Previous Term Cards
2022/2023
2021/2022
2023/2024
Michaelmas
W1- TUES 10 OCT
Dr Julia Muravska
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Freeman Air and Space Institute, King’s College London
“Civilians at War: Civil Society and the Defence of Ukraine”
W2 - TUES 17 OCT
Professor Robert Trager
International Governance Lead, Centre for the Governance of AI
“Geopolitics of Advanced AI”
W3 - TUES 24 OCT
Professor Vanessa Rubio-Marquez
Professor and Associate Fellow, Chatham House; Former Senator and three-time Deputy Minister of Mexico
“Mexican Geopolitics and Security”
W4 - TUES 31 OCT
HE Jukka Siukosaari
Ambassador of Finland to the United Kingdom
”Finland’s Accession to NATO”
W5 - TUES 07 NOV
Rahul Roy-Chaudhury
Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies
“Can a Rising Power India counterbalance a Super Power China in the Indo-Pacific Region?”
W6 - TUES 14 NOV
MICHAELMAS TERM SOCIAL
Drinks at the Oxford Retreat, 7:30pm
W6 - WED 15 NOV
OUSSG Wargame (pre-registration required)
W7 - TUES 21 NOV
Lt Gen Richard Nugee CB CVO CBE
Author, Climate Change and Sustainability Strategic Approach; Non-Executive Director for Climate Change and Sustainability, MOD
”Climate Change, Defence and Security - weird bedfellows?”
W8 - TUES 28 NOV
Surg Cdr Charlotte Evans
Royal Navy Hudson Fellow, St Antony’s College
“Mental Health and the Armed Forces”
2022/2023
trinity
W1- TUES 25 APR
TRINITY TERM SOCIAL
W2 - TUES 02 MAY
Dr Alex Vines OBE
Founder and Director, Africa Programme, Chatham House; Assistant Professor at Coventry University
“The Geostrategic Role of Russia in Africa”
W3 - TUES 09 MAY
Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski
Associate Professor of Soviet History, St Antony's College
“Ukraine and the Soviet Politics of Empire”
W4 - TUES 16 MAY
Simon Akam
Author, The Changing of the Guard: The British Army Since 9/11; Journalist
”The Changing of the Guard: The British Army since 9/11”
W5 - TUES 23 MAY
Cristoph Bergs
Doctoral Researcher, Department for European and International Studies, KCL; Host of Military Aviation History YouTube Channel
“Online Media and Social Resilience: Risks & Opportunities”
W6 - TUES 30 MAY
Sparrows in Ukraine
Grassroots organisation formed in Poland in 2022, focusing on supporting front line Ukrainian soldiers
”Organising for a Charitable Response to War”
W7 - TUES 06 JUN
Professor Antulio Echevarria
General MacArthur Chair of Research at the US Army War College; Editor-in-Chief of the US Army War College Press
“From Integrated Deterrence to Integrated Defence”
W8 - TUES 13 JUN
Nick Childs
Senior Fellow for Naval Forces and Maritime Security at IISS
“AUKUS: A Nuclear Powered Alliance?”
HILARY
W1 - TUES 17 JAN
Justin Bronk
Senior Research Fellow for Airpower & Technology at RUSI
“Russia’s Air War in Ukraine”
W2 - TUES 24 JAN
Richard Connolly
Director of Eastern Advisory Group, RUSI Associate Fellow
“Russia’s Arms Industry Under Sanctions”
W3 - TUES 31 JAN
Cécile Fabre
Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College
”Can Espionage be Ethical?”
W4 - TUES 07 FEB
Viljar Lubi
Estonian Ambassador to the United Kingdom
”European Security and the Global Markets: Estonia’s Outlook”
W5 - TUES 14 FEB
Make Love, not War ~ NO EVENT
W6 - TUES 21 FEB
James Miles
China writer-at-large at The Economist
”China’s “No Limits” Ties with Russia: the View from Beijing”
Maj Tom Mouat (12:00-16:00)
”High North” Wargame on Arctic Militarisation (pre-registration required)
W7 - TUES 28 FEB
David Price
Former U.S. Congressman
“The Challenge of Democracy Promotion”
W8 - TUES 07 MAR
Laurynas Jonavičius
Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania
“Geopolitics of Belarus in Ukraine Context”
michaelmas
W1 - TUES 11 OCT
Arkady Ostrovsky
Russia and Eastern Europe Editor for The Economist
“Putin’s War: Narratives, Mobilisation, and Perceptions”
W2 - TUES 18 OCT
Sarunas Cerniauskas
Founder of Siena.lt, Lithuanian non-profit organization dedicated to investigative reporting.
“Tracing Dirty Russian Money and Getting the World to React AND Follow the Money Workshop”
W3 - TUES 25 OCT
Dr. Bilyana Lilly
Information Warfare, Russia and Ransomware Manager, Deloitte; Adjunct Researcher and Fellow, RAND Corporation
”Russia’s Information Warfare in Theory and Practice”
W4 - TUES 01 NOV
Jack Watling
RUSI Senior Research Fellow for Land Warfare
TBA
W5 - TUES 08 NOV
OUSSG Wargame (pre-registration required) + Social
W6 - TUES 15 NOV
Edward Lucas
Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). Formerly a senior editor at The Economist
”The New Cold War - Winners and Losers”
W7 - TUES 22 NOV
Neta Crawford
Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, DPIR, University of Oxford
“The Pentagon, Climate Change and War”
W8 - TUES 29 NOV
Dr Richard Connolly
Director of Eastern Advisory Group, RUSI Associate Fellow
“Russia’s Defence Industry Under Conditions of Sanctions”
2021/2022
Trinity
W1- TUES 26 APR
Kataryna Wolczuk Professor of Politics, CREES, University of Birmingham; Associate Fellow, Russia & Eurasia Program, Chatham House
“30th Anniversary of the Collapse of the USSR: the Rapid Demise and Long-term Consequences”
W2 - TUES 03 MAY
Whit Mason
Strategic Communicatory; Former Consultant to the Standing Joint Force Headquarters
“Psycho-Social Perspectives Missing from Discussions about the War on Ukraine”
W3 - TUES 10 MAY
Shashank Joshi
Defense Editor, The Economist
”Is the Russian Army rotten?”
W4 - TUES 17 MAY
Dr. Peter Feaver
Director, Duke Program in American Grand Strategy; Former Special Advisor; Strategic Planning/Institutional Reform, US Security Council
”American Grand Strategy After Ukraine”
W5 - TUES 24 MAY
Aurimas Navys
Retired Lithuanian Special Operations Forces (LITHSOF) Officer; Energy Security Expert
“Russkiy mir’ expansionism, Ukraine’s military successes, and Russian failures.”
W6 - TUES 31 MAY
TBA
W7 - TUES 07 JUN
Air Vice-Marshal Paul Godfrey
Assistant Secretary, Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics
“UK Space Command, A Year On”
W8 - TUES 14 JUN
TBA
Hilary
W3- TUES 1 FEB
Camilla Born Deputy Director, UK Strategy, COP 26
“Taking the Temperature: Climate Fragility vs Climate Unity”
W4 - TUES 8 FEB
Professor Steven Haines
Professor of Public International Law, University of Greenwich; Trustee of the NGO Human Rights at Sea
“Human Rights at Sea: Problems and Prospects”
W4 - FRI 11 FEB - Online - 7pm
Major Bruce Gudmundsson
Historian; US Marine Corps Reserve (ret.)
”The Twitter War for Nagorno-Karabakh”
W5 - TUES 15 FEB
Lt Col Al Brown
Visiting Fellow Oxford University & the Changing Character of War Centre
”Machine Intelligence and the Changing Keys to Power”
W6 - TUES 22 FEB - Online - 4pm
Commodore Abhay Kumar Singh
Research Fellow, Military Affairs Centre, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi; Indian Navy (ret.).
