On Tuesday 5th July, we were delighted to welcome back to GSF Professor Ali Ansari, Professor of Iranian History and Founding Director of the Institute for Iranian Studies, University of St Andrews. In the final event of our 2015-2016 series, he gave Continue reading
On Tuesday 28th June, we were deeply honoured to have the opportunity to welcome to GSF His Excellency Mr. Matthew W. Barzun, Ambassador of the United States of America to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He spoke Continue reading
On Wednesday 15th June, we were very pleased to welcome to GSF Brendan Simms, Professor of the History of European International Relations at the University of Cambridge. In the second event of our ‘Europe’ week, he gave a lecture entitled Continue reading
On Tuesday 14th June, GSF was delighted to call upon the enormous experience and wisdom of our Advisory Board to discuss the momentous choice before Britain and the profound political, economic, diplomatic and constitutional implications arising from the forthcoming EU referendum, Continue reading
On Tuesday 7th June, we were delighted to welcome Professor Michael Mandelbaum, Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy, The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Washington DC, to GSF to give a lunchtime lecture entitled ‘The Past, Present And Continue reading
On Tuesday 17th May, we were very pleased to welcome Peter Oborne, the former chief political commentator of The Telegraph and Professor Eugene Rogan, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford and Director of the Middle East Centre Continue reading
On Tuesday 10th May, we were deeply privileged to have our Advisory Board member, HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, deliver the second of GSF’s lectures in our tenth anniversary series, entitled ‘Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants: Commemorating The First Continue reading
We were delighted that Lord Lothian delivered GSF’s 10th anniversary lecture at the National Liberal Club on Wednesday 4th May 2016. His lecture was entitled ‘The International Implications Of Half-Baked Foreign Policy’. The event was chaired by Lord Stirrup, who Continue reading
On Tuesday 26th April, we were delighted to welcome back to GSF Sir Tony Brenton, UK Ambassador to Russia (2004-2008); and to welcome to GSF Charles Clover, Financial Times China correspondent, former FT Moscow bureau chief, and author of Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Continue reading
We were delighted to welcome Professor Michael Cox, Director of LSE IDEAS: and Dr Nicholas Kitchen, Executive Director of the LSE Diplomacy Commission to GSF. They discussed the conclusions of Investing for Influence, the recent report of the LSE Diplomacy Continue reading