2024 Speakers

Information Operations (IO) play a pivotal role in integrated deterrence strategies, serving as a critical enabler in the realm of nuclear deterrence.

In light of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine since 2022, the Euro-Atlantic security environment has degraded significantly, and escalation risks have increased.

In light of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine since 2022, the Euro-Atlantic security environment has degraded significantly, and escalation risks have increased.

The United States faces the unprecedented challenge of simultaneously navigating three escalating factors: a denser international economic landscape, a more fiercely disputed geostrategic environment, and increasing sustainability concerns.

China's nuclear buildup is not only a response to perceived changes in its external environment but also a result of significant shifts in its internal decision-making dynamics.

The rapid pace of novel technological change (referred to as ‘emerging technologies’) is challenging our ability to devise policy and governance apace.

This presentation draws on several years of research into Russian force structure and operational concept development to project where the Russian military may be headed over the next ten years.

Commercial smallsats are increasingly relevant to US national security.

Our nuclear world is as dangerous today as it has been for at least a generation.

The literature on deterrence and how it relates to the space domain has evolved significantly over the past 15 years or so.

Since the nineteenth century, wargaming has been a component of planning and training in military contexts – and its techniques and concepts have spread to many other arenas.

Ms. Stewart will share perspectives on the development of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) drone swarm and manned/unmanned teaming.

This seminar explores the shifting definition and focus of innovation within the United States Department of Defense (DoD).

Escalation management is one of the key concepts guiding Russia's approach to warfare.

Russia and Israel are challenging what might be considered proportionate when targeting civilian structures.

Women increasingly feature in nuclear diplomacy both as participants and subject matter.

In the last decade, U.S. energy posture has shifted from one of weakness to one of strength.

Communicating climate risks and opportunities is a climate solution.

Nuclear threshold status is an oft used concept yet one that has heretofore been poorly defined.

From a globally renowned expert on Russian military strategy and national security, The Russian Way of Deterrence investigates Russia's approach to coercion (both deterrence and compellence), comparing and contrasting it with the Western conceptualization of this strategy.

Vladimir Putin's repeated nuclear warnings have brought nuclear deterrence back to the centre of European security debates, thereby prompting the NATO Alliance to reinvigorate its nuclear policy and posture.

Professor Aaron Bateman will be presenting his forthcoming book, Weapons in Space: Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative (MIT Press, 2024).

Author James A. Siebens and colleagues draw lessons about China's use of military and paramilitary forces to coerce its neighbors.

Future missile threats increasingly stress the sensors used for missile defense.

Russia is on a roll and Ukraine is retreating while isolationist tendencies in Europe and in the U.S. are rising.

Dr. Babst will talk about her main messages of her book 'Blind Spots'.

Aynne argues that exploitative Silicon Valley data governance practices help China build infrastructures for global control.

The United States and its allies are now in a new era of strategic confrontation, with a rising risk that nuclear weapons will be used by an adversary in conflict.

Dave Johnson will discuss Russia's long-term military strategy with a retrospective view of its evolution over the past twenty years and an assessment of its possible evolution twenty years into the future.

Over the past decade, numerous states have declared cyberspace as a new domain of warfare, sought to develop a military cyber strategy and establish a cyber command.

The United States and its allies are now in a new era of strategic confrontation, with a rising risk that nuclear weapons will be used by an adversary in conflict.

Beijing's current policies to address perceived threats from the United States date from about 2008-2009.

In 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping endorsed a new initiative, known as the Global Energy Interconnection (GEI), that could help solve humanity's pressing energy and climate dilemmas through the development of a global power grid.

No matter how Russia's war against Ukraine ends, it is not going to disappear as a major challenge for the United States in the years ahead.

Potential adversary missile-based threats, including ballistic, cruise, and hypersonic, are growing in size and sophistication.

As the war in Ukraine nears a two-year mark, the use of uncrewed, autonomous and robotics systems has taken center stage in a conflict marked by fast technology adoption and rapid battlefield evolution.

Putin's war in Ukraine did not only transform Europe's and particularly Germany's security policy – emblematically mirrored in the "Zeitenwende" – it also slowly led to an evolution in the nuclear realm.

The fifty years of experience in formal treaty-based efforts to control nuclear weapons through bilateral US-Soviet and then US-Russian arms control have been central pillars of the international nuclear order since the 1970s.