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This seminar will investigate the question of a relationship between the palpable travails of Western liberal order and the intensified antagonism between Russia and the West. It will focus on Europe, and proceed from the assumption that the Cold War of 1946-1989 offers a useful analytical framework, even if the analogy needs to be approached with a prudent scepticism. If there is a new Cold War, it is very different from the first. [...] After initially focussing on Western grand strategy in the Cold war, the seminar will cover the various contemporary dimensions of European and transatlantic insecurity.