The Engelsberg Annual Lecture on International Order 2020 with Dr Nadia Schadlow: 'Strategy - The Pursuit of Freedom of Action'

The Engelsberg Annual Lecture on International Order 2020 is co-hosted by the Centre for Grand Strategy (KCL), the Centre for Geopolitics (University of Cambridge) and the Strategic Studies Research Theme (Security Studies, KCL). 

Dr. Schadlow is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, and a Visiting Fellow, MITRE. She was most recently U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy. Prior to joining the National Security Council, she was a senior program officer in the International Security and Foreign Policy Program of the Smith Richardson Foundation, where she helped identify strategic issues which warrant further attention from the U.S. policy community. She served on the Defense Policy Board from September 2006 to June 2009 and is a full member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her articles have appeared in Parameters, the American Interest, the Wall Street Journal, Philanthropy, and several edited volumes. Dr. Schadlow holds a B.A. in government and Soviet studies from Cornell University and M.A. and Ph.D. from the John Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Professor Brendan Simms, Director of the Centre for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge, will provide comments on the lecture.