“China-India Relations and the Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific”
W7 - TUES 1 MAR
Peter Neumann
Professor of Security Studies, King's College London; Founder and the Former Director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR)
”Major Ideas and Ideologues in Far Right Movements”
OUSSG WARGAME - 9-11 MAR - Online - Time tbc
Maj Jeremy Grunert - USAF Judge Advocate; Assistant Professor of Law, US Air Force Academy
Maj Tom Mouat - SO2 Directing Staff Simulation & Modeling, UK Defence Academy
1st Lt Samantha Potter - USAF Acquisition Officer; OUSSG Development Director
Philip Dursey - Chief Information Security Officer, Hydra; OUSSG Technology Director
MICHaeLMAS
W1- TUES 12 OCT: HR McMaster
Former US National Security Adviser, 2017-18; Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford
“The Catastrophe in Afghanistan, Competition with China, and the Need to Rebuild Strategic Competence”
W2 - TUES 19 OCT:
OUSSG Social
W3 - TUES 26 FEB: Captain Chris Connolly OBE Royal Navy (Retd); Former British Naval & Defense Attache Moscow, 2016-19
”Russia and its Armed Forces: A View from the British Embassy”
W4 - THUR 04 NOV: Dr Omar Ashour
Founding Chair, Critical Security Studies, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
”How ISIS Fights: present and future of nonstate combat effectiveness”
W5 - TUES 09 NOV: Dr Alice Pannier, Admiral Luc Pagès and Dr Benedict Wilkinson
Pannier - Research Fellow, Head of Geopolitics of Technology Program at French Institute of Int’l Relations (ifri)
Pagès - Former French Defence Attaché to London
Wilkinson - Senior Research Leader, RAND
“UK-France Security and Defence Cooperation in a Post-Brexit World” - in collaboration with Sciences Po Defence & Stratégie”
W6 - TUES 16 NOV: Dr Carter Malkasian
Historian; Former special assistant for strategy to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dunford, 2015-19
”The American War in Afghanistan: Why We Failed”
W6 - TBC: OUSSG Wargame (pre-registration required)
W7 TUES 30 NOV: Dame Mariot Leslie DCMG Former British Diplomat; Member of the Scottish First Minister’s Standing Council on Europe; Associate Fellow, Chatham House
“Scottish Foreign Defence Policy, and the Implications of Scottish Independence”
W8 TUES 30 NOV: Will Evans OBE Member of UK delegation to NATO; Former Visiting Fellow at Oxford University and Changing Character of War Centre 2020-21
”Overseas Counter-Terrorism - how does the West defeat Al-Qaida and Islamic State?”
2020/2021
Trinity
W1- TUES 27 APRIL: Robert Bell
CEO of National Security Counsel, LLC; Distinguished Professor of the Practice, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech
“NATO, the EU and the Future of European Defense and Security”
W2 - TUES 04 MAY: Dr Matt Preston (not live-streamed)
Head, International Security and Institutions, and Research Analyst, at Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office “Multilateralism in the Post-COVID World”
W3 - TUES 11 MAY: Julie Yu-Wen Chen (not live-streamed)
Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Helsinki; Hosting Professor of Asian Studies, Palacky University
“The Internationalism of China’s Uyghur Issues”
W4 - TUES 18 MAY: Jeff Kosseff Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity Law, US Naval Academy
”Reforming Cybersecurity Law to Bolster National Security”
W5 - TUES 25 MAY: Dr Imogen Parsons
Senior Research Fellow and (Acting) Director of the Terrorism & Conflict group, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
”Intervening in Conflict: How International Interventions Begin, and How They End”
W6 - TUES 01 JUNE: Captain John Moulton
2019-20 US Navy Hudson Fellow, University of Oxford and the Changing Character of War Center; Currently servicing on the Joint Staff
”From Steam to the Internet: Generating Warfighting Advantages in Transformational Times”
W7 - TUES 08 JUNE: Lawerence Chalmer and Ruth Harris
Chalmer - International consultant; Professor Emeritus, US National Defense University
Harris - Research Group Director, Defense, Security and Infrastructure, RAND Europe
”Practices and Challenges in Decision-Making within NATO”
W8 - MON 14 JUNE: Commander Damon Loveless (not live-streamed)
US Navy Hudson Fellow, University of Oxford and the Changing Character of War Centre “Maritime Strategy from the Flight Deck”
Hilary
W1- TUES 19 JAN: Mike Rogers
Former US Congressman and Chair of the House Intelligence Committee
“The Case for a National Cybersecurity Director”
W2 - TUES 26 JAN: Timothy Garton Ash Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford “Can a Dictatorship be a Member of the EU”
W3 - TUES 02 FEB: Kishan Patel Chief of GPS Cyber Security, US Space Force
“The Strategic Importance of GPS”
W4 - TUES 09 FEB: Geoffrey D. Dabelko
Professor and Associate Dean, the George V. Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, Ohio University
“Security: What’s Climate Change Got to Do with It?”
W5 - TUES 16 FEB: Tom Sear
International Adjunct Professor, Joint Special Operations Univeristy
”Xenowar: Computational Clausewitz, the PRC/CCP Cryptosphere and Strategic Society Mechanisms for a Planetary Era”
W6 - TUES 23 FEB: Manjari Chatterjee Miller
Associate Professor of International Relations, Boston University; Research Associate, the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
”Why Nations Rise”
W6 - TBC: OUSSG Wargame (pre-registration required)
W7 TUES 02 MAR: Dr Will Roper Assistant Secretary, Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics
”Bringing Defence into the 21st Century”
W8 TUES 09 MAR: Dr Lindsay Newman Director, Economics and Country Risk, IHS Markit; Former Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House’s US and Americas Programme
”Key Policy Challenges Facing Biden in his First Year”
MICHAELMAS
W1- TUES 13 OCT: Dr. Michael Martindale Space Force Association, Director of Space Education Committee “Spacepower and its Impact on Global Strategy (Podcast)”
W2 - TUES 20 OCT: Javed Ali Former Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council “Far Right Terrorism in 2020: Threats, Drivers, and Responses”
W3 - TUES 27 OCT: Mike Nagata Director of Strategy for National Counterterrorism Center; Senior Vice President and Strategic Advisor for CACI International
“Great Power Competition and Conflict: The Effect of Technological Change”
W4 - TUES 03 NOV: Daniel Fiott Security and Defence Editor at the EU Institute for Security Studies
”European Defence in a Time of Global Change”
W5 - TUES 10 NOV: Susi Dennison Senior Policy Fellow and Director of the European Power Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations
”How Public Opinion Reflects Policy Across Europe”
W6 - TUES 17 NOV: Helene Cooper Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; Pentagon Correspondent for the New York Times
”Journalism and Pandemics in an Era of Media Distrust”
W7 - TUES 24 NOV: TBC
W8 TUES 01 DEC: Robert Blair Director of the Democratic Erosion Consortium
”The Effects of Political Polarisation on Democratic Erosion”
2019/2020
HILARY
W1- TUES 21 JAN
Russia’s military build-up in the Arctic. To what end?Professor Katarzyna ZyskHead of Centre for Security Policy and Deputy Director at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies
W2 - TUES 28 JAN
Special Event with Dame Cressida DickCommissioner of the Metropolitan Police
*This event is fully booked. If you did not receive a confirmation email, we were unable to accommodate you a spot.*
W3 - TUES 4 FEB
US-China Relations, Trade War, and Strategic ImplicationsDr Zeno LeoniTeaching Fellow at the UK Defence Academy and
Leader of the International Team for the Study of Security at ITSS Verona
W4 - TUES 11 FEB
Trump, Europe and NATO: Back to the FutureDr Seth JohnstonLieutenant-Colonel, US Army; Fellow for Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship at Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center
W5 - TUES 18 FEB
Wargame
9AM - 1PM
The Utilities and Challenges of Western Security Force Assistance
Major Ivor WiltenburgDutch Infantry and CCW Fellow
W6 - TUES 25 FEB
Security challenges in East-AsiaSir Tim Hitchens
President of Wolfson College, former UK Ambassador to Japan (2012-2016)
W7 - TUES 3 MAR
Whitehall Warriors’ National Security & Defence Policy & Operations:
A Beginners’ Guide
Commander Damian Exworthy MBEFormer head of logistics aboard the HMS Albion
W8 - TUES 10 MAR
TBC
MICHAELMAS
W1- TUES 15 OCT
Information Wars: the Internet BattlefieldBen NimmoSenior Fellow, Atlantic Council, Digital Forensic Research Lab
W2 - TUES 22 OCT
Tackling the Terrorist Use of the Internet
Adam HadleyFounder & Director, Tech Against Terrorism
W3 - WEDN 30 OCT
Threats, Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing Middle East
Brigadier General Efraim Sneh
Former Deputy Minister of Defence, Israel; Leader of Yisrael Hazaka
W4 - TUES 5 NOV
Aspects of Security in the Heart of EuropeAmbassador Kristof Szalay-BobroniczkyHungarian Ambassador to the UK & Ireland
W5 - TUES 12 NOV
Fusion Doctrine: Current Threats & Response
Adam Sambrook
Deputy Head (Strategic Threats), Security Policy Department,UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office
W6
- MON 18 NOV
OUSSG War Game (9AM-1PM, pre-registration required)
Major Tom Mouat
UK Defence Academy
- TUES 19 NOV
Changing Patterns of External Intervention in Armed Conflicts in the 21st Century
Dr Nicholas Redman
Director of Editorial, International Institute for Strategic Studies
W7 - TUES 26 NOV
Deterrence in the 21st Century
Dr Andrew Corbett
Teaching Fellow, Defence Studies, King’s College London
W8 - TUES 3 DEC
Grey Zone WarfareDr Geraint HuguesDiplomatic & Military Historian, King’s College London
2018/2019
TRINITY
W1- TUES 30 APR: Douglas Barrie
Senior Fellow, Military Aerospace, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
"Russia and Chinese Air Power: Works in Progress"
W2 - TUES 07 MAY: Tim Eaton
Research fellow with Chatham House’s MENA Programme
“Conflict economies in MENA: Comparing the cases of Libya, Syria, Yemen and Iraq”
W3 - TUES 14 MAY: Ziya Meral
Resident Fellow at the British Army’s think-tank the Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research,
and founder and Director of the Centre on Religion and Global Affairs
“How Violence Shape Religion: Belief and Conflict in Africa and Middle East”
W4 - TUES 21 MAY: Panel with Joana Cook & Erin Saltman
Teaching Fellow in the Department of War Studies, and Senior Research Fellow at ICSR.
