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Loom of Time – Robert Kaplan
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October 04, 2023
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Robert D. Kaplan
Past Events
FPRI Special Briefing: Rising Tensions in Israel
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May 19, 2021
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Joshua Krasna
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Aaron Stein
Taiwan in the Era of Tsai Ing-wen: Changes and Challenges
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May 04, 2021
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June Teufel Dreyer
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Jacques deLisle
FPRI Booktalk: After Engagement
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April 29, 2021
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Avery Goldstein
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Jacques deLisle
FPRI Special Briefing: U.S. Sanctions Against Russia
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March 25, 2021
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Maia Otarashvili
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Chris Miller
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Daniel Tannebaum
The Global Future: Confrontation or Competition
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February 01, 2021
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Nikolas K. Gvosdev
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Damjan Krnjevic Miskovic
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Amitai Etzioni
Nigeria and the Nation-State: Rethinking Diplomacy with the Postcolonial World
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January 26, 2021
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Charles A. Ray
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John Campbell
U.S. Policy toward Taiwan: Toward a Stronger U.S.-Taiwan Relationship
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January 21, 2021
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Bonnie Glaser
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Rupert Hammond-Chambers
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Jacques deLisle
The Growth of Russian Influence in Africa
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January 13, 2021
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Samuel Ramani
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Charles A. Ray
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Chris Miller
China’s Influence over Rare Earth Elements
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January 12, 2021
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June Teufel Dreyer
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Saleem H. Ali
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Julie Klinger
Global Issues Facing the New Administration: An FPRI Special Briefing
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December 08, 2020
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Robert D. Kaplan
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John A. Nagl
U.S. Policy Toward Africa: Eight Decades of Realpolitik BookTalk
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December 07, 2020
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Charles A. Ray
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Herman J. Cohen
The Future of RCEP: an FPRI Briefing
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December 04, 2020
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Jacques deLisle
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Shihoko Goto
What Comes After the Communist Party in China?
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December 03, 2020
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Robert D. Kaplan
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Stephen Kotkin
FPRI Special Briefing: The Ethiopia-Tigray Conflict
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November 23, 2020
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Charles A. Ray
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Amb. David Shinn
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Emma Boyle
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Robert G. Houdek
Dueling Visions: America’s Role in the World After the 2020 Election
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November 11, 2020
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The Hon. John Hillen
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John Gans
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John A. Nagl
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Carol Rollie Flynn
America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
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November 10, 2020
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Ronald J. Granieri
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Robert Zoellick
Election Day 2020: An FIE 2020 Update
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November 04, 2020
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Clint Watts
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Rachel Chernaskey
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Carol Rollie Flynn
Emerging Technology and National Security Series, Session 1
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November 02, 2020
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Lawrence Rubin
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Michael Horowitz
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Margaret E. Kosal
Foreign Influence Election 2020
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October 29, 2020
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Clint Watts
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Carol Rollie Flynn
Estonia and the World: How the First Digital Nation Handles Security and Economy in a Turbulent Era
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October 27, 2020
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Honorable Jonatan Vseviov
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Carol Rollie Flynn
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Lauren Swartz
Intelligence Challenges in an Election Year: Briefing Presidential Candidates
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October 23, 2020
Battlegrounds: A Book Talk with H.R. McMaster and Robert D. Kaplan
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October 16, 2020
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Robert D. Kaplan
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H.R. McMaster
Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh: What you need to know about the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan
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October 14, 2020
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Dr. Gerard Toal
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Dr. John O’Loughlin
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Maia Otarashvili
Abe’s Foreign Policy Legacy
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October 08, 2020
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Jacques deLisle
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Sheila A. Smith
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Thomas U. Berger
Transforming Russia’s Ground Forces: Lessons Learned in Syria
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September 28, 2020
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Charles Bartles
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Lester Grau
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Anna Borshchevskaya
Eastern Mediterranean Crisis: A Conversation with Israeli Ambassador Shmuel Revel
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September 23, 2020
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Aaron Stein
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Ambassador Shmuel Revel
The Russian Way of War in Syria: The Road to War, Political Objectives, and Military Strategy
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September 21, 2020
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Michael Kofman
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Anna Borshchevskaya
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Robert E. Hamilton
Latin America in Great Power Competition
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September 17, 2020
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Maximilian Hess
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Barbara Fick
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Chris Miller
FPRI Book Release: Russia’s War in Syria: Assessing Russian Military Capabilities and Lessons Learned
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September 14, 2020
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Chris Miller
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Robert E. Hamilton
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Aaron Stein
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Maia Otarashvili
Will All Roads Lead to China?
