Alastair Buchan Memorial Lecture 2008 - "Are we at war" by Sir Michael Howard

The 2008 lecture Alastair Buchan lecture "Are we at war" was given by Sir Michael Howard, IISS President Emeritus, on Wednesday 2 April 2008.   

The speech and Q&A session is available for this event.

  A transcript of the speech is also available.

This lecture was established in 1976 to commemorate Alastair Buchan, the Institute's first Director (1958-69). The inaugural lecture was given by Dr Henry Kissinger, then US Secretary of State. Subsequent speakers have included the Rt Hon. Lord Carrington, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Ambassador Paul H. Nitze, Professor Raymond Barre, Dr Manfred Wörner, Senator Sam Nunn, Professor Sir Michael Howard, General Colin L. Powell, Volker Rühe, Shimon Peres, the Rt Hon. Douglas Hurd, General Wesley K. Clark, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Professor Andrey A. Kokoshin, Martti Ahtisaari, the former President of Finland, and Dominique Galouzeau de Villepin, French Ministre des Affaires Étrangères.

Transcripts of previous Alastair Buchan lectures are available in the archive.