EMEA Policy Manager at Facebook.
“The Online and Offline Presence of Women in Extremism”
W5 - TUES 28 MAY: Eviatar Matania
Founder and Head of the Israel National Cyber Bureau (2012)
“The Global Race for Cyber-Digital Supremacy”
W6 - TUES 04 JUN
Hiatus
W7 - TUES 11 JUN
Hiatus
W8 - TUES 18 JUN
Hiatus
HILARY
W1 TUES 15 JAN: Emile Hokayem
Senior Fellow, Middle East Security, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) “The Politics of Gulf Security”
W1 FRI 18 JAN: Professor John J. Mearsheimer
Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
“The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams & International Realities”
W3 TUES 29 JAN: Admiral Sir Philip Jones KCB ADC
First Sea Lord & Chief of Naval Staff
W4 WED 06 FEB: Amy Pope
Deputy Homeland Security Advisor to the US President (2015-2017)
W5 TUES 12 FEB: Robert Hannigan
Director, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) (2014-2017)
W6 TUES 19 FEB: Hans Pung
President, RAND Europe
“Broomsticks to Battle Groups?: The Future of European Defence”
W7 TUES 26 FEB: Antonio Missiroli
Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO
"Driving Progress Across the Alliance: NATO & Emerging Threats”
W8 FRI 01 MAR (Robert Hooke Building): Liga Rozentale
Director of EU Governmental Affairs for Cybersecurity Policy, Microsoft
“Public-private Partnerships & Emerging Security Challenges”
W8 TUES 05 MAR: Rahul Roy-Chaudhury
Senior Fellow for South Asia, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
“Terror Attack in Kashmir: Implications for India-Pakistan Relations”
MICHAELMAS
W1- TUES 09 OCT: Dr. Larry Goodson U.S. Army War College, Visiting Fellow at Changing the Character of War “Is the Syrian War the 21st Century's First Great War?”
W3 - TUES 23 OCT: Dr. Kori Schake Deputy-Director General, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) “Can the Liberal Order Be Saved?”
W4 - TUES 30 OCT: Carl Miller Research Director, Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, DEMOS “The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab”
W5 - TUES 06 NOV (01:00 - 05:00 PM): Maj. Tom Mouat UK Defence Academy 4th OUSSG Wargame (pre-registration required)
W5 - TUES 06 NOV: David Balson Director of Intelligence, Ripjar “The Changing Role of Secrecy in the Information Age”
W6 - TUES 13 NOV: Dr. Bastian Giegerich Director of Defence & Military Analysis, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) “NATO at Seventy”
W7 - TUES 20 NOV: Raffaello Pantucci Director of International Security Studies, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) "China's Ambitions and Goals on the New Silk Road"
W8 TUES 27 NOV: Hans Kundnani Senior Research Fellow, Europe Programme, Chatham House “The Future of the European Union”
2017/2018
MICHAELMAS
W1 TUES 10 OCT: Dr Sean McFate*
Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council (Wharton Room, All Souls College) "The Return of Mercenaries and the Future of War"
W2 TUES 17 OCT: Charly Salonius-Pasternak
Senior Research Fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
"Finland on the front line: Preparing for hybrid conflict in norther Europe"
W3 TUES 24 OCT: Sir Mark Lyall Grant*
Former UK National Security Advisor, Former UK Ambassador to the UN
"Will Brexit damage UK National Security?"
W4 TUES 31 OCT: Captain Chris O'Flaherty
Former Deputy Commander Task Force 52, Royal Navy
"US-UK Naval Operations: A Personal Perspective"
W5 TUES 07 NOV: Professor Louise Fawcett
Head of Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University
"The Middle East States System: Implosion or Resilience?"
W5 TUES 07 NOV: Lynne Owens*
Director General, National Crime Agency
Tackling Serious Organised Crime in the UK
W7 TUES 21 NOV: Professor Patrick Porter
Academic Director of Strategy and Security Institute, University of Exeter
"Blunder: Britain's War in Iraq"
W8 TUES 28 NOV: Vice Admiral Sir Simon Lister*
Managing Director, Aircraft Carrier Alliance; Former Chief of Materiel (Submarines), Royal Navy
UK-Russian Conflict by Land or by Sea?
HILARY
Talks are at 08:30PM, Old Library, All Souls unless otherwise specified
*Pre-registration required
W1 TUES 16 JAN: Open Source Intelligence in a Networked World
Dr. Joanna Kidd
Director of Ridgeway Information
W2 TUES 23 JAN: Trump's First Year: US Foreign Policy in Flux* (Panel)
Sir Nigel Sheinwald - British Ambassador to the US (2007-2012)
Prof. Peter Trubowitz - Director of the US Centre, London School of Economics
Dr. Leslie Vinjamuri - Associate Fellow, US & the Americas Programme, Chatham House
Steven Erlanger - Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, New York Times
W3 TUES 30 JAN: Covering Trump: How the US Election Changed the World
Hala Gorani
Anchor & Correspondent for CNN International
W4 TUES 06 FEB: US-Australian Alliance in the Face of China's Rise
Prof. Brad Thayer - University of Oxford
Prof. Michael Wesley - Australian National University
W5 TUES 13 FEB: Return of the Carriers: Implications for UK Defence & Beyond
Nick Childs
Senior Fellow for Naval Forces and Maritime Security, IISS
W6 TUES 20 FEB: 3rd OUSSG Wargame*
Maj. Tom Mouat
UK Defence Academy
W6 THURS 22 FEB: Extremism: The Challenge of our Generation or Just a Blip in Time?
Alastair King-Smith
Head of International Counter Extremism, Foreign & Commonwealth Office
W8 TUES 06 MAR: Technology and Data as a Strategic Influencer*
Dr. Ian Levy - Director, The National Cyber Security Centre
TRINITY
W1 TUES 24 APR: Predictive Analytics and National Security
Dr. Jim Shinn
US Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs (2007-08)
W2 TUES 01 May: Unpacking the Domestic Determinants of Russia's Confrontation with the West (&Vice Versa)
Dr. Sam Greene
Director of the Russia Institute, King's College London
W3 TUES 08 May: The Kim-Trump Summit: What's at Stake for East Asia & The World?
Bill Emmott - Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist (1993-2006)
Dr. Rosemary Foot - Senior Research Fellow, DPIR, University of Oxford
Edward Howell - DPhil Student, DPIR, University of Oxford
W4 - Tues 15 May
TBC: on the Danger of War in Europe
Sir Adam Thomson KCMG
UK Permanent Representative to NATO (2014-16)
W5 - Tues 22 May
Russia's Sovereign Globalisation
Dr. Nigel Gould-Davies
Associate Fellow; Chatham House; British Ambassador to Belarus (2007-09)
2016/2017
MICHAELMAS
1st Week: DR ELISABETH KENDALL
Senior Research Fellow in Arabic, Pembroke College, Oxford
Al-Qa’ida versus the Islamic State in Yemen
Old Library, All Souls College | Tuesday, 11 October 2016 | 20:30 – 22:00
2nd Week: SIR MALCOLM RIFKIND
Former Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee; former Defence Secretary and Foreign Secretary
Putin’s Russia: A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma?