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September 11, 2020
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Robert D. Kaplan
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Parag Khanna
The Ecological Value of America’s Soft Power
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September 10, 2020
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Robert D. Kaplan
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Saleem H. Ali
Belarus Post-Election: Political Unrest Intensifies
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September 03, 2020
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Chris Miller
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Katia Glod
Anatomy of a Spoof: How an Iran-Aligned Disinformation Actor Targeted FPRI
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August 27, 2020
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Adam Rawnsley
Foreign Influence Election 2020
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August 18, 2020
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Clint Watts
Belarus Post-Election Briefing
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August 12, 2020
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Chris Miller
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Katia Glod
Conscious Uncoupling? American Troop Withdrawals and the Future of the West
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August 06, 2020
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Ronald J. Granieri
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Hajnalka Vincze
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David S. Maxwell
China’s Security Footprint in Central Asia
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July 27, 2020
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Edward Lemon
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Nargis Kassenova
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Chris Miller
Turkish Politics: The Legacy of a Failed Coup
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July 17, 2020
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Lisel Hintz
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Selim Koru
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Aaron Stein
Iran’s Foreign Policy: A Balancing Act with Europe, America, and Russia
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July 14, 2020
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Afshon Ostovar
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Ariane M. Tabatabai
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Alexander Gostev
Russia’s Constitutional Change and Putinism 3.0
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July 13, 2020
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Sarah Wilson Sokhey
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Chris Miller
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Maia Otarashvili
Why Isn’t Latvia the Next Crimea? Fading Russian Influence in the Baltics
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July 10, 2020
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Una Bergmane
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Indra Ekmanis
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Maia Otarashvili
Asia’s New Geopolitics: A Conversation with Michael R. Auslin and Robert D. Kaplan
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July 01, 2020
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Michael R. Auslin
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Robert D. Kaplan
Traitors I Have Known: Counterintelligence’s Role in National Security
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June 23, 2020
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James Olson
A Tribute to Colin S. Gray (1943–2020)
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June 16, 2020
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Frank G. Hoffman
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Geoffrey Sloan
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Mackubin Thomas Owens
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Ronald J. Granieri
Battling Disinformation with Realistic Solutions in a Modern Society
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June 12, 2020
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Kenneth D.M. Jensen
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Walter Olson
Assessing North Korea’s COVID-19 Containment and Kim Jong-un’s Political Challenges
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June 09, 2020
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Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein
The End of Xi’s China Dream? Chinese Commentary on COVID-19
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May 08, 2020
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Jacqueline Deal
Strategic Conundrums for Minor Players: Europe and the US-China Relationship
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May 06, 2020
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Jeremy Black
The Impact of COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean
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April 29, 2020
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Barbara Fick
Benny Gantz and Benjamin Netanyahu: The Illusion of Unity
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April 28, 2020
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Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud
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Michael Koplow
VIRTUAL Spotlight Seminar: Mobile Missile Vulnerability
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April 09, 2020
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Paul Bracken
LIVE STREAM: COVID-19’s Impact on the Intelligence Community
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April 06, 2020
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Carol Rollie Flynn
COVID-19, Netanyahu’s Surprise Political Savior?
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March 30, 2020
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Joshua Krasna
Israeli Elections: Third Time’s the Charm?
