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World Order Under Stress: Issues & Initiatives for the 21st Century

The 2007 Cunningham Lecture, delivered by Professor Robert O'Neill, is a prescient examination of the trials and challenges which have continually beset world powers. Drawing on historical parallels, the lecture offers a perspective on the problems the United States faces as the leading power in the world today, the insurgency of radical Islam, the future of nuclear weapons and the need for closer global cooperation.

Professor Robert O’Neill has spent his life studying international conflict. He was Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the ANU 1971-82, Director of the International Institute for Stategic Studies in London 1982-87, Chichele Professor of the History of War at Oxford 1987-2001, and Chairman of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Canberra 2000-05