Surviving in a Tough Neighborhood: Turkish Foreign Policy and the Black Sea Region in the 2020s
November 3, 2023, 12 noon – 2pm
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Past Programs
No More Deaths: The Mexican Border and Immigration Reform
October 14, 2013 Reverends John Fife and Gene Levebre Immigration reform is stalled in Congress. That’s the bad news. The good news is that we can still put on the pressure for better legislation. The Presenters will describe what’s actually happening along the Arizona border with Mexico, an intolerable situation rife
Eyes in the Sky All of Us Can Use: What can they see? . . . How can We Make Global Security Discoveries via the Cloud?
September 30, 2013 Frank Pabian, Senior GeoSpacial Information Analyst, Los Alamos National Laboratory Analysts at various NGOs, universities, and think tanks (as well as arm-chair hobbyists) are playing a leading role in obtaining new information of relevance to global security from a variety of open-source geospatial tools. These tools include Google Earth
The European Union: America’s Friend or Foe?
June 11, 2013 Brian E. Carlson, Ambassador, experienced public diplomacy specialist and a former Career Minister in the U.S. Foreign Service Does America have anything to fear from the new EU? Are our closest allies moving away from trans-Atlantic organizations like NATO and becoming a large, powerful and competing coalition? Can the
The Geopolitics of Oil
February 9, 2013 Molly Williamson, former Foreign Service Officer with the rank of Career Minister, is an expert on energy, economic and demographic factors affecting foreign policy formulation, US-Middle East relations, especially the Israel-Palestine conflict, Iran and nuclear challenges, and the inter-agency process How do energy, economic and demographic factors affect US
The Fallout from Libya: Al Qaeda in Africa
November 27, 2012 Vicki Huddleston, Ambassador, former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa; US Ambassador to Madagascar and to Mali; Principal Officer of the US Interests Section in Havana and Chargé d’affairs ad interim in Ethiopia
Engaging a Dangerous World Without Guns: The U.S Foreign Service Today
November 9, 2012 Nicholas Kralev, author, a journalist and a lecturer on international affairs, diplomacy and global travel Americans are still reeling from the death by suffocation of their Ambassador to Libya in the city of Benghazi, dramatic proof that the life of a diplomat today doesn’t conform to tea party stereotypes. In