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Centre for Statecraft & National Security
@csns-uk.bsky.social
Research centre based within @warstudieskcl.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social‬. Formerly International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) & Centre for Grand Strategy (CGS). RTs ≠ endorsements.
Why do humans fight, lose, and win wars?

Join us for the launch of Dr Nicholas Wright's new book 'Warhead: How the Brain Shapes War and War Shapes the Brain', moderated by Dr Nafees Hamid for XCEPT research

📅 Weds 3rd Dec, 17:00-18:30
📍 Bush House, Strand Campus
🎟️ kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...
November 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
📸 Last week, we had the pleasure of hosting @kschake.bsky.social & Prof Francis Gavin for our Engelsberg Annual Lecture in Applied History. Thank you both for this captivating conversation, which was chaired by our very own Prof John Bew!
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Join us on 15 Oct for a Diplomacy Workshop with Prof R.P. Barston at King’s College London. KCL students only!

📍 King’s Building
🕐Wednesday 15 Oct, 1pm -3pm
🔗Event Link: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/diplo...
September 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Don’t miss out! Join CSNS on 9 Oct 2025 for Warriors in Washington: Henry Stimson, the US Army, and the Politics of American Power in World War II by Dr Grant Golub

📍King’s Building
🕔Thursday 9 Oct, 5pm
⛓️Event link: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...
September 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
📝 Dr Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens recently wrote a report for the Commission for Countering Extremism: 'Uncomfortable Truths – Freedom of Speech is the Key to Countering Extremism'

You can read it here: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/689b43...
August 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
CSNS had the privilege of hosting Prof. Siddharth Kara for a powerful talk on the human and environmental toll of cobalt mining in the DRC. 'Blood Batteries: The Human Rights and Environmental Impacts of Cobalt Mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo'
www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/bea...
August 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🚨 Call for chapters! Philippe Lagassé and co are looking for contributions to a forthcoming volume on supreme military command authority and/or Commanders-in-Chief from a historical/comparative perspective

📝 Abstracts are due by 1 October 2025, with a contributors workshop taking place in June 2026
July 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
📸 Earlier this week, we had the pleasure of hosting Dr Kate Ferguson @ibvprev.bsky.social and @sophgaston.bsky.social‬ for our very first CSNS event, chaired by Prof John Bew
June 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
🚨 There's still time to sign up for our upcoming event with
@ibvprev.bsky.social! Join us as we reflect on Labour’s first year of foreign policy with Kate Ferguson, Lord Peter Ricketts and John Bew

🔗 Read more here: icsr.info/2025/06/05/c...
June 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🗓️ We are co-hosting an event with @ibvprev.bsky.social on June 18th! Join us as we examine the changing role and capabilities of the FCDO and reflect on Labour’s first year of foreign policy with Kate Ferguson, Lord Peter Ricketts and John Bew

Read more & sign up here: icsr.info/2025/06/05/c...
June 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
📢 Exciting news! The Centre for Grand Strategy and the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation are merging to form a new hub within @warstudieskcl.bsky.social: the Centre for Statecraft & National Security @csns-uk.bsky.social

➡️ You can find more information here: csns.uk
May 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Hello to all our new followers! 👋

As this account starts firing up you will be to find news on our team, colleagues and upcoming events!
October 17, 2023 at 12:29 PM