Relationship between the UK and the USA scrutinised
11 June 2013
The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy will take evidence on the relationship between the UK and the USA on Monday 17 June.
- Parliament TV: National Security Strategy (Third Review)
- Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy
Witnesses
At 4.30 pm in Committee Room 3, Palace of Westminster:
- Professor Michael Cox, London School of Economics
- Xenia Dormandy, Senior Fellow, Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House)
- Professor Anatol Lieven, King’s College London
Purpose of the session
The Committee has said that in this series of evidence sessions it would seek to address the big questions facing the UK which it believes that the Government should address in the next NSS. The intention of this session was to focus on the UK’s relationship with the US and its consequences for national security, including the implications of the changing focus of US foreign policy.
Useful links
Some of the following are links to external websites. The Committee cannot be held responsible for the content of external sites.
- Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds (HTML) a publication of the USA’s National Intelligence Council
- Global Strategic Trends – out to 2040 (PDF 417 MB), published by UK Ministry of Defence, (from 2010)
- A recent speech by President Obama, and the associated White House factsheet.
- Foreign Affairs Committee: Global Security UK-US Relations (PDF 141 MB), Sixth Report of Session 2009-10. (Conclusion and Recommendations circulated in hard copy.)
- Sustaining US Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defence (PDF 589 MB), January 2012
- US National Security Strategy (2010) (PDF 152 MB)