Old Library, All Souls College | Tuesday, 18 October 2016 | 20:30 – 22:00
3rd Week: JONATHAN TAIT-HARRIS
Ex-Army; Ex-Detective; Ex-War Crimes Investigator, and Police Capacity Builder in Iraq, Libya, Gaza, Bosnia
War Crimes Investigation: Horror, Hatred, and Humour
Old Library, All Souls College | Tuesday, 25 October 2016 | 20:30 – 22:00
4th Week: PROF ANDREW PRESTON
Professor of American History, Clare College, Cambridge
Security and Insecurity at the Ballot Box: Clinton v. Trump in Historical Perspective
Old Library, All Souls College | Tuesday, 1 November 2016 | 20:30 – 22:00
Special Event: High Profile Israeli Speaker (TBA for security reasons)
In partnership with the Oxford International Relations Society
Location TBA | Thursday, 3 November 2016
Note: Members only event
5th Week: JOYCE HAKMEH
Academy Fellow, International Security Department, Chatham House
For the Sake of Security? Cybercrime Laws and Civil Liberties in the Middle East and North Africa
Old Library, All Souls College | Tuesday, 8 November 2016 | 20:30 – 22:00
6th Week: MAJ GEN AHMAD MAHMOOD HAYAT
ISI Director General for Analysis
Pichette Auditorium, Pembroke College | Tuesday, 15 November 2016 | 18:00-19:30
Roundtable: Ambassador Matthew Barzun
US Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Old Library, All Souls College | Wednesday, 16 November 2016 | 15:00-16:00
(Registration required)
Dinner: Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland
Commander of the coalition against ISIS in Syria and Iraq
TBC | Friday, 18 November 2016
(Registration required)
7th Week: DR BENJAMIN BUCHANAN
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Belfer Center’s Cyber Security Project, Harvard University
The Cybersecurity Dilemma
Old Library, All Souls College | Monday, 21 November 2016 | 20:30 – 22:00
8th Week: OUSSG SPECIAL GUEST
The Causes and Costs of a Historic Blind Spot in America’s Policy-Intel Dynamic
Old Library, All Souls College | Tuesday, 29 November 2016 | 20:30 – 22:00
HILARY
1st Week: SIR BERNARD HOGAN-HOWE
Commissioner, London Metropolitan Police
“Policing London: The Next Five Years”
Old Library, All Souls College | Tuesday, 17 January 2017 | 20:30 – 22:00
2nd Week: TEDDY COLLINS
Programme Manager, Google DeepMind
“Artificial Intelligence and Global Strategy: Implications for Strategic Studies”
Old Library, All Souls College | Tuesday, 24 January 2017 | 20:30 – 22:00
3rd Week: RANA MITTER
Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, St Cross, Oxford
“Chinese Nationalism in the Era of Xi Jinping and Donald Trump”
Old Library, All Souls College | Tuesday, 31 January 2017 | 20:30 – 22:00
4th Week: THEO FARRELL
Dean of Arts and Social Sciences, City University London; former head, KCL Department of War Studies
“Ready for Peace? The Afghan Taliban After a Decade of War”
Old Library, All Souls College | Tuesday, 7 February 2017 | 20:30 – 22:00
5th Week: MAJ TOM MOUAT
SO2 Simulation and Modelling, Defence Capability Centre – Defence Academy of the United Kingdom
“Wargaming Crisis Points: Recent Developments”
Old Library, All Souls College | Tuesday, 14 February 2017 | 20:30 – 22:00
5th Week: GEN SIR RICHARD SHIRREFF
Former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe
“War with Russia: A Fantastical Notion?”
Old Library, All Souls College | Thursday, 16 February 2017 | 20:30 – 22:00
6th Week: Hiatus
7th Week: ELIZABETH QUINTANA
Senior Research Fellow, Futures and Technology, RUSI
Old Library, All Souls College | Tuesday, 28 February 2017 | 20:30 – 22:00
8th Week: SPEAKER TBC
TRINITY
1st Week: Sir RICHARD DEARLOVE
Former Chief of MI6
National Security in a Changing World
T.S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College | Tuesday, 25 April | 8.30pm
2nd Week: Sir LAWRENCE FREEDMAN
Emeritus Professor of War Studies: King’s College, London
The Future of War: A History
Old Library, All Souls College | Tuesday, 2 May | 8:30pm
3rd Week: BILL HAYTON
Associate Fellow, Asia Programme, Chatham House
Old Library, All Souls College | Tuesday, 9 May | 8:30pm
Wargame - 3rd Week: Major TOM MOUAT
Venue and Time to be confirmed | Pre-registration required | Friday, 12 May
4th Week: JOHN NIXON
Former CIA Analyst
Misreading Your Enemy: Our Failure to Get Saddam Right
Old Library, All Souls College | Tuesday, 16 May | 8:30pm
5th Week: No event this week
6th Week: Dr LINA KHATIB
Head of Middle East and North Africa Programme: Chatham House
Old Library, All Souls College | Tuesday, 30 May | 8:30pm
7th Week: No event this week
8th Week: Prof. DOMINIC JOHNSON
Alastair Buchan Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford
Strategic Instincts: Making the Right Mistakes in Peace and War
Old Library, All Souls College | Tuesday, 13 June | 8.30pm
2015/2016
MICHAELMAS
1st Week: JANE MARRIOTT OBE, Former UK Ambassador to Yemen
Policy and Diplomacy: Dealing with the Security Crisis in Yemen
Tuesday October 13 | 20:30 – 22:00
2nd Week: DR ANNETTE IDLER, Director of Studies, Oxford Changing Character of War Programme
Complex Cooperation: Shifting Alliances Among Rebels, Paramilitaries, and Criminals
Tuesday October 20 | 20:30 – 22:00
3rd Week: Major General (Rtd.) MUNGO MELVIN, RUSI Senior Associate Fellow
Sevastopol: Russia’s Temple Mount?
Tuesday October 27 | 20:30 – 22:00
4th Week: Admiral (Rtd.) MARK STANHOPE, Former First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff
Maritime Strategy Fallout from Strategic Defense and Security Review (SDSR) 2010
Tuesday November 3 | 20:30 – 22:00
5th Week: BILL EMMOTT, Former Editor-in-Chief of the Economist
China’s Strategic Ambitions: Implications for the U.S., Japan, and Regional Stability
Tuesday November 10 | 20:30 – 22:00
6th Week: XENIA WICKETT, US Project Director at Chatham House
A New Asia-Pacific Power Balance: Moving Beyond the US-China Narrative
Tuesday November 17 | 20:30 – 22:00
7th Week: Major General (Rtd.) Sir SEBASTIAN ROBERTS, Former General Officer Commanding London District
The Military Covenant: Its Genesis, Purpose, and Significance
Tuesday November 24 | 20:30 – 22:00
8th Week: Professor RICHARD CAPLAN, Professor of International Relations and Official Fellow, Linacre College
Title to be confirmed
Tuesday December 1 | 20:30 – 22:00
HILARY
1st Week: RICHARD BARRETT CMG OBE, Former Head of the UN Monitoring Team concerning Al-Qaida and the Taliban
The Islamic State: Regional Problem or Global Threat?
Thursday January 21 | 20:30 – 22:00
Location change: Blavatnik School of Government Lecture Theatre 2
2nd Week: ANDREA BERGER, Deputy Director, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy at RUSI
Security Threats on the Korean Peninsula
Thursday January 28 | 20:30 – 22:00
3rd Week: TOM KEATINGE, Director, Centre for Financial Crime & Security Studies at RUSI
The Role of Finance in International Security
Wednesday February 3 | 20:30 – 22:00
4th Week: DR. ADNAN VATANSEVER, Associate Director, European Center for Energy and Resource Security at King’s College London
Energy Geopolitics in Russia and Ukraine
Thursday February 11 | 20:30 – 22:00
5th Week: GEN. SIR ADRIAN BRADSHAW, NATO Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe
Current Security Challenges for NATO
Tuesday February 16 | 20:30 – 22:00
6th Week: AMBASSADOR ANTHONY GARDNER, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union
Taking Stock of the EU-US Relationship
Thursday February 25 | 20:30 – 22:00
6th Week: KAREN PIERCE CMG, UK Ambassador to Afghanistan through early 2016
Security Challenges in the Afghan Region
Tuesday March 1 | 20:30 – 22:00
7th Week: DR. CHRISTIAN TURNER, Former British High Commissioner to Kenya
Contemporary Security Issues in Africa
Tuesday March 8 | 20:30 – 22:00
TRINITY
1st Week: GEN. DIETER E. BAREIHS
US Defense Attaché, Embassy London
The Strategic and Political Value of Air Power
Tuesday, 26 April 2016 | 20:30 – 22:00
2nd Week: MICHAEL CLARKE
Former Director, Royal United Services Institute
The UK in the Modern World: Are We Relevant or Just Fooling Ourselves?
