Here you can find an overview of the past Annual Lectures run by the David Davies Memorial Institute. For other past events, please click HERE.
Year | Speaker and Lecture Title |
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2018 |
Anne Applebaum:
"A Tale of Two Journalists: Gareth Jones, Walter Duranty, and the Ukrainian Famine" |
2017 |
Professor Christopher Coker: “Still ‘The Human Thing’? Thucydides, Waltz, and the Future of War” |
2017 |
Stephen M. Walt: “US Grand Strategy After the Cold War: Can Realist Theory Explain It? Should Realism Guide It?” |
2017 |
Sir Lawrence Freedman: |
2016 |
Lord William Wallace: "Losing the Narrative: The United Kingdom and the European Union" |
2015 |
Dr. Rebecca Johnson: "Remember Humanity: Security Imperatives to Ban Nuclear Weapons" |
2015 |
Ted Hopf: |
2014 |
Professor Rosemary Hollis: "Britain and the Palestine Question, 1914-2014" |
2013 |
Thomas O. Melia: "Is it Realist to Think We Can Advance Democracy and Human Rights?" |
2012 |
Professor Norman Davies: "Is the European Union a Vanishing Kingdom?" |
2011 |
Professor Robert Jervis: "Force and World Politics in Our Era" |
2010 |
Des Browne: "The Importance of Political Leadership in Achieving a Nuclear Weapon Free World" |
2009 |
Dr. Meenakshi Gopinath: "Rescripting Security: Gender and Peacebuilding in South Asia" |
2008 |
Gareth Evans: "The Responsibility to Protect: An Idea Whose Time has Come...And Gone?" |
2007 |
John Gittings: "After Trident: Peace or Proliferation?" |
2006 |
Sir Jeremy Greenstock: "Globalisation or Polarisation: Where are we Heading?" |
2005 |
Sir Emyr Jones Parry: " |
1993 |
Margaret J. Anstee: "Angola: the Forgotten Tragedy a Test Case for UN Peacekeeping" |
1992 |
Claudio Caratsch: "Humanitarian Design and Political Interference: Red Cross Work in the Post-Cold War Period" |
1991 |
H.E. Dr. Ahmed Esmat Abdel-Meguid: "The Middle East at a Crossroad" |
1990 |
Jan Urban: "Democracy and Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe" |
1989 |
Dr. Martin Holdgate, CB: "The Environment of Tomorrow's World" |
1988 |
The Hon. Abba Eban: "Prospectes for Peace in the Middle East" |
1987 |
Dr. Garret FitzGerald: "Thoughts on Two Cultures: Learning to Live Together" |
1986 |
Sir Oliver Wright: "Anglo-American Relations: The Atlantic Grows Wider" |
1985 |
Professor Inis L. Claude Jr.: "Myths About the State" |
1985 |
Marice F. Strong: "Beyond the Famine: New Hope for Africa" |
1984 |
Crown Prince El Hassan Bin Talal: "Jordan's Quest for Peace in the Middle East" |
1983 |
Sir John Adams: "Scientists and Statesmen" |
1982 |
Michael Howard: "Weapons and Peace" |
1981 |
The Hon. George P. Shultz: "Risk, Uncertainty, and Foreign Economic Policy" |
1980 |
The Rt. Hon. Lord Carrington: "Interdependence and Revolution: The West in the World Today" |
1979 |
Dr. Guido Brunner: "Energy for an Independent Europe" |
1978 |
Professor Sir Hermann Bondi: "Defence and the Citizen" |
1976 |
The Rt. Hon. George Thomson: "Britain in Europe: The First Four Years and the Future" |
1975 |
Sir Michael Palliser: "Britain and British Diplomacy in a World of Change" |
1974 |
The Rt. Hon. Sir Alec Douglas-Home: "Britain's Changing Role in World Affairs" |
1972 |
Alexander King: "Another Kind of Growth: Industrial Society and the Quality of Life" |
1971 |
Dr. Rosalyn Higgins and Brigadier Michael Harbottle: "United Nations Peacekeeping: Past Lessons and Future Prospects" |
1970 |
J.E.S. Fawcett: "Priorities in Conservation" |
1969 |
F.S. Northedge: "The Settlement of International Disputes" |
1968 |
C. Wilfred Jinks: "Britain and the International Labour Organisation" |
1967 |
R.R. Neild: "What Has Happened to Disarmament?" |
1965 |
The Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Boyle: "Education for International Understanding" |
1964 |
Professor A.J. Brown: "The Economic Consequences of Disarmament" |
1963 |
J.E.S. Fawcett: "Outer Space and International Order" |
1962 |
Sir John Cockcroft: "Problems of Disarmament" |
1961 |
Sir Harold Nicolson: "The Old Diplomacy and the New" |
1959 |
Professor P.M.S. Blackett: "The Problem of Underdeveloped Countries"
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1958 |
Rt. Hon. Earl Attlee: "Collective Security Under the United Nations" |
1957 |
Lord Salter: "The United Nations: Reform, Replace, or Supplement?" |
1956 |
Sir Charles Webster: "Sanctions: The Use of Force in an International Organisation" |
1955 |
Dr. Gilbert Murray: "The League of Nations Movement: Some Recollections of the Early Days" |
1954 |
Professor William E. Rappard: "The Quest for Yesterday and Today" |