Tuesday 19 May, 16.00
Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building
Julian Corbett and the British Way of War: Exploring the Principles for a European Naval Strategy
Dr Friso Stevens, SST:CCW
Dr Friso M.S. Stevens is a Visiting Research Fellow at SST:CCW and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies. From September to November 2025, he is a Fulbright-Schuman NATO Security Studies Scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. In March 2023, Friso earned a Ph.D. Degree in International Relations from Leiden University. In May 2025, this was published as a monograph with the Routledge Asian Security Studies Series under the title Chinese Assertiveness, Ideational Mobilization, and the Rise of Xi Jinping: Achieving Something. From 2021 to 2023, he was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute in Florence, and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Studies at the Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki, in 2023-2024. From 2017 to 2020, Friso was a Lecturer in Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, where he taught qualitative research courses, diplomacy in East Asia, and supervised Bachelor’s and Master’s theses. Friso holds Master's Degrees in International Law (Vrije Universiteit and Northwestern University), International Security Studies (Vrije Universiteit), and International Relations (Peking University), a Bachelor’s Degree in Dutch and European Law (Vrije Universiteit), and a Postgraduate Certificate in War Studies (King’s College London).
All are welcome, no need to book.
