*Abstract:* Constitutionalism has become a byword for legitimate government, but is it fated to lose its relevance as constitutional states relinquish power to international institutions? This book evaluates the extent to which constitutionalism, as an empirical idea and normative ideal, can be adapted to institutions beyond the state by surveying the sophisticated legal and political system of the European Union.

Thai foreign policy is traditionally shaped by the changing international environment. The coup of 2014 has exacerbated the political conflict and powerfully prescribed the way in which the country pursued its relations with the outside world. This talk argues that changing international circumstances have allowed the military regime to entrench itself in the political realm and to exploit the latest global trend to achieve self-legitimization.

While the North Korean regime continues to expand its nuclear weapons program to secure its regime legitimacy and survival, the North Korean people are losing their faith in the government. Drawing from her recently published book, North Korea’s Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground is Transforming a Closed Society (Yale University Press 2016), Jieun Baek will discuss how outside information and media flows covertly into North Korea and how this phenomenon creates fault lines in the country’s attempts to seal its informational borders.

Professor Menon is Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King’s College London. He is a co-author of Brexit and British Politics, published on 27 October 2017. Besides being the Director of UK in a Changing Europe, an independent research institute focused on UK-EU relations, he is also a fellow of Chatham House and co-editor of the journal West European Politics. He can be followed on Twitter as @anandMenon1 and the UK in a Chancing Europe podcast (available on iTunes), where he engages in debate and commentary about Brexit as it happens.

**Special Seminar - Please note this is a Friday**