Henry Jackson Society: Project for Democratic Geopolitics

The Henry Jackson Society Logo

The Henry Jackson Society Project for Democratic Geopolitics is a British neoconservative think tank and political action committee (PAC) which is supported by key US neocons and by two of Prime Minister David Cameron's closest advisers and ministers. It was launched in Cambridge on 11 March 2005 and in the Houses of Parliament on 22 November 2005. The manifesto for the society was published by the Social Affairs Unit.

Origins and launch

According to Marko Attila Hoare, Matthew Jamison organised the first meeting of the embryonic Henry Jackson Society at Peterhouse, Cambridge, in the autumn of 2004.

According to its own account the Henry Jackson Society was launched online on 11 March 2005, ‘after several months and much hard work.’ Its online launch was announced in a press release drafted by the ‘Organising Committee’ – the body which ran the Society before its registration as a UK charity. The Organising Committee consisted mainly of academics affiliated to Peterhouse, a conservative college at Cambridge University. They were led by Brendan Simms and Alan Mendoza, the Society’s co-founders. Brendan Simms, a Cambridge historian, was then best known for his book Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia, a highly critical account of British (non-interventionist) policy during the Bosnian War. Mendoza had written his PhD thesis on British policy during the conflict.

The HJS’s homepage originally displayed the following message:

The Henry Jackson Society is a non-profit organisation that seeks to promote the following principles: that liberal democracy should be spread across the world; that as the world’s most powerful democracies, the United States and the European Union – under British leadership – must shape the world more actively by intervention and example; that such leadership requires political will, a commitment to universal human rights and the maintenance of a strong military with global expeditionary reach; and that too few of our leaders in Britain and the rest of Europe today are ready to play a role in the world that matches our strength and responsibilities.

The HJS was launched in Cambridge on 15 June 2005. At the launch event Gary Kent of Labour Friends of Iraq spoke about ‘The Left and Iraq’. That was followed by a drinks reception in the Fellow's Garden in Peterhouse and a formal dinner in Clare Hall. The Society’s Westminster launch took place on 22 November 2005 in the Jubilee Room of the House of Commons. It was hosted by Michael Gove and Gisela Stuart.

Growth and development

The Henry Jackson Society was registered with the Charity Commission on 27 April 2006 under a Trust Deed dated 10 April 2006. According to the Charity Commission the Society had an income of £4,082 and spending of £1,806 in 2006. Since its income did not exceed £10,000 it was not required to file accounts. Its income rose to £37,742 in 2007 and £86,128 in 2008.

The British Moment

The Henry Jackson Society's July 2006 pamphlet, The British Moment.

In July 2006 the Social Affairs Unit published the Henry Jackson Society's manifesto, The British Moment: The Case for Democratic Geo-Politics in the Twenty-First Century. It argued that 'it is time for Britain, and indeed, the rest of Europe, to reclaim the noble tradition of liberal interventionism and pursue an active strategy across the globe.'

The Weekly Standard wrote of the book that '"Scoop Jackson" Democrats like Sen. Joe Lieberman are increasingly rare, and increasingly abhorred by their own party. But in Europe, a Scoop revival may be stirring.' A short of account of the book's launch concluded with the admonition: 'Now if only a Scoop revival would take hold among our Democratic friends here in the States.'

Move to London

During 2007 the Society began to focus more on targeting the media and policy community in London. Its 2007 accounts record that, ‘The year saw significant change and advancement with the expansion of the charity’s work from Cambridge to London, with the latter location quickly becoming the main focus of activity.’ They also note, ‘The launch of a weekly events programme in London which has increased the charity’s visibility dramatically’.

"Mendoza's Putsch"

According to Marko Attila Hoare, the opening of a London office coincided with a decision by Brendan Simms to step back from the day to day running of the organisation, while director of operations James Rogers also scaled down his role, leaving control largely in the hands of Alan Mendoza:

Once he took over the running of the HJS from Rogers and Simms, Mendoza had his hands on all the levers of power within the organisation, of which the most important was control of the website. Mendoza set about converting the HJS into his personal fiefdom, packing its staff with his own apparatchiks recruited via his personal network.

In July 2007, James Rogers wrote to The Times defending the European reform treaty then being negotiated, (which subsequently became the Lisbon Treaty). He stated:

As a leading member state, Britain should be actively bolstering European Union military power and its ability to represent our interests in the wider world. By providing some of the instruments and institutions necessary to increase our leverage in foreign countries, the reform treaty will enhance the security and sovereignty of all Europeans, thereby producing a better environment for domestic cohesion and the generation of economic wealth.

According to Hoare, this letter was repudiated in a public statement on the Society's website, prompting Rogers' resignation.

Just Journalism

Hoare goes on to describe the Society's founders as "Old Bolsheviks", who were replaced by people from Just Journalism, a pro-Israel think-tank, in existence from 2008 to 2011, on whose advisory board Mendoza served and who shared an office with the HJS. These would include Michael Weiss, Robin Shepherd, and Douglas Murray of the Centre for Social Cohesion. Although Hoare states that Weiss joined the HJS in March 2010, Weiss's LinkedIn biography puts this in March 2011.

