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Lecture

Robert Fox
Fight or Flight?

Monday 30.09.2024

Summary

As the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine reach different tipping points, this presentation looks at the varying choices and likely outcomes for these regions and the world, as well as the potential impacts of the American elections. We will also take a hard look at Darfur and Somalia and consider how much longer we can ignore the simmering conflicts there.

Robert Fox

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Robert Fox has been a professional reporter, commentator, author, and broadcaster for over 40 years. He has reported from the front in the Falklands conflict of 1982, the Middle East, including Iraq and the Palestinian territories, as well Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. After leaving Oxford with an honors degree in history in 1967, he has worked as a staff reporter and correspondent for the BBC and the Daily Telegraph. He is currently defense correspondent for the Evening Standard and broadcasts frequently for the BBC, Sky, and Radio 24 in Italy. Among his books are Eyewitness Falklands (1982), Antarctica and the South Atlantic (1985), and Camera in Conflict (1995). Robert lectures frequently to the British Army and the diplomatic community in London. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Royal Institute for International Affairs, Chatham House.