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Six months out from the United States Presidential Elections, with Parliamentary elections also imminent in the United Kingdom, join us for an evening of discussion as to what the transatlantic partnership between these two countries means today. What will be the likely impact of the potential outcomes of the US/UK elections, and how are relations already shifting in a time of conflict and changing world order? Will the ‘special ...
More infoChair: Baroness Northover, Member of the Foreign Policy Centre’s Political Council
Anthony T. Silberfeld, Director, Transatlantic Relations, Bertelsmann Foundation
Dr Thomas Eason, Lecturer of Politics and International Relations in the Department of Politics, History, and International Relations, Aston University
Lois Toole, Senior Policy & Programme Manager, Coalition for Global Prosperity
Prashant Rao, Senior Editor, Semafor
With opening remarks from Susan Coughtrie, Director of the Foreign Policy Centre.
Please RSVP to events@fpc.org.uk.
Houses of Parliament
The SEPAD project and the Foreign Policy Centre (FPC) are delighted to announce ‘The Future of the Middle East’ conference to be held on Monday 24th June in London. Through the conference’s different panels and discussions, participants will examine the ways in which regional order has evolved, the (re)construction of transnational alliances, the salience of sectarian difference, the role of external powers, the future of diplomacy and what can be done to prevent further escalation ...
More infoTBA
In person, London (Venue TBC)
You can register interest here: events@fpc.org.uk.
The global struggle to protect free speech has reached a new fever pitch. The power of news media to act as a safeguard against tyranny has been critically undermined as…
A lively event in parliament this week discussed how Britain’s PR industry could stop ‘butlering to the world’: serving kleptocrats and some of the most corrupt people around.[1] As…
As 2024 dawned, the world found itself plunged into deeper socio-political upheaval, with ever more tumultuous events dominating global headlines. Overshadowed amongst these was the elections that took place in…
The London-based charity Justice for Journalists Foundation (JFJ), in partnership with the National Union of Journalists in Ukraine, has been collecting open-source evidence and satellite imagery of attacks on media…
Heading into the third year of Russia’s war in Ukraine, the Gulf Arab states - the six states comprising the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia…
In the two years since Russia’s unlawful invasion of Ukraine, policymakers in the Western block have made big statements of their intention to seize Russian oligarchic wealth in their countries.…
The Ukrainian army has been holding the Russian aggressor off for two years already. In its desire to destroy Ukraine at any cost, the Kremlin has spared neither its missiles…
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