IDEAS Churchill 2015 Panel on Power in the 21st Century
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s part of Power Shifts, IDEAS is taking part in Churchill 2015: a 21st century statesmanship programme that commemorates Churchill’s legacy by identifying and analysing key strategic issues.
We are joining other leading academic organisations in convening expert international panels to discuss a global-strategic theme and produce an analytical report.
Our strategic theme is ‘Power in the 21st Century’, looking at how power is shifting, diffusing and decaying in the modern world from ‘smart power’ to digital power.
Read our report now:
21st Century Power: Dislocation, Diffusion and Decay
Read all the panel reports on the Churchill Central website.
Panellists included Patrick Porter (Strategic Studies, University of Exeter), Josef Ansorge (Yale University) and Barry Buzan (Emeritus Professor of International Relations at LSE).
One of the key questions was how modern day statesman can exert influence with power less concentrated in leaders.Although the panel was conducted in private ahead of the publication of the final report, IDEAS asked for questions on social media.
The chosen public question asked if and how small state can leverage power today, after the end of the Churchill era of large state power such as the US and UK. The first answer was that small states should acquire the patronage of a small power, while other participants spoke about the growing gap between states in ‘digital power’ including online identity creation.
Read more IDEAS reports.