INTERVIEW | The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), London interviews John Griffiths on his “Western Way of War” podcast.

Peter Roberts, director of the Military Sciences program at RUSI, interviewed John Griffiths Spielman, head of AthenaLab’s Security and Defense studies, on August 10 of this year, as part of a program on the “Western Form of War”. ”, in which academics, politicians and members of the British and European Armed Forces have participated, such […]

CONFERENCE | “Chile has to be a maritime state,” says British historian Andrew Lambert

A wide participation had the online conference “The benefits of being a maritime country in the 21st century”, given on Friday, June 19, 2020 by Andrew Lambert, Professor of Naval History at King’s College London, which was organized by AthenaLab and which had the support of the Naval War Academy of the Chilean Navy and […]

MEMORIA ATHENALAB 2019

Cuando lanzamos esta empresa intelectual llamada AthenaLab a principios de 2019, teníamos una profunda convicción sobre la necesidad de repensar las relaciones internacionales, la seguridad y la defensa de Chile ante un mundo que estaba sufriendo cambios tectónicos, por el regreso del juego de poder entre las potencias, por las actitudes contrarias a la globalización […]

Is China a Sea Power?

Richard Kouyoumdjian seeks to answer the question about if China is or not a Sea Power. After analysing what authors like Alfred Thayer Mahan have to say about this concept, he uses the more contemporary points of view of Geoffrey Till to define what kind of Sea Power a nation, particularly in this case China, […]