Lectures and Panels

How does the world view England?

Panel at the ‘England in the World’ workshop at Loughborough University, organised by Dr. Tim Oliver and Professor John Denham, June 2024

Global Security in a Year of Elections

Panel at the York Festival of Ideas, June 2024

Großbritannien nach dem Brexit. Die innen- und außenpolitische Lage im Königreich

Lecture at the Gesellschaft für Sicherheitspolitik in Rheine, February 2023

Recapturing the Zeitenwende – How German Defence Spending Affects British Grand Strategy

Panel at the Centre for Grand Strategy, King’s College London, June 2022

The consequences of Brexit for US-UK-EU relations

Dinner debate at Brussels Forum, organized by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Brussels, June 2022.

Does Democracy need a Makeover?

Debating Europe Panel at Europacamp, organised by Zeit Stiftung Bucerius, Hamburg, April 2022

Zurück in die Zukunft? Großbritanniens Außenpolitik nach dem Brexit und der Corona-Pandemie

Lecture at the Foreign Affairs Association Munich, October 2021. Video available on Youtube.

The road to 1990: German reunification. A discussion between Timothy Garton Ash, Charles Grant and Helene von Bismarck

Debate at the British-German Association (Zoom event), 28 September 2020

Reviewing Stephen Wall’s ‘Reluctant European’

Panel at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, (online event), September 2020

Brexit in a Historical Context: Pursuing a Global Vision at the Expense of Domestic Harmony?

Panel at Chatham House, November 2019

7o Jahre Königswinter Konferenz. Deutschland und Großbritannien in Zeiten des Brexit

Conversation with Dr. Norbert Röttgen at the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, Königswinter, October 2019

Rhetoric and Reality: Margaret Thatcher, Jacques Delors and European Integration during the 1980s

Lecture at the Cabinet Office, London (Whitehall), November 2016

Britain’s Informal Empire in the Persian Gulf: Origins, Dynamics and Legacy

PISE Lecture at Università Ca’Foscari, Venice, May 2016

Margaret Thatcher, Jacques Delors and the re-launch of European Integration in the mid-1980s

Contemporary British History Seminar, University of London (King’s College), March 2016

Imperialism in the Age of Decolonization

Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft, Berlin, November 2014

British Policy in the Persian Gulf during the 1960s

International History Seminar, University of London (Senate House), October 2014

The End of Empire in the Middle East

Université Paul-Valery in Montpellier, February 2013

Conferences Papers

‘Thatcherism on a European Scale‘? Margaret Thatcher, Jacques Delors and the making of the Single European Act

Conference: Thatcher and Thatcherism. New Critical Perspectives
University of Durham, January 2017.

Two concepts of European Integration? Margaret Thatcher and Jacques Delors

Britain and the World Conference
King’s College London, June 2016.

Researching and promoting British history from the continent

Workshop: Teaching and Researching the Anglophone World in Europe
Metropolitan University Prague, April 2016.

Monarchy and the end of empire in the Persian Gulf: Britain and the governmental system of shaikhly rule

Workshop: Monarchy and Politics
Catholic Academy in Bavaria, Munich, August 2014

The pessimistic advocate: Britain’s views on federation between the Trucial States, 1961-1968

World Congress on Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES)
Middle East Technical University Ankara, August 2014.

“Prestige” and British Imperialism in the Middle East after the Suez Crisis, 1957-1968

Britain and the World Conference
University of Newcastle, June 2014.

The Consequences of imperialism on independence in the Gulf: Britain’s role in the depositions of Shaikh Saqr of Sharjah in 1965 and Shaikh Shakhbut of Abu Dhabi in 1966

British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) Conference
University of Sussex, June 2014

The limits of co-operation: Anglo-American relations in the Arabian Peninsula

Annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)
Arlington, VA, June 2013.

The role of the United Nations for Great Britain’s Persian Gulf policy during the 1960s

Britain and the World Conference
University of Edinburgh
June 2012

The British Government and the Deposition of Shaikh Saqr of Sharjah in May 1965

Gulf Studies Conference
University of Exeter, July 2011.

British policy in the Persian Gulf, 1961-1968

Britain and the World Conference
University of Texas at Austin, March 2009.