Geopolitics and International Affairs with Professor Tarak Barkawi: The Afterlives of Battles

On Wednesday 11 November, 1pm - 2pm, Geopolitics and International Affairs will host Professor Tarak Barkawi (John Hopkins University) for talk on 'The Afterlives of Battles'.

Professor Barkawi is a military historian and an interdisciplinary scholar of war and armed force in world politics. His last book, Soldiers of Empire, examined the multicultural armies of British Asia in the Second World War, conceiving Indian and British soldiers in cosmopolitan rather than national terms. It won the American Historical Association’s 2018 Paul Birdsall Prize and the International Studies Association’s 2018 Francesco Guicciardini Prize. Currently, he is working on the Korean War and the American experience of military defeat at the hands of those regarded as racially inferior. This project explores soldiers’ history writing as a site for war’s constitutive presence in society and politics.

Professor Barkawi has also published articles on war and democracy in international relations; on postcolonial security studies; on critical war studies; and on Max Weber. He has taught professional soldiers in the UK, the US, NATO and elsewhere, and published commentary on global affairs.