Dr Stephen Hall

My new piece in the @thehill @TheHillOpinion on how it would be a terrible idea to reward 🇷🇺 with changing Western security architecture & giving 🇷🇺 a seat @ the table. This would be Putin’s dream & would show that the West is weak & that taking territory & engaging in war crimes

@BowesChay care to answer this misrepresentation?

Was a pleasure to be in Dublin today courtesy of @UCDLnH debating the motion “this house believes there is no moral difference between Russia and US foreign policy” ably supported by @ScottLucas_EA and @mkimmage who guided me through. On the other side among others was @aaronjmate. Two things I learnt when being heckled and talking in a hot room with about 400 people. First, I must get water on the lectern when I speak. Second, it’s great to win my first debate!

It was an absolute pleasure to be in Manchester the last couple of days, catching up with old friends and meeting lots of new people. Wonderful to be at the first British Association of the Study of Ukraine #BASU2026.

Sadly I didn’t attend as much as I would have liked due to finalising documents for a manuscript, but fascinating to hear about the research being conducted on Ukraine and I got to present my own work on Ukrainian football as a mirror and motor for national identity and mobilisation. No one laughed at the research which is a huge step away from my work on authoritarianism, which is a positive!!

🇪🇺 counter peace proposal is good, but sadly in a different reality. 🇷🇺 will not accept, even with the fruit of new Euro security architecture. What’s there for Trump, where can he make millions? The Trump deal is bad, sadly 🇪🇺 is good but too late telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…