Venue: Pathfoot Lecture Theatre, University of Stirling
This years Andrew John Williamson Lecture will be delivered by General Sir Patrick Sanders who will reflect on Antonio Gramsci’s enduring observation: The old world is dying the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.
The lecture will consider the implications of this insight for the contemporary West at a moment of acute geopolitical instability. After more than eight decades of relative peace and prosperity sustained by the postwar international order we now confront an era marked by disruptive change insecurity and the erosion of strategic confidence.
Sir Patrick will address a series of pressing questions:
Although this is a period of profound risk the lecture will also consider grounds for cautious optimism - what Ian Dury once called 'Reasons to be Cheerful'.
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