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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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Nicholas Burns, Director of the Belfer Center's Future of Diplomacy Project, talks with Indian Diplomat Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Indian Ambassador to the United States 

Conversations in Diplomacy: S. Jaishankar — April 17, 2014

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'

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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

Why will the US and India never form an alliance? Dr Rudra Chaudhuri, Lecturer in South East Asian Security and Strategic Affairs in the department, explains when he talks about his new book 'Forged in Crisis: India and the United States since 1947'. 
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: India and the US

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Policy Amidst Regional Instability: A Conversation with Prince Turki Al Faisal of Saudi Arabia

Middle East Initiative Speaker Series
Malkin Penthouse
November 18, 2014, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

A public address by His Royal Highness Prince Turki Al Faisal of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, former Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United States.

Moderated by Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at Harvard Kennedy School.

About HRH Prince Turki Al-Faisal:

Prince Turki was Director General of the General Intelligence Directorate (GID), Saudi Arabia's main foreign intelligence service, from 1977 until 2001.  In 2002 he was appointed as the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, a position he served until 2005, when he was appointed as Ambassador to the United States. He retired in February 2007.

A Founder and Trustee of the King Faisal Foundation, Prince Turki is also the Chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies.  In addition, he is a Trustee of the Oxford Islamic Center at The University of Oxford and the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University, as well as being a Commissioner at the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. Prince Turki received an honorary PhD in Law from the University of Ulster in 2010 and has been a visiting Distinguished Professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

Prince Turki Al Faisal on Saudi Arabia's Foreign Policy

Professor Beatrice Heuser holds the Chair in International Relations at the University of Reading.  A graduate of the University of London (Bedford College and LSE) and the University of Oxford (DPhil), she holds a Higher Doctorate (Habilitation) from the Philipps-University of Marburg. From 1991-2003 she taught at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, where she last held a Chair in International and Strategic Studies. She has also taught at four French universities/higher education institutions, and at two German universities.  In 1997/8 she spent a sabbatical at NATO headquarters as a consultant/intern. From 2003-2007 she was Director of Research at the Military History Research Office of the Bundeswehr. Her publications include The Evolution of Strategy: Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present (2010);Reading Clausewitz (2002); a recent book on insurgencies and counterinsurgency in theory and practice (in German), and several other works on strategy (especially nuclear), NATO, and on Cold War international relations.
Hosted by the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War

The 16th Century Origins of Naval Strategy, or How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves

Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa, Charles Wallace Fellow at St. Antony's, Oxford University, talks about the Pakistan military and strategic depth in Afghanistan. 
Lt. General (R) Asad Durrani, former Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (1990) and former DG Military Intelligence (1988) of Pakistan, talks about Afghanistan post 2014 from a Pakistani perspective.
Presented by Charlie de Rivaz (current MA student in Contemporary Security and Development) 
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.

Pakistani perspectives on Afghanistan

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

James Gray MP and Mark Lomas QC discuss questions about the constitutional basis for ‘who decides’ when Britain goes to war. They published a new book on this issue: Who Takes Britain To War? (The History Press, 2014) 
Jayne Peake and Dr Peter Busch speak next week's events.
Presented by Charlie de Rivaz
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.

Who takes Britain to war?

Listen to Mann Ki Baat-PM Narendra Modi and Barack Obama's radio address to the nation

Listen to #MannKiBaat-PM @narendramodi & @BarackObama's radio address to the nation #ObamaModiOnAIR

Dr Christine Cheng, Lecturer in International Relations, co-convenes the War Studies Research seminars. She talks about the idea behind it. Professor Mervyn Frost discusses his current book project (with Dr Sylvia Lechner) on mistakes and misunderstanding in International Relations.
Jayne Peake speaks about 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.​

War Studies Research Seminar: Mistakes and Misunderstandings in IR

Dr Médéric Martin-Mazé, Research Associate in the Department of War Studies, gives an assessment of the new report by the Intelligence & Security Committee of the British Parliament on mass surveillance.