Tuesday, 3 May 2016 | 20:30 – 22:00
3rd Week: PROF PETER WILSON
Chichele Professor of the History of War, All Souls College
The Peace of Westphalia: Lessons for Modern Security Crises
Tuesday, 10 May 2016 | 20:30 – 22:00
Field Trip: Visit to the Simulations and Modelling Centre at the Army’s Development, Concepts, and Doctrine Centre
Defence Academy of the UK
Friday, 13 May 2016 | 09:00 – 17:00
4th Week: LINO MIANI
Former US Special Operations Forces; CEO of Navisio Global
The Globalization of Hybrid War: Why Crimea Matters to the South China Sea and Beyond
Tuesday, 17 May 2016 | 20:30 – 22:00
6th Week: *Special Event*: MATTHEW G. OLSEN
Former Director, US National Counterterrorism Center
The Evolving Threat of Terrorism
Friday, 03 June 2016 | 19:30 – 21:00
Drinks Reception 18:45 – 19:30
Investcorp Auditorium, St Antony’s College
Policy Roundtable: CONGRESSMAN LINCOLN DAVIS
Former US Congressman (D-TN)
Wednesday, 01 June 2016 | 17:00-18:00
Bursar’s Study, ASC (Registration required)
Policy Roundtable: AIR MARSHAL CHRIS NICKOLS
Former Chief of Defence Intelligence, former Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Operations), Director of the Air Operations (Iraq, 2003)
Thursday, 02 June 2016 | 15:30-16:45
Hovenden Room, ASC (Registration required)
8th Week: PETER SUTHERLAND, GCIH KCMG SC
Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration, Former Attorney General of Ireland, Founding Director General of the WTO, Former Chairman of Goldman Sachs International
Monday, 13 June 2016 | 20:30-22:00
2014/2015
MICHAELMAS
1st Week: Colonel ZULFIQAR ALI BHATTY, Army and Air Advisor, High Commission for Pakistan
Pakistan’s Fight Against Terrorism: Myths and Realities
Tuesday October 14 | 20:30 – 22:00
2nd Week: Ambassador STEPHEN EVANS, Assistant Secretary General for Operations, NATO
NATO: Facing the Challenges of a New Era
Wednesday October 22 | 20:30 – 22:00
3rd Week: General SIR MIKE JACKSON, Former Chief of the General Staff, British Army
General Reflections
Wednesday October 29 | 20:30 – 22:00
4th Week: Professor CHRISTOPHER HUGHES, Head of International Relations, LSE
Whose Dreams Do We Follow? East Asian States Between Japan and China
Tuesday November 4 | 20:30 – 22:00
5th Week: Professor ANAND MENON, Department of European and International Studies, KCL
Divided and Declining? Europe in a Changing World
Tuesday November 11 | 20:30 – 22:00
6th Week: EDWARD LUTTWAK, Senior Associate, CSIS
Grand Strategy: The Illusion of Choice
Tuesday November 18 | 20:30 – 22:00
7th Week: MARK FITZPATRICK, Director, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, IISS
The Day After the Iran Nuclear Deadline
Tuesday November 25 | 20:30 – 22:00
8th Week: Professor ROY ALLISON, Head of Russian and East European Studies, University of Oxford
Russian “Deniable Intervention” in Ukraine
Tuesday December 2 | 20:30 – 22:00
HILARY
1st Week: Sir RICHARD OTTAWAY, Chair, Foreign Relations Select Committee, House of Commons
A World in Turmoil
Wednesday January 21 | 20:30 – 22:00
2nd Week: ANATOLII SOLOVEI, Head of Political Section, Embassy of Ukraine to the United Kingdom
Supporting Ukraine: A Stronger and United Europe
Tuesday January 27 | 20:30 – 22:00
3rd Week: Sir STEPHEN WALL, Former Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the EU
Britain and the EU: Why do we love to hate it?
Tuesday February 3 | 20:30 – 22:00
4th Week: Professor JAMES PETTIFER, University of Oxford
The Greek Crisis in the Balkan Neighbourhood: A Security Concern?
Wednesday February 11 | 20:30 – 22:00
5th Week: Ambassador DOUGLAS LUTE, Permanent Representative of the United States to NATO
Wales to Warsaw: NATO and the Transatlantic Security Environment
Tuesday February 17 | 20:30 – 22:00
6th Week: Colonel CHRISTOPHER KOLENDA, Senior Military Fellow, KCL
Success from Failure: Problems to Avoid in Future Conflicts
Tuesday February 24 | 20:30 – 22:00
7th Week: CHARLIE EDWARDS, Director, National Security and Resilience Studies, RUSI
UK Counter-Terrorism Strategy and the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review
Tuesday March 3 | 20:30 – 22:00
8th Week: RAHUL ROY-CHAUDURY, Senior Fellow for South Asia, IISS
India and its Neighbourhood: The Modi Government’s Foreign & Security Policy in its First Year
Tuesday March 10 | 20:30 – 22:00
TRINITY
1st Week: AZAR GAT, Chair, Political Science Department, Tel Aviv University
The Past and Future of War
Monday April 27 | 20:30 – 22:00
2nd Week: NICK WITNEY, Former Chief Executive of the European Defense Agency
Britain and the EU in a World Turned Upside-Down
Tuesday May 5 | 20:30 – 22:00
3rd Week: ELIZABETH DIBBLE, Deputy Chief of Mission, US Embassy to the UK
The Future of US-UK Cooperation in the Middle East
Tuesday May 12 | 20:30 – 22:00
4th Week: GIDEON RACHMAN, Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist, Financial Times
Strategic Rivalry in East Asia – Is there a Risk of War?
Tuesday May 19 | 20:30 – 22:00
5th Week: EDWARD MORTIMER, Former Chief Speechwriter, UN Office of the Secretary General
The UN in International Security: What Chances for Improvement?
Tuesday May 26 | 20:30 – 22:00
6th Week: JANINA DILL, Associate Director,Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict
The 21st Century Belligerent’s Trilemma
Tuesday June 2 | 20:30 – 22:00
7th Week: ERIC KING, Deputy Director, Privacy International
Security and Surveillance in the Modern World
Tuesday June 9 | 20:30 – 22:00
8th Week: no event, due to exams
2013/2014
HILARY
1st Week: Brigadier General John Quintas, Senior US Defense Attaché in the UK
US Perspective on the Interim Iran Nuclear Deal
Tuesday, January 21; 20:30 – 22:00
2nd Week: Milo Jones, Co-founder and Managing Director of Insight Advisory Partners
Intelligence, Strategic Surprise and the Problem of Cassandras
Tuesday, January 28; 20:30 – 22:00
3rd Week: Major General Tim Cross, Senior Land Forces Commander for the Iraq Invasion
Experiences from a Cold War and 20 Years of Hot Wars
Tuesday, February 4; 20:30 – 22:00
4th Week: General Mike Hayden, Former Director of the CIA and NSA
Title TBC
Tuesday, February 11, 2013; 20:30 – 22:00
5th Week: Dr. Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
Title TBC
Tuesday, February 18; 20:30 – 22:00
6th Week: Ben Judah, Visiting Fellow, European Stability Initiative, Istanbul
Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In And Out Of Love with Vladimir Putin
Tuesday, February 25; 20:30 – 22:00
7th Week: No Speaker Scheduled
8th Week: Vice Admiral Peter Hudson CBE, Commander NATO Allied Maritime Command
Title TBC
Tuesday, March 11; 20:30 – 22:00
TRINITY
1st Week: Professor Peter Trubowitz, LSE
American Statecraft in an Era of Domestic Polarisation
Tuesday, April 29; 20:30 – 22:00
2nd Week: Professor Nick Murray, US Army Command & General Staff College
What’s Going On? The Current State of Professional Military Education in the United States
Tuesday, May 6; 20:30 – 22:00
3rd Week: James de Waal, Senior Fellow, Chatham House
Blair’s Wars, British Strategy and a Dysfunctional Military-Political Relationship
Tuesday, May 13; 20:30 – 22:00
4th Week: Dr. Jeffrey Michaels, King’s College JSCSC
The Paradoxes, Perils and Pretensions of Large-Scale Expeditionary Counter-Insurgency
Tuesday, May 20; 20:30 – 22:00
5th Week: Charles Grant, Director, Centre for European Reform
Can the EU Succeed as a Power?
Monday, May 26; 20:30 – 22:00
6th Week: Dr. James Worrall, Leeds University
Hezbollah: Identity Construction and Decision-Making in Syria
Tuesday, June 3; 20:30 – 22:00
7th Week: Angus Robertson, Scottish Nationalist Party MP, Foreign Affairs and Defence Spokesman
Scottish Independence
Wednesday, June 11; 20:30 – 22:00
8th Week: Professor John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago
Why the Trouble in Ukraine
Tuesday, June 10; 20:30 – 22:00
2012/2013
MICHAELMAS
1st Week: Charles Crawford CMG, HM Ambassador to Poland 2003-7
Diplomacy in Real Life
Tuesday, October 9; 20:30-22:00
2nd Week: Professor Hugh White, Professor of Strategic Studies, Australian National University
Fragile Alliances: The Nuclear Balance and Alliance Credibility in the Asian Century
Monday, October 15; 20:30-22:00
AND
Dr Nayef Al-Rodhan, Senior Scholar at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy
The Geopolitics of Space
Tuesday, October 16; 20:30-22:00
3rd Week: Rod Wye, Associate Fellow, Chatham House, Asia Programme
Coping with the Rise of China
Tuesday, October 23; 20:30-22:00
4th Week: Sir Francis Richards KCMG CVO DL; Director of GCHQ, 1998-2003
Intelligence Oversight in Democratic Societies
Tuesday, October 30; 20:30-22:00
5th Week: No Event
6th Week: Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, the Financial Times
America and the World: After the Election
Tuesday, November 13; 20:30-22:00
7th Week: Sir Adam Roberts KCMG FBA; President of the British Academy
Dilemmas of Counter-terrorism: Sri Lanka and other Cases
Tuesday, November 20; 20:30-22:00
AND
Rory Stewart OBE FRLS MP, Conservative MP for Penrith
Title TBC
Thursday, November 22; 20:30-22:00
8th Week: Emile Simpson, Former Captain in the Ghurkhas
War From the Ground Up
Tuesday, November 27; 20:30-22:00
HILARY
1st Week
No Event
2nd Week: Peter Bergen, Journalist, Director of National Security Studies at New AmericaFoundation
Title TBC
Tuesday, January 22, 20:30-22:00
3rd Week: Dr. Thomas Rid, War Studies Department, King’s College London
Deterrence Beyond the State
Tuesday, January 29, 20:30-22:00
4th Week: General Sir Richard Shirreff, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (NATO)
NATO: Strengths, Weaknesses and Opportunities
Tuesday, February 5, 20:30-22:00
5th Week: Professor Malcolm Chalmers, Director, RUSI
The Two Unions: Will the Foundations for UK Defence Policy hold?
