sentences:  IST cooperated with the Institute for the European Defence and Strategic Studies, (set up by Peter Blaker, Baron Blaker) in the organisation of an international conference on defence at Windsor in 1986.Also, with the Faculty of Laws of the University of London, the Institute held an international conference in 1988 at Ditchley Park, the venue of many Anglo-American top-level conferences.The three-day event was opened by the Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd.