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Category: International Affairs

Joe Nye, former US Asst. Secretary of Defense

July 2, 2013 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Public Policy, Uncategorized

As we consider our incredible range of urgent international and defense affairs – challenges with our deepest Intelligence Gathering secrets revealed, China, Russia, North Korea,

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Graham Allison, Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government

May 7, 2013 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Uncategorized

With the death and capture of the of the Tsarnaev brothers, an area unknown to many Americans has now jumped to our front pages: Chechnya.

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Jagdish Bhagwati, Sr. Fellow for Int’l Economics, Council on Foreign Relations

January 30, 2013 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, International Affairs, Uncategorized

Of all the issues that stand in the way of a country’s ability to reach its full economic potential — and there are so many

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Robert Kagan, Senior Fellow, Brookings; Author, “The World America Made”

January 29, 2013 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Uncategorized

As President Obama’s second term begins, he — and we — find ourselves yet again at foreign affairs crossroads. A possible nuclear rise in Iran.

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Juliette Kayyem, Former Asst Sec. Dept. of Homeland Security

January 29, 2013 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Public Policy, Uncategorized

It was the military announcement of the week, if not the last 25 years: One of the last barriers in US warfare will come down

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Bill Roggio, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

January 29, 2013 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Public Policy, Uncategorized

As the US begins the process to nominate its next Secretary of Defense, there is no shortage of military threats that we face — From

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Ward Wilson, Center for Nonproliferation Studies; Author: Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons

January 28, 2013 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Public Policy, Uncategorized

As America faces real threats from an increasing range of enemies — some organized nation states, others rogue loosely-affiliated groups — the calls for weaponized

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Nicholas Burns, Harvard University & former US Undersecretary of State

December 21, 2012 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Public Policy, Uncategorized

If you’re looking for a region that provides a grab bag of major, potentially destabilizing issues, you’d have to look first at the Middle East.

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Sheryl WuDunn, China Expert

December 21, 2012 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Uncategorized

Only a month after the first change to the head of China’s Communist Party in a decade, and already, the change is being felt. From

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Dan Perry, AP Jerusalem Bureau Chief and Acting Middle East Editor

December 21, 2012 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Uncategorized

The headlines from the Middle East don’t seem to stop. In Egypt, a vote on a draft constitution that many in the opposition felt would

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Eric Trager, Washington Institute

December 16, 2012 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Uncategorized

As you surely know, yesterday Egyptians voted on a new draft constitution. At first glance, this would seem like cause for great celebration for lovers

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Elizabeth Economy, Council on Foreign Relations

December 16, 2012 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Public Policy, Uncategorized

If all the international challenges our next President will face, perhaps none is as complex, risky and integral to our economic, environmental and security future

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