While the European Union re-assesses its own geopolitical environment and rethinks its strategy for external engagement, EU policy fields, from human security to traditional military conflicts, have been transformed by multiple global crises.

In this second ENGAGE high-level lecture, Mary Kaldor will explore how recent events, such as the Russian war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic, have impacted human security in Europe and how they can shape the EU’s external action in the long term. Kolja Raube will moderate.

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Speaker

Mary Kaldor is professor emeritus of Global Governance and director of the Conflict Research Programme at the London School of Economics. She has pioneered the concepts of new wars and global civil society.

Moderator

Kolja Raube is a senior member and research manager at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, as well as an assistant professor for European Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences at KU Leuven.