delhi and gives his insights on the COVID-19 crisis in India. Find out more on https://carnegieindia.org
And third-year students Kleber and Cassy talk about a student trip to Second World War battlefields in Italy earlier this year. Presented by Adam Beswick, Peter Busch and Sally Horspool.

Podcast: India and COVID-19 / student trip to WW2 battlefields

This is the part 1 of a 2 part special podcast series produced by BA IR students Julia Thommessen and Adam Beswick. In these podcasts King's students discuss different perspectives on COVID-19 and share their experiences. And as an Easter bonus: Sally shares her blueberry muffin recipe. Hosted by Adam Beswick, Peter Busch and Sally Horspool.

Podcast: Perspectives on COVID-19 (part one)

This is the part 2 of a 2 part special podcast series produced by BA IR students Julia Thommessen and Adam Beswick. In these podcasts King's students discuss different perspectives on COVID-19 and share their experiences. And as an Easter bonus: Sally shares her blueberry muffin recipe. Hosted by Adam Beswick, Peter Busch and Sally Horspool.

Podcast: Perspectives on COVID-19 (part two)

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