Meetings 2021-2022

Reflections on Afghanistan

Amb Ronald Neumann, Former US Ambassador to Afghanistan

A New National Security Paradigm

Andrew Bacevich, President and Co-Founder, Quincy Institute


Taliban Victory in Afghanistan: Impact on Terrorism and Regional Security

Lisa Curtis, Director, Indo-Pacific Security Program, Center for a New American Security


When Climate Change is Everything, How Should Our Systems Respond?

Rachel Kyte, Dean, Fletcher School, Tufts University


Two Spies in Caracas: The Rise of Hugo Chavez and Venezuela’s Descent into Chaos

Moises Naim, Distinguished Fellow Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Denial

Elbridge Colby, Co-founder and Principal, Marathon Initiative and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development


Russia’s Foreign Policy in Search of an Equilibrium: Prospects for the 2020s

Dimitri Trenin, Director, Carnegie Moscow Center


How Does the Rise of China Affect US-European Relations?

Thierry de Montbrial, Founder and Executive Chairman, French Institute of International Relations


What the Heck is Happening with China?

William Overholt, Senior Research Fellow, Kennedy School Harvard University


Ukraine Under Attack

Amb William Taylor, Former US Ambassador to Ukraine


The Iran Nuclear Issue: A View from History

John Ghazvinian, Executive Director, Middle East Center


War on Our Continent: German and European Responses to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Daniela Schwarzer, Executive Director of Europe and Eurasia, Open Society Foundation, Berlin


China and the War in Ukraine

Paul Haenle Maurice R. Greenberg, Director’s Chair, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, National University of Singapore


The War in Ukraine: What’s Next?

Amb Paula Dobriansky, Former Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs


Nuclear Dimensions of Russia’s War in Ukraine

Mariana Budjeryn, Research Associate, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University


What the War Means to Russia

Alexandra Vacroux, Executive Director, Davis Center for Russia and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University


The Future of Europe in an Age of War

Nathalie Tocci, Director, Instituto Affari Internazionali, Rome


Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, and the United States: An Ever-Changing, Complicated Relationship

Amb Joseph Westphall, Former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Former Undersecretary of the Army