Meetings 2020-2021

The Return of Great Power Conflict

Michael McFaul, Former US Ambassador to Russia

Ending America’s Longest War – Prospects for Peace in Afghanistan

Laurel Miller, Former Deputy and Acting Special Representative For Afghanistan and Pakistan, US Department of State

North Korea – In the Palm of the Hand

General Vincent Brooks, Retired Four Star General

US-China Relations

Minxin Pei, Professor of Government, Claremont-McKenna College

The Ayatollahs in Tehran and the Biden Presidency

Alex Vatanka, Director, Iran Program, Middle East Institute

NATO: Looking Ahead

Amb. Douglas Lute, Former US Permanent Representative to NATO Retired Lieutenant General, US Army

Defense and Diplomacy

William Cohen, Former US Secretary of Defense and Former US Senator

An Open World: How America Can Win the Contest for 21st Century Order

Rebecca Lissner, Assistant Professor, US Naval War College

Why a Second Cold War in Asia is Inevitable Today

John Mearsheimer, Professor, University of Chicago

Guiding Principles for a Biden Nuclear Policy

George Perkovich, Vice President for Studies, Director, Nuclear Policy Program. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

What Offensive and Defensive Capability Does the US Need to Win a Cyberwar

Herbert Lin, Holland Fellow in Cyber Policy and Security, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Does Germany’s Radical Right Hold Lessons for America?

Susan Newman, Director, Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany

Present at the Re-Creation? US Foreign Policy Must Be Remade, Not Restored

Jessica Matthews, Former President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Climate Crisis

Bill McKibben, Environmentalist

COVID-19 in Africa

Beate Kampmann, Director, Vaccine Center and Professor of Pediatric Infection and International Child Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Central America in Crisis: Addressing the Root Causes of Migration

Paul Angelo, Fellow in Latin American Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads

General John Abizaid, Former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Retired Four Star General, US Army

The Russian Challenge: Dealing with Putin

Fiona Hill, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute

The Iran Nuclear Deal and the Future of US-Iran Relations Under Two New Presidents

Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Middle East Security and Nuclear Policy Specialist, Princeton University