Academics questioned on the National Security Strategy
7 March 2016
The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy takes evidence the National Security Strategy and the Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015 with three academics.
- Watch Parliament TV: NSS and SDSR 2015
- Inquiry: NSS and SDSR 2015
- Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy
Witnesses
Monday 14 March 2016, Committee Room 4A, Palace of Westminster
At 4.15pm:
- Professor John Gearson, Professor of National Security Studies at King's College, London
- Professor Patrick Porter, Academic Director, Strategy and Security Institute at the University of Exeter
- James de Waal, Senior Fellow in International Security, Chatham House
Purpose of the session
Issues covered in questioning are expected to include:
- How the National Security Strategy was created
- The UK's role in the world
- Perceived threats to the UK
- National Security Risk Assessment
- UK military capability
Further information
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