OUSSG Trinity Term Week 8 - [title to be confirmed]

Col. H.R. McMaster, Senior Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, who has yet to confirm the title of their speech.

Posted by Antonia Mansel-Long, Friday 16th May @ 3:43pm

OUSSG Trinity Term Week 7 - NATO's Evolving Place among International Institutions

Mr Matthew Kidd of the UK Delegation to NATO, speaking on ‘NATO’s Evolving Place among International Institutions’.

Posted by Antonia Mansel-Long, Friday 16th May @ 3:39pm

OUSSG Trinity Term Week 6 - Strategy as a Balancing Act: The UK's Dilemma

Capt. Jeff Davis of the United States Navy, currently also St. Antony’s College Hudson Fellow, regrettably had to cancel his talk on ‘U.S. Post-modern Air Power: Bosnia to Iraq’.

In its place, Professor Hew Strachan (Senior member of the OUSSG Committee, Chichele Professor of the History of War, Fellow of All Souls College, and Director of the Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War) is giving a talk entitled ‘Strategy as a Balancing Act: The UK’s Dilemma’.

Posted by Antonia Mansel-Long, Friday 16th May @ 3:14pm

OUSSG Trinity Term Week 5 - India's Rise: Security Challenges and Foreign Policy Options

Mr. Rahul Roy-Chaudhury, Senior Fellow for South Asia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies speaking on ‘India’s Rise: Security Challenges and Foreign Policy Options’.

Posted by Antonia Mansel-Long, Friday 16th May @ 2:47pm

OUSSG Trinity Term Week 4 - Intelligence in the 21st Century

Mr Alfred Rolington, Chief Executive Officer of Oxford Analytica, speaking on ‘Intelligence in the 21st Century’.

Posted by Antonia Mansel-Long, Thursday 24th April @ 3:19pm

OUSSG Trinity Term Week 3 - State-Building in Southern Iraq: Realities and Lessons

Sir Hilary Synnott KCMG, Consulting Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, speaking on ‘State-Building in Southern Iraq: Realities and Lessons’.

Posted by Antonia Mansel-Long, Thursday 24th April @ 3:16pm

OUSSG Trinity 2008 termcard

The Trinity 2008 termcard is now available from the OUSSG website.

There is a fault with GroupSpaces. If the previously posted but vanished announcements of the termcard’s publication appear, please notify the OUSSG webmaster so that appropriate amendments may be made.

Posted by Antonia Mansel-Long, Thursday 24th April @ 3:02pm

OUSSG Trinity Term Week 2 - War, Truth, and the Revolution in Media Affairs

Mr Robert Fox, Defence Correspondent for The Evening Standard, speaking on ‘War, Truth, and the Revolution in Media Affairs’.

Posted by Antonia Mansel-Long, Thursday 24th April @ 2:50pm

OUSSG Executive Elections - voting deadline

Elections for the executive positions of OUSSG President, Vice-President and Secretary are underway. The Ballot closes on Tuesday 12 February 2008 (5th week) and the voting deadline is 6pm by email/pidge or 10pm for those returning their vote by hand at the 5th week seminar (Dr Wendy Pullan’s talk).

Profiles and ballot papers have been sent out to members via email and the committee would like to encourage all members to vote.

Please direct any queries about the election or about voting to the current President, Andrea Baumann, or Secretary, Anne Rimmer. See further details of the election for full schedule information.

The new committee will run OUSSG from Trinity 2008 until the end of Hilary 2009.

Posted by Antonia Mansel-Long, Monday 11th February @ 10:34am

OUSSG Hilary Term Week 4 - the Iraq Campaign [title TBC]

Colonel Richard D. Hooker Jr., PhD, US National Security Council, speaking on the Iraq Campaign (title yet to be confirmed).

Posted by Antonia Mansel-Long, Thursday 17th January @ 2:15pm