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Wednesday 1 July 2009 17:30 to 18:30
Foreign Policy Challenges Facing India's New Government
Ambassador Rajiv Sikri, Former Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs, India: author, Challenge and Strategy: Rethinking India's Foreign Policy
Chair: Dr Marie Lall, Associate Fellow, Asia Programme, Chatham House
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Tuesday 30 June 2009 18:00 to 19:15
What Will the World Look Like in the Obama Era?
The Lord Garden Memorial Lecture
Lord Ashdown of Norton-Sub-Hamdon, Co-President, Chatham House
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Tuesday 23 June 2009 13:30 to 14:30
Navigating the Difficult Transition to Democracy
The Right Honourable Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister, Republic of Zimbabwe
Chair: Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick
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Thursday 18 June 2009 17:30 to 18:30
Europe and the United States: Between Fear and Hope
Dominique Moisi, Senior Advisor, Institut Francais des Relations Internationales; author, The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Thursday 18 June 2009 13:30 to 14:30
The Challenge of Europe
Glenys Kinnock, Minister for Europe
Chair: Dr Julie Smith, Deputy Director of the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge
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Wednesday 17 June 2009 11:00 to 12:00
Press Briefing: Iran's Election Turmoil
Professor Ali Ansari, Associate Fellow, Chatham House; Director of the Institute of Iranian Studies, St Andrews University;
Sir Richard Dalton, Associate Fellow, Chatham House; UK Ambassador to Iran (2002-06);
Dr Claire Spencer; Head, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House;
Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Tuesday 16 June 2009 08:00 to 09:00
A Guide to Your First Financial Crisis
Under 35s Forum
Gillian Tett, Associate Editor, Financial Times; author, Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe
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Monday 15 June 2009 17:30 to 18:30
A Global New Deal: Lessons From FDR's UN Projects
Speaker: Dr Dan Plesch, Director, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD)
Discussant: Professor Sir Richard Jolly, Honorary Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex; Assistant Secretary General, United Nations (1982-2000)
Chair: Professor William Barnard, Democrats Abroad UK
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Monday 15 June 2009 15:00 to 16:00
New Financial Architecture - Panacea or Chimera?
HE Jan Fischer, Prime Minister, Czech Republic; President-in-Office, European Council
Chair: Rt Hon Sir Malcolm Rifkind QC MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1995-97)
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Tuesday 9 June 2009 15:00 to 16:00
Africa: Weathering the Storm and Charting the Recovery
Lord Malloch-Brown, Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, FCO
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Monday 8 June 2009 17:30 to 18:30
Lebanon's Parliamentary Elections and their Implications for the Middle East
Hussain Abdul-Hussain, Visiting Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House; author, forthcoming Chatham House Briefing Paper, Confrontation through the Ballot Box: Middle East Elections and the US-Iranian Relationship
Roula Khalaf, Associate Editor and Middle East Editor, Financial Times
Chair: Nazenin Ansari, Diplomatic Editor, Kayhan (London)
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Monday 1 June 2009 17:30 to 18:30
Sri Lanka: Winning the Peace
Charu Lata Hogg, Associate Fellow, Asia Programme, Chatham House
Alan Keenan, Senior Analyst, International Crisis Group
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Thursday 28 May 2009 18:30 to 20:00
The Impact of the UK's Counter-Terrorism Agenda: At Home and Abroad
Under 35s Forum
Ed Husain, Co-Director and Co-Founder, Quilliam Foundation; author, The Islamist
Chair: Nadeem Kazmi, Founder and Director, The Britslam Partnership Ltd
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Thursday 28 May 2009 13:30 to 14:30
Drugs and Democracy: The War on Drugs and the Need for a New Way Forward
HE Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Former President of Brazil
Discussant: Mike Trace, Chairman, International Drug Policy Consortium
Moderator: Professor Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Associate Fellow, Americas, Chatham House
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Wednesday 20 May 2009 13:30 to 14:30
Bombs, Rockets and Succession - What is Happening in North Korea?
Aidan Foster-Carter, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology and Modern Korea, Leeds University
Dr Jim Hoare, Freelance Writer; Broadcaster on Korean Affairs; Chargé d'Affaires and HM Consul General, British Embassy Pyongyang (2001-2002)
Chair: Sir John Birch, Members Events Advisory Group, Chatham House
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Friday 15 May 2009 13:30 to 14:30
A Perspective on the Nature of Future Conflict
General Sir Richard Dannatt, Chief of the General Staff, British Army
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Thursday 14 May 2009 17:30 to 18:30
Georgia: Latest Developments and Future Prospects
HE Nikoloz Gilauri, Prime Minister, Georgia
Chair: Lord Wallace of Saltaire
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Monday 11 May 2009 13:30 to 14:30
The New Insurgent Landscape
David Kilcullen, Senior Fellow, Centre for a New American Security; Partner, Crumpton Group, a strategic advisory firm; Senior Advisor on Counterinsurgency to General David Petraeus and then Condoleeza Rice (2007-08); author of The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
Chair: Frank Gardner OBE, BBC Security Correspondent
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Wednesday 6 May 2009 17:30 to 18:30
'War on Terror' - The Idea, The Reality
Professor Philip Bobbitt, Herbert Wechsler Professor of Jurisprudence, Columbia Law School; author, Terror and Consent: The Wars for the 21st Century
Chair: Dr Paul Cornish, Head, International Security Programme, Chatham House and Carrington Chair in International Security
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Tuesday 5 May 2009 13:30 to 14:30
The Council of Europe: The Conscience of the Continent
Rt Hon Terry Davis, Secretary-General, Council of Europe
Chair: Dr Julie Smith, Deputy Director of the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge
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Tuesday 28 April 2009 17:30 to 18:30
South Africa after the Elections: Who are the Winners and Losers?
