Lecture
Robert Fox
Wednesday 10.12.2025
Robert Fox
Fighting for the Middle Ground: Compromise, Consensus, Consensus
Wednesday 10.12.2025
Summary
Finding the middle ground at home and abroad is now the key for the future of democracy. This poses peculiar problems in finding a settlement, respectively, in Eastern Europe, Gaza and Israel, and Sudan. Do peace negotiations depend on adversarial advocacy? What is the impact of spheres of interference and Influence in Venezuela, Arctic, and maritime choke points? And how are the vital contests for freedom and democracy in domestic affairs affected by the use of social media, bots, chatrooms, and the dark web?
Robert Fox
Robert Fox has been a professional reporter, commentator, author, and broadcaster for over 40 years. He has reported from the front in the Falklands conflict of 1982, the Middle East, including Iraq and the Palestinian territories, as well Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. After leaving Oxford with an honors degree in history in 1967, he has worked as a staff reporter and correspondent for the BBC and the Daily Telegraph. He is currently defense correspondent for the Evening Standard and broadcasts frequently for the BBC, Sky, and Radio 24 in Italy. Among his books are Eyewitness Falklands (1982), Antarctica and the South Atlantic (1985), and Camera in Conflict(1995). Robert lectures frequently to the British Army and the diplomatic community in London. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Royal Institute for International Affairs, Chatham House.