On Tuesday 19th May, we were delighted to welcome James Watt CVO, British Ambassador to Lebanon (2003-06), Jordan (2006-11) and Egypt (2011-14), to GSF. In a lecture entitled ‘Democratic Illusions: The Lessons Of The Arab Spring’ chaired by Lord Lothian, he drew on Continue reading →
On Tuesday 12th May, as Prime Minister David Cameron’s new all-Conservative cabinet met for the first time, we were delighted to welcome Professor Anthony King, Professor of Government at the University of Essex and author of Who Governs Britain?, Continue reading →
On Wednesday 25th March, Jonathan Powell, Founder and CEO of Inter Mediate, Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to the Libyan transition and Chief British Negotiator on Northern Ireland (1997-2007) gave GSF’s second March lecture entitled ‘From Northern Ireland To Libya: How To Continue reading →
We were delighted to welcome Sir Richard Dearlove KCMG OBE, Master, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge and former Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service (1999-2004) back to GSF on Tuesday 17th March. He gave a lecture entitled ‘National Security: Continue reading →
On Tuesday 10th March, in the second of our series on countering terrorism in the UK, we were delighted to welcome Lord Alderdice and Professor Peter Neumann. They spoke in a discussion entitled ‘The Conundrum of Foreign Fighters In The Middle Continue reading →
On Tuesday 3rd March, Global Strategy Forum held a seminar in Committee Room 4 of the House of Lords, entitled ‘Bosnia And Herzegovina: New International Thinking’ in collaboration with South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX), the Department of Politics Continue reading →
On Tuesday 24th February, GSF was delighted to welcome a highly distinguished panel to GSF. Michael Binyon of The Times, the Rt Hon Hazel Blears MP and Professor Michael Clarke of RUSI took part in a discussion entitled ‘Underlying The Charlie Hebdo, Paris And Continue reading →
We were very pleased to welcome to GSF, Major General Noel I. Khokhar, HI (M), Director General, Institute for Strategic Studies Research and Analysis, National Defence University, Pakistan. He gave a lecture entitled ‘Pakistan’s Terrorism Policy Post The Peshawar Massacre’, Continue reading →
In our first lunchtime event of 2015, we were delighted to welcome back to GSF, Baroness Warsi, who was Senior Minister of State, Foreign & Commonwealth Office; and Minister for Faith and Communities, Department for Communities and Local Government Continue reading →
We held our 2014 Christmas Drinks at the National Liberal Club on Tuesday 9th December. Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator for The Financial Times, gave a fascinating, succinct and high informative lecture drawing on the themes Continue reading →