Tuesday, February 12, 20:30-2:00
6th Week: Sir Ian Andrews, Chair, Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA)
Title TBC
Tuesday, February 19, 20:30-22:00
*Additional event*: Max Boot, Military Historian and Foreign Policy Analyst
Invisible Armies: A History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present’
Thursday, February 21, 20:30-22:00
7th Week: Dr. Andrew Roberts, Historian and biographer
The Creation of an Allied Grand Strategy, 1941-1945
Tuesday, February 26, 20:30-22:00
8th Week: Sir John Scarlett KCMG OBE, Former Director, MI6
Title TBC
Tuesday, March 5, 20:30-22:00
2011/2012
MICHAELMAS
1st Week: The Afghan Way of War
Dr Robert Johnson, Deputy Director, University of Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War; Departmental Lecturer in the History of War, Faculty of History
Tuesday, October 11; 20:30-22:00
2nd Week: The Arab Spring: Subjects and Citizens
Mr Michael Crawford, Senior Global Advisor, Oxford Analytica
Tuesday, October 18; 20:30-22:00
3rd Week: Ten Years On: Reflections on 9/11
Sir Ivor Roberts, President of Trinity College, University of Oxford, Former HM Ambassador to Belgrade, Dublin, & Rome
Tuesday, October 25; 20:30-22:00
4th Week: Wars of Choice: Lessons from the Battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan
Mr Jack Fairweather, Fellow, Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, Former Correspondent, The Daily Telegraph
Tuesday, November 1; 20:30-22:00
5th Week: Italian Defence and Foreign Policy: Strategic Culture, Domestic Politics, and Military Capabilities
Mr Alessandro Marrone, Researcher, International Affairs Institute, Rome
Tuesday, November 8; 20:30-22:00
6th Week: Europe’s Future and Strategic Environment: Modern Warfare and the European Military Conundrum
Mr Eteinne de Durand, Director IFRI’s Centre for Security Studies, Paris
Tuesday, November 15; 20:30-22:00
6th Week: Osama’s War, Obama’s Peace
Mr Mark Sedwill, CMG, FRGS, UK Special Representative on Afghanistan and Pakistan, Director General (Afghanistan and Pakistan), FCO, Former NATO Senior Civilian Representative to Afghanistan, Former British Ambassador to Afghanistan
Thursday, November 17; 20:30-22:00
7th Week: Vast Ills Follow a Belief in Certainty: A Maritime-Orientated Strategy
Major General Buster Howes, OBE, Commandant General, Royal Marines
Tuesday, November 22; 20:30-22:00
8th Week: Muammar Gaddafi and Western Intelligence
Professor Christopher Andrew, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, University of Cambridge, Official Historian of the Security Service (MI5)
Monday, November 28; 20:30-22:00
HILARY
1st Week: Professor Walter Russell Mead, Editor-at-Large, The American Interest; James Clark Chase Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities, Bard College
American Century 2.0? Prospects for American Power
Wednesday, January 18: 20:30-22:00
2nd Week: Colonel Paul Yingling, Professor of Security Studies; Deputy Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies
The Decline and Fall of the American Military Profession
Tuesday, January 24: 20:30-22:00
3rd Week: Lieutenant General Sir Robert Fry KCB, CBE, Executive Chairman, McKinney Rogers Group, Former Deputy Commanding General, Multi National Force-Iraq
A Decade of War: How have we done?
Wednesday, February 1: 20:30-22:00
4th Week: Lieutenant General Christopher Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Plans and Programs, US Air Force
Title TBC
Thursday, February 9: 20:30-22:00
5th Week: TBA
6th Week: Rear Admiral Ian Corder, Commander Submarines North, NATO
Title TBA
Tuesday, February 21: 20:30-22:00
7th Week: Brigadier Benjamin Barry, Senior Fellow for Land Warfare, International Institute for Strategic Studies
Land Warfare since 9/11: Trends and future Challenges
Tuesday, February 28: 20:30-22:00
8th Week: Dr David Betz, Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
Why Fear the Wiccans? The Strategic Latency of Networked Social Movements
Tuesday, March 6: 20:30-22:00
2010/2011
MICHAELMAS
1st Week: Sir Kevin Tebbit KCB CMG, Chairman, Finmeccanica UK, Visiting Professor of History, Queen Mary, University of London, Former Permanent Under-Secretary of State, UK Ministry of Defence, Former Director, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)
National Security
Tuesday, October 12; 20:30-22:00
2nd Week: Ms Margaret Gilmore, Senior Research Fellow in Homeland Security, Royal United Services Institute, Former Senior Home Affairs Correspondent, BBC News
The Future of Policing
Tuesday, October 19; 20:30-22:00
3rd Week: Commander Simon Atkinson RN, Senior Research Fellow, UK Defence Academy & University of Cambridge, Systems Policy Adviser to the Royal Naval Staff, Member, Strategic Advisory Forum to the UK Chief of the Defence Staff
The Factionalising of Grand Strategy and the SDSR
Tuesday, October 26; 20:30-22:00
4th Week: Professor Anand Menon, Professor of West European Politics & Founding Director of the ERI, University of Birmingham, Special Adviser to the EU Committee, House of Lords
Dysfunctional Institutions: The Limits of EU Security Policy
Tuesday, November 2; 20:30-22:00
5th Week: Dr Patrick Porter, Senior Lecturer, Department of Defence Studies, King’s College London and UK Joint Services Command and Staff College
The Fragile Republic: American Vulnerability and Lippmann’s Pessimism, Then and Now
Tuesday, November 9; 20:30-22:00
6th Week: Mr Tim Cooper CFA, Global Economic Strategist, Business Monitor International
The Rise of Emerging Markets and the Shift of Power in the World Economy
Tuesday, November 16; 20:30-22:00
7th Week: Lieutenant General Sir Graeme Lamb KBE CMG DSO (Retd), Senior Adviser on Counterinsurgency, ISAF Command Afghanistan, Former Commander Field Army, UK Land Forces AND Lieutenant Colonel Richard Williams MBE MC (Retd), Former Commander, 22 SAS Regiment
Upgrading our Armed Forces for the Information Age
Tuesday, November 23; 20:30-22:00
8th Week: Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope GCB OBE ADC, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, Royal Navy
The Royal Naval Contribution to UK Defence and Security
Tuesday, November 30; 20:30-22:00
HILARY
1st Week: Mr Paul Johnston, HM Ambassador to Stockholm (from Summer 2011)
International Security: Challenges and Changes in 2011
Tuesday, January 18; 20:30-22:00
2nd Week: Professor Anthony King, Head of Sociology Department, University of Exeter
From the Rhine to the Hindu Kush: The Transformation of Europe’s Armed Forces
Tuesday, January 25; 20:30-22:00
3rd Week: Dr Steve Tsang, Professorial Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford
China and Taiwan: Is War Now Unthinkable?
Tuesday, February 1; 20:30-22:00
4th Week: Lieutenant Colonel Richard Morales, US Army, US Army PhD Fellow, University of Cambridge, Former White House and NASA Staff Officer
Learning from Failure: A Soldier’s Strategic, Operational and Tactical Perspective
Tuesday, February 8; 20:30-22:00
5th Week: Professor Itamar Rabinovich, Former Israeli Ambassador to Washington and Chief Negotiator with Syria
The Shifting Arab-Israeli Security Equation
Monday, February 14; 20:30-22:00
AND
Professor Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War, All Souls College, Oxford; Director, Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War; Senior Member, Oxford University Strategic Studies Group
Clausewitz Today
Tuesday, February 15; 20:30-22:00
6th Week: Dr Timo Noetzel, Research Group Leader at the Centre of Excellence, University of Konstanz, Senior Policy Advisor to the Chairman of the Munich Security Conference
Adapting to War amid Political and Strategic Inertia: Germany and Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
Tuesday, February 22; 20:30-22:00
7th Week: Rt Hon The Baroness Neville-Jones DCMG PC, UK Minister of State for Security and Counterterrorism, Former Chairman, UK Joint Intelligence Committee
National Security
Tuesday, March 1; 20:30-22:00
8th Week: Brigadier General Meir Elran IDF (Retd), Director, Homeland Security Programme, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University, Former Deputy Director of Military Intelligence, Israel Defense Forces AND Professor Patricia Longstaff, James Martin Senior Visiting Fellow, Oxford Martin School; Levidow Professor of Communication Law and Policy, Syracuse University
Societal Resilience in the Context of Counterterrorism: The Israeli Case
Tuesday, March 8; 20:30-22:00
2009/2010
MICHAELMAS
First Week: Spacepower: A Path to Peace, Prosperity, and Survival
Col. M.V. ‘Coyote’ Smith, US Air Force
Associate Director, Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense Studies at the US Air Force Academy, and PhD student of strategic studies at the University of Reading. Former Chief, Future Concepts, Pentagon’s National Security Space Office.