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February 14, 2020
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Joshua Krasna
Russia’s Southern Strategy: How Moscow Has Made Itself Indispensable for Settling Conflicts Around the Globe
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January 31, 2020
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Nikolas K. Gvosdev
The American Way of Empire: How America Won a World – But Lost Her Way
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December 18, 2019
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James Kurth
The Chinese Economy: What to Expect
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December 10, 2019
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Jacques deLisle
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Avery Goldstein
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Marshall Meyer
Discussion on Transatlantic Relations
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November 22, 2019
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Ronald J. Granieri
2019 China Town Hall
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November 18, 2019
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Edward A. Turzanski
Russian Federation–East Asia Liquefied Natural Gas Trade Patterns And Regional Energy Security
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August 06, 2019
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Maia Otarashvili
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Dr. Tapan Sarker
BookTalk: Russia vs the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War
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May 01, 2019
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Mitchell Orenstein
BookTalk: Jihadism Constrained
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December 14, 2018
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Barak Mendelsohn
Baltic Independence at 100
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December 03, 2018
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Stephen Kotkin
Midterm Elections in Taiwan-and the United States: What Happened and What are the Implications for Taiwan-US-China Relations?
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November 26, 2018
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Jacques deLisle
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Elizabeth Freund Larus
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Vincent Wei-Cheng Wang
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Isaac Stone Fish
Haunted by Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy from Mao to Xi Jinping
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October 18, 2018
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Sulmaan Khan
Is Israel Losing Its Soul?
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July 25, 2018
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Barak Mendelsohn
Stabilizing the Fertile Crescent After the Fall of the Caliphate
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July 11, 2018
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Tally Helfont
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Samuel Helfont
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Barak Mendelsohn
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Assaf Moghadam
Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News
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June 21, 2018
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Clint Watts
The Little Known Mission of the US Military in Foreign Affairs: A Peek into the Defense Security Cooperation Agency
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June 14, 2018
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LTG Charles Hooper
China and the Environment: Challenges at Home and Agendas Abroad
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June 11, 2018
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M. Terry Cooke
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Scott Moore
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Denise van der Kamp
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Jacques deLisle
Ending the Great War
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June 01, 2018
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John H. Maurer
Taiwan’s Politics and External Relations: The Tsai Ing-wen / DPP Government at Midterm
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May 17, 2018
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Peter C.Y. Chow
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June Teufel Dreyer
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Shelley Rigger
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Jacques deLisle
BookTalk: China in the 21st Century
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March 26, 2018
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Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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Maura Cunningham
BookTalk: The Return of Marco Polo’s World
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March 12, 2018
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Robert D. Kaplan
Strait and Narrower?: Beijing’s Flight Paths, Taiwan’s International Space, and Regional Security
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February 26, 2018
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Jacques deLisle
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Scott Kastner
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Wojtek Wolfe
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Thomas J. Shattuck
The Vietnam War: Beyond Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s Documentary
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February 01, 2018
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Walter A. McDougall
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Mackubin Thomas Owens
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Michael M. Novakovic
BookTalk: American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump
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January 23, 2018
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Hal Brands
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Michael P. Noonan
BookTalk: The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World
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January 18, 2018
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Stewart M. Patrick
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John A. Nagl
BookTalk: Blood Profits: How American Consumers Unwittingly Fund Terrorists
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December 14, 2017
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Vanessa Neumann
BookTalk: False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East
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October 16, 2017
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Steven A. Cook
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Tally Helfont
Briefing on North Korea
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October 03, 2017
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Lt. General (Ret) In Bum Chun
Does Democracy Matter? The United States and Global Democracy Support
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June 19, 2017
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Nikolas K. Gvosdev
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Adrian A. Basora
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Maia Otarashvili
The Legacy of the Six Day War And Israel’s Domestic Politics Today
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June 09, 2017
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Neri Zilber
The Use and Abuse of Drones: A Debate
