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Lecture

Robert Fox
2025 the Next Quarter Century and a New Polycrisis Era

Monday 30.12.2024

How to watch

This lecture starts on 30 December at 7:00pm (UK).

Summary

We have just completed the first quarter century of the new millennium. What have we learned? This is a new era, a time of polycrisis—clusters of crises that interlink. In this presentation we will focus on these areas: the Middle East, wider Europe, North and South America, China, and beyond (cyber, metaverse, quantum).

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.