Dr Lauren Wilcox, Deputy Director of the Cambridge University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, talks about her new book: Bodies of Violence: Theorizing Embodied Subjects in International Relations (OUP 2015).

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.

UK and Mass Surveillance / Bodies of Violence

On 15 July 2015, Dr Paul Gill, senior lecturer in Security and Crime Science at University College London, gave a fascinating presentation of his award-winning research into 'Lone Actor’ terrorism. 

Dr. Gill focused on the empirical realities of ‘Lone Actor’ terrorism, how a single profile of a ‘Lone Actor' does not exist, and illustrated some of the novel trends and patterns that are discernible from such wide studies. While acknowledging the difficulty agencies face in dealing with the 'Lone Actor’ threat, Dr Gill stressed the importance of using precise terminology and definitions when discussing these kinds of threats, as they will greatly effect the efficacy of any risk assessments one wishes to conduct. Dr Gill concluded by noting the importance of investigating the nuances in the motivations for attacks, especially when ideology appears to play a superficially explicit role.

The talk was hosted by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) and chaired by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, Head of Research and Information at ICSR.

DISCLAIMER: Any information, statements or opinions contained in this recording are those of the individual speakers. They do not represent the opinions of the Department of War Studies or King's College London.

Dr Paul Gill - 'Lone Actor' Terrorism

This week, we begin by talking to John Tesh, who came into the department on Monday 19th October. John Tesh CBE, former deputy director and head of the capabilities team in the Civil Contingencies Secretariat in the UK Cabinet Office spoke on communicating research in a way that can enhance policy impact. His areas of expertise are national risk assessment and resilience strategy, subjects on which he led as a senior civil servant in the Cabinet Office from 2006 to 2012, and on which he continues to consult as well to the OECD High Level Risk Forum.
Later on, we speak to Sean McFate, who came into the department to discuss his new book, ‘The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order’Sean McFate is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, a think tank in Washington DC. He is also an associate professor at the National Defense University and teaches national security strategy at Georgetown University. Previously, he was a paratrooper in the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division and then a private military contractor in Africa.
Jayne Peake provides details of next week's events, and also the recent collaboration with IWM who we are hosting a series of workshops with in the coming weeks. Presented by Bradley Murray and Xenia Zubova.
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.

Communicating Research To Policy Makers / Modern Mercenaries: Private Military Contractors

About the Author:
Sean McFate is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, a think tank in Washington DC. He is also an associate professor at the National Defense University and teaches national security strategy at Georgetown University. Previously, he was a paratrooper in the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division and then a private military contractor in Africa. He holds BAs from Brown University, a MPP from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and a PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics.
McFate’s experiences at the sharp end of foreign policy have allowed him to become markedly outspoken in a field typically cloaked in secrecy. With The Modern Mercenary, McFate reveals from firsthand experience and extensive interviews how the contemporary industry came to be and how it operates. He looks to the future and assesses how the industry will fare in years to come. 

About the Book:
When the U.S. found itself waging two wars–one in Afghanistan, another in Iraq – it knew its options were limited. It could enlist a draft (politically unfeasible), withdraw from one or both conflicts (also politically unfeasible), or hire private military contractors (PMCs) to do the brunt of the work. The decision was made to enlist PMCs – and, in turn, history – was made. The world quickly saw a resurgence of a kind of warfare born in the Middle Ages—a kind of warfare which surprisingly was the default system until only a few centuries prior to the Cold War.
Despite the volumes of ink spilt on the subject of PMC’s, heavy analysis remains thin because these companies are notoriously impervious to outside investigations. They are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act or similar legislative tools that impose transparency. Tasks that were once the sole province of the military or CIA are now contracted to the private sector, and there is little, if any, meaningful regulation imposed on this multi-billion dollar industry.
In the absence of facts, knee-jerk critiques of PMCs from every direction have taken course, and sensational accounts have made for popular reading. However, the only way to get to the truth about the private military complex is by gaining real access to the industry itself. The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for the World Order by Sean McFate is an invaluable insider’s analysis of the secretive and dangerous private military industry.