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June 07, 2017
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Michael J. Boyle
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Michael Horowitz
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Michael P. Noonan
Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America’s Special Operations Forces
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May 23, 2017
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Mark Moyar
The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America
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May 16, 2017
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Michael Neiberg
BookTalk: China’s Global Engagement
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May 11, 2017
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Jacques deLisle
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Avery Goldstein
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Thomas J. Shattuck
The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World’s Most Dynamic Region
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April 05, 2017
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Michael R. Auslin
A Conversation on the Future of Israel and Palestine
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March 28, 2017
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Amb. Maen Rashid Areikat
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Alan Luxenberg
A New Look at the Soviet Collapse
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February 02, 2017
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Chris Miller
The Holocaust: History and Memory
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October 20, 2016
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Jeremy Black
How We Misunderstand Egypt
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September 30, 2016
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Aaron Rock-Singer
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Tally Helfont
The Presence of the Past in a Fast-Changing China
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September 13, 2016
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Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun
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June 09, 2016
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June Teufel Dreyer
The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China
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May 31, 2016
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Jacques deLisle
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Avery Goldstein
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Guobin Yang
Cyber War: What It Will Look Like
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May 20, 2016
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Paul J. Springer
The South China Sea Dispute in the Philippines v. PRC Arbitration: Taiwan’s Concern and Response
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March 15, 2016
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Yann-huei Song
In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
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February 10, 2016
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Robert D. Kaplan
Global Cities as Centers of Commerce, Education and Policy: The Philadelphia Story
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January 28, 2016
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Alan Luxenberg
The al-Qaeda Franchise: The Expansion of al-Qaeda and Its Consequences
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January 20, 2016
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Barak Mendelsohn
The Geopolitics of the Russian Far East
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December 03, 2015
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Rensselaer Lee
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Artyom Lukin
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John R. Haines
The Threat from Within: Israel’s Extremist Dilemma
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August 12, 2015
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Barak Mendelsohn
The Right Way to Lose a War: America in the Age of Unwinnable Conflicts
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June 16, 2015
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Dominic Tierney
Right of Boom: The Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism
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March 02, 2015
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Benjamin Schwartz
Think Tanks: Philadelphia Scholars and the DC Policy Connection
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January 21, 2015
China’s Challenges
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December 04, 2014
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Jacques deLisle
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Avery Goldstein
US Security Commitments in Asia’s Changing Strategic Environment: A Look at Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and the Philippines
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June 04, 2014
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Felix K. Chang
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Gilbert Rozman
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Jacques deLisle
Transforming Study Abroad
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April 12, 2014
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David Danelo
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Eugenia Lee
War, Words, and Memory: Operation Iraqi Freedom and the Legacy of Its Veterans – A Panel Discussion
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February 03, 2014
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Michael P. Noonan
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Ann Marie Roepke
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Gregory J. W. Urwin
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution, 1945-1957
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September 30, 2013
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Frank Dikotter
Why the Pursuit of Happiness?
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September 28, 2013
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Alan Charles Kors
The Problem Of “Green On Blue” Attacks In Afghanistan
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May 29, 2013
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Marc Sageman
The Boston Bombings: Lessons Learned
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April 24, 2013
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Edward A. Turzanski
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Michael A. Reynolds
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Clint Watts
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Michael Cecire
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Trudy Rubin
U.S.-Taiwan Relations, Cross-Strait Relations and Implications for U.S.-China Relations: A Panel Discussion
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April 17, 2013
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Jacques deLisle
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June Teufel Dreyer
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James C. Hsiung
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Wojtek Wolfe
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Andrew J.C. Kao
The Next Decade of American Foreign Policy
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March 19, 2013
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Dominic Tierney
Can a Small Organization in Philadelphia Affect the Course of History?
