Planning for Resilience: What can be legally done to mitigate disruptive environmental and other severe events and adjust to their impacts?
April 13, 2022
Professor Catherine Banet
Past Programs
History, Identity, Democracy: A Framework for Understanding Israeli Politics
October 30, 2015 Eytan Gilboa, Chair and Academic Director, The Israel Public Diplomacy Forum What are the key characteristics of Israeli society that have affected the formation of the Israeli political system and political culture? Professor Gilboa will offer insights into the Israeli political arena exploring such elements as political parties, elections,
The Migration Crisis in the Mediterranean: Reasons and Repercussions
September 17, 2015 Panayotis J. Tsakonas, Professor of International Relations, Security Studies and Foreign Policy Analysis at the Department of Mediterranean Studies, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece. What are the repercussions of migration for the EU and in particular South European states? How has illegal migration unfolded in the broader Mediterranean
How China’s Banks Work: A Prism for Understanding China
September 3, 2015 Jim Stent, Independent Director of China Minsheng Bank and China Everbright Bank Americans have difficulty comprehending how and why China works the way it does, giving rise to increasing friction between the two countries. This lack of understanding extends to China’s banking system, which is a microcosm of China’s
US-Cuba Relations, the Hemispheric Consequences and the OAS
August 17, 2015 Jane Thery, Director, Department of International Affairs of the OAS The reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba after more than fifty years is expected to reverberate throughout the Western Hemisphere and impact relationships within the Organization of American States. How far will this new development take
Europe Whole and Free after Ukraine? A View from the Baltics
June 15, 2015 Anne Derse, U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania 2009 – 2012 and to Azerbaijan 2006 – 2009 It’s been 25 years since the breakup of the Soviet Union and the reemergence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as independent countries recognized as such by their neighbors including the Russian Federation. In 2004 the
Finland and Russia’s Changing Policies
March 9, 2015 Jyrki Iivonen, Director for Public Policy at the Finnish Ministry of Defense until he retired in September 2013 For more than a year, the Russian Federation has been flying combat and surveillance aircraft – with transponders off – over the Baltic Sea approaching and occasionally entering Finnish and Swedish