We recruit, train, and mentor the next generation of historically-minded scholars and practitioners in statecraft, diplomacy, and strategy.

World Order Programme

The World Order Programme study group engages with the question of the changing balance of power in world affairs. It is composed of a reading group, regular seminar and a public lecture series. Scholars are asked to test new ideas and have them challenged by their peers.

Engelsberg Applied History Programme

Launched in 2018, The Engelsberg Programme for Applied History, Grand Strategy and Geopolitics (EAHP) was originally a partnership between the Centre for Grand Strategy at the War Studies Department at King’s College London and the Centre for Geopolitics at Cambridge University in collaboration with the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit. It is today an integral part of AJI’s efforts in the field of Applied History and historically informed statecraft.

Europa Programme

As part of its mission to foster dialogue on the most pressing global challenges, AJI is home to the Europa Programme which convenes small groups of leading policymakers, historians, and analysts of international relations from around the world for off-the-record roundtable meetings in the United Kingdom. In these private gatherings, participants freely exchange ideas, pose hard questions, discuss solutions, and offer candid thoughts on both the issues of the day and the broader sweep of historical events.

Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit

The Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit is a foundation based in Stockholm devoted to funding and supporting scholarly research, and in particular the advancement of international, interdisciplinary debate in the humanities and social sciences to the benefit of Sweden and the international community.

Centre for Grand Strategy

The Centre for Grand Strategy at King’s College London seeks to bring a greater degree of historical and strategic expertise to statecraft, diplomacy and foreign policy. Through a series of research projects and undergraduate and executive education teaching programmes, the centre focuses on “knowledge transfer”: bringing top-class academic expertise to bear on the policy-making process and the public debate about foreign policy.

Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs

The Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies seeks to generate and apply rigorous historical thinking to the most vexing global challenges. The center is home to distinguished scholars of history and practitioners in foreign policy and international security and aims to bring together leading thinkers and policymakers.

Centre for Geopolitics

The Centre for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge applies historical analysis, area studies, political science and the experience of practitioners to major problems of conflict and world order: past, present and future. It offers a deeper understanding of where the world’s most pressing geopolitical challenges have come from, how they may develop and how they might be resolved.

Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication

The Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication at the Stockholm School of Economics is dedicated to fostering a historically informed understanding of the role of strategic communication – the purposeful use of information by states and other political actors to achieve their strategic objectives – in statecraft.