Dr Alan Mendoza with BBC Free Thinking Discussing Early Modern Writer Hakluyt and Britain’s Role

Ecuador Justified in Preventing Julian Assange’s Attempts to Subvert U.S. Democracy with Stolen Material

The restrictions placed by the Ecuadorian Embassy on Julian Assange’s internet access are entirely reasonable because of his repeated willingness to distribute stolen material.
 Mr Assange has a long track record of stealing and distributing information, peddling conspiracy theories, and casting …

Event: ‘Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization’

TIME: Monday 3rd October 2016, 17:00-18:00
VENUE: The Henry Jackson Society, Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank, SW1P 4QP
SPEAKER: Branko Milanovic, Senior Scholar, Luxembourg Income Study Center; Visiting Presidential Professor, Graduate Center, City University of New York
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What dynamics drive …

Event Summary: ‘Preventive Detention of Terror Suspects: A New Legal Framework’

On the 16th March, Dr Diane Webber, a British solicitor and Non Resident Associate Fellow at The Henry Jackson Society, delivered a talk titled after her new book ‘Preventive Detention of Terror Suspects: A New Legal Framework’. The event was …

Event: ‘Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules That Run the World’

Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules That Run the World

TIME: Monday 22nd February 2016, 13:00 – 14.00
VENUE: Committee Room 9, House of Commons, SW1A 0AA
SPEAKER: Professor Leif Wenar, Chair of Philosophy & Law at King’s College London
To attend please RSVP to: rsvp@henryjacksonsociety.org
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Event: ‘The Changing Energy Landscape in the Eastern Mediterranean’

TIME: 13:00-14:00, Thursday 21st January 2016
VENUE: Committee Room 9, House of Commons, SW1A 0AA
SPEAKERS: Mona Sukkarieh
To attend please RSVP to: rsvp@henryjacksonsociety.org

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The discovery of important gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean adds an additional layer of complexity to an already confusing region. It has …

ISIS’s Newest British Recruiter

Published in Commentary Magazine
ISIS finally appears to be losing significant areas of territory. Along with Iraqi forces recapturing Ramadi, the group is believed to have been forced to retreat from as much as 40 percent of the ground it held …

Female attackers are still few among Islamic extremist groups

Originally published in LA Times
She is popularly known as “the White Widow,” but the truth about the blue-eyed jihadist suspected of orchestrating the deaths of hundreds of people across Africa is as shadowy as the cloaked world of international terrorism …

Audio: Rethinking Cybersecurity: Threats and Challenges in 2016

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‘The Shifts and the Shocks: What we’ve learned – and still have to learn – from the financial crisis’

SPEAKER: 
Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times
& Author, “The Shifts and the Shocks”
 TIME: 18:30-19:30, Wednesday 9th December 2015
VENUE: Committee Room 3, House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW
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There have been many analyses that have sought to explain the …

The Real Lesson of the Paris Attacks

Originally published in Gatestone Institute

What if the terrorists had been targeting “just Americans,” or “just diplomats” — would that be “understandable terrorism” in John Kerry’s thinking?
“If we should stop drawing cartoons, should we also stop having synagogues? Should they be …

Event Transcript: ‘The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency’

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From non-violent to violent extremism – Hannah Stuart on Channel 4 News

Phishing for Phools: the Economics of Manipulation and Deception

TIME: 13:00 – 14:00, Wednesday 11th November 2015
VENUE: Committee Room 3A, House of Lords
SPEAKER: Robert J. Shiller, 2013 Economics Nobel Prize Laureate; Sterling Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University; and Professor …

How can multiculturalism both cause and cure racism?

Originally published in Spectator Blogs
In recent weeks there have been two prominent examples of what some people in Britain term ‘Islamophobia’. The first involved a woman on a London bus shouting to two identifiably Muslim women that they should ‘go …

William Shawcross is right: Islamists are skilled at lawfare

Originally published in Spectator Blogs
Regular readers may recall the charming group ‘Cage’. This is the organisation which made headlines earlier this year when Mohammed Emwazi (aka ‘Jihadi John’) was outed as one of their associates. The response of ‘Cage’ was …

Event Summary: ‘The Modern Mercenary – Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order’

On 22 October, the Henry Jackson Society was pleased to host ‘The Modern Mercenary – Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order’. Featuring Dr Sean Mcfate, expert on strategy, the future of war and international relations.
Dr Mcfate opened …

Audio: ‘The Modern Mercenary – Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order’

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Event Transcript: ‘Europe’s Orphan: The Future of the Euro and the Politics of Debt’

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Dr. Alan Mendoza debates UK foreign policy on Sky News

Event Transcript: ‘Sanctions: a tool to create foreign policy?’

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Event Transcript: ‘Rethinking Cybersecurity: Threats and Challenges in 2016’

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Audio: ‘Prisoners of Geography: Why Journalists should talk about Geography’

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Russia’s Abuse of Interpol

Despite Interpol’s commitment to neutrality and human rights, Russia’s Abuse of Interpol shows the extent to which the Kremlin cynically subverts the purpose of the international police cooperation body by using it as a tool to targetpersecute businessmen and businesswomen, …

Modern Autocrats Are on the March

Originally published in the Wall Street Journal
While the rise of violent Islamism has transfixed the world, another, graver threat—21st-century autocracy—is gathering strength. In the long run, it is sophisticated autocrats, not bearded zealots, who pose the greater menace to democracy. …