REDS Seminar: European Security Past, Present, Future with Stephen Kotkin

Speaker: Stephen Kotkin, FSI senior fellow affiliated with APARC and CDDRL, Stanford Moderator: Anna Grzymala-Busse, director of The Europe Center, Stanford Traditionally, definitions of security emphasized military defenses and alliances against potential adversaries. Over the last few decades, of course, everything from financial flows and technology transfer, water and energy supplies, trade relationships, to information security and social media disinformation have demanded increasing attention, alongside or instead of hard power. Nowhere have notions of security been more multidimensional, and less militaristic, than in Europe. Has Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine forced an enduring correction back to traditional notions? Or are some changes predating the war destined to persist? Can geopolitics return if it never went away? What is the future of the fiscal-military state? Is the modern state fit for purpose any more? What is technology actually doing to governance, if anything