Building A Global Britain – Strategy For A World Of Unpredictability And Disorder
Webinar - USA, UK
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Webinar Recording
This is the third webinar in the Global Britain – Polarisation, Grey Zone and Hybrid Conflict project, part of the Cityforum Intelligent Defence and Smart Power series. Held in association with Z/Yen and chaired by Professor Michael Mainelli, Executive Chairman of Z/Yen Group and Alderman & Sheriff of the City of London 2019-2021.
In this webinar, we will be asking the following questions:
- What can we expect from the Biden presidency?
- Can we define the shape of the Global Britain concept?
- What is the future for alliances?
- Can we rebuild values, integrity of information, and trust?
Discussants:
Dr Anthony H Cordesman is the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at CSIS. During his time at CSIS, Cordesman has been director of the Gulf Net Assessment Project and the Gulf in Transition Study, as well as principal investigator of the CSIS Homeland Defense Project. He has led studies on national missile defense, asymmetric warfare and weapons of mass destruction, and critical infrastructure protection. He directed the CSIS Middle East Net Assessment Project and codirected the CSIS Strategic Energy Initiative. He is the author of a wide range of studies on U.S. security policy, energy policy, and Middle East policy and has served as a consultant to the Departments of State and Defense during the Afghan and Iraq wars. He served as part of General Stanley McChrystal’s civilian advisory group during the formation of a new strategy in Afghanistan and has since acted as a consultant to various elements of the U.S. military and NATO. Current projects include ongoing analysis of the security situation in the Gulf, U.S. strategic competition with Iran, the conflicts in Syria and Iraq, a net assessment of the Indian Ocean region, Chinese military developments and U.S. and Asian assessments of these developments, changes in the nature of modern war, and assessments of U.S. defense strategy, programs, and budgets. His recent paper, "Setting New U.S. Strategic Priorities for a Post-Trump World" (9 November 2020) is well worth reading as the world looks to a new Biden Administration.
Ms Madeleine Moon represented the Bridgend constituency at Westminster from 2005 to 2019. She joined the Defence Select Committee in 2009. She chaired sub-committees reporting on the safety and welfare of military personnel on training and exercises, the use of Remotely Piloted Air Systems and defence in the Arctic. Madeleine was a member of the UK Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly from 2010, serving as a member of the Defence and Security Committee. She was elected President in November 2018. Since leaving Westminster Madeleine has continued to work defence facing organisations including Cityforum and joined the European Leadership Network.
Mr Carl Miller is a technology author and researcher. His first book is The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab. An examination of the new centres of power and control in the twenty-first century, it was published by Penguin Random House in August 2018. In 2012 he co-founded the first UK think tank institute dedicated to studying the digital world at DEMOS, and has written for the Economist, Wired, New Scientist, the Sunday Times, the Telegraph and the Guardian. He’s also a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London.
Dr Catarina P Thomson is Senior Lecturer in Security and Strategic Studies in the Politics Department of the University of Exeter. Her background is in clinical psychology and international relations. Her recent work compares the foreign policy attitudes of security elites and the general public in the UK, Europe, and the United States. Her work has been funded by the American National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Defense’s Minerva Research Initiative, and the Economic and Social Research Council among others.
Speaker(s):
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Anthony H Cordesman
Author of its Commentary ‘Setting New US Strategic Priorities for a Post-Trump World’ and Chair in Strategy
CSIS Washington DC
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Madeleine Moon
Former Chair NATO Parliamentary Assembly and Associate
Cityforum
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Carl Miller
Author of ‘The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab’
DEMOS
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Dr Catarina P Thomson
Senior Lecturer in Security and Strategic Studies
Exeter University
Chairman:
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Professor Michael Mainelli
Executive Chairman
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