2018-2019 Lecture Dates
Regular lecture dates for the 2018-2019 season.
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Past Speakers
General David Petraeus
Max Boot
Assessing the Geopolitical Challenges Facing the U.S. (and the "Return of History")
Jane Harman
OTR 80th Anniversary Lecture
Dr. Tom Frieden
Diseases Know No Borders: Preventing Epidemics and Avoidable Tragedies in an Increasingly Connected World
Dr. Robert Litwak
Jean H. Lee
Lindsey W. Ford
Shrimp Among Whales: Next Steps for the U.S. and China on Reining in North Korea
General John R. Allen
Michèle Flournoy
David Sanger
U.S. National Security Challenges in the Trump Era
Dr. Michael Sulmeyer
Securing the Fifth Domain
Gillian Tett
Populism and Protest in Global Politics
Antony J. Blinken
Walls or Bridges: What Will Shape American Greatness in the 21st Century?
General Michael V. Hayden
Terror, Intelligence, Politics and the Law: Where to From Here?
Ambassador (ret.) John Campbell
Is Africa Rising?
Clarissa Ward
Aleppo
His Royal Highness Prince Turki Al-Faisal
Emerging Realities in the Middle East: A Saudi Perspective
Fareed Zakaria, Ph.D.
2016: Why Is This Election Different from Other Elections?
Ambassador (ret.) Nicholas Burns
U.S. Relations with Europe in a Time of Crisis: Challenges for the Next President
Christopher Sabatini, Ph.D.
Crisis, Correction or Continuity: Latin America in the 21st Century
Steven A. Cook, Ph.D.
Turkey: From Democratic Hope to Authoritarian Reality
Gideon Rose
Where America's Foreign Policy Goes From Here
Ali Aslan
The German Dilemma: Merkel, Refugees, and the Rise of the Far Right
James Rickards
Incoherence in the International Monetary System
John Micklethwait
Decision 2016: Brexit and the Future of the European Union
Bonnie Glaser
High Seas and High Stakes: The U.S. and China in the South China Sea
Farah Pandith
ISIS and Its Cousins
Karim Sadjadpour
Geopolitical Chess: Iran vs. Saudi Arabia
Jeffrey Eggers
Heroes, Risk and Adaptability in the Fourth Industrial Age
Francesco Femia
Climate Change, Security and World Order
Michael Crowley
Foreign Policy in the 2016 Election: Rhetoric Versus Reality
Rula Jebreal
Peace and Security in the Holy Land
Ali Soufan
Meeting Today's Terror Challenges
Dr. Amy Zegart
Decoding Cyber Threats
Amb. James Smith
Saudi Arabia and the GCC: A Time of Trial and Transition
Gen. John Allen
State of Play in the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS: A Year in Review
Ian Bremmer
Superpower: Three Choices for America's Role in the World
Kati Marton
Ideology and Discourse: Are they Mutually Exclusive?
Dr. Milan Vaishnav
Modi's India: Change You Can Believe In?
Ayman Mohyeldin
Game Change? Reevaluating U.S. Policy in the Middle East
David Milliband
Decade of Disorder: Can Humanitarian Action Make a Difference?
Amb. William Burns
America's Role in a Changing International Landscape
Angela Stent
US-Russia Relations: Is This Cold War 2.0?
David Rothkopf
A Watershed Moment in the Middle East: Why the Israel-Palestine Relationship Has Reached a Turning Point
Michael O'Hanlon
U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century
Admiral James Stavridis
21st Century Security
Amb. Antonio de Aguiar Patriota
Reflections on Brazil: A Dynamic Actor on the Global Stage
Amb. Peter Galbraith
The Prospects in Syria and Iraq: Will President Obama’s Strategy Work?
Angela Kane
Is the World Getting Safer? The UN's Role in Maintaining Peace and Security
His Royal Highness Prince Turki Al Faisal
Events in the Middle East: A Saudi View
Helen Clark
Striving for a Better Future: How Can the Post-2015 Global Development Agenda Help?
Kenneth Pollack
Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy
Amb. Vitaly Churkin
The Role of Russia in the United Nations and International Relations
Dr. Elizabeth Economy
China's Rise and the Global Resource Game
Ian Bremmer
What are the World's Biggest Political Risks Today?
Lara Setrakian
Arab Millennials: Technology and Transformation Beyond the Arab Spring
Stephen Heintz
Climate Change and Global Security
Sarah Chayes
Kleptocracy and Its Growing Threat to World Order: Afghanistan, the Arab Spring, Nigeria and Beyond
Vali Nasr
U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East at a Turning Point
Amb. Hussain Haqqani
Troubled Partnerships: What U.S.-Pakistan Relations Teach Us About U.S. Foreign Policy
Peter Maass
State of Surveillance: Battles over National Security and Journalism in the Times of Wikileaks and Edward Snowden
Melanie Kirkpatrick
Can North Korea Change?
Michael Hodin
Global Security in an Aging World: The Impact of Demographics on Economic and Political Systems
Dr. Fancis Fukuyama
China and the United States as Global Models
Charles M. Sennott
Egypt on the Edge: Political Islam and Democracy; An Assessment of America’s Options in the Region
Dr. David Lesch
The Syrian Conundrum: Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian Revolution
Lesley Stahl
75th Anniversary Tea
Shannon K. O'Niel
Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead
Susan Eisenhower
Leading in Transformational Times
Amb. Sherry Rehman
Pakistan and the United States: Changing the Narrative
Susan Glasser
Barack Obama's World: American Foreign Policy in 2013
Masha Gessen
Russia: Is Anyone Driving the Bus?
Mariano-Florentino Cuellar
Cybersecurity Threats in a Changing World
Amb. Morton Abrahmowitz
The New Turkey: Domestic and Foreign Difficulties
Parag Khanna
The Pivot to Asia: Prospects for the Next Administration
Ian Bremmer
Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World
Gillian Tett
Dazed and Confused: Making Sense of a Shifting World
Mona El-Ghobashly
Mona El-Ghobashy
Dr. Robert Kagan
Can America Outwit Decline?
Dr. Richard Haass
How the World Spent Its Summer Vacation
Charles Murray
What the New Upper Class Means for America's Future
Genevieve Sangudi
Sub-Saharan Africa: Open for Business
Joby Warrick
Triple Agent: Disaster, Deceit and Redemption in the CIA's Hunt for bin Laden
Philip Taubman
At the Brink: Nuclear Threats Past, Present, and Future
Robert Hardman
A Thoroughly Modern Monarch: Inside the Court of Queen Elizabeth II
Dan Senor
Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
Gideon Rose
How to End a War
Amb. Mark Lyall-Grant
Pakistan: Challenges and Opportunities
Amb. Frank G. Wisner
The Arab Awakening: An American Perpsective
Dr. Shirley Tilghman
Dr. Shirley Tilghman in Conversation with Charles Gibson
Amb. J. Stapleton Roy
Dealing with a Rising China
Senator Timothy Wirth
Philanthropic Advocacy: What We Do
Ali Soufan
Al Qaeda - Ten Years after 9/11
Karen House
Saudi Arabia after the Arab Spring
Dr. George Packard
Blundering in Asia: Can the U.S. and Japan Ever Learn?
General Anthony Zinni
Ten Key Factors that will Shape the Middle East in this Decade
Amb. Swanee Hunt
Worlds Apart: The Chasm between the Policy Table and Life on the Ground in Africa and Beyond
Amb. Ryan Crocker
Lessons from a Long War
Stephen Bosworth
Dealing with North Korea: A Current Snapshot
