David E. Sanger
National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
The Perfect Weapon
Robert D. Kaplan
Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security
PATRON EVENT: The Return of Marco Polo's World
Ali Soufan
Chairman and CEO of the Soufan Group
YOUNG PATRON EVENT: Looming Threats and The Looming Towers
Dr. Elizabeth Economy
C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations
Xi Jinping and China's Third Revolution
2018-2019 Lecture Dates
Regular lecture dates for the 2018-2019 season.
Highlights—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
