21/09/2026
Machiavelli thought instability was simply the condition of politics. Mearsheimer thinks great powers never quite escape it.
Our new Alumni Lecture Series opens with that argument.
Benjamin Lloyd, an Oxford History graduate and a Sciences Po security studies graduate, traces the idea of power from Renaissance Florence to modern realist theory.
Saturday 10 October, 2pm BST. Join by video, wherever you are.
Scan the QR code for the lecture link.