Programs
Russia in Africa
Thursday, September 26, 2024 from 12 noon – 2 pm
Ambassador Mark L. Asquino (ret)
The Cold War pitted the United States against the Soviet Union in ideological and sometimes proxy military confrontations throughout Africa. Beginning with the independence of African nations starting in the late 1950’s, it continued in the decades that followed through wars for national liberation in Southern Africa. But with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the new Russian Federation largely turned away from Africa.
This has dramatically changed under Putin, and Russia is now
Wagner, Nietzsche and the Origins of Fascism
Wednesdays February 21 – March 20, 2024, 12:30 Noon Eastern & 9:30 Pacific
Dr. James L. West
In a historical moment when democracies around the world are under unprecedented stress, it might be instructive to reconsider the classic case of democratic collapse – the Weimar Republic.
The origins of this catastrophe were buried deeply in a national culture which German elites lauded as their Sonderweg their exceptionalist past distinctly different from that of the western democracies. This alternative culture was classically enshrined in the music of Richard Wagner and the philosophy of Friedrich
Symposia
Talking with Enemies, Cultivating Friends: Diplomacy Revisited
April 28-29, 2014
Thomas E McNamara, Ambassador; Gregory Hicks, US Deputy Chief of Mission to Libya in 2012; James Michel, Ambassador, international development consultant, Latin American specialist and senior US AID officer; James Farwell, political consultant; Donald Bishop, Public Diplomacy Council President and former US Public Affairs Officer in Afghanistan and Beijing.
“In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy. . .” – President Barack Obama, State of the Union Address, January 28,
United States and East Asia
April 8-9, 2013
William Itoh , former U.S. Ambassador to Thailand; Chris Nelson, Vice President of Samuels International, Washington, D.C.; Dr. Suisheng Zhao, Director of the Center for US-China Cooperation Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver; Dennis Blasco, international analyst; Frances Zwenig, President, US –ASEAN Business Council, LLC.
An all-day program in cooperation with the Santa Fe Institute.