Professor Malcolm Chalmers, Research Director and Director (UK Defence Policy) at RUSI, the Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP, Secretary of State for Defence 2010-2011 and Peter Jenkins CMG, former UK Ambassador to the IAEA, were the panellists in this Continue reading →
GSF Advisory Board members and former Foreign Secretaries and Shadow Foreign Secretary, Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP, Jack Straw MP and Sir Menzies Campbell MP spoke our second June debate, chaired by Lord Lothian, on Tuesday 26th June 2012. Following the Continue reading →
Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope, the First Sea Lord and Head of the Royal Navy, delivered GSF’s June lecture, ‘Delivering Security In An Age of Austerity, on Tuesday 19th June. In his lecture, Admiral Stanhope described how global austerity is driving radical re-thinking Continue reading →
GSF hosted a seminar on Cyprus in Committee Room 4A of the House of Lords on Wednesday 13th June 2012. The opening address was given by the Honourable Alexander Downer, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advisor on Cyprus. The seminar panellists Continue reading →
Professor Michael Clarke, Director-General of RUSI, gave our second May lecture on 22nd May, in an event chaired by Lord Lothian. In a highly topical lecture in the same week as the G8 meeting at Camp David and the NATO Continue reading →
Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, Professor of War Studies and Vice Principal, King’s College London gave our May lecture entitled, ‘After Iraq and Afghanistan: The Future of US Military Strategy?’ in an event chaired by Lord Anderson of Swansea on Monday Continue reading →
Jeremy Browne MP, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, gave our April lecture, entitled ‘British Competitiveness: Responding To The Rise Of The Emerging Powers’. In a wide-ranging, detailed and highly informative keynote speech, Jeremy Browne described the Continue reading →
GSF hosted a seminar in the House of Lords entitled ‘One Year On: Turmoil And Transition – The Arab Uprisings And The Path Ahead’, which was opened by the Rt Hon Alan Duncan MP, Minister for International Development. On 14th Continue reading →
Sir Michael Arthur KCMG, Gideon Rachman and Lord Tugendhat discussed the question, ‘Crisis In The Eurozone: Where Does This Leave European Foreign Policy?’ Sir Michael Arthur KCMG, British Ambassador to Germany, 2007-2010, Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator for the Continue reading →
Sir Tony Brenton KCMG, Professor Anatol Lieven and John Lough discussed the question, ‘Putin Redux: What’s Next for Russia And Its Relations With The West?’ in a debate chaired by Lord Anderson of Swansea on Tuesday 6th March. Two days Continue reading →