Hoare uses Weiss' rise to power at the HJS as one of the reasons why it is no longer what it once was and voices his doubts over the way Weiss obtained power. According to Hoare, Weiss started out as acting director of research at the HJS. In this role he attempted to stop Hoare from publishing his monthly blog post that he had done for six years, a move which Hoare is unsure whether it was an attempt by Weiss to gain further power or if he was acting on Mendoza's wishes. Weiss was then moved to director of communications and public relations and had relinquished his role as executive director at Just Journalism to become a spokesman for the think-tank, making sure he was safely established in the HJS when Just Journalism closed. Hoare claims one way in which the HJS has lost its way is that four of the six top jobs there are now held by former senior members of Just Journalism (Mendoza, Weiss, Shepherd and Murray).

Student Rights

In June 2009, a group called Student Rights - Tackling Extremism on Campus was established "as a reaction to increasing political extremism and marginalisation of vulnerable students on campus". London Student newspaper reported that the Henry Jackson Society had paid for Student Rights to have a stall at LSE Freshers Fair and that the two organisations had shared an office.

Raheem Kassam was the director of Student Rights from its creation until March 2014, combining the role with jobs at the Henry Jackson Society including marketing director (September 2010 - July 2012), communications director (July 2012 - April 2013) and an associate fellow (April 2013 – September 2014). He is now a senior adviser to Nigel Farage and UKIP.

It is now headed by Rupert Sutton, a researcher for the Henry Jackson Society who has also held roles with the the Centre for Response to Radicalisation and Terrorism and Strategic Analysis.

Advisory Board

• Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour Member of Parliament for Poplar and Limehouse
• Robert Halfon, Conservative Member of Parliament for Harlow
• Rt. Hon Kim Howells, Labour Former Member of Parliament for Pontypridd, former Chairman of Intelligence and Security Committee
• Lord Palmer of Childs Hill, Liberal Democrat Councillor
• Dr. Alan Mendoza, Executive Director of the Henry Jackson Society
• Alex Radzyner, Businessman and former visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics

Charity Changes

A new charity (1140489 - THE HENRY JACKSON SOCIETY) was registered on 18 February 2011. The old charity (1113948 - THE HENRY JACKSON SOCIETY PROJECT FOR DEMOCRATIC GEOPOLITICS) was removed from the register on 30 October 2012.

Centre for Social Cohesion

The Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC) merged with the Henry Jackson Society in April 2011. CSC director Douglas Murray joined the Society as an associate director.

In July 2011, the HJS European Section director Marko Attila Hoare wrote that he had "deep reservations about the decision":

I was not consulted on this step, and learned about it only after it had been publicly announced. Had I been consulted, I would have argued against it, since I consider many of the political positions upheld by Murray and the CSC to be antithetical to my own positions and to those for which, I believed, the HJS stood. I am referring to Murray’s frequently stated views on Muslims and Islam. I have not wished to contribute further to the work of the HJS until I have had time to decide what my own response to the merger with the CSC and to Murray’s appointment should be, and to make my views clear on the matter.

Henry Jackson Initiative

In 2011, the Henry Jackson Society undertook a project on 21st Century capitalism, initially entitled 'Better Markets, Better Values'.

An October 2011 report to the City of London's Policy and Resources Committee, by the City's director of public relations recommended a grant of £25,000 towards a total project cost of £100,000, funded from the Committee‟s Policy Initiatives Fund 2011/12. According to this report, the project had already confirmed financial support from McKinsey, with further interest from KPMG and Clifford Chance.

The report stated:

The project will be led by a high level working group whose co-chairs will be Lady de Rothschild, CEO of EL Rothschild and Dominic Barton, Global Managing Director of McKinsey. Other members include the former Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Lord (John) Hutton, Monetary Policy Committee Member Adam Posen, Director of the Hudson Institute Irwin Stelzer and former Editor in Chief of the Wall Street Journal Europe Baroness Wheatcroft.

This task force published its report, ‘Towards a More Inclusive Capitalism’ in May 2012 in London at the same time that the Henry Jackson Initiative was formally established to continue its work.

Strategic Analysis

Launched in 2012, Strategic Analysis (SA) is a political risk consultancy by the Henry Jackson Society and informed by the HJS's research division. It claims to offer 'decision-ready', commercially relevant research, analysis and consulting services'. The research division informs clients of economic, security and political risks in the Middle East, North Africa and Eurasia.

The services they offer are headline monitoring, daily country risk briefs, enhanced country risk assessments, country summaries, consultancy services and bespoke reports.

The Henry Jackson Society spokesperson Rosanna Rafel, when asked by The Guardian, denied that SA's work in the Middle East contradicts the societies 'support for freedom and democracy in the Middle East' by saying, "Our analysts merely provide their interpretation of what is happening on the ground in such countries and how economic investment might be affected by events. We do not provide recommendations for companies on investment strategy." Despite this denial of a conflict of interest, the SA provide a detailed analysis and forecast of the oil and gas sector in all 20 Middle East and North African countries to allow clients to explore the investment opportunities and to alert them of the risks to their business. In a report they recommend the oil and gas sector continuing to operate as an 'enclave industry', a concept which, according to UCL development expert Dr Robert Biel, denotes a 'foreign-dominated industry (in this case, oil) designed to extract resources and export them internationally, and was associated with exploitive labour practices, inequality, corruption, foreign firms or governments holding undue influence on the host countries, and a weakening of democracy'. Additionally, the founder and director of the Henry Jackson Society Research Division, Ruth Lux, wrote an article titled 'Light at the end of the pipeline', which claimed that investment opportunities within the infrastructure sector in the Middle East are more numerable than ever.

Reports from the SA team have included the effects of the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline in the Petroleum Economist, political, economic and security risks in the Middle East and North Africa in Zawya and an analysis on the talks between Israel and Palestine in Haaretz.