Tuesday, 13 October, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Second Week: India’s Grand Strategy: Three Schools of Thought
Professor Kanti Bajpai
Professor in the Politics and International Relations of South Asia, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies and Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
Tuesday, 20 October, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Third Week: Pakistan: Internal Instability and State Failure
Dr Shaun Gregory
Director, Pakistan Security Research Unit, University of Bradford]
Tuesday, 27 October, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College [This seminar has been postponed to Hilary Term.
Fourth Week: Zimbabwe and the Horn of Africa: Back to the Future?
Dr Knox Chitiyo
Head, Africa Programme, Royal United Services Institute
Tuesday, 3 November, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Fifth Week: Event to be confirmed
Tuesday, 10 November, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Sixth Week: Insiders and Outsiders in Peacebuilding: What Sort of Collaboration?
Ms Carolyn Hayman OBE
Chief Executive Officer, PeaceDirect
Tuesday, 17 November, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Seventh Week: Use of Force on the High Seas
Capt. Rupert Hollins, Royal Navy
Assistant Head (Legal), Development, Doctrine and Concepts Unit, UK
Tuesday, 24 November, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Eighth Week: We are not the Afrikakorps: The EU’s Military Operation in Chad and Central African Republic
Bjoern H. Seibert
Visiting Scholar, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, and Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute
Tuesday, 1 December, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
HILARY
First Week: Military Adaptation and the British in Helmand, 2006-2009
Professor Theo Farrell
Professor of War in the Modern World Department of War Studies, King’s College London.
Tuesday, 19 January, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Second Week: Basra: Misperception and Enlightenment
Col. Richard Iron
Defence Fellow, University of Oxford Chief Mentor to Basra Operations Commander 2007-2008
Tuesday, 26 January, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Third Week: The Russians in Afghanistan: Lessons from History or This Time it will be Different
Ambassador Sir Rodric Braithwaite, GCMG
Author and Diplomat British Ambassador to USSR/Russia 1988-1992
Tuesday, 2 February, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Fourth Week: A Lunatic Bargain: Sacrificing Pakistan for Afghanistan
Professor Anatol Lieven
Journalist, Author, and Policy Analyst Chair, International Relations and Terrorism Studies, King’s College London
Tuesday, 9 February, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Life with the Taliban: The Inside View from Kandahar
Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn
Journalists, and Editors of ‘My Life with the Taliban‘
Thursday, 11 February, 5:30 pm, Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Fifth Week: Threats and Responses: identifying strategies in an insecure world
Dr Deborah Goodwin
Senior Lecturer, Department of Communication Studies, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst Winner, 2009 UN Commendation for Work in Negotiation
Wednesday, 17 February, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Full Day Field Trip to RAF Molesworth*** Tour and Roundtable with analysts from: Intelligence Fusion Centre (IFC); Intelligence and Knowledge Development, USAFRICOM; and the Joint Analysis Center (USEUCOM)
Thursday, 18 February
Sixth Week: Success, Legitimacy, and the Multidimensional Trinity
Professor James Gow
Director, International Peace and Security Programme, King’s College London
Tuesday, 23 February, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Seventh Week: Skyful of Lies and Black Swans: The Information Challenge to Institutions of Government and Corporate Power in a Major Crisis
Mr Nik Gowing
Presenter, BBC World News
Tuesday, 2 March, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Eighth Week: The Future Security Environment: Emerging Trends Affecting Western Land Forces
Maj. Andrew Godefroy, PhD, Canadian Army
Visiting Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Tuesday, 9 March, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
2008/2009
MICHAELMAS
First Week: Osama bin Laden’s Jihad: Means and Ends
Dr Alia Brahimi Research Associate in International Relations Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War, Oxford
Tuesday, 14 October, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Second Week: Security in the Persian Gulf [title TBC]
Dr Mamoun Fandy Senior Fellow for Gulf Security, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London
Tuesday, 21 October, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Third Week: The Russian-Georgian War: Implications for International Security
Ms Oksana Antonenko Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London
Tuesday, 28 October, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Fourth Week: U.S. Election Special – President (Obama/McCain) and the Future of American Foreign Policy
Professor Rob Singh, Birkbeck, University of London
Wednesday, 5 November*, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Fifth Week: The War in Afghanistan
Dr Antonio Giustozzi Research Fellow, Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics
Tuesday, 11 November, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Sixth Week: How Endangered is Pakistan?
Professor Anatol Lieven Department of War Studies, King’s College London
Tuesday, 18 November, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Seventh Week: Domestic Politics and Iranian Foreign Policy
Professor Ali Ansari Associate Fellow, Middle East Programme, Chatham House
Tuesday, 25 November, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Eighth Week: Policy Planning in the Foreign Office [title TBC]
Mr David Frost, CMG, Director for Strategy and Policy Planning, British Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Tuesday, 2 December, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
HILARY
First Week: No meeting this week.
Tuesday, 20 January, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Second Week: The Geopolitics of the Risk Age
Professor Christopher Coker, Department of International Relations, London School of Economics
Tuesday, 27 January, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Third Week: The Conflict in Gaza: Implications for the Peace Process
Mr Yossi Mekelberg Associate Fellow, Middle East Programme, Chatham House
Tuesday, 3 February, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Fourth Week: Should Women Serve in Combat Roles? The British Army in Comparative Perspective
Professor Christopher Dandeker, Co-Director, King’s Centre for Military Health Research, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
Tuesday, 10 February, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Fifth Week: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan
Dr John Nagl, President of the Center for a New American Security, Washington, D.C.
Thursday, 19 February*, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Sixth Week: A Falklands War Retrospective: Strategy, Tactics, Decisive Points
Commodore Steven Jermy, Royal Navy, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
Tuesday, 24 February, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Seventh Week: ‘To kill or not to kill’: Is the Principle of Distinction Still Relevant?
Professor Charles Garraway, CBE Associate Fellow, Chatham House Formerly UK Army Legal Services
Tuesday, 3 March, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Eighth Week: Iraq: The Military Legacy
Lieutenant General Sir Robert Fry, KCB CBE Former Commandant General, Royal Marines
Tuesday, 10 March, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
2007/2008
MICHAELMAS
First Week: New Challenges for Modern Warriors
Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely, KCB MC, Director, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom
Tuesday, 9 October, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Second Week: The Demands on a Modern Military: Lessons from Israel’s Summer 2006 Engagement with Hezbollah
Professor Shai Feldman, Director, Crown Centre for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University
Tuesday, 16 October, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Third Week: British Military Strategy in the Evolving Security Environment
Michael Codner, Director of Military Sciences, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
Tuesday, 23 October, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Fourth Week: Energy Security: Why the Nuclear Deal is Important for India
Rear Admiral Rakesh Chopra, VSM, PhD, Professor of Strategy, XLRI Jamshedpur and Senior Visiting Research Fellow CCW Programme Oxford
Tuesday, 30 October, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Fifth Week: Russia: New Confrontations?
Anne Aldis, Head of the Conflict Studies Research Centre Defence Academy of the United Kingdom
Tuesday, 6 November, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Sixth Week: Security and the role of urban space in contested Jerusalem
Dr Wendy Pullan Senior lecturer in Architecture at the University of Cambridge and Director of the “Conflict in Cities” research project in Jerusalem
Tuesday, 13 November, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Seventh Week: The risks of strategic failure in the Middle East
Sir Jeremy Greenstock CGMG, Director, The Ditchley Foundation Former British Ambassador to the United Nations in New York and Her Majesty’s former Special Representative in Iraq
Tuesday, 20 November, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Eighth Week: Event TBA
Tuesday, 27 November, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
HILARY
First Week: The impact of development and stabilization programmes on attitude change in the Afghanistan campaign
Dr Stuart Gordon, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
Tuesday, 15 January, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Second Week: Africa’s growing strategic relevance
Mr Alex Vines, Head of Africa Programme, Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs
Tuesday, 22 January, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Third Week: State-building in the 21st century: Private Security Companies are no longer optional
Mr Andy Bearpark, CBE, Director General, British Association of Private Security Companies (BAPSC)
Tuesday, 29 January 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Fourth Week: The Iraq Campaign [title TBC]
Colonel Richard D. Hooker Jr., PhD, US National Security Council
Tuesday, 5 February, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Fifth Week: Security and the role of urban space in contested Jerusalem
Dr Wendy Pullan Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Cambridge and Principal Investigator for “Conflict in Cities and the Contested State”
Tuesday, 12 February 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Sixth Week: The place of humanitarian assistance in ‘three-block wars’
Sir Michael Aaronson, CBE Senior concept developer with NATO Director General Save the Children (1997-2005)
Tuesday, 19 February, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Seventh Week: Media and War [title TBC]
Mr Ben Hammersley, Freelance Journalist (BBC, The Guardian, The Times)
Tuesday, 26 February, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Eighth Week: The dynamics of British military transformation
Professor Theo Farrell, King’s College, London
Tuesday, 4 March, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
2006/2007
MICHAELMAS
First Week: The Future Strategic Context for Defence
Rear Admiral C.J. Parry, CBE Director General – Development, Concepts, & Doctrine Ministry of Defence, Shrivenham
Tuesday, 10 October, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Second Week: The Iraq Crisis & the Western Alliance
Professor Marc Trachtenberg Professor of Political Science, University of California-Los Angeles
Tuesday, 17 October, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Third Week: The Strategic Implications of Nuclear Energy
Mr. Dipesh Shah Former Chief Executive Officer, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Chairman, Viridian Group PLC
Tuesday, 24 October, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Fourth Week: The Role of Military Operations in Shaping the Future of Afghanistan
Colonel Christopher Langton Head of Defence Analysis & Research Fellow for Russia/CISInternational Institute for Strategic Studies
Tuesday, 31 October, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Fifth Week: The London Ricin Cell
Dr. Glen Segell Director, Institute for Security Policy
Tuesday, 7 November, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Sixth Week: Are Lawyers Encircling the Military?
