Robert Fox
Shaping the Agenda: The Four C’s: Covid, Conflict, Climate and China
Summary
Heading into the winter, national and international political agendas are shaping and reshaping around four ‘C’s some with hidden and/or long-term consequences.
Covid has long term implications for resilience. Conflict continues in Ukraine and takes unpredictable forms. Climate continues to rapidly change in environmental and human landscapes signaled by Cop 27. China is both a friend and rival nation to others.
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.