Sean McFate: 'The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order

Speaker: Capt James Fanell, US Navy (Ret.), Geneva Centre for Security Policy

Captain James E. Fanell retired from the U.S. Navy in January 2015 after a nearly 30 year career as a naval intelligence officer specialising in Indo-Asia Pacific security affairs. His most recent assignment was as the Director of Intelligence and Information Operations for the U.S. Pacific Fleet. He previously served as the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence for the U.S. Seventh Fleet aboard the USS Blue Ridge, the Office of Naval Intelligence China Senior Intelligence Officer, and as the Senior Intelligence Officer for the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier strike group. He was a National Security Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University where he studied Chinese national political and security affairs. He has published in the Naval Intelligence Professionals NIP Quarterly, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings and the Hoover Digest.

Naval Intelligence In The Pacific

In this weeks’ War Studies Podcast, Bradley Murray speaks to Hiruy Gossaye from Transparency International about their recent index outlining corruption in the defence industries across Africa.

The event that this interview was based on was co-hosted by the Africa Research Group, African Leadership Centre and Transparency International UK (Defence and Security Progamme).

Hiruy Gossaye is the project officer for Transparency International’s Defence and Security programme, which has recently released a report entitled ‘The Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index’, which looks at the levels of corruption in the defence industries of African states. We spoke to him about the difficulty writing this report, the findings of it including the impact of international arms exports on corruption in the continent, as well as the implications of the index as well.

Jayne Peake provides details of next weeks’ events.

The Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index can be found here: 
http://government.defenceindex.org/
The Panel Discussion on Defence Corruption Across Africa can be listened to here: 
https://soundcloud.com/warstudies/destabilising-defence-how-corruption-undermines-security-across-africa


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.

Defence Corruption Across Africa and the Undermining of Security

Speaker: Dr Eirin Mobekk
Chair: Dr Kieran Mitton, War Studies, King's College London

This lecture will discuss implementation of security and justice programming in peace operations; identifying key constraints; and the policy-operational gaps. It will examine the changing approach in addressing security and justice programming and what more is needed to consolidate effective implementation. It will draw on experiences from a range of missions, but in particular UNMISS and MINUSTAH. 

Speaker profile:
Dr. Eirin Mobekk specialises in security sector reform, UN peace operations, the rule of law, and transitional justice. She has managed and implemented programmes; conducted research, analysis, evaluations; lectured and trained and published in the areas of peace building, post-conflict reconstruction, governance, rule of law, security sector reform, transitional justice and policing. She has worked in a number of post-conflict countries across the world. She was Chief of SSR Section in UNMISS; and Country Director in South Sudan for Saferworld. She received her doctorate at the Department of War Studies, King’s College, London.   

Her latest book is entitled: UN peace operations and post-conflict reconstruction: Learning lessons from Haiti (forthcoming 2016 Routledge). 

Hosted by the Conflict, Security & Development Research Group (CSDRG).

Security and Justice in UN Peace Operations: A Changing Approach?

Last month Dr David Hammond from the Institute for Economics and Peace taught a module at the War Studies Department titled 'Peace, Conflict, Quantitative Research and Big Data'. 
He answers the question of whether the world is becoming more violent, talks about how an average person can make sense of 'big data' to become a 'good data citizen' and whether data can be used to predict conflict.

Presented by Xenia Zubova 

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.



Big Data in Peace and Conflict

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

Speaker: Roger Mac Ginty, Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Manchester.

Chair: Dr Kieran Mitton, War Studies, King's College London.

Part of the Conflict, Security & Development Research Group Approaches to Understanding Violence Seminar Series.

