Lecture
Hagai M. Segal
Monday 10.11.2025
Hagai M. Segal
Long Reach of the Law? Trump, Colombia, Nigeria and the ‘Rule Based Order’
Monday 10.11.2025
How to watch
This lecture starts on 10 November at 7:00pm (UK).
Summary
Please note this session will only be available to watch live.
Since September, President Trump has repeatedly authorised the US military to strike alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean, resulting in Colombia and Venezuela accusing him of “fabricating a war.” And now he is threatening military action on Nigeria! What is behind these moves, and how do we reconcile Trump pushing for a Nobel Peace Prize with his rhetoric of sending in troops “guns-a-blazing”? Is Trump securing US security, or is this an example of a president seeking to ignore the existing international rules of conduct?
Hagai M. Segal
Hagai M. Segal is a multi award-winning academic, consultant, and analyst, specializing in geopolitics, terrorism, and the Middle East. A New York University London professor and Oxford University tutor, Hagai sits on the UK Steering Committee of OSAC (the Overseas Security Advisory Council, U.S. Department of State), served for a decade on the London First Security and Resilience Advisory Board, and has worked with and advised numerous government agencies and other public bodies across the globe, including the FBI, the Metropolitan Police and the British Armed Forces. Hagai also helped plan and facilitate a round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in 2004, and uses maps from these and other negotiations in his teaching/education sessions. (He is not to be confused with a commentator in Israel of the same name Hagai Segal/Haggai Segal!)