Lecture Series by Professor Monica Toft at MGIMO University

On March 14-16, a lecture series by Monica Toft, Foreign Relations Specialist and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, was held at MGIMO.

Monica Duffy Toft is Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She has also been a Research Associate at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford and at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. While at Harvard, she directed the Initiative on Religion in International Affairs and served as Assistant Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies.

The course on Security and International Affairs was lectured to first-year students of the Politics and Economics in Eurasia English-language Master’s program. The lecture focused on the evolution of the system of international relations since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, and how this evolution had influenced the perception of the concept of security.

Issues of terrorism, religion, R2P, and their role in the modern system of international relations as well as the ways in which they affect the perception of the world security were touched upon during the lecture.

This piece was translated and republished from MGIMO website.