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Europe as an International Actor: Power in a Changing Global Order
Feb 16
Daniela Schwarzer
Executive Board Member, Bertelsmann Stiftung; Honorary Professor of Political Science, Frei University, Berlin
The Geopolitics of Cities. How City Diplomacy Is Reshaping Power, Risk, and Global Governance
Feb 19
Lorenzo Kihlgren Grandi
Director, City Diplomacy Lab
BOOK PRESENTATION - The Sound of Habsburg: A Musical History of The Austrian Empire
Feb 23
Philipp Ther
Professor of East Central European History, University of Vienna
BOOK PRESENTATION – Warhead: How the Brain Shapes War and War Shapes the Brain
Mar 2
Nicholas Wright
Affiliated Scholar, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical Center; Non-Resident Fellow, Cognitive Technology, INSS
Gaza: The Dream and the Nightmare
Mar 12
Julie Norman
Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, University College London (UCL); Director of UCL’s Israel-Palestine Initiative
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Past Politics Events
Transatlantic Turbulence: What Next For Europe?
Feb 12, 2026
Justin O. Frosini
Robert Abernethy Adjunct Professor, SAIS Europe; Director, Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development; Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law, Bocconi University
Transatlantic Relations in the Era of Great Power Competition
Feb 9, 2026
Giovanna De Maio
Advisor on Transatlantic Relations, French Policy Planning; Adjunct Professor of US Foreign Policy, SciencesPo Paris
The US Intervention in Venezuela One Month Later
Feb 2, 2026
Juan José Gómez-Camacho
Senior Fellow at SAIS Europe; Former Mexican Ambassador to Canada, to the United Nations, to the European Union, to Belgium and Luxembourg, to Singapore and to Myanmar and Brunei
Ethics as Power: Europe's Role in the Global AI Race
Jan 26, 2026
Maximilian Kiener
Head, Institute for Ethics in Technology, Hamburg University of Technology
Not as Weak as We Hope? Not as Strong as We Fear? Russia Four Years into the War
Dec 15, 2025
Alexander Gabuev
Director, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center
BOOK PRESENTATION - Islam, Sultans, and the Printing Press
Dec 11, 2025
Bogdan G. Popescu
Assistant Professor of Political Science, John Cabot University, Rome



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