Security History Network

📢 In 1860, Damascus saw the tragic massacre of 5,000 Christians. Join Prof. Eugene Rogan as he examines the European response & its ties to today’s Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine. 📅 Don’t miss this insightful lecture! #History #R2P Sign up: forms.gle/7zaRTPcFNzPmQ9…

Dear followers, We now also have an account on Bluesky! You can follow us here: bsky.app/profile/sechis… Stay tuned 👀

Uncover how Goebbels' propaganda fueled Hitler's quest for national security in Thomas Weber's blogpost "Faith and Security," revealing the dangerous dynamic that mobilized Nazi Germany. #History #WWII securityhistorynetwork.com/2024/10/24/web…

Looking forward to welcoming @ozanozavci1 to the Groningen HTIR today to learn about "The Great Game of Pandemics: Sanitary Internationalism in the Middle East and North Africa, 1792-1942" . As usual - all welcome! @FacultyofArtsUG

My review of @ozanozavci1 's Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798–1864. A must-read for those interested in global history and the Middle East. @MidEastPolicy doi.org/10.1111/mepo.1…

📅: 19th of September 2024 ⏰: 16:00-17:00 📍: Belle van Zuylenroom, Academy Hall, Utrecht You can register for the event with this link: 5/5 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Do you want to know more about the securitization of piracy in the nineteenth century? Please join our Book Launch of "Menacing Tides: Security, Piracy and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean" on 19 September! 4/5 securityhistorynetwork.com/2024/07/04/shn…

"The spectacle at this moment is particularly grand and sublime. A black thunderstorm is rising, probably an effect of the long cannonade; its vivid lightning discovers the hostile fleets retiring with the land breeze." 1/5

How reality and fiction merged on the misty bank of the Bosporus, as Istanbul became the theatre of operation for spies, diplomats and adventures in the long 20th century, as retold vividly by Enno Maessen for the @SecHistNetwork 👇 securityhistorynetwork.com/2024/08/15/the…

🖊️ New blogpost! In this summer read, Dr Enno Maessen takes us to the Istanbul of the long 20th century, describing how the geopolitical events of that century affected the city and reflecting on the footsteps of James Baldwin and Kim Philby in Istanbul. securityhistorynetwork.com/2024/08/15/the…

Book launch by Eric de Lange: 'Menacing Tides', about new ideas of security on the Mediterranean Sea in the Nineteenth-Century. 📅: 19th of September 2024 ⏰: 16:00-17:00 📍: Belle van Zuylenroom - Academiegebouw, Utrecht. Sign up: forms.gle/D7CawqemmKFhNz…

Call for Papers! In March 2025 @Uni_MR hosts the conference "Ideas, Concepts and Policies of Sovereignty in the Age of the Cold War, 1945-1990". Until 15 September 2024, you can submit your paper. hsozkult.de/event/id/event…

It was a busy academic year for SHN and our members. In this blogpost we highlight some of the achievements of this year. securityhistorynetwork.com/2024/07/15/shn…

🎉 SHN congratulates our member @Lorena_De_Vita on winning the prestigious Young Heineken Award @hein_prizes earlier this week securityhistorynetwork.com/2024/06/27/lor…

🎙️New podcast online! In a new episode of SHN the Podcast Erik de Lange interviews Professor Maurizio Isabella on the revolutions that occured during the 1820s in Southern Europe. How were these revolutions connected and which role played the monarchy? open.spotify.com/episode/2avxQd…

🔖 On the 28th of August, SHN member @AnnelotteJanse will defend her PhD Dissertation "The Pursuit of “White Security”: Transnational entanglements between West German and American right-wing extremists, 1961-1980" Read more about her research 👇 securityhistorynetwork.com/2024/06/24/phd…

My interview with @tonline on the world wars of disinformation then & now, the family resemblance betw. the Aperol Spritz version of today's European far-right parties & the Nazi Party, the 1st major Hitler film in 20 years, & what I owe my late father:👇 t-online.de/nachrichten/de…

👏Congratulations to Glenda Sluga for winning the Inaugural Book Prize, Australasian Association for European History with her book "The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe after Napoleon" 👇