Dr. Christopher Waters School of Law & Deputy Director, Centre for Euro-Asian Studies University of Reading
Tuesday, 14 November, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Seventh Week: Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy
Dr. Olin Robison President, Salzburg Seminar President Emeritus, Middlebury College
Tuesday, 21 November, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Eighth Week: Maritime Security & the Role of NATO
Rear Admiral Hubert Hass (GE N) Chief of Staff to Commander, Allied Maritime Component Command Northwood
Tuesday, 28 November, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
HILARY
First Week: After Iraq and Lebanon: Does War Work for the West?
Professor Martin Shaw Professor of International Relations & Politics University of Sussex
Tuesday, 16 January, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Second Week: Britain’s Counterinsurgency Experience in Northern Ireland
Col. David Benest Director of Security Studies and Resilience, Defence Academy
Tuesday, 23 January, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Third Week: America’s Global Role After Bush
Professor Bruce Jentleson Professor of Public Policy & Political Science, Duke University Visiting Research Fellow, Changing Character of War Programme
Tuesday, 30 January, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Fourth Week: The Costs of Failing States & the Limits to Sovereignty
Professor Paul CollierDirector, Centre for the Study of African Economies Professor of Economics, Oxford University
Tuesday, 6 February, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Fifth Week: Britain’s Independent Strategic Nuclear Deterrent
Dr. Lee Willett Head of Military Capabilities Programme, Military Sciences Department, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
Tuesday, 13 February, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Sixth Week: The Law of Unintended Consequences: Recruiting for Terrorism
Sir Ivor Roberts, KCMG, MA Oxford, FCIL Master of Trinity College, Oxford University Former UK Ambassador to Italy, Yugoslavia, & Ireland
Tuesday, 20 February, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Seventh Week: Techno-War in Iraq: The Rumsfeld Record & a British Perspective
General the Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank GCB LVO OBE Former Chief of Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence With Mr. Simon Head,
Senior Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University
Tuesday, 27 February, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Eighth Week: Visit to Defence Intelligence Staff
TRINITY
First Week: The Navy is the principle casualty of the death of grand strategy in the UK and also the origin of its failure.
Commander Simon Reay Atkinson UK Defence Academy Senior Research Fellow and Asymmetric Campaign Cluster Director
Tuesday, 24 April, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Second Week: Economic Development: Is China’s Model Sustainable and Transferable?
Robert C. Haywood Director, World Economic Processing Zones Association
Tuesday, 1 May, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Third Week: Contemporary Piracy
Nigel JF Dawson, Lt Cdr RN Hudson Fellow, Exeter College
Tuesday, 8 May, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Fourth Week: Nuclear proliferation in Iran and North Korea and the black market network that helped them both
Mark Fitzpatrick Senior Fellow for Non-Proliferation International Institute for Strategic Studies
Tuesday, 15 May, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Fifth Week: Environmental Security
Professor Norman Myers, CMG, MA (PhD. Berkeley) Honorary Visiting Fellow, Green College
Tuesday, 22 May, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Sixth Week: Traditions of War
Dr Karma Nabulsi Lecturer in International Relations, Oxford University Fellow in Politics, St Edmund Hall
Tuesday, 29 May, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Seventh Week
Dr Jamie MacIntosh(incoming) Head of the Defence Academy’sAdvanced Research and Assessment Group
Tuesday, 5 June, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Eighth Week: No event due to exams
2005/2006
MICHAELMAS
1st Week: Sir Crispin Tickell GCMG KCVO, Former British Permanent Representative to the UN (1987-90)
The Need for International Rules
Tuesday, October 11, 20:30-22:00
2nd Week: Speaker TBD
3rd Week: Major General (Retd) Jonathan Bailey CB MBE PhD, Director, Centre for Defence and International Security Studies
Strategy and Campaigning: Ends, Ways, and Means
Tuesday, October 25, 20:30-22:00
4th Week: Speaker TBD
5th Week: Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman KCMG CBE FBA FKC; Vice-Principal, and Professor of War Studies, King’s College London
Can a War on Terror be Won?
Tuesday, November 8, 20:30-22:00
6th Week: Dr. Farhan Nizami, Founding Director, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Title TBC
Tuesday, November 15, 20:30-22:00
7th Week: Dr. Julia Cleves, Chief UNAIDS Advisor to the ‘AIDS in Africa: Scenarios for the Future’ Project AND Dr. Angela Wilkinson, Shell International Ltd; Project Manager, UNAIDS in Africa Project
AIDS in Africa: Three Scenarios to 2025
Tuesday, November 22, 20:30-22:00
8th Week: Dr. Elizabeth Teague, Eastern Research Group, FCO
How the Russian Leadership Sees the Outside World
Tuesday, November 29, 20:30-22:00
9th Week: Captain Thomas Crompton, US Navy, Director, Information AcquisitionDirectorate, Office of Naval Intelligence
Global Maritime Security Threats and Challenges
Thursday, December 8, 20:30-22:00
HILARY
First Week: The Al Saud and the Future of Saudi Arabia
Colonel (Ret) Brian Lees LVO OBE
Senior Adviser, Capital Advisory Group, Riyadh; former British Defence Attaché in Saudi Arabia and Yemen (1975-1979); and author of The Al Saud, Ruling Family of Saudi Arabia
Tuesday, 17 January, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Second Week: Speaker TBD
Tuesday, 24 January, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Third Week: Regulating the Private Security Industry
Dr. Sarah Percy, Research Associate, Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War
Tuesday, 31 January, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Fourth Week: The Evolution of Insurgency
Colonel Thomas X. Hammes, USMC (Ret), Former Senior Military Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University; and author of The Sling and The Stone: On War in the Twenty-First Century
Tuesday, 7 February, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Fifth Week: China’s Security Policy through a Keyhole: Taiwan
Dr. Steve Tsang, Louis Cha Senior Research Fellow in Modern Chinese Studies; and Director, The Pluscarden Programme for the Study of Global Terrrorism and Intelligence, St Antony’s College
Tuesday, 14 February, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Sixth Week: Intelligence Analysis Comes Out of the Cold–the post-Butler World
Mr. John Tolson, Head of Strategic Futures & Analysis Development, Ministry of Defence
Tuesday, 21 February, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Seventh Week: Maritime Natural Disaster Response: Towards a Coordinated International Support Strategy
Captain Graham Peach, RN Senior Hudson Fellow, St Antony’s College
Tuesday, 28 February, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Eighth Week: Future EU Enlargement — Western Balkans at the Doorstep of the EU
H.E. Mr Iztok Mirošič Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia to the United Kingdom; and Permanent Representative to the International Maritime Organization
Tuesday, 7 March, 8:30pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
TRINITY
First Week: Challenges of Government in West Africa
HE Martin Ziguele Independent Consultant Former Prime Minister, Central African Republic
Tuesday, 25 April, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Second Week: Torture: Why No Middle Way is Open
Professor Henry Shue Professor of International Relations, Oxford University Senior Research Fellow, Merton College
Tuesday, 2 May, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Third Week: Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy
Dr. Olin Robison President, Salzburg Seminar President Emeritus, Middlebury College
Tuesday, 9 May, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Fourth Week: Event Cancelled
Fifth Week:
In lieu of our regular meeting, the OUSSG would like to invite its members to attend the Annual Lecture of the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War, to be held on this date at 5pm. The lecture will be given by Dr. John Reid, Secretary of State for Defence. Further details will be forthcoming on our website.
Sixth Week: Nuclear Realities and Risks in South Asia
Sir Michael Quinlan Former Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War
Tuesday, 30 May, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College
Seventh Week: Event Cancelled
Eighth Week: Al Jazeera: Mouthpiece for Terror
Mr. Hugh Miles Freelance writer and journalist, Author of Al Jazeera: How Arab TV News Challenged the World
Tuesday, 13 June, 8:30 pm in the Old Library, All Souls College