The team

• Ruth Lux - founder and director of the Henry Jackson Society Research Division.
• Dr Alan Mendoza - founder and executive director of the Henry Jackson Society. The founder and president of the Disraelian Union, chief advisor to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Transatlantic & International Security and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Homeland Security, a board member of the British-American Project, a member of the advisory board of the Electric Infrastructure Security Council and of Conservative think tank Bright Blue. Is also standing as the Conservative candidate in the 2015 General Election in South Brent.
• Douglas Murray - associate director of the Henry Jackson Society. Founded the Centre for Social Cohesion, a columnist for Standpoint and frequent contributor to the Spectator and Wall Street Journal.
• Gary Millner - director of operations at the Henry Jackson Society. A fellow of the ifs School of Finance and a former employee at the Personal Finance Education Group.

Analysts

• Robin Simcox - research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society. Former research fellow at the Centre for Social Cohesion and has written for the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New Republic, The Atlantic, Washington Times, Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, Weekly Standard and the Guardian; and comments in the media for the likes of the BBC, Sky News, al-Jazeera and Fox News.
• Rupert Sutton - researcher at the Henry Jackson Society. Previously worked at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation.
• Hannah Stuart - research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society. Former research fellow at the Centre for Social Cohesion.
• Emily Dyer - researcher at the Henry Jackson Society. Previously worked as a higher executive officer for the Preventing Extremist Unit at the Department for Education, worked at Policy Exchange and has written for publications including The Observer, The Telegraph, The Huffington Post, City AM, The Atlantic, CTC Sentinel and Standpoint magazine.

Contact

Address: Millbank Tower,

21-24 Millbank,

London,

SW1P 4QP

Email: info@strategic-analysis.org

Phone: +44 (0)207 340 4520

Website: http://www.strategic-analysis.org/

Centre for Response to Radicalisation and Terrorism

The Centre for the Response to Radicalisation and Terrorism (CRT) is a research centre launched in 2014 by the Henry Jackson Society to provide research on the topic of the 'very real threat radical Islam poses to our society'.

Despite being a recent venture, the CRT are already attempting to have an impact on British foreign policy. In the run-up to the parliamentary vote on air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq, CRT released a paper titled The Legal Case for British Military Action Against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, presenting the legal arguments on how Britain could join the international coalition fighting the 'Islamic State' in both Iraq and Syria. This paper followed on from 'Understanding the Islamic State', which aimed to give MPs an in-depth background on the history and capability of the group.

The validity of the work of the CRT and the Henry Jackson Society as a whole has been called into question by the former senior director of the HJS Mark Attila Hoare who in 2012, upon leaving the society, said they have turned into an "abrasively right-wing forum with an anti-Muslim tinge".

Staff

• Dr Alan Mendoza
• Douglas Murray
• Davis Lewin
• Robin Simcox
• Hannah Stuart
• Emily Dyer
• Rupert Sutton

Syria

In December 2011, the HJS published an assessment of the possibilities for intervention in Syria by Michael Weiss.

This report provided the basis for a plan proposed in a February 2012 open letter published by the HJS calling for the establishment of a safe area in Idlib province, using Turkish troops and western air power.

The validity of the work has been called into question by former HJS director Marko Attila Hoare, who claims Weiss is not an academic expert on Syria and the Middle East, but rather an activist with strong views who follows events there closely.

APPGs and financial transparency row

The HJS provided the secretariat for two All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) in Westminster between approximately 2009 and mid-2014. The Homeland Security APPG was chaired by Tory MP Bernard Jenkin and the Transatlantic and International Security APPG was chaired by Labour MP Gisela Stuart.

After Spinwatch asked for disclosure of HJS funders who had donated £5,000 or more, in line with parliamentary rules, the HJS decided to stop performing the role of secretariat, rather than reveal the identity of its donors. The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards subsequently upheld a Spinwatch complaint on this matter.

Suspicions were raised after Spinwatch checked US and UK public records to find out who had donated and found that their rightward move had coincided with donations rising massively. In 2009 Spinwatch believed that the society's total income was £98,000, before rising to £321,000 in 2010, £815,000 in 2011 before reaching a high of £1,313,000 in 2013. Significant donors to the society include the Atkin Charitable Foundation, founded by Edward Atkin, whose donations went from £5,000 in 2010 to a total of £375,000 between 2011 and 2013, The Stanley Kalms Foundation who gave £100,000 in 2013 and are run by Baron Kalms a former Tory donor who in 2006 notably called then shadow foreign secretary William Hague an "ignorant armchair critic" for criticising Israel's actions in the 2006 war in Lebanon and a $10,000 donation from Nina Rosenwald (via the US fundraising arm, the American Friends of the Henry Jackson Society), who finances US-based right wing Gatestone Institute which publishes work from Geert Wilders, the founder and leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom who has declared he "hates Islam".

Aims and Objectives

Senator Henry 'Scoop' Jackson

Its statement of principles has been revised from its earlier, more forthright presentation of neoconservative themes, to a more oblique and ambiguous rendering of the same themes. It advocates a ‘forward strategy’ involving 'diplomatic, economic, cultural, and/or political means' to spread liberal democracy; and the maintenance of a strong military by US, EU and 'other democratic powers' armed with 'expeditionary capabilities with a global reach' so it can preempt threats and carry out humanitarian interventions. Furthermore, it supports 'necessary furtherance of European military modernisation and integration under British leadership'; believes that 'only modern liberal democratic states are truly legitimate'. Reiterating a familiar neocon grievance, it questions the legitimacy of 'the political or human rights pronouncements of any international or regional organisation which admits undemocratic states'; and invokes an old Irving Kristol line in giving 'two cheers for capitalism', while accepting that the state has a role in providing services and in maintaining the environment. For all its celebrations of liberal democracy, it does not rule out engagement with 'repressive regimes' which, it insists, can 'only be temporary'. It ends by affirming a 'strong commitment to individual and civil liberties in democratic states, even and especially when we are under attack' .

