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Robert Abernethy Adjunct Professor, SAIS Europe; Director, Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development; Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law, Bocconi University

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 – 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 Security, Strategy, & Statecraft Events

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

BOOK PRESENTATION - Constitution-Building After the Arab Spring. A Comparative Perspective

Feb 5, 2026

Francesco Biagi

Author - Associate Professor, Department of Legal Studies, University of Bologna

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

The Economic Features and Consequences of Modern Authoritarianism

Jan 29, 2026

Simon Commander

Altura Partners & Independent Economics

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

Europe at War

Dec 18, 2025

Sylvie Goulard

Professor of Practice of Global Affairs, SDA Bocconi School of Management