CISD

On 18 January 2012 CISD, supported by the FCO, held a seminar at Lancaster House commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the declaration by United Nations of January 1942. The welcome address was given by Professor Patrick Salmon, Chief Historian for the FCO and Dr. Dan Plesch, Director of the CISD.

Following his talk on Diplomacy, Force and Responsibility to Protect, Professor Bruce Jentleson was interviewed by the CISD student Peter Barett about the key issues he addressed.

On October 20, 2011, a guest panel considered the ways in which sovereignty contend with competing claims to religious authority and human rights universals by drawing on the findings from two recently published books on religion and secularism Rethinking Secularism (edited by Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer and Jonathan Van Antwerpen) and, Religion and International Relations Theory (edited by Jack Snyder). The panel consisted of Professor Jack Snyder of Columbia University, Dr. Jonathan VanAntwerpen of New York's Social Science Research Council, and Dr.

Susan Butler spoke about her new book "Roosevelt and Stalin, Winning the War, Shaping the Peace". Butler is the author of ‘My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin’, the first publication that contains the complete correspondence between Roosevelt and Stalin. This collection of more than three hundred hot-war messages, never before fully available in any language, is an invaluable primary source for understanding the relationship that developed between these two great world leaders during a time of supreme world crisis.