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Panel Two: ‘The 21st Century UN and lessons from the origins’ with Prof. Thomas. G Weiss discussing ‘UNRRA, Avant-garde of International Cooperation’ and Sir Richard Jolly on ‘Changing Challenges and Perspectives’. Chaired by Dame Margaret Anstee.

Global campaigns for feminism and de-nuclearisation

Speaker: Felicity Hill

Dr. Leslie Vinjamuri, Professor at the CISD and one of her students, Peter Barrett interviewed Daniel Byman on the topic of his new book as part of the International Relations Speaker Series 2011/2012.

Daniel Byman focuses on counterterrorism and Middle East security. He is also a professor at Georgetown University's Security Studies Program. He served as a staff member on the 9/11 Commission and worked for the U.S. government. His most recent book is A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism.

Former President of Pakistan and retired General, Pervez Musharraf, visited SOAS to discuss, amongst other things, Pakistan, politics and the war on terror. The event was co-sponsored by the CISD and SOAS Pakistan Society and was chaired by renowned TV presenter Kamran Shahid, of SAMAA TV. The event addressed some of the most important topics of the last decade in International Relations and was followed by a Q&A.

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 Professor Stephen Hopgood, Reader of International Relations at SOAS, about the key issues addressed in his lecture.

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 and Religion and International Relations Theory. The panel consisted of Professor Jack Snyder of Columbia University, Dr. Jonathan VanAntwerpen of New York's Social Science Research Council, and Dr. Azza Karam of the United Nations Population Fund.

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.

Introduction to the 6th London Conference on Middle East Nuclear and Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone Conference by Dr. Stephen Chan, Senior Dean at SOAS, Dr. Dan Plesch, Chairman of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS, and General Sir Hugh Beach, British Pugwash