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Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
Programme
0830 Registration and Coffee
0900 Welcome Remarks
Speakers:
Professor Michael Clarke, Director, Royal United Services Institute
Professor G John Ikenberry, Albert G Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs,
Princeton University
Simon Allan, Partner, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP
0915 Keynote Address: The House that NATO Built
Chair: Professor Michael Clarke, Director, Royal United Services Institute
Speaker:
Ambassador Ivo Daalder, United States Permanent Representative, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
1000 Session One: New British Government, New Approach to Partnerships?
Chair: Dr William Inboden, Distinguished Scholar, Strauss Center for International Security and Law, University of Texas-Austin
Speakers:
Jon Day, Director-General, Security Policy, Ministry of Defence
David Frost, Director of the Strategy, Policy Planning and Analysis Department, Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Sir Christopher Meyer, British Ambassador to the United States, 1997-2003
1130 Coffee break
1200 Session Two: NATO in Crisis? Strategy in Afghanistan
Chair: Dr Dana Allin, Senior Fellow fopr US Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Affairs and Editor, Survival, IISS
Speakers:
Dr Stephen Biddle, Roger Hertog Senior Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Professor Christopher Coker, Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics
Dr Nikolas K Gvosdev, Professor, National Security Decision-Making, US Naval War College
1330 Lunch
1430 Session Three: China’s Rise in Western Grand Strategy Debates
Chair: Nicholas Carn, Partner, Odey Asset Management
Speakers:
Professor David Shambaugh, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director, China Policy Program, George Washington University
Alexander Neill, Head, Asia Programme, Royal United Services Institute
1520 Session Four: Pressure and Diplomacy: Iran and the Middle East
Chair: Christopher Dickey, Paris Bureau Chief, Middle East Regional Editor, Newsweek International
Speakers:
Steven E Miller, Director, International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, International
Security; Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
Barak Seener, Middle East Director, Henry Jackson Society
1620 Coffee break
1645 Session Five: Mid-Term Audit: Has Obama's Foreign Policy Worked?
Chair: Stryker McGuire, Editor, LSE Research at the London School of Economics, Contributing Editor, Newsweek
Speakers:
Professor Michael Cox, Professor of International Relations, Director of LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics
Professor G John Ikenberry, Albert G Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
Steve Clemons, Senior Fellow and Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation
1800 Closing Reception
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