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SUMMARY:FCDOA Online Talk with Mohanad Hashim\, BBC East Africa 
DESCRIPTION:FCDOA Online Talk with Mohanad Hashim\, BBC East Africa  \nMiddle powers and the struggle for hegemony in the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa \non 21 October at 11.00-12.00 on ZOOM \nTickets £10 \n \nSudan has had years of military rule\, humanitarian crises and political upheaval. BBC   Journalist Mohanad Hashim explains some of the complex history of the country he grew up in. \nMohand’s talk will focus on the Geopolitical realignments and Maritime Hegemony in the Red Sea and the Horn a Strategic Analysis of Saudi\, Emirati\, and Turkish Tripartite Competition and how it is shaping the region. \nBio Note and photo \nMohanad Hashim is an award-winning London-based journalist\, with two decades covering the Middle East and Africa. He joined the BBC in 2008\, reporting on the Arab Spring and later on ISIS’s rise in Syria and Iraq. He has received several awards\, including a BBC News Award and a Webby Award for investigative reporting. He was nominated in 2024 for the AIB Awards for his reporting on the Sudanese civil war for the BBC World Service. He has covered Sudan extensively since the uprising of 2018-2019 and his most recent visit to Sudan was in March/April 2026. \nTwo recent features by him: \nReturn to Khartoum: War\, loss and hope \nhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002w5vb \nKhartoum: Lessons in War \nhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0nqw6tl \nContact details for Mohanad \nhashim.mohanad@gmail.com
URL:https://fcdoa.org.uk/event/fcdoa-online-talk-with-mohamad-hashim-bbc-east-africa/
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SUMMARY:FCDOA Annual Lecture 29 October 2026 by Lord Robertson: How Safe Is the UK?
DESCRIPTION:FCDOA Annual Lecture 2026\nHow Safe Is the UK?\nLecture by Rt Hon Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KT\, GCMG \non Thursday\, 29 October 2026 | 11:00 – 13:30 \nLocarno Suite\, King Charles Street \nTickets \n\nThe Foreign\, Commonwealth & Development Office Association (FCDOA) is delighted to announce that the Annual Lecture 2026 will be delivered by Lord Robertson of Port Ellen\, former Secretary General of NATO and former UK Secretary of State for Defence. \nIn his lecture\, “How Safe Is the UK?”\, Lord Robertson will draw on his extensive experience in government\, international affairs and defence policy to reflect on the security challenges facing the United Kingdom in an increasingly complex global environment. \n\nAbout the Speaker\nRt Hon Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KT\, GCMG\nLord Robertson became Chancellor of the University of Dundee in 2023. In 2025\, he served as Lead Reviewer of the Government’s Strategic Defence Review. He is currently Senior Counsellor with The Cohen Group in Washington DC\, Co-Chair of the Global Strategy Forum\, Vice Patron of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo\, President of the Council of Military Education Committees\, and a member of the House of Lords Select Committee on International Affairs and Defence. \nA Member of Parliament for twenty-one years\, Lord Robertson served in the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland before becoming Secretary of State for Defence in 1997. From 1999 to 2003\, he served as the 10th Secretary General of NATO and Chairman of the North Atlantic Council\, leading the Alliance through a period of major international challenges and chairing the first meeting of the NATO-Russia Council in 2002. \nBeyond public service\, Lord Robertson has held a number of senior corporate and non-executive roles\, including Executive Deputy Chairman of Cable & Wireless plc\, Deputy Chairman of TNK-BP\, and Non-Executive Director of the Weir Group plc\, Smiths Group plc\, and Monaco Telecom SA. He has also served as Chairman of the FIA Foundation\, Chairman of Western Ferries (Clyde) Ltd\, Chairman of The Ditchley Foundation\, and Vice Chairman of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. \nLord Robertson is an Elder Brother of Trinity House and a Visiting Professor at both Stirling University and King’s College London. He serves on the Board of the Centre for European Reform\, is a Distinguished Fellow of Chatham House\, and sits on the International Advisory Board of the Atlantic Council. For seventeen years he was Honorary Colonel of the London Scottish Regiment. \nAmong many honours\, Lord Robertson is one of the sixteen Knights of the Thistle and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George. In 2003\, he was awarded the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom\, the highest civilian honour bestowed by the United States. He has also received Ukraine’s Grand Cross of Prince Yaroslav the Wise and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal College of Defence Studies.
URL:https://fcdoa.org.uk/event/fcdoa-annual-lecture-29-october-2026-by-lord-robertson-how-safe-is-the-uk/
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SUMMARY:FCDOA Online talk by Sergei Cristo
DESCRIPTION:FCDOA Online talk \nby Mr Sergei Cristo\nwith the title \nThe Russian Lesson: Building Deterrence against Foreign Political Interference \non Tuesday 10 November at 11.00 am on zoom \n\nSuccessive British governments failed to recognise and address Russian political interference as a multi-faceted operation\, structured along lines associated with the Gerasimov doctrine. Sergei will examine how UK security and intelligence agencies appear to have been constrained by political considerations and their preoccupation with terrorism\, while Moscow weaponised corruption through wealthy proxies and corporate interests. At the same time\, Russian diplomacy increasingly became an instrument of the intelligence services. He will also argue that Britain’s asymmetric interdependence with Russia helped blind successive governments to the toxic combination of KGB mentality and a mafia-state system at the heart of the threat to British democracy. Finally\, he will consider why effective deterrence requires an open post-mortem of what took place\, fearless realignment of the agencies charged with protecting democracy\, and stronger measures against foreign actors and their proxies\, including the use of sanctions. \nBio \nSergei Cristo is a PhD researcher in Security and Intelligence Studies at the University of Buckingham\, and a former BBC journalist\, asset management specialist and Conservative Party fundraiser turned whistleblower on Russian interference in British politics. He publishes the Russian Interference Substack [https://sergeicristo336888.substack.com]\, which includes a weekly summary of Russian political interference operations around the world. \n 
URL:https://fcdoa.org.uk/event/the-fcdoa-online-talk-by-sergei-cristo/
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SUMMARY:FCDOA Online Talk by Dr Daniella Lock
DESCRIPTION:FCDOA Online Talk by Dr Daniella Lock\nPublic Power in Private hands: the impact of outsourcing public services on foreign policy and security\, Outsourcing in UK National Security Law\n  \non 25 November at 11.00-12.00 on ZOOM \nTickets £10 \n \nCan we continue to meet our responsibilities for national security and foreign policy\, and fulfil our obligations under international law\, conventions and alliances\, when so many key functions have been outsourced? \nOutsourcing raises important questions about the delivery of government policy\, UK security\, accountability\, responsiveness to public needs and expectations\, and trust in government. These are particularly live issues for our members at present. \nMore information will follow soon. \n 
URL:https://fcdoa.org.uk/event/fcdoa-online-talk-by-dr-daniella-lock/
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SUMMARY:FCDOA Online Talk by Sir Anthony Seldon
DESCRIPTION:FCDOA Online Talk by Sir Anthony Seldon \non Reforming Government for a New Era \non 2 December at 11.00-12.00 on ZOOM \nTickets £10 \n \nMore information will follow soon.
URL:https://fcdoa.org.uk/event/fcdoa-online-talk-by-sir-anthony-seldon-2/
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