Countering Violent Extremism: Qatar, Iran, and the Muslim Brotherhood

October 2017

Past Event

Countering Violent Extremism: Qatar, Iran, and the Muslim Brotherhood

Past Event

Ronald Reagan Building

October 23, 2017

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October 2017

Past Event

Speakers:

Hillel Fradkin

Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World

Secretary Leon E. Panetta

Chairman, The Panetta Institute for Public Policy and Former Secretary of Defense

Lally Weymouth

Senior Associate Editor, Washington Post

Representative Brad Sherman (D-CA)

Member Foreign Affairs Committee

Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX)

House Homeland Security Committee

Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA)

Member House Committee on Judiciary

Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA)

House Foreign Affairs Committee

General Charles “Chuck” Wald, US Army (Ret.)

Former Deputy Commander, US EUCOM

Ambassador Alberto Fernandez

Director of Middle East Broadcasting

Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad

Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Khalilzad Associates

Ray Takeyh

Council on Foreign Relations

William Wechsler

Middle East Institute, Former DASD SpecOps and Combating Terror

Lally Weymouth

Senior Associate Editor, Washington Post

General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.)

Former Director of the CIA

Representative Don Bacon (R-NE)

House Committee on Armed Services

Ambassador Dennis Ross

Counselor & William Davidson Distinguished Fellow, Washington Institute

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR)

Committee on Armed Services and Select Committee on Intelligence

Catherine Herridge

Chief Intelligence Correspondent, Fox News

Representative Robert Pittenger (R-TX)

House Vice Chairman, House Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee Vice Chairman on Terrorism and Illicit Finance

Representative Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)

Member House Committee of Foreign Affairs

Stephen K. Bannon

Former White House Chief Strategist and Executive Chairman of Breitbart News

Husain Haqqani

Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia

Videos of individual panels and talks are below.

October 2025

Past Event

Can the US and Brazil Find Common Ground?

Featured Speakers:

Márcio Coimbra

Mark Langevin

Anya Prusa

Moderator:

Daniel Batlle

President Lula da Silva speaks at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on September 17, 2025. (Getty Images)

October 2025

Past Event

Can the US and Brazil Find Common Ground?

Join Adjunct Fellow Daniel Batlle and an expert panel as they assess whether current political dynamics could allow the Western Hemisphere’s two largest powers to forge a more constructive partnership, and what it would take to bridge their considerable differences.

Featured Speakers:

Márcio Coimbra

Mark Langevin

Anya Prusa

Moderator:

Daniel Batlle

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October 2025

In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

What Is North Korea’s Strategy?

Featured Speakers:

Dr. Glenn Chafetz

In-bum Chun

Bruce Klingner

Dr. Taerim Lee

Markus Garlauskas

Moderator:

Patrick M. Cronin

Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un after a meeting in Beijing on September 3, 2025. (Getty Images)

October 2025

In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

What Is North Korea’s Strategy?

What is driving North Korea’s closer cooperation with Russia and China, and how does Kim view cooperation among the CRINK states? What are Kim’s ultimate aims with his nuclear program? How has North Korea developed such vast cyber capabilities? Is North Korea preparing for war? And how should the US and its allies respond?

Featured Speakers:

Dr. Glenn Chafetz

In-bum Chun

Bruce Klingner

Dr. Taerim Lee

Markus Garlauskas

Moderator:

Patrick M. Cronin

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October 2025

In-Person Event | Invite Only

The US in the Caucasus: Mapping New Strategic Opportunities

Featured Speakers:

Ilan Berman

Luke Coffey

Steve Daines

Michael Doran

Ambassador Khazar Ibrahim

Efgan Nifti

Joel Scanlon

John P. Walters

: President Donald Trump, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan sign a joint declaration at the White House in Washington DC, on August 8, 2025. (Getty Images)

October 2025

In-Person Event | Invite Only

The US in the Caucasus: Mapping New Strategic Opportunities

A keynote address by Senator Steve Daines (R-MT), to examine the implications of the recent Armenia-Azerbaijan peace agreement.

Featured Speakers:

Ilan Berman

Luke Coffey

Steve Daines

Michael Doran

Ambassador Khazar Ibrahim

Efgan Nifti

Joel Scanlon

John P. Walters

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October 2025

Past Event

CCP Committee Chairman John Moolenaar on the State of US-China Relations

Featured Speakers:

Congressman John Moolenaar

David Feith

October 2025

Past Event

CCP Committee Chairman John Moolenaar on the State of US-China Relations

Congressman John Moolenaar (R-MI), chairman of the House Select Committee on the CCP, will join Hudson Senior Fellow David Feith to discuss how Washington should approach the US-China relationship in an era of rising geopolitical competition.