Lecture
Robert Fox
Monday 27.10.2025
Robert Fox
A Peace to End All Peace or a Peace of Pieces and the Crisis of Autocracy
Monday 27.10.2025
How to watch
This lecture starts on 27 October at 7:00pm (UK).
Summary
This lecture considers many of today’s most pressing concerns. Lasting peace in the Middle East—seemingly attainable one moment, a fragile commodity the next. Can real substance be given to Donald Trump’s grand designs for the region—particularly as he is faced with trouble brewing in Venezuela and Argentina? Meanwhile, as Ukraine slogs through a season of mud, Trump again looks to repeat the meeting in Alaska to produce stability in Europe. And as Xi Jinping moves into another congress of the CCP, we wonder if nationalist isolationism is working. Is the era of personalised rule in the East and West over before it has really begun? Who can lead the revolution of AI: the democrats, the autocrats, or the autonomous automatons themselves?
Robert Fox
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.