How did China's leaders propel the country to innovation-superpower status?

Join us as @proflind.bsky.social launches her new book, 'Autocracy 2.0: How China's Rise Reinvented Tyranny'

📅 Wed 10 Dec, 17:30-18:45 GMT
📍 King's College London
👉 Register here: csns.uk/event/autocr...

“Why Populist Leaders Love Dead Soldiers and Hate Live Officers”

Join Ronald Krebs for a discussion on why right-wing populist leaders often seem to love (especially fallen) soldiers and the trappings of military life.

Tuesday 25 November
King's Building, KCL

Register: csns.uk/event/why-po...

Why do humans fight, lose, and win wars?

Join us for the launch of Dr Nicholas Wright's new book 'Warhead: How the Brain Shapes War and War Shapes the Brain', moderated by Dr Nafees Hamid for XCEPT research

📅 Weds 3rd Dec, 17:00-18:30
📍 Bush House, Strand Campus
🎟️ kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...

📸 Last week, we had the pleasure of hosting @kschake.bsky.social & Prof Francis Gavin for our Engelsberg Annual Lecture in Applied History. Thank you both for this captivating conversation, which was chaired by our very own Prof John Bew!

Join us on 15 Oct for a Diplomacy Workshop with Prof R.P. Barston at King’s College London. KCL students only!

📍 King’s Building
🕐Wednesday 15 Oct, 1pm -3pm
🔗Event Link: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/diplo...

Don’t miss out! Join CSNS on 9 Oct 2025 for Warriors in Washington: Henry Stimson, the US Army, and the Politics of American Power in World War II by Dr Grant Golub

📍King’s Building
🕔Thursday 9 Oct, 5pm
⛓️Event link: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...

📝 Dr Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens recently wrote a report for the Commission for Countering Extremism: 'Uncomfortable Truths – Freedom of Speech is the Key to Countering Extremism'

You can read it here: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/689b43...

CSNS had the privilege of hosting Prof. Siddharth Kara for a powerful talk on the human and environmental toll of cobalt mining in the DRC. 'Blood Batteries: The Human Rights and Environmental Impacts of Cobalt Mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo'
www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/bea...

🚨 Call for chapters! Philippe Lagassé and co are looking for contributions to a forthcoming volume on supreme military command authority and/or Commanders-in-Chief from a historical/comparative perspective

📝 Abstracts are due by 1 October 2025, with a contributors workshop taking place in June 2026

📸 Earlier this week, we had the pleasure of hosting Dr Kate Ferguson @ibvprev.bsky.social and @sophgaston.bsky.social‬ for our very first CSNS event, chaired by Prof John Bew

🚨 There's still time to sign up for our upcoming event with
@ibvprev.bsky.social! Join us as we reflect on Labour’s first year of foreign policy with Kate Ferguson, Lord Peter Ricketts and John Bew

🔗 Read more here: icsr.info/2025/06/05/c...

🗓️ We are co-hosting an event with @ibvprev.bsky.social on June 18th! Join us as we examine the changing role and capabilities of the FCDO and reflect on Labour’s first year of foreign policy with Kate Ferguson, Lord Peter Ricketts and John Bew

Read more & sign up here: icsr.info/2025/06/05/c...

📢 Exciting news! The Centre for Grand Strategy and the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation are merging to form a new hub within @warstudieskcl.bsky.social: the Centre for Statecraft & National Security @csns-uk.bsky.social

➡️ You can find more information here: csns.uk

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