• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
• Timing: Wednesdays at 5.15
• Web Address: http://www.ccw.ox.ac.uk/

Wednesday 29 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Why Counter-Insurgency Fails
  Professor Azar Gat (Tel Aviv University)

Wednesday 5 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Moshe Dayan: the influential strategist
  TBA

Wednesday 19 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - The Demos at War: lessons on democratic warfare from Thucydides and Machiavelli
  Erica Benner

Wednesday 14 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Maritime power in British strategy, 1945 to the present
  Dr Tim Benbow (KCL)

Wednesday 28 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Julian Corbett and the battle for British strategy - 1914-15
  Professor Andrew Lambert (King’s College London)

Wednesday 11 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Naval Operations
  Captain Chris O'Flaherty

Wednesday 25 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Maritime Strike Warfare: Grey zone to Combat
  Commodore Steve Moorhouse, Rear Admiral Mike Utley

Wednesday 3 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Cruising for a Bruising: Maritime Competition in an Anti-Access Age
  Jonathan D. Caverley (United States Naval War College)

Wednesday 17 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Forward or Persistent Presence
  Conor O'Neil (Royal Navy)

Wednesday 24 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - The Maritime Rung on the Escalation Ladder: Naval Blockades in a US-China Conflict
  Fiona Cunningham (George Washington University)

Wednesday 3 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Advantage at Sea A discussion on the recently released Tri-Service Maritime Strategy by the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Coast Guard
  Rear Admiral James Bynum

Wednesday 28 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - The Royal Navy in the Indo-Pacific: Why small is sometimes better
  René Balletta (Royal Navy)

Wednesday 12 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - PRC Gray Zone Operations in the South China Sea
  Andrew Erikson (US Naval War College)

Wednesday 13 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - The Integrated Review, the fall of Afghanistan and the Indo-Pacific "tilt"
  Dr Rob Johnson (CCW, Oxford)

Wednesday 27 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Reconceptualizing Grand Strategy: A Comparative and Relational Framework 
  Thierry Balzacq (Sciences Po)

Wednesday 10 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Strategy in practice: The 2021 Integrated Review
  Ashlee Godwin (UK Parliament)

Wednesday 19 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - It’s grand, but is it strategy? The origins of ‘grand strategy’ revisited
  Please note that the venue has been changed to the Manor Road Building.
  Dr. David Morgan-Owen (King's College London)

Wednesday 2 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Presidents, Politics and Military Strategy: Electoral Constraints during the Iraq War
  Andrew Payne (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 16 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Cyber Capabilities and Decision Making - if we are being out thought, will we always be outfought?
  Sally Walker

Wednesday 2 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - The Strategies of Small States: Safeguarding Autonomy and Influencing Great Powers
  Dr Hillary Briffa (King's College London)

Wednesday 12 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Anglo-American clandestine cooperation: the past, present and future of the Special Intelligence Relationship
  Dr David Gioe (King's College London), Thomas Maguire (Leiden)

Wednesday 26 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - The United States, the United Kingdom and the international financial system since 1945
  Professor Michael Hopkins (Liverpool)

Wednesday 9 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - An Exceptional Relationship? US nuclear strategy and the US-UK Nuclear Relationship
  This seminar take place on 9th November as originally planned.
  Dr Suzanne Doyle (East Anglia)

Wednesday 23 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Tipping Points: Post-War Postures in US-UK Environmental and Climate Heritage
  Dr Kristin Cook (SOAS)

Wednesday 18 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Declinism in Postwar Britain and the United States
  Dr Robert Ralston (University of Birmingham)

Wednesday 1 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - The Post-Cold War Anglo-American military relationship
  Professor Wyn Rees (University of Nottingham)

Wednesday 15 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Regional cooperation: US-UK relations and strategic dilemmas following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 1979-1989
  TBA

Wednesday 1 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Jordan and Kuwait: US-UK relations in the aftermath of Suez
  Dr Louise Kettle (University of Nottingham)

Wednesday 26 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - American Neutrality and the Anglo-American Crisis of 1916
  Dr Andrew Gawthorpe (Leiden University)

Wednesday 10 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Joint Strike Fighter and Transatlantic Defence Procurement
  Emma Salisbury (Birbeck, University of London)

Wednesday 24 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - CANCELLED: Brusa - Wartime Conception and Formative Conduct, 1940-1943
  Unfortunately this seminar is cancelled.
  Dr John Jenner (KCL)

Wednesday 7 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Multinational Coalition Warfare and the Anglo-American Experiment in the Mediterranean, 1942–43
  Carson Teuscher (Ohio State University)

Wednesday 11 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Out of the Shadows: The Shock of Non-Hybrid War
  Patrick Porter (Birmingham)

Wednesday 25 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Strategy, Surprise and False Futurism
  Professor Alexander Evans (London School of Economics)

Wednesday 8 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Fashions and Fallacies in Contemporary Strategic Thought 
  Dr Chiara Libiseller (Leiden University)

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Assessing the Bear: Overestimating the Russian Military
  Dr Andrew Bowen (Congressional Research Service)

Wednesday 17 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Mass and Multipolarity: Qualitative and Quantitative Balancing after Western Hegemony
  Dr David Blagden (University of Exeter)

Wednesday 31 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Closed Deal: Private Authority of Companies in Cyber Conflict and Crises
  Louise Marie Hurel (London School of Economics and RUSI)

Wednesday 14 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - 'Bury them deep in the ground'; The disastrous legacies of 'expeditionary warfare', 'intervention', and 'counterinsurgency'
  Frank Ledwidge (University of Portsmouth)

Wednesday 28 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Strategic Wishes and What Happens Next: Assessing the UK's Integrated Reviews
  Maeve Ryan (Kings College London), Jamie Gaskarth (Open University)

Wednesday 24 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar
  Claas Mertens (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 8 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Economic statecraft from the perspective of systemic influence
  Maria de Goeij (CCW)

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Mythbusting the Politics of War: How Presidents Manage the Political Costs of Civilian Control
  Dr Andrew Payne (UCL)

Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - It's Time to Take Culture Seriously: Lessons from Small States' Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War
  Bethan Winter (Magdalen College)