WHEN:
12 October 2015, 17:30-18:45
WHERE:
King’s College, War Studies Meeting Room (K6.07)
Admission:
Free. No RSVP needed.
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Speaker: - Dr Derek Averre, Senior Lecturer in Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, University of Birmingham.
- Dr Derek Averre is Senior Lecturer at and former Director of the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, University of Birmingham. He is a Russian foreign/security policy specialist with 24 years’ experience in the field. His main research interests focus on Russian foreign and security policy, Russia-Europe relations and arms control/non-proliferation issues. He has co-edited a book and journal special issues and written numerous journal articles and book chapters, as well as organizing a series of policy and academic conferences and presenting widely in the US and Europe on these topics. He is the principal investigator on an ongoing project (now in its 25th year), funded externally by the UK government, as well as leading a work package on a European Commission-funded FP7 project (CASCADE) and coordinating for Birmingham a Marie Curie Research Exchange Scheme (EuinDepth). Dr Averre also serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the journal European Security.
- Hosted by the Russian & Eurasian Security Research Group
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