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With subversion, spin and disinformation claiming center stage, insurgency is being reinvented to exploit the vulnerabilities of our times and gain new strategic salience for tomorrow. Based on his recently published book, ‘The Insurgent’s Dilemma’, Dr. David Ucko will explore three particularly adaptive strategies and their implications for response.

Join Alexandra Blanchard and Alex Howlett for an online talk about their new book ‘Wander Women’, a thoughtful, intimate yet political exploration of women’s free and unfree movement, sharing stories from refugees, disability activists and more.

Why is our history scarred by wars? What does it take to end the war? How do we leave the world for future generations and how do we restore our ideal of civilization with its moral values, liberal tradition and humanism as a school? Join our author Bruno Maçães for a panel discussion ‘The War and the Future’ at this year’s Nexus Conference.

Join ‘Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder’ author Jason Pack for a conversation about the Libya conflict as an ideal microcosm for examining the collective failures typical of our new geopolitics.

Join author Bleddyn E. Bowen for the launch of his book ‘Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space’, an eye-opening account of a world order shaped by spacepower and the threat of space warfare.

Join ‘The Death of Consensus’ author Phil Tinline at the Raworths Harrogate Literature Festival as he guides us through the last century of British politics, as its lurched from crisis to crisis, and what this means for our current age of upheaval.