Andrew Feinstein, former ANC Member of Parliament and author
Chair: Merle Lipton, Associate Fellow, Africa Programme, Chatham House
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Tuesday 28 April 2009 13:30 to 14:30
The Commonwealth@60 - Serving A New Generation
HE Kamalesh Sharma, Commonwealth Secretary-General
Chair: Quentin Peel, International Affairs Editor, Financial Times
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Thursday 23 April 2009 17:30 to 18:30
'Resetting' with Moscow: Will it Work?
Dimitri K Simes, President, The Nixon Center and Director of the Commission on US Policy towards Russia
Chair: James Sherr, Head, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House
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Wednesday 22 April 2009 13:30 to 14:30
NATO's Transformation After Strasbourg-Kehl: A Romanian Perspective
HE Cristian Diaconescu, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Romania
Chair: Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP
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Tuesday 21 April 2009 17:30 to 18:30
The World's Most Dangerous Frontier
David Loyn, International Development Correspondent, BBC and author, Butcher and Bolt: Two Hundred Years of Foreign Engagement in Afghanistan
Chair: Sir John Birch, Members Events Advisory Group, Chatham House
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Tuesday 21 April 2009 13:30 to 14:30
Germany Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Joschka Fischer, German Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor (1998-2005)
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Thursday 16 April 2009 17:30 to 18:30
Islamist Movements in the Wider Middle East
David Gardner, Chief Leader Writer and Associate Editor, Financial Times; author, Last Chance: The Middle East in the Balance
Chair: Dr Claire Spencer, Head, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House
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Thursday 16 April 2009 13:30 to 14:30
Yemeni Detainees and Jihadis: Guantanamo Repatriation and Saudi Arabia
David Remes, Legal Director, Appeal for Justice
Dr Mai Yamani, author, Cradle of Islam: The Hijaz and the Quest for an Arabian Identity
Chair: Nadim Shehadi, Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House
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Wednesday 15 April 2009
How will a World Recession Affect Oil and Gas Investment, Supply and Demand?
Andrew Gould, Chairman, Schlumberger
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Friday 3 April 2009 09:00 to 10:00
The Global Economic Crisis and Turkey
HE Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Wednesday 1 April 2009 09:30 to 11:00
The London Summit: Multiple Perspectives on the G20
Dr Youssef Boutros-Ghali, Minister of Finance, Egypt; Chairman, International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC)
Lord Malloch-Brown, Prime Minister's Special Envoy for the G20 London Summit
Dan Price, Senior Partner for Global Issues, Sidley Austin
Stephen Roach, Chairman, Morgan Stanley Asia
Dr Paola Subacchi, Research Director, International Economics, Chatham House
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Thursday 26 March 2009 13:30 to 14:30
Thirty Years On: China and The World A Generation After Deng Xiaoping's Reforms
Jonathan Fenby, Author, Penguin History of Modern China
Chair: Dr Kerry Brown, Senior Fellow, Asia Programme, Chatham House
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Wednesday 25 March 2009 17:30 to 18:30
The Prospect of Secular Islamism: Turkey, Jordan, Syria and Palestine
Dr Khaled Hroub, Director, Cambridge Arab Media Project, University of Cambridge
Chair: Dr Noel Brehony, Chairman, Council for British Research in the Levant
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Wednesday 25 March 2009 13:30 to 14:30
Lebanon: Future of the Middle East
Saad Rafiq Hariri, Leader of the Future Movement Party, Lebanon
Chair: David MacLennan, Former British Ambassador to Lebanon, 1996-2000
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Thursday 12 March 2009 17:30 to 18:30
Serbia's European Ambitions
HE Bozidar Djelic, Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration and Minister for Science and Technological Development, Republic of Serbia
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Thursday 12 March 2009 11:00 to 12:00
The Kurdistan Region in Iraq: Future Prospects
HE Masoud Barzani, President, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Chair: Rt Hon Dr John Reid MP
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Thursday 12 March 2009 08:00 to 09:00
More Foreign, Less Office: Doing Diplomacy in the 21st Century
Under 35s Forum
James Bevan, Director-General for Change and Delivery, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chair: Zeina Al Khalifa, First Secretary, Embassy of the Kingdom of Bahrain
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Wednesday 11 March 2009 17:30 to 18:30
Afghanistan: Rhetoric and Reality
Rory Stewart, Harvard Professor and Head, Turquoise Mountain Foundation, Kabul and author, The Places in Between
Chair: Lyse Doucet, Presenter BBC World News; Council Member, Chatham House
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Tuesday 10 March 2009 18:00 to 19:00
Hunger is on the March: Building an Anti-Famine Mechanism for the 21st Century
Josette Sheeran, Executive Director, World Food Programme
Chair: Alex Evans, Non-Resident Fellow at NYU, Center on International Cooperation and author of the Chatham House Report: The Feeding of the Nine Billion
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Monday 9 March 2009 17:30 to 18:30
After the Russia-Ukraine Crisis, What Next?
Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Friday 6 March 2009 15:00 to 16:00
Somaliland's Role in the Stability of the Horn of Africa
President Dahir Rayale Kahin of Somaliland
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Tuesday 3 March 2009 13:30 to 14:30
Kosovo's Independence: One Year On
HE Skender Hyseni, Foreign Minister, Republic of Kosovo
Chair: Lord Wallace of Saltaire
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Tuesday 24 February 2009 18:00 to 19:00
A Bank for the World: The Role of the World Bank in Responding to the Financial Crisis and Building a Better Future
Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP, Secretary of State for International Development
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Tuesday 24 February 2009 13:30 to 14:30
Unstoppable? The Rise of the Global Mafia
Misha Glenny, Journalist and Author, McMafia: Seriously Organized Crime
Chair: Dr Paola Subacchi, Research Director, International Economics Programme, Chatham House
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Monday 23 February 2009 13:30 to 14:30
Closing in on the Enemy: Fighting Narcotics in Afghanistan
Colonel General Khodaidad, Minister of Counter Narcotics, Afghanistan
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Tuesday 17 February 2009 18:30 to 20:00
The Growth of Somali Piracy
Under 35s Forum
Roger Middleton, Consultant Researcher, Africa Programme, Chatham House; author, Chatham House Briefing Paper, Piracy in Somalia: Threatening Global Trade, Feeding Local Wars
Discussant: Colin Freeman, Chief Foreign Correspondent, Sunday Telegraph
Chair: Elizabeth Donnelly, Manager, Africa Programme, Chatham House
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Monday 16 February 2009 17:30 to 18:30
NATO in Afghanistan: Transatlantic Security and Canadian Defence Strategy
The Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay, Minister of National Defence, Canada
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Wednesday 11 February 2009 17:30 to 18:30
The Israeli Election: Back to the Future?
Yossi Mekelberg, International Relations and Social Sciences Director, Regent's College; Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House
Dr Ahron Bregman, Department of War Studies, King's College, London
Chair: Dr Claire Spencer, Head, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House
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Wednesday 4 February 2009 17:30 to 18:30
The Credit Crisis: The Best Thing that Could Happen for Africa's Development?
Dambisa Moyo, Economist and Author, Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa
Chair: Joel Kibazo, Associate Fellow, Africa Programme, Chatham House
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Wednesday 28 January 2009 17:30 to 18:30
Reconnecting with the Rule of Law: Constitutionality and Foreign Policy in the Obama Administration
Philippe Sands QC, Professor of Law, University College London; barrister, Matrix Chambers; Author; Torture Team: Deception, Cruelty and the Compromise of Law
David Cole, Centre for Transnational Legal Studies; Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Chair: Elizabeth Wilmshurst, Associate Fellow, International Law Programme, Chatham House
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Wednesday 28 January 2009 13:30 to 14:30
Gaza Crisis
Speakers include:
Ahmad Khalidi, Senior Associate Member, St Antony's College, Oxford; former Palestinian negotiator
Michel Massih QC
Chair: Sir Richard Dalton, Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme
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Tuesday 27 January 2009 09:00 to 12:00
Managing Global Insecurity
Keynote speaker:
Rt Hon David Miliband MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Respondents:
Sandy Berger, Chairman, Stonebridge International; former US National Security Advisor
Thomas Pickering, Vice Chairman, Hills & Company; former US Permanent Representative to the United Nations
Bruce Jones, Director, Center on International Cooperation, New York University
Stephen J Stedman, Senior Fellow, Center for International Security Cooperation, Stanford University
Anwar Choudhury, Director, International Institutions, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chairs:
Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
Carlos Pascual, Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution
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Monday 26 January 2009 13:30 to 14:30
Interpreting Current Trends in South Africa
Michael Spicer, CEO, Business Leadership South Africa.
Chair: Merle Lipton, Associate Fellow, Africa Programme, Chatham House
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Thursday 22 January 2009 17:30 to 18:30
Regaining the Initiative: Opportunities for the US Under President Obama
Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House; Author, forthcoming Chatham House Report, Rethinking the United States' International Role
Chair: Michael Moore MP, Council, Chatham House
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Tuesday 20 January 2009 18:30 to 19:30
President Obama: Key Challenges in the US Relationship with China
David Schlesinger, Editor-in-Chief, Reuters News
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Thursday 15 January 2009 18:00 to 19:00
Reflections on the US-UK Relationship
HE Robert H Tuttle, Ambassador of the United States to the UK
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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