Welcome & Panel 1 - Politics/Geopolitics of the Franco-Prussian War
Channel: War Studies KCL
Date: 2021-05-07

Opening remarks - Dr Michael Rowe, Reader in European History, King's College London

Chair/Discussant: Dr Anna Ross, Associate Professor of Modern European History, University of Warwick

1.1 Geopolitics of the Franco-Prussian War - Dr Olivier Zajec, Directeur de l’Institut d’Études de Stratégie et de Défense (IESD), Université Jean Moulin - Lyon III

1.2 The Franco-Prussian War as the 'Third War of German Unification’ - Professor Geoffrey Wawro, Professor of Military History at the University of North Texas, and Director of the UNT Military History Center

1.3 Bismarck, 1870, and the problem of civil-military relations in Germany - Dr Christoph Nübel, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr, Potsdam

1.4 European Neutrality and the Isolation of the French Republic, September 1870 to March 1871 - Dr Karine Varley, Lecturer in French, University of Strathclyde Glasgow