Everything you think you know about war is wrong. We are in the midst of an age of conflict: global terrorism, Russia's resurgence and China's rise, international criminal empires, climate change and dwindling natural resources. The stakes are high, and we are dangerously unprepared. The West is playing the same old war games, but the enemy has changed the rules.

Joint with Alejandro Ecker and Hanna Bäck

Kalypso Nicolaïdis will be joined by Andrea Ruggeri, Fiona Macintosh, Teresa Bejan and Tae-Yeoun Keum to discuss her latest book, 'Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice', which offers a unique take both on Brexit and on the power of mythical stories to frame our democratic conversation.

Nicolaïdis conjures up three archetypes to explore the competing visions that have clashed so dramatically over the meaning of Brexit, whether as the ultimate demonstration of British exceptionalism, a harbinger of terrible truths or sacrifice on the altar of EU unity.

Discussion with Robert Cheah, Henrik Dahlquist and Sarah Bufkin.

Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”

The following seminars will be given at 2pm on Wednesdays, normally in the E P Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College.
Convenor: Meera Selva

The Cyril Foster Lecture is the University of Oxford's principal annual guest lecture in the field of International Relations. Since the first lecture in 1960, it has attracted a most distinguished group of speakers, including Secretary Generals of the UN and NATO, Presidents and former Prime Ministers.

Dr Johnson examines the function of strategy against the phenomenon of hybrid confrontation and coercion, that is, situations where there is aggression and military threat but where hostilities have not been declared. Specifically, it analyses the execution of hybrid strategy and it counter-strategies. First, it evaluates the etymology of the term, the anxieties that it has caused in the West, and its failures or limitations. Second, it examines the value of hybrid strategy, and lays out the counter-strategy, mapping these against the utility of force.