June 2006

Discussion meeting - Kevin M. Woods On Friday 30 June 2006 at 1.30 pm Kevin M. Woods, Research Staff Member at the Institute for Defense Analyses Joint Advanced Warfighting Program and Project Leader on the Iraqi Perspectives Project, will make a brief presentation of the Project. There will be an opportunity for discussion and comments from the floor after the presentation.
Address-HE Mr Sabiluddin Ahmed On Friday 30 June 2006 H.E Mr Sabihuddin Ahmend, High Commissioner for Bangladesh to the UK, will speak on "Bangladesh: Challenges and Opportunities in a Globalised World". The meeting will begin at 12.30 pm and conclude at 1.30pm. The 'Envoys Forum', launched in January 2004, aims to encourage interaction between resident South Asian heads of mission in the UK/Europe and the UK strategic community. This is an occasional series of High Commissioner/Ambassador-level talks and H.E...
Address - Dr Adil Abdul Mahdi On Thursday 29 June 2006 Dr Adil Abdul Mahdi, Vice President of Iraq, will speak on "Iraq and Its' Neighbourhood". The talk will begin at 6pm and questions and comments will be invited from the floor. The meeting is scheduled to last for one hour.
Discussion meeting - Dr Philip Gordon On Tuesday 27 June 2006 Dr Philip Gordon, Director, Centre on the United States and Europe, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution spoke on "The Rise and Fall of the Bush Doctorine".
Address-Mikhail Kasyanov On Monday 26 June 2006 Mikhail Kasyanov, former Russian Prime Minister, will deliver a talk on "Russia's G8 Presidency: Challenges and Opportunites". The talk will begin at 11.00am and afterwards questions and comments will be invited from the floor. The meeting is scheduled to last one and a half hours.
Discussion meeting - Mr. Stevenson On Wednesday 21 June 2006, Mr Charles A. Stevenson, noted expert and analyst on American security, will discuss his new book on "U.S. Civil-Military Relations Under Stress". Mr Stevenson will discuss the Rumsfeld-Generals clash in historical context. The talk will begin at 2.00pm and there will follow an opportunity for questions and comments from the floor.
Corporate Members Programme - Dr Mamoun Fandy On Friday 16 June 2006 Dr Mamoun Fandy, IISS Senior Fellow for Gulf Security, will speak on "Future Trends and Prospects for the Middle East". Tea and coffee will be served from 10am. The Talk will begin at 10:30 am with a Q & A session from 11:15 am. The meeting will conclude at 12 noon.
Discussion meeting - Amb Evan G Galbraith On Monday 12 June 2006 Ambassador Evan G Galbraith, Secreatary of Defense Representaive, Europe and Defense Advisor, U.S. Mission to NATO will speak on 'A NATO Missile Defense System Against Iran'. For the past five years, Ambassador Evan G Galbraith has served as Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's representative in Europe and the defense advisor to the U.S. mission to NATO.
Roundtable discussion - Amb Zamir Akram On Monday 5 June 2006 Ambassador Zamir Akram, Additional Secretary, Prime Minister's Secretariat, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad will speak on "Regional Security Prespectives". The talk will begin at 12.00 noon, followed by a Q&A session and finish at 1pm.