On November 19 and 23, Manuel Vogt, Associate Professor in International Security in UCL’s Department of Political Science and member of the C&C, is giving two guest lectures on ‘Ethnicity and Geopolitics’ and ‘Mobilization and Conflict in Multi-ethnic States: Central and Eastern Europe in Comparative Perspective’ at the University of Florence, Italy.
The first lecture will look at ethnicity and ethnic conflict from a historical perspective, uncovering the geopolitical forces that gave rise to distinct ethnic identities around the world, as well as the contemporary geopolitical consequences of these ethnic identities and ethnic inequality. The second lecture will embed contemporary ethnic conflicts in Eastern Europe in a broader comparative perspective and discuss various strategies of conflict management for multiethnic societies. Both lectures draw on theory and evidence from Manuel’s recent book on ‘Mobilization and Conflict in Multiethnic States’ (Oxford University Press, 2019).