In its earlier version it read: "liberal democracy should be spread across the world; that as the world’s most powerful democracies, the United States and the European Union—under British leadership—must shape the world more actively by intervention and example; that such leadership requires political will, a commitment to universal human rights and the maintenance of a strong military with global expeditionary reach; and that too few of our leaders in Britain and the rest of Europe today are ready to play a role in the world that matches our strength and responsibilities."

In the Guardian Neil Clark quoted HJS as explaining that the "forward strategy" involved spreading "liberal democracy across the world" through "the full spectrum of 'carrot' capacities, be they diplomatic, economic, cultural or political, but also, when necessary, those 'sticks' of the military domain".

Co President Brendan Simms wrote in July 2006 that the Society's aim "is not to justify the mistakes of the past, but to stake a claim for intellectual hegemony for the future":

If you have some liberal views on domestic politics, but are prepared to concede that George Bush might be broadly right on foreign policy. If you are concerned at the spread of a conversational consensus in Britain and Europe which involves saying things like "I don't know how anybody with any intelligence can vote for Bush", even if you would not have voted for Bush yourself. If you know that we have taken many wrong turnings since the removal of Saddam Hussein, but do not feel that the whole enterprise was wrong from the start. If you feel all or some of these things; or might be persuaded of them, then the Henry Jackson Society is for you, and we invite you to join us.

Members

Organising Committee 2006

Prior to its registration as a charity the Henry Jackson Society was run by its Organising Committee. The earliest record of the members of the Organising Committee available in the Internet Archive is from 26 January 2006 and lists the following members:

• Brendan Simms, Co-President | Alan Mendoza, Interim Executive Director | James M. Rogers, Executive Secretary | John Bew, Vice-President | Gideon Alexander Mailer, Secretary | Matthew Jamison, Media Secretary | Martyn Frampton, Web-Editor; Section Director, Greater Middle East | Tobias Harris, Section Director, Asia / Pacific Rim | Marko Attila Hoare, Section Co-Director, Greater Europe | Marc Sidwell, Section Director, Governance / Strategy | Tristan Stubbs, Section Director, Environment and Economy | Christopher Swift, Section Director, Russia and Eurasia

Signatories of the Statement of Principles

• Michael Ancram QC MP, Member of Parliament for Devizes | Gerard Baker, Assistant Editor, The Times | Paul Beaver, Special Advisor to the Parliamentary Defence Committee; Director, Beaver Westminster Ltd. | Paul Bew, Professor of Politics, Queen’s University, Belfast | Nicholas Boles, Director, Policy Exchange | Colonel Tim Collins, Commander, First Battalion Royal Irish Regiment, Iraq 2003 | Paul Cornish, Carrington Professor of International Security, RIIA | Richard Dearlove, Master of Pembroke College; Former Head of MI6 | John Drewienkiewicz (Major-General) Military Advisor to the High Representative for Bosnia | Mark Etherington, Civil Governor, Wasit (Kut) province, Iraq, 2003-2004 | Michael Gove, MP Member of Parliament for Surrey Heath; former Shadow Minister for Housing, now Secretary of State for Education in UK Coalition Government (2010- ) | Robert Halfon, Political Director, Conservative Friends of Israel | Oliver Kamm, Columnist, The Times | Jackie Lawrence, Former Member of Parliament for Preseli Pembrokeshire | Denis MacShane MP, Member of Parliament for Rotherham | Jan Mortier, Associate of the Council for a Community of Democracies | Fionnuala Jay O'Boyle MBE, Director, Jay Associates | Andrew Lever, University of Cambridge | Stephen Pollard, Columnist, The Times | Lord Powell of Bayswater, Personal Advisor to the Prime Minister for Defence and Security, 1984-1991 | Andrew Roberts, Author, Journalist and Television Presenter | Jamie Shea, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for External Relations, NATO | Irwin Stelzer, Director of Economic Policy Studies, Hudson Institute. Advisor to Rupert Murdoch who in turn recommended him to Tony Blair. | Gisela Stuart MP, Member of Parliament for Birmingham Edgbaston; Member of the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee | David Trimble, Former Member of Parliament for Upper Bann; Winner of Nobel Peace Prize | Edward Vaizey MP, Member of Parliament for Wantage, Minister of State (Culture, Communications and Creative Industries) in the UK Coalition Government (2010- ) | David Willetts MP, Member of Parliament for Havant; former Shadow Education Secretary, now Minister of State (Universities and Science) at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in the UK Coalition Government (2010- )

Trustees

2007

The trustees listed in the Society’s first Annual Report filed with the Charity Commission (in 2007) were as follows:

• Mr Jonathan Alexader Metliss | Cllr Dr Alan Mendoza | Mr Michael Andrew Gove | Mrs Gisela Gschaider Stuart | Mr Stuart Lennard Caplan | Dr Brendan Peter Simms | Mr James Matthew Rogers | Lord William David Trimble

2012

• Stuart Lennard Caplan | Lord William David Trimble | David Rasouly | Lady Caroline Dalmeny | Damian Noel Collins | Dr Alan Mendoza | Dr Brendan Simms | Gisela Gschaider Stuart