"Humans have been writing about violence for a long time. But have we, as students of peace and conflict, managed to get it right? Often we write about conflict rather than violence. Or writing about violence is left to specialists in gender studies, human rights or clinical anthropology. Much mainstream Peace and Conflict Studies seems to have sidestepped writing about violence. This session - a personal reflection - considers issues of positionality, form and appropriateness when writing about violence."

Speaker Profile:
Mac GintyRoger Mac Ginty is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, and the Department of Politics. His research has been on peace processes, political violence, and local responses to international peace-support interventions. He has conducted field research in Bosnia-Herzgovina, Croatia, Georgia, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Uganda and the US. He edits the journal Peacebuilding (with Oliver Richmond) and edits a book series with Palgrave entitled 'Rethinking Political Violence' (eleven books published so far). His latest books include 'International Peacebuilding and Local Resistance: Hybrid Forms of Peace' (2011) and the 'Routledge Handbook on Peacebuilding' (2013). In 2014, his four volume edited Sage Major Work on Peacebuilding was published, and in 2015 the Routledge Companion to Humanitarian Action (edited with Jenny H Peterson) was published. He is also researching everyday peace indicators (with colleagues at George Mason University and the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation) - a project funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He is seconded to The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI).
 


How Should We Write About Violence?

Professor Jennifer Welsh, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General for the Responsibility to Protect, gave The War Studies 2016 Annual Lecture on "The Individualisation of War."

Chair: Professor Theo Farrell, Head of War Studies 

In her lecture, Professor Welsh discusses how the individualisation of conflict forces us to confront the status of individuals in three different capacities: 1) as subject to violence but deserving of protection; 2) as liable to attack because of their status as combatants or their responsibility for attacks on others; and 3) as agents who can be held accountable for the perpetration of crimes committed in the course of armed conflict. She argued that while the human rights norms underpinning individualisation are normatively desirable in themselves, efforts to operationalise protection, liability, and accountability are placing enormous strain on the actors and institutions most actively engaged in armed conflict: the governments and armed forces of states; international security organisations; and humanitarian agencies. 

Biography
Jennifer M. Welsh is Professor and Chair in International Relations at the European University Institute and a Fellow of Somerville College, University of Oxford.  
She was previously a Professor in International Relations at the University of Oxford, and co-director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. In 2013, she was appointed by the UN Secretary General to serve as his Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect, a position she held until March 2016.
Professor Welsh is a former Jean Monnet Fellow of the European University Institute, and a Cadieux Research Fellow in the Policy Planning Staff of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs. She is the author, co-author, and editor of several books and articles on humanitarian intervention, the evolution of the notion of the ‘responsibility to protect’ in international society, the UN Security Council, and Canadian foreign policy. She was the Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Massey College (University of Toronto) in 2005, and a 2006 recipient of a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship and a Trudeau Fellowship. In 2014, she began directing a five-year ERC-funded project on the 'Individualization of War'.
Professor Welsh sits on the editorial boards of the journals Global Responsibility to Protect and Ethics and International Affairs, on the steering committee of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences project on Ethics, Technology and War, and on the Advisory Board of the Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt.  She has a BA from the University of Saskatchewan (Canada), and a Masters and Doctorate from the University of Oxford (where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar).

War Studies Annual Lecture - Professor Welsh on "The Individualisation of War"

This year marks the 15th anniversary off 9/11 and the 75th of Pearl Harbour. The Sir Michael Howard Centre and PS21 examine how major shocks such as these - also including natural disasters such as Fukushima - can be managed by both government and others. How do they change our actions, how do they shift public opinion? 
Tom Bruxner [moderator] - former British Army officer
Group Captain Ian Shields - former RAF officer with experience in Afghanistan, currently teaching at Anglia Ruskin University
Frederic Ischebeck-Baum - former UNODC Counter-Piracy Advisor, fellow of the Cambridge Security Initiative
John Bassett - former GCHQ official and head of London and Washington stations
 
This is a joint event between the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War at King's College London and PS21 (www.projects21.org).

