The VUCA World
International Politics
Facing Senior Executives
A two-week residential summer school assessing and discussing the vital issues that shape politics and effect business in the modern world. Providing in-depth analysis of countries in key regions and considering both the short-term as well as long-term scenarios and impacts. A programme of daily lectures and panel discussions programme featuring leading academics and thinkers.
Who Should Attend?
New or emerging leaders for whom geo-political challenges and changes in the VUCA world present unpredictable threat and opportunity
A Fresh Way Of Engagement Through Participation
- Small seminar groups with a specialist academic tutor, which enable participants to study and debate their subject in meaningful detail
- A daily lecture programme given by world-class academics
- Lively daily discussion groups led by current doctoral students from several UK universities
Course Content
The programme sessions will be structured around the key issues, examples of which may include:
- The Politics of Modern China – What does Xi mean for China, and the West, and will China grow into its foreign policy aspirations, including the One-Belt One-Road Initiative?
- Trump 2020 – Emboldened or Impeached?
- New US Foreign Policy – Divide and Conquer?
- Post-Brexit Europe – Who will be the winners and the losers?
- Russia and Putin – building bridges with or undermining the authority of POTUS?
- The influence of Russia on regional political developments
- Artiffcial Intelligence – The making of or the existential threat to humanity?