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2018-2019 Lecture Dates
Regular lecture dates for the 2018-2019 season.
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Past Speakers
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
Clarissa Ward
Aleppo
Ambassador (ret.) Nicholas Burns
U.S. Relations with Europe in a Time of Crisis: Challenges for the Next President
Farah Pandith
ISIS and Its Cousins
Francesco Femia
Climate Change, Security and World Order
Rula Jebreal
Peace and Security in the Holy Land
Ali Soufan
Meeting Today's Terror Challenges
Dr. Amy Zegart
Decoding Cyber Threats
Angela Stent
US-Russia Relations: Is This Cold War 2.0?
Admiral James Stavridis
21st Century Security
Angela Kane
Is the World Getting Safer? The UN's Role in Maintaining Peace and Security
Stephen Heintz
Climate Change and Global Security
Melanie Kirkpatrick
Can North Korea Change?
Dr. David Lesch
The Syrian Conundrum: Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian Revolution
Mariano-Florentino Cuellar
Cybersecurity Threats in a Changing World
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
Gideon Rose
How to End a War
General Anthony Zinni
Ten Key Factors that will Shape the Middle East in this Decade
Amb. Ryan Crocker
Lessons from a Long War
General George Casey
Restoring Balance in the Second Decade
John Lipsky
New Challenges for International Cooperation
Richard Haass
The Post-Cold War, Post-9/11, Post-Lehman World
Calvin Sims
The Future of Global Media
Amb. Peter Maurer
The UN and Peacebuilding: The Swiss Perspective
Karen J. Greenberg
From 9/11 to the 9/11 Trial: Guantanamo, Trials, Torture and the War on Terror