Staff

2012

HJS Staff
London
Alan Mendoza – Executive Director	Douglas Murray - Associate Director	Robin Shepherd - Director, International Affairs
Robin Simcox – Research Fellow	Raheem Kassam - Director of Communications and Public Relations	Michael Weiss - Director of Research, Co-Chair, Russia Studies Centre
Samer Libdeh - Senior Research Fellow	Houriya Ahmed - Research Fellow	Peter Cannon – Associate Fellow
George Grant - Associate Fellow	Julia Pettengill - Research Fellow, Co-Chair, Russia Studies Centre	Hannah Stuart - Research Fellow
Richard Cashman - Associate Fellow	Emily Dyer - Junior Research Fellow	Davis Lewin - Political Director
Jonathan Fisher QC - Associate Fellow	David Reay - Director of Business Development	Fleur Brading - Director of the Henry Jackson Initiative
Charlotte Langley - Director of Development	Christiana Hambro - Events Manager	Emily Banks - Communications Assistant
Francesca Roettger Moreda - Political Assistant	Anthony Carter - Research Assistant	Alex Rudofsky - Research Assistant
Dana Al-Jawamis - Research Assistant
New York
Brooke Goldstein - Associate Fellow	Nazee Moinian - Associate Fellow
Los Angeles
Adelle Nazarian - Program Director
Washington D.C.
Catherine Bray - Washington, D.C. Representative	Alexandros Petersen - Senior Associate Fellow
Cambridge
Brendan Simms – President	Jonathan Bronitsky - Associate Director

2015

HJS Staff
Director's Office
Dr Alan Mendoza - Executive Director	Douglas Murray - Associate Director	Sharon Stern - Chief of Staff
Edisa Korugic - Executive Assistant to the Executive Director	Jessica Reihanifam - Development Manager	Nick Cattermole - Director of Operations
Nicole D’Angelo - Office Manager
Research
Robin Simcox - Research Fellow	Hannah Stuart - Research Fellow	Emily Dyer - Research Fellow
Rupert Sutton - Research Fellow	Olli Heinonen - Visiting Senior Fellow	Jacob Zenn - Non-Resident Associate Fellow
Dr Diane Webber - Non-Resident Associate Fellow	Jeevan Vipinachandran - Research Assistant	Ilan Fisher - Research Assistant
Livinia Mouries - Research Assistant
Political
Davis Lewin - Deputy Director & Head of Policy and Research
Russia studies centre
Dr Andrew Foxall - Director of the Russia Studies Centre	David Satter - Associate Fellow
Communications
David Rutter - Communications and Media Relations Officer	Callum Burke - Communications Assistant
Legal
Jonathan Fisher QC - Associate Fellow
Events
Hanna Nomm - Events Manager	Gray Sergeant - Events Assistant
New York
Brooke Goldstein - Associate Fellow	Nazee Moinian - Associate Fellow
Cambridge
Prof Brendan Simms - President
Los Angeles
Adelle Nazarian - Program Director

Former Staff

Patrick Schneider-Sikorsky | Deep Kisor Datta-Ray | Katharine Slocombe | Duncan Crossey | Tomas Weiss | Benjamin Charlton | Barak M. Seener - former Section Director, Middle East | Eric Danko - former Strategic Relations Manager, Washington | Sarah Platts - former Program Director, Washington D.C. | Karla Jones - former Associate Fellow and Director of Development, Washington | John Bew - former Vice-President, Cambridge | James Rogers - former Associate Fellow, European Union | Gideon Mailer - former Section Director, Africa | Matthew Jamison - former Executive Secretary | Tristan Stubbs - former Section Director, Environment and Economy | Marko Attila Hoare – former Section Director, European Neighbourhood | Tufail Ahmad – former Section Director, South Asia | James Coady – former Section Director, European Union | Camilla Hagelund – former Section Director, Russia & Eurasia | Joe Rolling – former Section Director, South East Asia & Australasia | Ben Caldecott – former Section Director, East Asia | Yaniv Ofek – former Associate Fellow, Middle East | Corine Wood-Donnelly – former Associate Fellow, Africa | Marc Sidwell – former Associate Fellow, Governance, Strategy & Terrorism | Niccolo Pantucci – former Associate Fellow, North America | Claudia Schwartz – former Associate Fellow, Middle East | Timothy Stafford – former Associate Fellow, North America | Rosalba Junginger - former Research Assistant | Kyra Choucroun - former Research Assistant | Georgina Duffin – former Research Assistant | Kimberley Trewhitt, former Research Assistant | Kate McCormick - former Research Assistant | Marcel Thach – former Research Assistant |

