Digesting the UK's new national security strategy

Thursday 17 Jul 2025, 11:30 → 13:00 Europe/London

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On 24 June 2025, the UK government published a new National Security Strategy, subtitled 'Security for the British People in a Dangerous World'. Bringing together a number of reviews that have been in process since the change of government in 2024. The document adopts ‘a hardening and sharpening of our approach’ as its ‘animating idea’, and focuses on three components - security at home, strength abroad, and increased sovereign and asymmetric capabilities. It pledges to spend 5% of GDP on National Security, and ‘demand(s) nothing less than national unity’ to achieve the strategy's goals. Nonetheless the strategy will elicit a wide range of responses. 

This event offers interested academics, policymakers and practitioners an opportunity to discuss the analysis and policy directions set out in the National Security Strategy, asking:

• How well does the NSS identify the various challenges and opportunities confronting the UK?
• How well does the NSS respond to those challenges and opportunities? 
• What actions should interested experts and practitioners now consider to effectively engage with UK national security policy and its implementation?

 

Registration will close two hours before the event begins