Simon McDonald – Beyond Britannia: Reshaping UK Foreign Policy/Leadership

For too long, successive governments have shied away from acknowledging uncomfortable truths about the decline of Britain’s military capabilities. We are faced with urgent and daunting challenges: climate change, technological development, the rise of AI, and a growing threat from China.

Simon McDonald persuasively argues that the UK’s significant soft-power strengths can be harnessed to expand its international influence, but only if we first acknowledge the challenges of Brexit and reduce our unrealistic hard-power ambitions. Excellence in areas that other countries care about will keep us internationally relevant in a way that nostalgia for a lost pre-eminence will not.

Tickets: £12