Advisory Council

2012

HJS Advisory Council
Academic Council members
Hasan Al Momani - Director of the Regional Centre On Conflict Prevention, Jordan Institute of Diplomacy	Michael Bentley - Professor, British Intellectual History, University of St. Andrews	Vernon Bogdanor CBE - Professor, Institute of Contemporary History, King’s College London
Brendan O’Leary - Professor, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania	Chris Brown - Professor, International Relations, LSE	Frank Chalk - Professor, History and Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University
Brahma Chellaney - Professor, Strategic Studies, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi	Thomas Cushman - Professor, Sociology, Wellesley College	Brigitte Granville - Professor, International Economics and Economic Policy, Queen Mary University
Adrian Hyde-Price - Professor, International Politics, University of Bath	G. John Ikenberry - Professor, Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University	William Inboden - Assistant Professor, Foreign Affairs, University of Texas
Andrew Lever - Professor, Infectious Diseases, Cambridge University	Robert Lieber - Professor, Government and International Affairs, Georgetown University	Tim Lynch - Lecturer, American Politics and Foreign Policy, University of Melbourne
Harvey Mansfield - William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government in the Department of Government at Harvard University	Rory Miller - Professor, Middle East and Mediterranean Studies, King’s College London	Patrick Minford - Professor, Applied Economics, Cardiff University
Kenneth Pyle - Professor, History and Asian Studies, University of Washington	Danny Quah - Professor, Economics, LSE	Fred Siegel - Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute Center for State and Local Leadership
Kirstine Sinclair - Assistant Professor, Centre For Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark	Robert Singh - Professor, Politics, Birkbeck College	Sol Stern - Senior Fellow, U.S. Policy, Education, Manhattan Institute
Policy Council Members
Lord Bew of Donegore - Professor, Irish History, Queen’s University Belfast	Prof. Brian Brivati - Director, John Smith Memorial Trust	Jessica Douglas-Home - Author
Amanda Foreman - Historian, Writer and Broadcaster	Jeffrey Gedmin - CEO and President, Legatum Institute	Robin Harris CBE - Author and Journalist; former advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Emanuele Ottolenghi - Senior Fellow, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies	Andrew Roberts - Historian, Author and Journalist	Marc Sageman - Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute, Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security
Prof. Roger Scruton - Visiting Professor, Oxford University, and Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute	Amir Taheri - Author and Journalist	Dr. Lorenzo Vidino - Visiting fellow, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Sir Andrew Wood GCMG - Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme
Political Council Members
Conservative
David Amess MP	James Arbuthnot MP, Chairman of the Defence Committee	Bob Blackman MP
Nick Boles MP	David Burrowes MP	Alistair Burt MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Middle East, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Douglas Carswell MP	Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, Chariman of the Committee of Selection	Damian Collins MP
David Davies MP, Chairman of the Welsh Affairs Committee	David Davis MP, Former Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office	Nadine Dorries MP
Mike Freer MP	James Gray MP	Robert Halfon MP
Stephen Hammond MP	Bernard Jenkin MP, Chairman of the Public Administration Select Committee	Daniel Kawczynski MP
Richard Ottaway MP, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee	Priti Patel MP	Mark Pritchard MP
Dominic Raab MP	Amber Rudd MP	Robert Walter MP
Nadhim Zahawi MP
Labour
Bob Ainsworth MP, Former Secretary of State for Defence	Margaret Beckett MP, Former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs	Hazel Blears MP, Former Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Ben Bradshaw MP, Former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport	Chris Bryant MP, Former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office	Dai Havard MP
Denis MacShane, Former Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office	Khalid Mahmood MP	Meg Munn MP, Former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Jim Murphy MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence	John Spellar MP, Shadow Minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Office	Gisela Stuart MP
Derek Twigg MP, Former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Ministry of Defence
Liberal Democrat
Tom Brake MP, Former Shadow Secretary of State for Transport	Dan Rogerson MP
Conservative Peers
Lord Flight of Worcester	Lord Kalms of Edgware	The Rt Hon Lord Trimble
Labour Peers
Lord Dubs of Battersea	Lord Moonie of Bennochy	The Rt Hon Admiral Lord West of Spithead GCB DSC

