David Hannay: Speeches, Articles, Letters and Media

Speeches/ lectures

Global Challenges: How should the European Union best respond? Speech by Lord Hannay of Chiswick, University of Kent at Brussels: 2 October

‘Who rules the world? Global challenges and the role of the UN in peacekeeping, human rights
and international law’, Action for UN Renewal Erskine Childers Memorial Lecture, 9 September 2008

'Shifting Focus: From State Security to Human Security', Keynote speech at the Seminar on Disarmament, Conventional Arms Regulation and Globalisation, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, 9 July 2008

'Britain's Role at the UN', address at Eastern Region Council, 14 June 2008

'New World Disorder' speech at Chatham House, 4 June 2008

'The UN in a Disordered World', speech at the University of St Andrews, 4 December 2007

'The United Nations and the European Union', speech to Central Region UNA, Birmingham, 6 October 2007

'The UN Peacebuilding Commission: background and a look ahead', speech at the Foreign Press Association, London 10 July 2007

Speech to UNA-UK Annual Conference, Warwick University, 13-15 April 2007

'The Prospects for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime', speech at the Scottish consultation on Trident and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, 29 January 2007

Speech to UNA-UK Annual Conference, University of Durham, 21-23 April 2006

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Lords Debates

Find out more about Lord Hannay's contributions to debates in the House of Lords

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Published Letters/Articles

'The Next US President Should Forget the League of Democracies', article for the Centre for European Reform, September 2008.

Letter to London Review of Books, Vol. 30 No. 10 · Cover date: 22 May 2008

'My week' for The House Magazine, 23 June 2008

Letter in response to Robert Kagan's article in the Financial Times, 14 May 2008

'Cyprus: Once more into the breach' (New World, Spring 2008)

'The Middle East after Annapolis: déjà vu all over again or a genuine step forward?' (New World, Winter 2008)

Letter in response to John Bolton's article in the Financial Times, 2 August 2007

'A Challenging First Anniversary for the UN's Human Rights Council', 21 June 2007

Letter in response to Richard Dowden's article 'ICC in the Dock' (Prospect Magazine, 30 April 2007)

'Breakfast with Ban' (New World, January to March 2007):

• 'Breakfast with Ban' Page 1
• 'Breakfast with Ban' Page 2

'International Rescue' (The House Magazine, 7 May 2007)

Letter with Sir Jeremy Greenstock in response to Nick Cohen's article 'How the UN Lets States Get Away with Murder' (Observer, 2 November 2006)

Letter in response to Adam LeBor's article 'Is There Blood on His Hands?' (Sunday Times, 1 October 2006)

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