The interconnections between humanitarian development and the prospect for peace were discussed in a meeting held by the parliamentarian group on “Poland, Ukraine, Middle and East Europe, the Baltics”, who had invited AIA Associate Fellow Dr Mariia Levchenko to give an input, based on her research in Ukraine. With the Russian war against Ukraine continuing, …

On 16 March, Dr Huanyu Zhao, a postdoctoral researcher at the Ghent Institute for International and European Studies (GIES) at Ghent University in Belgium, visited the Academy. Dr Zhao gave the fellows fascinating insights into her research project, ReConnect China, which is funded under Horizon Europe. The project brings together around 100 researchers from 15 …

As part of the Global Policy Dialogues, we welcomed Prof. Dr. Eva Marlene Hausteiner from the University of Nuremberg/Erlangen on 20 January. In her lecture, she addressed the significance of empires as actors in international relations, focusing in particular on the question of how empires exercise power. She presented two methodological approaches to conceptualising empires …