This lecture addresses Yugoslavia’s collapse as driven by internal divisions, economic crisis, and nationalism; international actors were inconsistent and sometimes worsened events, but had limited capacity to prevent disintegration.
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This lecture will reassess Bush’s path to the Gulf War, from early hesitation and pressure for diplomacy to a hardened stance shaped by domestic and strategic factors, culminating in Desert Storm and the liberation of Kuwait.
This lecture series will evaluate the most controversial decisions in international relations since the end of the Cold War. It focuses on the balance of decision making between diplomacy and military conflict.
Who am I? Why am I this way? Why do I make certain choices? Can I change? This introductory online day event presents the main psychological theories of personality and how psychologists measure it.
The Bayeux Tapestry is a unique medieval artefact with an extraordinary history. It has survived for almost a thousand years despite misuse, fire, revolution, exploitation and attempted theft. This lecture will trace its history.
This series examines successful Prime Ministers who secured re-election after serving at least one term in office. It explores how they gained and maintained power, focusing on political ideology, campaign strategies and leadership.
The majority of the world’s population lives in the cities of low- and middle-income countries, often referred to as the Global South. The course explores the rapid growth of such cities, and their place in a sustainable urban future.
This course offers an introduction to Economics through the lens of micro, macro, behavioural economics, and political economy for beginners. It covers the key thinkers, policies, and institutions that shape our world.
What made our planet habitable? This course uses physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, and biology, to narrate Earth's story, from the synthesis of chemical elements in the stars to today’s global environmental challenges and human activities in space.
An exploration of happiness through classical and contemporary philosophy, examining flourishing, pleasure, emotions, morality, freedom, and the good life through philosophers including Aristotle, Kant, Mill, and contemporary philosophers.
Businesses need to make a profit to survive and thrive. Where do ethical considerations fit into this? How should they treat their workers, customers and society? Join this short course to discuss how ethics apply in the world of business.
'What is truth?' is a perplexing and elusive question. A good first response is that truth and falsity are properties of what people say or think. But how is what we think related to actual facts? And what caused the recent corrosion of truth?