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March 15, 2013
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Alan Luxenberg
The Art and Science of Doing Geopolitical Travel (Without Getting Killed)
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March 13, 2013
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David Danelo
Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present
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March 08, 2013
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Max Boot
The Iraq War: 10 Years Later A Panel Discussion
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March 06, 2013
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David Danelo
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Andrew Garfield
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Samuel Helfont
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James Kurth
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Barak Mendelsohn
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Michael P. Noonan
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Edward A. Turzanski
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Walter A. McDougall
Accountability and Participation without Democracy?: Public Law and Governance in China
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February 20, 2013
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Wang Xixin
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Lin Yan
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Yuhua Wang
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Neysun Mahboubi
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Jacques deLisle
The Problem of Human Trafficking
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February 04, 2013
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Vanessa Neumann
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Krista Hoffman
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Cheryl Bassett
The Ongoing Quest for Judicial Independence in Contemporary China
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November 30, 2012
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He Weifang
Rotary Wing Aviation: A Tale of Two Services, The U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Army
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November 27, 2012
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Col. Mark E. Black
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Lt. Col. Warren J. Curry
THE SECOND NUCLEAR AGE: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics
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November 16, 2012
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Paul Bracken
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us about Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
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September 24, 2012
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Robert D. Kaplan
The Coming Prosperity
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July 25, 2012
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Philip Auerswald
Los Zetas: Mexico’s Most Diabolical Criminal Organization
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July 18, 2012
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George W. Grayson
China’s Impending Leadership Transition
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July 11, 2012
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Jacques deLisle
“Why should there be a war with Japan?”: Winston Churchill and Great Britain’s Strategic Predicament during the 1920s
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May 03, 2012
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John H. Maurer
Cyber Power and International Security
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April 26, 2012
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David J. Betz
No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn
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April 11, 2012
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Charles Kupchan
Egypt, Regime Change, and The Muslim Brotherhood
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May 24, 2011
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Tally Helfont
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Samuel Helfont
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Aaron Rock-Singer
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Eric Trager
Associated Multimedia
Baltic Independence at 100
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December 07, 2018
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Stephen Kotkin
Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News
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June 21, 2018
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Clint Watts
Ending the Great War
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June 08, 2018
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John H. Maurer
Strait and Narrower?: Beijing’s Flight Paths, Taiwan’s International Space, and Regional Security
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February 27, 2018
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Thomas J. Shattuck
The Vietnam War: Beyond Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s Documentary
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February 06, 2018
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Michael M. Novakovic
Do Think Tanks Matter?
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February 02, 2018
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Michael P. Noonan
BookTalk: American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump
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January 24, 2018
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Michael P. Noonan
BookTalk: The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World
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January 19, 2018
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John A. Nagl
BookTalk: Blood Profits: How American Consumers Unwittingly Fund Terrorists
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December 19, 2017
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Vanessa Neumann
Book Talk: False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East
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October 27, 2017
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Steven A. Cook
Taiwan’s Participation in International Organizations
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October 09, 2017
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Thomas J. Shattuck
Briefing on the Situation in North Korea
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October 06, 2017
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Lt. General (Ret) In Bum Chun
Does Democracy Matter? The United States and Global Democracy Support
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June 22, 2017
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Maia Otarashvili
The Legacy of the Six Day War And Israel’s Domestic Politics Today
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June 13, 2017
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Neri Zilber
The Use and Abuse of Drones: A Debate
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June 12, 2017
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Michael J. Boyle
Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America’s Special Operations Forces
-
May 23, 2017
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Mark Moyar
The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America
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May 16, 2017
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Michael Neiberg
China’s Global Engagement
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May 11, 2017
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Avery Goldstein
The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World’s Most Dynamic Region
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April 07, 2017
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Michael R. Auslin
A Conversation on the Future of Israel and Palestine
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March 28, 2017
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Amb. Maen Rashid Areikat
Pakistan, Its Neighbors and the US in Strategic Perspective
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March 27, 2017
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Mahmud Ali Durrani
Jeremy Black on the Turmoil in Europe
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February 23, 2017
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Jeremy Black
A New Look at the Soviet Collapse
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February 02, 2017
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Chris Miller
The Holocaust: History and Memory
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October 21, 2016
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Jeremy Black
Middle Kingdom & Empire of the Rising Sun
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June 09, 2016
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June Teufel Dreyer
The Internet, Social Media, and A Changing China
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June 03, 2016
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Guobin Yang
Cyber War: What It Will Look Like
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May 20, 2016
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Paul J. Springer
Europe in Crisis
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April 12, 2016
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Ronald J. Granieri
The Geopolitics of the American Revolution
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March 31, 2016
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Jeremy Black
In Europes’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
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February 10, 2016
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Robert D. Kaplan
The al Qaeda Franchise: The Expansion of al-Qaeda and Its Consequences
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January 20, 2016
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Barak Mendelsohn
The Geopolitics of the Russian Far East
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December 03, 2015
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John R. Haines
Giving Them the World: Creating Globally-Minded Citizens, One Philadelphian at a Time
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October 20, 2015
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Zabeth Teelucksingh
The Threat from Within: Israel’s Extremist Dilemma
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August 12, 2015
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Barak Mendelsohn
The Right Way to Lose a War: America in an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts
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June 16, 2015
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Dominic Tierney