Francis J. Gavin

Francis J. Gavin is an historian and Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C., where he is also Director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs.

Future proof

Francis J. Gavin

Deference to history will not be enough to answer the geopolitical questions of the future. New systemic forces are in play.

Learning from the big, bold 1990s debates over the post-Cold War world

Francis J. Gavin

In the digital age, intellectual debate is more polarising and vituperative than ever. To generate the new thinking needed to navigate our uncertain global landscape we should revisit the kind of serious ideas on geopolitics that scholars advanced in the 1990s.

Francis J. Gavin

Future proof

Learning from the big, bold 1990s debates over the post-Cold War world

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