2015

HJS Advisory Council
Academic Council members
Dr. Hasan Al Momani, Director of the Regional Centre On Conflict Prevention, Jordan Institute of Diplomacy	Professor Michael Bentley, Professor, British Intellectual History, University of St. Andrews	Professor Vernon Bogdanor CBE, Professor, Institute of Contemporary History, King’s College London
Professor Chris Brown, Professor, International Relations, LSE	Professor Frank Chalk, Professor, History and Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University	Professor Brahma Chellaney, Professor, Strategic Studies, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
Professor Thomas Cushman, Professor, Sociology, Wellesley College	Professor Maurice Fraser, Head of the LSE European Institute; Associate Fellow (Europe), Chatham House	Professor Brigitte Granville, Professor, International Economics and Economic Policy, Queen Mary University
Professor Adrian Hyde-Price, Professor, International Politics, University of Bath	Professor G. John Ikenberry, Professor, Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University	Dr. William Inboden, Assistant Professor, Foreign Affairs, University of Texas
Professor Anthony F. Lang Jr., Reader, School of International Relations & Director, Centre for Global Constitutionalism, University of St Andrews	Professor Andrew Lever, Professor, Infectious Diseases, Cambridge University	Professor Robert Lieber, Professor, Government and International Affairs, Georgetown University
Dr. Tim Lynch, Lecturer, American Politics and Foreign Policy, University of Melbourne	Professor Harvey Mansfield, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government in the Department of Government at Harvard University	Professor Rory Miller, Professor, Middle East and Mediterranean Studies, King’s College London
Professor Patrick Minford, Professor, Applied Economics, Cardiff University	Professor Brendan O’Leary, Professor, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania	Professor Gwythian Prins, Director, LSE Mackinder Programme for the Study of Long Wave Events, London School of Economics
Professor Kenneth Pyle, Professor, History and Asian Studies, University of Washington	Professor Danny Quah, Professor, Economics, LSE	Fred Siegel, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute Center for State and Local Leadership
Dr. Kirstine Sinclair, Assistant Professor, Centre For Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark	Professor Robert Singh, Professor, Politics, Birkbeck College	Sol Stern, Senior Fellow, U.S. Policy, Education, Manhattan Institute
Dr. Matthias Küntzel, Research Associate, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Policy Council Members
Lord Bew of Donegore - Professor, Irish History, Queen’s University Belfast	Prof. Brian Brivati - Director, John Smith Memorial Trust	Jessica Douglas-Home - Author
Amanda Foreman - Historian, Writer and Broadcaster	Jeffrey Gedmin - CEO and President, Legatum Institute	Robin Harris CBE - Author and Journalist; former advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Emanuele Ottolenghi - Senior Fellow, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies	Andrew Roberts - Historian, Author and Journalist	Marc Sageman - Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute, Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security
Prof. Roger Scruton - Visiting Professor, Oxford University, and Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute	Amir Taheri - Author and Journalist	Dr. Lorenzo Vidino - Visiting fellow, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Political Council Members
Conservative
David Amess MP	James Arbuthnot MP, Chairman of the Defence Committee	Bob Blackman MP
Nick Boles MP	David Burrowes MP	Alistair Burt MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Middle East, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Douglas Carswell MP	Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, Chariman of the Committee of Selection	Damian Collins MP
David Davies MP, Chairman of the Welsh Affairs Committee	David Davis MP, Former Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office	Nadine Dorries MP
Mike Freer MP	James Gray MP	Robert Halfon MP
Stephen Hammond MP	Bernard Jenkin MP, Chairman of the Public Administration Select Committee	Daniel Kawczynski MP
James Morris MP	Sir Richard Ottaway MP, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee	Priti Patel MP
Mark Pritchard MP	Dominic Raab MP	Amber Rudd MP
Robert Walter MP	Julian Lewis MP	Nadhim Zahawi MP
Henry Smith MP
Labour
Margaret Beckett MP, Former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs	Hazel Blears MP, Former Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government	Ben Bradshaw MP, Former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Chris Bryant MP, Former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office	Dai Havard MP	Khalid Mahmood MP
Meg Munn MP, Former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office	Jim Murphy MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence	John Spellar MP, Shadow Minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Gisela Stuart MP	Derek Twigg MP, Former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Ministry of Defence
Liberal Democrat
Dan Rogerson MP
Conservative Peers
Lord Flight of Worcester	Lord Kalms of Edgware	The Rt Hon Lord Trimble
Labour Peers
Lord Dubs of Battersea	Lord Moonie of Bennochy	Lord Triesman of Tottenham
The Rt Hon Admiral Lord West of Spithead GCB DSC

International Patrons

Bruce P. Jackson, President, The Project on Transitional Democracies	Robert Kagan, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace	William Kristol, Editor, The Weekly Standard; PNAC
Vytautas Landsbergis – Member of European Parliament; President of Lithuania, 1990-1992	Clifford D. May, President, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies	Michael McFaul, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Senior Advisor, National Democratic Institute
Joshua Muravchik, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute	Richard Perle, Former American Assistant Secretary of Defense	Jack Sheehan, Defense Policy Board; Former NATO General, Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic
R. James Woolsey, Jr., Former Director of the CIA	Thomas Cushman – Founding Editor and Editor-At-Large, Journal of Human Rights	Max Boot, Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, The Council on Foreign Relations
Martin Bútora – Slovak Ambassador to the USA, 1999-2003; Co-Founder, Institute for Public Affairs, & Public Against Violence	Michael Danby – Australian Labor Member of Parliament for Melbourne Ports	Jean Bethke Elshtain – Contributing Editor, The New Republic
Carl Gershman – President, National Endowment for Democracy	Dore Gold – Former Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister of Israel	Hubertus Hoffmann – President, The World Security Network
Richard D. Kahlenberg – Author	Max Kampelman	Herbert London – President, Hudson Institute
Stephen J. Solarz – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-NY), 1975-1993	Michael Stürmer – Chief Correspondent, Die Welt	Alejandro Toledo – President of Peru, 2001-2006
Elbegdorj Tsakhia – Leader, Mongolian Democracy Movement; Prime Minister of Mongolia, 1998, 2004-2006

Featured lecturers

2007

Farah Pandith | John Bolton | Ariel Cohen | Raymond Tanter

2008

David Alton (Lord), Vincent Brossel, Lynn Lee and In Ho Park | Ron Silver | Raphael Perl | Herbert London | Alexander Lennon | Haim Koren | Rob Singh and Timothy Lynch | Jonathan Paris | Marc Ginsberg | Shmuel Bar | Mithal al-Alusi | Ahmet Davutoglu | Daniel Kimmage | Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart from the Institute of State Effectiveness | Thomas Cushman | Joseph S. Nye, Jr. | Stephen Solarz | Keith Pavlischek Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington DC | Edward Lucas | Omar Fadhil | Ilan Berman | Martin van Creveld | Patrick Clawson | Shai Feldman | Emanuele Ottolenghi | Carl Gershman

Financial statements

Henry Jackson Society Financial Statements made up to 31 December 2007
Henry Jackson Society Financial Statements made up to 31 December 2008

Affiliations

• Centre for Social Cohesion merged in 2011.
• Just Journalism - shared offices.
• Chechnya Peace Forum, co-hosted 'Russia A Year On: Testing Medvedev's Credentials' In the House of Commons on Tuesday 2nd June 2009
• Global Power Europe – is the web log of HJS European Union Section Director James Rogers and offers commentary on developments affecting the European Union.
• Worldview – Presented by The Henry Jackson Society's Executive Director, Alan Mendoza, it was screened weekly on the 18 Doughty Street Talk TV network
• Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP – London branch)
• Campaign for a UN Democracy Caucus.
• Student Rights

