SCHOOL OF GLOBAL POLITICS 19 January 2026
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ASERI is pleased to invite you:
Global politics, a series of meetings to read and interpret the changing world, together with international experts called to discuss the great challenges of global politics.
Possibility to acquire the Open Badge with 70% attendance only for participants in attendance, regularly registered.
The complete cycle of lessons will consist of 7 events, from January 2026 to May 2026.
Participants who attend 70% of the open lectures of the School of Global Politics (i.e. 5 lectures out of 7) will be eligible to receive an Open Badge certificate at the end of the lecture cycle.
Participation to the open lectures can only be certified by registering online to the individual events and by attending the open lectures in person.
Please notice that only in-person attendance will be considered for the Open Badge certificate.
Those who wish to obtain the certificate are kindly asked to notify ASERI by sending an email to info.aseri@unicatt.it by May 10th, 2026.
Find out more about the Open Badge certificate here.
Monday 19 January 2026, 5.30 pm: Global politics in Trump's second term
Chair: Damiano Palano, Director of ASERI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Speaker: G. John Ikenberry, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs - Princeton University
Discussant: Vittorio Emanuele Parsi, Full Professor of International Relations, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Monday 2 February 2026, 5.30 p.m.: International Sport in a Multipolar World: Between Diplomacy and Contestation
Chair: Damiano Palano, Director of ASERI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Speaker: Leo Goretti, Head of the "Italian foreign policy" programme
Discussant: Francesco Berlucchi, journalist Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Tuesday 24 February 2026, 5.30 pm: Fourth anniversary of the Russian full-scale invasion in Ukraine
Chair: Damiano Palano, Director of ASERI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Speaker: Kateryna Pishchikova Professor of International Relations eCampus, ISPI Associate Research Fellow
Discussant: Andrea Locatelli, Professor of Political Science, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Monday 23 March, 5.30 p.m.: Europe in a Global Nuclear Order: Opportunities, Challenges, and Ways Forward
Chair: Riccardo Redaelli, Professor of History and Institutions of Asia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Speakers: Stephan Klement, Special Envoy Non-Proliferation and Disarmament European Union and Abdolrasool Divsallar, Senior Researcher, UN Institute for Disarmament Research
Discussant: Giorgia Perletta, Researcher and Lecturer in Geopolitics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Thursday 09 April, 5.30 pm: Soft Power in a Hard World: Why Attraction Still Matters Today – and Why the United States Should Care
Chair: Damiano Palano, Director of ASERI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Speaker: Hendrick W. Ohnesorge, Senior Lecturer, University of Bonn
Discussant: Federica Olivares, International Program in Public and Cultural Diplomacy Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Tuesday 21 April, 5.30 pm: A Renewed Pivot In International Politics? Latin American Politics
Chair: Damiano Palano, Director of ASERI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Speakers: Isabela Alcaniz, Associate Dean, Graduate Education of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland and Andrès Malamud, Senior research fellow, University of Lisbon
Tuesday 5 May, 5.30 pm: Substance and appearance in Trump's America
Chair: Damiano Palano, Director of ASERI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Speaker: Andrew Spannaus, Journalist and political analyst, Radio24