Event Transcripts Archive
Here members can view transcripts of The Henry Jackson Society’s events held before 2018 – debate and discussion direct from one of the busiest events programmes in Westminster.
Please select an event below to view the transcript.
2017
19 December: Poetry: An Important Weapon of Militant Jihad?
30 November: “Fake News”: Responding to Disinformation in Western Political Campaigns
28 November: HJS Report Launch: “Global Britain and the Future of the British Armed Forces”
22 November: Introducing the New State Solution: A Conflict-Ending Alternative to the Status Quo
16 November: Towards a UK Magnitsky Law? Lessons from Canada and Elsewhere
15 November: Diego Arria on Venezuela
9 November: Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy
9 November: After Charlottesville: The State of American Politics with former Democratic Party Chairman Governor Terry McAuliffe
7 November: Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine
2 November: Moscow Calling: Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent
1 November: Making Sense of Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy
1 November: After the German (non-)Election: How might Berlin shape Brexit and the EU?
31 October: HJS Report Launch: “20 Years After Hong Kong’s Handover”
26 October: Russia and its Islamic World
25 October: HJS Report Launch: “From Devotion to Destruction: Conversion to Islam and Radicalisation”
24 October: What’s Your Bias? The Surprising Science of Why We Vote the Way We Do
24 October: Reflections on Homeland Security with former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson
19 October: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
17 October: What Does China Want?
10 October: Making Globalisation Work: Better Lives for All
9 October: The Research and Analysis Wing: A View from the Inside of Indian Intelligence
2 October: Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
25 September: Cracking the China Conundrum: Why Conventional Economic Wisdom is Often Wrong
20 September: US-China Policy in the Age of Trump
14 September: Merchants of Men: How Jihadists and ISIS turned Kidnapping and Refugee Trafficking into a Multibillion-Dollar Business
13 September: The Indo-Pacific: Opportunities and Challenges for Liberal Democracies and the Future
13 September: US-UK Intelligence Co-operation in the Age of Trump
12 September: HJS Report Launch: “The Audit of Geopolitical Capability & Paper Launch: Towards a Global Britain”
17 August: HJS Report Launch: “The Forgotten Foreign Fighters: The PKK in Syria”
26 July: Radicals: Outsiders Changing the World
28 June: The US-UK Special Relationship
17 July: The Destruction of MH17: Three Years On
13 July: HJS Report Launch: “Beyond Compliance: Two Years of the Iranian Nuclear Deal”
5 July: The Evolution of Protests in Russia
3 July: The 20th Anniversary of Hong Kong’s Handover
29 June: Kleptocrats Without Borders: How Post-Soviet Ruling Elites Export Their Money and Power to the West
27 June: The Brexit Debate Through Social Media: Topics, Arguments and Attitudes
22 June: China’s Economic Future: Problems and Opportunities
15 June: Grave New World: The End of Globalisation, The Return of History
30 May: Authoritarianism in Central Europe
25 May: Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in The West
24 May: What Will Trump Do Next? Lessons from Bush and Obama on how Presidents Learn and Change in Office
23 May: The Road to Somewhere with David Goodhart
22 May: Joschka Fischer: The View from The Continent
16 May: The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam with Douglas Murray
15 May: Islamic Foundations of a Free Society
11 May: White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
9 May: The Fate of the West
8 May: One Belt, One Road
8 May: Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism
27 April: HJS Report Launch: “Spotting the Signs of Extremism”
26 April: Bernard-Henri Lévy on Mosul and the French Elections
20 April: Islamism
19 April: Trump’s Policy in Asia
3 April: Maidan: Three Years On
28 March: Letters to a Young Muslim
27 March: Who Lost Russia?
21 March: HJS Report Launch: “Mitigating the Risks? Compliance with the Prevent Duty on Campus”
14 March: How Trump Won
7 March: HJS Report Launch: “Islamist Terrorism: Analysis of Offences and Attacks in the UK”
6 March: Populism and Policy: A Watershed Moment?
1 March: Forbidden Aid: The Case of Israeli Humanitarian Diplomacy in Syria
28 February: Easternisation: Asia’s New Domination of the Global Order
27 February: The Crisis of Religious Freedom and The Way Beyond
21 February: The Trump Administration and International Relations
20 February: The American Right in the Age of Trump
15 February: Donald Trump: Making of a World View
9 February: Christianity in the Middle East: Hezbollah and Refugees
8 February: The Death of Hong Kong’s Freedoms
6 February: An Assessment of the Trump Presidency: 17 Days In
31 January: Struggling Over Israel’s Soul
31 January: The End of the Asian Century
26 January: Assisting Ukraine in Times of Armed Conflict
25 January: Israel and Palestine: After Obama, Waiting for Trump
24 January: Relations with Russia in the Age of Trump
23 January: A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
19 January: The Decline of U.S. Sea Power
17 January: Modi’s India and the Rules-Based Order in the Indo-Pacific
10 January: Lighting The Path: The Evolution of the Islamic State Media Enterprise
2016
14 December: 25 Years On: Ukraine Since the Fall of the Soviet Union
5 December: 25 Years On: Russia Since the Fall of the Soviet Union
28 November: The New Philistines
30 November: China’s Darkest Moment: The Crackdown on Human Rights under Xi Jinping
2 November: The World’s Dictatorship Crisis
1 August: Saudi Arabia’s New Strategic Calculus
21 July: Political Islam in the UK
20 July: No More Illusions: Changes in the Middle East
7 July: From Banking to the Thorny World of Politics
29 June: The Intervention in Yemen: A New Era for Gulf Security and Gulf Militaries?
9 June: Palmyra After ISIS
8 June: Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era
31 May: Britain’s Europe – A Thousand Years of Conflict and Co-operation
19 May: European Governments and the BDS Wars: Public Opposition, Private Support?
17 May: The Palestinian Authority and Human Rights
29 March: Threats to Religious Liberty: Theocratic and Secular
23 March: The Role of Religion in Contemporary Conflicts and Hate Movements
3 February: Are We Winning The War Against ISIS?
2015