Contact, References and Resources

Contact

c/o Dr. Brendan Simms

The Henry Jackson Society

Peterhouse

Cambridge CB2 1RD

United Kingdom

Website: www.henryjacksonsociety.org

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6786954801

Resources

Internet Archive Wayback Machine, henryjacksonsociety.org

Profiles

• Wikipedia Henry Jackson Society
• The Henry Jackson Society, Guardian (UK).
• Rightweb Henry Jackson Society Project

Articles & Commentary

• Hilary Aked, David Miller and Melissa Jones, Henry Jackson Society forced to quit Westminster role after Spinwatch complaint - APPGs discontinued, Spinwatch, 7 January 2015.
• Beth R. Alexander, "'Crying Wolf' over the neoconservatives," UPI (Washington Times), November 22, 2004.
• James Bloodworth, Labour should cut its ties with the illiberal Henry Jackson Society, guardian.co.uk, 20 May 2013.
• David Clark, "The neoconservative temptation beckoning Britain's bitter liberals. For leftists divided by Iraq, tomorrow's launch of a rightwing political society could be a transforming moment," Guardian (UK), 21 November 2005.
• Klaus Dodds and Stuart Elden Thinking Ahead: David Cameron, the Henry Jackson Society and British Neo-conservatism The British Journal of Politics & International Relations Volume 10, Issue 3, pages 347–363, August 2008
• John Feffer, "To Link or Not to Link: The Human Rights Question in North Korea," Foreign Policy in Focus, 19 December 2005.
• James Heartfield, "Humanitarian interventionists dig in. In his new book Anti-Totalitarianism, Oliver Kamm makes a shrill and inconsistent defence of the Iraq war," Spiked Online, December 16, 2005.
• Marko Attila Hoare, The Henry Jackson Society and Douglas Murray, Greater Surbiton, 29 July 2011.
• Marko Attila Hoare, Alan Mendoza’s putsch in the Henry Jackson Society, Greater Surbiton, 13 August 2012.
• Marko Attila Hoare, Alan Mendoza’s Henry Jackson Society and William Shawcross’s Charity Commission, 13 November 2012.
• Marko Attila Hoare, Labour’s shameful links with the anti-immigration right, Left Foot Forward, 7 May 2013.
• Marko Attila Hoare, The degeneration of British neoconservatism, Greater Surbiton, 10 May 2013.
• Marko Attila Hoare, Document: The Henry Jackson Society – Post London Launch Meeting – Minutes – 29 November 2005, Greater Surbiton, 25 May 2013.
• Cédric Housez, "The London-Washington Axis Called Into Question," Bella Ciao, 7 January 2006.
• Sunny Hundal, Jim Murphy and the British neo-cons, Liberal Conspiracy, 14 February 2013.
• Sunny Hundal, Excl: Libdem resigns from controversial think-tank Henry Jackson Society, Liberal Conspiracy, 5 June 2013.
• Fran Kelly, "New Life for Neoconservatism?" ABC Radio News (Australia), 6 January 2006.
• Oliver Kamm, "Recalling Scoop Jackson," Oliver Kamm Blog, 14 April 2005.
• Oliver Kamm, "Henry Jackson's legacy," Oliver Kamm Blog, 28 November 2005.
• Jim Lobe The Henry M. Jackson Society Hosts Friends of Israel in London, Lobelog, July 19th, 2010
• Euan MacDonald, "New neo-conservative society launched in UK," The TransAtlantic Assembly Blog, 23 November 2005.
• "Iran - The Media Fall Into Line" Media Lens, 9 February 2006. (Info on some of the HJS signatories.)
• Alan Mendoza, HJS: Our Values, Henry Jackson Society, 7 May 2013.
• Tom Mills Friends of Israel Initiative: The neoconservatives’ eastern front, Spinwatch, 27 July 2010
• Douglas Murray, A reply to certain critics, spectator.co.uk, 10 May 2013.
• Stephen Pollard, "What’s left, right, centre and neocon all over. A new group shows that the old party political divides have broken down," (The Sunday) Times Online (UK), November 27, 2005.
• Randeep Ramesh, Rightwing thinktank pulls funds for Commons groups after disclosure row, The Guardian, 30 December 2014.
• Osama Saeed, "Much to be afraid of in David Cameron," Rolled-up Trousers, 7 December 2005.
• Jai Singh, EXPOSED: Quilliam leadership directly involved with neocon Douglas Murray’s Henry Jackson Society, Loonwatch, 20 December 2013.
• Ben Soffa, Jim Murphy and the British neo-cons, Labourlist, 13 February 2013.
• Gisela Stuart, "Finding Neo. Gisela Stuart argues for a robust foreign policy," Progress (UK), January/February 2006.
• Ros Taylor, "Inside the hawks' nest," Guardian (UK) News Blog, November 22, 2005.
• Letters, "Don't blame 'Scoop' for the neocons," Guardian (UK), 23 November 2005. Including a letter from Alan Mendoza, James Rogers, Gideon Mailer, John Bew and Martyn Frampton of The Henry Jackson Society denying that the society is right wing or 'neoconservative' and from critic Neil Clark
• "The launch of The Henry Jackson Society," tygerland, November 21, 2005.
• "The Henry Jackson Society: The high priests of British Neoconservatism," tygerland, 7 February 2006.
• Editorial: "Henry Jackson Society = World War Three," Irish Political Review, December 2005.