Professor Dr Julian Lindley-French
“Nostalgia is not a strategy”.
For twenty years I have had the honour of attending the wonderful Riga Conference in Latvia. Every year I have attended I have used the conference to pose the Riga Test – are the good citizens of Riga safer this year than last from their noisy and aggressive neighbour. The answer? No.
This was probably my last Riga Conference because for much of it I felt like a spare part who had outstayed his welcome. There is a perfectly good reason for that because it is time for a new generation of leaders and analysts to take over. Any legacy I may be leaving is in good hands. There is a lot of strategic talent coming through.