
Bill Hayton was appointed as an associate fellow with the Asia-Pacific programme at Chatham House in 2015. He is a former BBC journalist, the author of four books on Asia and the editor of the academic journal Asian Affairs. He was the BBC’s reporter in Vietnam in 2006-7 and was seconded to the public broadcaster in Myanmar in 2013-14.Show […]

AthenaLab spoke to three experts about the AUKUS Initiative, a military cooperation pact between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. James Rogers (UK) Director of Research at the Council on Geostrategy talks with Juan Pablo Toro, Executive Director on AthenaLab about the recently announced AUKUS initiative. James Holmes (US) Professor at the US […]

In association with th Columbia Global Centers | Santiago. From 2010 until 2017, James Clapper served as the fourth-ever Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the nation’s top intelligence official, and the principal intelligence advisor to the US President. He provided the President’s daily morning brief and held one of the broadest portfolios in the entire […]

AthenaLab spoke with the former head of NATO and the Southern Command, Admiral USN (r) James Stavridis, about his latest book where he deals with a fictional war between the United States and China.

VA (Ret.) Noonan was Chief of Navy in the Royal Australian Navy. He holds degrees in Business Administration, Maritime Policy, Marketing Communications, and International Relations from the Universities of Queensland, Wollogong, and Canberra in Australia, and Salve Regina in the United States, respectively. Prior to serving as Chief of Navy, he served as Commander of […]

On March 24, 2021, the British expert Klaus Dodds presented “Border Wars” in a webinar organized by AthenaLab, in which he explained that the purpose of his book is to offer a conceptual framework to understand the different types of current borders and the dynamics that cross them. Within the typology that Dodds detailed, are […]

David Rothkopf, CEO of The Rothkopf Group, author of the book “Traitor: A History of Betraying America from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump” and former director of Foreign Policy magazine, in a conference with AthenaLab and Columbia Global Centers | Santiago on January 15, 2021, explained the security challenges for the United States in the […]

The director of the National Security College of the Australian National University (ANU), Rory Medcalf, in a conference with AthenaLab on November 12, 2020, explained the challenges and opportunities of the Indo-Pacific, a central region for world affairs. His conference included the introduction of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andrés Allamand, who expressed Chile’s interest […]

Director of Military Sciences at the Royal United Services Institute. His work at RUSI was centred around research on contemporary conflict, the development and trends in How we fight, and trying to understand what the norms and behaviours will be in future conflict between major military forces. During his eight years in the academic world, […]

Peter Roberts, director of the Military Sciences program at RUSI, interviewed John Griffiths Spielman, head of AthenaLab’s Security and Defense studies, on August 10 of this year, as part of a program on the “Western Form of War”. ”, in which academics, politicians and members of the British and European Armed Forces have participated, such […]