{"id":595,"date":"2016-04-26T09:56:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T09:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=595"},"modified":"2016-04-26T09:58:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T09:58:11","slug":"strong-polir-presence-at-globsec-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2016\/04\/26\/strong-polir-presence-at-globsec-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong POLIR presence at GLOBSEC 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text\">\n<p>GLOBSEC 2016, a premier security forum for policy-makers, practitioners and analysts across Europe and the world, has enjoyed a strong representation from POLIR students and staff this year.<\/p>\n<p>For the 11<sup>th<\/sup> consecutive year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globsec.org\/globsec2016\">GLOBSEC<\/a> in Bratislava has been contributing to shaping the regional, European and wider transatlantic foreign and security policy agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, its key-note speakers have included David Cameron, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Donald Tusk, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, John Allen, John McCain, Carl Bildt, Ahmed Rashid, George Friedman and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic.<\/p>\n<p>GLOBSEC 2016 hosted the former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen as its key-note speakers, and focused on the challenges of migration, the on-going threat of the Islamic State, the role of NATO in European security, BREXIT and European relations with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>This year the School enjoyed a strong presence at the Global Security Forum, where we were represented by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/staff\/canterbury\/korosteleva.html\">Professor Elena Korosteleva<\/a>, a member of the GLOBSEC International Advisory Board and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/staff\/canterbury\/whitman.html\">Professor Richard Whitman<\/a> who spoke at the GLOBSEC Young Leaders&#8217; Forum about Brexit. The forum also received support from our students, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/staff\/assistant-lecturers\/merheim-eyre.html\" target=\"_blank\">Igor Merheim-Eyre<\/a> (PhD Student), assisting the Forum with the outcome summary and social media and Simona Majernikova (2<sup>nd<\/sup> year student) who, through a fierce international competition, was selected to assist the GLOBSEC media team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GLOBSEC 2016, a premier security forum for policy-makers, practitioners and analysts across Europe and the world, has enjoyed a strong representation from POLIR students and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2016\/04\/26\/strong-polir-presence-at-globsec-2016\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39551,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131001,131000],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}