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Clare Politics is proud to announce that the second speaker for Lent Term 2008 will be Dr. Rosemary Hollis.

Dr. Hollis is Director of Research at Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) in London. She is a leading expert on foreign policy and security issues in the Middle East, particularly in the Gulf and Arab-Israeli sectors and relations between the Western powers and the region.

From 1990-95 she headed the Middle East Programme at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, before which she was a lecturer in Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington, DC.

She has contributed numerous chapters to books on Middle Eastern Security, the role of the West in Iraq, and on the balance of power throughout the region, and is about to publish her book, Britain and the Middle East: The Blair Legacy. Her opinion is often sought by the leading news organizations in relation to current events.

Dr. Rosemary Hollis will address Clare Politics on the subject of:
‘After the Neo-Cons: Realpolitik in the Middle East’

[Monday 28th January - Latimer Room, Old Court, Clare College]

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