Managing Strategic Shocks with PS21

Professor Nicholas Burns speaks with Ambassadors Daniel Feldman, Marc Grossman, and Richard Olson, all former U.S. Special Representatives to Afghanistan and Pakistan, about U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.

Conversations in Diplomacy: Special Representatives to Afghanistan and Pakistan — April 24, 2017

Event recording from 6th of June 2017

Inaugural Annual Lecture with Guest Speaker Professor Joseph Nye, with introduction by Dr Neville Bolt, Director of the King's Centre for Strategic Communications. 

Joseph S. Nye Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, and former Dean of the Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

Professor Joseph Nye: “I’m much more worried about the rise of Trump than the rise of China”

Nicholas Burns sits down with former Secretary of Commerce, and Future of Diplomacy Project Klein Fellow, Penny Pritzker for a conversation in diplomacy.

Conversations in Diplomacy

Conversations in Diplomacy: Penny Pritzker — October 25, 2017

Jacqueline Hazelton challenges the conventional wisdeom that states must make liberalizing reforms and win the population’s “hearts and minds” to defeat insurgencies.

See the interview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H68NHhpMf98

Read the article here: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00283

The "Hearts and Minds" Fallacy — Jacqueline Hazelton on International Security Author Chats

Speaker(s): Dr Steffen Hertog, Dr Elisabeth Kendall, Azadeh Moaveni, Professor Peter Neumann | Exploring new data showing why someone joins ISIS. A discussion of the sources of extremism and how to make societies more resilient. Steffen Hertog is Associate Professor in Comparative Politics, LSE. His book about Saudi state-building, Princes, Brokers and Bureaucrats: Oil and State in Saudi Arabia was published in 2011. He is the co-author, with Diego Gambetta, of Engineers of Jihad: the Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education. Elisabeth Kendall (@Dr_E_Kendall) is Senior Research Fellow in Arabic & Islamic Studies, University of Oxford. She is the author or (co-) editor of several books, including ReClaiming Islamic Tradition, Twenty-First Century Jihad and Literature, Journalism and the Avant-Garde: Intersection in Egypt. She also conceived of and edits the Modern Middle Eastern Vocabularies series, which includes the titles Security Arabic, Intelligence Arabic and Media Arabic. Azadeh Moaveni(@AzadehMoaveni) is Senior Gender Analyst at the International Crisis Group. She is the author of Lipstick Jihad and other books, and has reported on women and ISIS for The New York Times. She was Middle East correspondent for a decade for Time magazine and the Los Angeles Times, and is lecturer in journalism at New York University, London. Her book-length work on gender and militancy, ISIS Brides, will be published next autumn. Peter Neumann (@PeterRNeumann) is Professor of Security Studies, War Studies Department and Director, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, King’s College London. Peter has authored or co-authored five books, including Old and New Terrorism, and The Strategy of Terrorism (with MLR Smith). He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles, dealing with different aspects of terrorism and radicalization, especially ‘homegrown’ radicalization in Western countries.  Shorter articles and opinion pieces have appeared in, among others, the New York Times, Der Spiegel, and the International Herald Tribune Jawad Iqbal is a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Institute of Global Affairs at LSE. He is a member of the Governing Council of Chatham House. Jawad has produced and edited a wide range of BBC News programmes. Since leaving the BBC, Jawad has become a contributor to The Times and Financial Times. This event is one of a series of public events linked to the Hard Truths exhibition which will be on display at LSE from 1-26 October.

Hard Truths: global extremism [Audio]

On 9 November 1989 the Berlin Wall was torn down by crowds from both East and West Germany, defining the end of an era not only for Germans but for the world. This week on the War Studies Podcast, we sit down with Dr Barbara Zanchetta, a Cold War historian in the War Studies Department, to discuss the significance of this anniversary. 

Event highlight: Africa Week at King's College London
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/series/africa-week-2019

Podcast: 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

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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