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How can maritime history help shape the shipping industry’s path to net zero?🌊The shipping industry faces major technolo...
31/08/2026

How can maritime history help shape the shipping industry’s path to net zero?🌊

The shipping industry faces major technological and operational challenges in reaching the International Maritime Organisation’s goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Stig Tenold will explore what previous transformations in shipping can teach us about the changes needed today, with a focus on key lessons from maritime history.

🗓️ 24 September | 🕓 17:00-20:00 | 📍Strand Campus and Online

🔗Register here: https://ow.ly/kyBU50ZBoFZ

30/08/2026

🚨 Closing tomorrow!

The School of Security Studies is looking for a Senior Events Officer to join the team.

💡 Part-time, 14 hours per week
📌 One-year fixed-term contract
➡️ Salary: £33,951 - £38,784 pro rata
🗓️ Deadline: 31 August

🔗 Find out more and apply:

What can students expect from the International Security and Policy MA?✍️Dr Ozge Soylemez, Programme Director of the onl...
28/08/2026

What can students expect from the International Security and Policy MA?✍️

Dr Ozge Soylemez, Programme Director of the online MA, talks about the programme, its partnership with UNSW and Arizona State University, and what students can expect from studying across three universities.

She also discusses the flexibility of online study and how the programme helps students develop skills in security studies, policy analysis, systems thinking and leadership.

🔗Read the full conversation and find out more about the programme: https://onlinecourses.kcl.ac.uk/find-programmes/international-security-policy-ma

27/08/2026

We’re hiring!

The School of Security Studies is looking for a Senior Events Officer to join the team.

💡 Part-time, 14 hours per week
📌 One-year fixed-term contract
➡️ Salary: £33,951 - £38,784 pro rata
🗓️ Deadline: 31 August

🔗 Find out more and apply:

What can an Indo-Pacific perspective bring to the study of international security?✍️Dr Sally Burt, Senior Lecturer in Cy...
25/08/2026

What can an Indo-Pacific perspective bring to the study of international security?✍️

Dr Sally Burt, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Strategy and Diplomacy at UNSW Canberra, discusses the International Security and Policy MA and UNSW’s contribution to the programme.

The programme brings together teaching and expertise from King’s College London, UNSW and Arizona State University. Dr Burt discusses UNSW’s Asia-Pacific Security and Systems Thinking and Modelling modules, as well as the value of learning alongside students from different countries and backgrounds.

She also shares her thoughts on online study and the opportunities it offers to connect with students and academics from across the globe.

🔗Read the full conversation and find out more about the programme: https://onlinecourses.kcl.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/a-conversation-with-dr-sally-burt

What can a state not afford to lose control of?In the fourth article in their series on realistic defence for emerging c...
21/08/2026

What can a state not afford to lose control of?

In the fourth article in their series on realistic defence for emerging countries, Dr Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho and Jackson Schneider examine the principle of selective autonomy.

They argue that autonomy does not mean trying to produce everything domestically. For emerging countries, full self-sufficiency is unrealistic and can waste scarce resources. But unrestricted dependence is also dangerous, especially when foreign suppliers control maintenance, software, data, spare parts or critical infrastructure.

Selective autonomy offers a more practical path: identifying the bottlenecks that could paralyse defence, interrupt essential functions or give external actors veto power over sovereign decisions.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4hMugx0

In this new research paper in the CEBRI Journal, Dr Joe Devanny examines cybersecurity in Latin America.The paper looks ...
21/08/2026

In this new research paper in the CEBRI Journal, Dr Joe Devanny examines cybersecurity in Latin America.

The paper looks at growing cyber threats, uneven capacity and the challenges of strengthening cybersecurity across the region.

He argues that stronger domestic resilience, greater cross-border cooperation and continued investment are needed to address these challenges.

🔗: https://ow.ly/xEyJ50ZBoku

🎙️ New podcast episode!In this XCEPT episode, Dr Nafees Hamid talks to Dr Iain McGilchrist – psychiatrist, philosopher, ...
20/08/2026

🎙️ New podcast episode!

In this XCEPT episode, Dr Nafees Hamid talks to Dr Iain McGilchrist – psychiatrist, philosopher, neuroscientist and author of The Master and His Emissary and The Matter with Things – about how the brain's left and right hemispheres attend to the world in fundamentally different ways.

They explore how shifts in hemispheric dominance have shaped trust, institutions and the rise and fall of civilisations throughout history, and what this means for how governments, mediators and practitioners build, and lose, legitimacy in fragile and conflict-affected settings today.

🎧 Listen to the new episode, The Divided Brain, to find out more:
☁️ https://bit.ly/4gDzCcN
🟢 https://bit.ly/3U7YQat
🍎 https://bit.ly/4zxHUKQ

What does the removal of ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan tell us about the limits of prosecutorial independence?Dr Maria Varak...
20/08/2026

What does the removal of ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan tell us about the limits of prosecutorial independence?

Dr Maria Varaki and Professor Yuval Shany examine the ICC Assembly of States Parties’ decision to remove Khan from office, arguing that the process cannot be understood solely as a disciplinary matter.

They explore the difficult balance between independence and accountability, the role of institutional legitimacy, and the importance of ethical leadership at a time of profound pressure on the Court.

They argue that the ICC’s requirement for senior officials to possess “high moral character” should have real meaning, particularly when the Court is facing an unprecedented institutional and geopolitical crisis.

🔗: https://ow.ly/PaFI50ZBmKR

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