Insight

Insight: BISA 2021 keynote with Dr Agnes Callamard

James Rogers was invited to chair the British International Studies Association (BISA) Conference 2021 keynote with Agnes Callamard, the Secretary General of Amnesty International and former UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary killings.

Insight Briefing #3: William J. Perry and Tom Z. Collina on nuclear strategy

In this installment of the 'DIAS/CWS Virtual Briefings' we welcome Secretary William J. Perry, Secretary of Defence in the Clinton administration and Undersecretary of Defence for Research and Engineering in the Carter administration. Alongside him is Tom Z. Collina, the Director of Policy at Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation in Washington, DC. Together with Dr James Rogers they discuss their experiences in Nuclear strategy, the problem of sole authority, and the prospect, or reality, of a Second Nuclear Arms Race and Cold War.

Insight Briefing #2: Peter W. Singer on the future of war

In this installment of the ‘DIAS/CWS Virtual Briefings’, Dr James Rogers and Peter W. Singer discuss not only how to best predict the future of conflict and how to track emerging trends, but also how technological advancements – like AI, Robotics, and Cyber Warfare – will transform the battlefields of the future. Peter is described in the Wall Street Journal as “the premier futurist in the national- security environment,” and has been named by the Smithsonian as one of America’s 100 leading innovators. He is co-author, with August Cole, of the new ‘fiction intelligence (FICSINT)’ novel called ‘BURN-IN: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution’.

Insight Briefing #1: Niall Ferguson on the Politics of Catastrophe

For this installment of the 'DIAS/CWS Virtual Briefings’, Dr James Rogers and Professor Niall Ferguson draw upon the World Wars, Spanish Influenza and the HIV/AIDS epidemic to discuss the politics of planning for the worst. Niall is a senior fellow at Stanford University, senior faculty fellow at Harvard and visiting professor at Tsinghua University. He has just released his new book ‘DOOM: The Politics of Catastrophe’. (Picture licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.)

Insight Conversation #2: Rolf Holmboe & Sten Rynning on forever wars

Conversation between the Danish Ambassador to Mali, Rolf M. Hay Pereira Holmboe, and Professor Sten Rynning about the question “What comes after the forever wars?”. CWS Insight Conversations are brief online conversations between a researcher and a practitioner on a topical issue, moderated by Professor Trine Flockhart, Co-Director of CWS.

Insight Conversation #1: Jamie Shea & Mark Webber on the upcoming NATO summit

CWS President Professor Jamie Shea and Professor Mark Webber discuss the question “What should we expect from the upcoming NATO Summit?”. CWS Insight Conversations are brief online conversations between a researcher and a practitioner on a topical issue, moderated by Professor Trine Flockhart, Co-Director of CWS.