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.

YearSpeaker and Lecture Title
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:

"The Future of Discretionary Warfare"

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:

"Crimea is Ours!"

 
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"

 

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"