Challenges in Madagascar: Improving Food Security, Preserving Biodiversity, and Promoting Democracy
January 18, 2024, 12 noon – 2pm
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Past Programs
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
A Recent Visit to Palestine
February 10, 2015 Arvid and Mary Jo Lundy, prior to this visit to the Palestinian territories, they worked on a Habitat for Humanity Orphanage rehabilitation project in Romania and earlier on drinking water projects in Ethiopia and Chiapas, Mexico Conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has been almost continuous in our lifetimes – or
The Santa Rosa Model: A Colombia Success Story
January 26, 2015 John Heard, former Senior Foreign Service Officer with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Peace Corps with tours in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Paraguay, El Salvador, Bosnia and the Philippines plus a number of years in Washington Although Colombia has been pushed off the front pages by Iraq,
Scientific and Technological Cooperation and the Trans-Atlantic Economy – the “Fifth Freedom”
November 25, 2014 James Gavigan, Minister Counselor, EU Mission to the United States This program was held in collaboration with the Delegation of the European Union to the United States. Even though the pursuit of new knowledge has never been delimited to national borders, the fact that public funds for science are