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An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
Hudson Institute will host Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut for a one-on-one discussion with Hudson Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead on U.S. foreign policy and America’s role in the world. Sen. Murphy will offer his perspective on a new framework for thinking about progressive foreign policy and address current global hot-spots.
Sen. Murphy serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and is the ranking member on the Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism.
Dialogues on American Foreign Policy and World Affairs is a Hudson discussion series moderated by Walter Russell Mead, one of America’s leading analysts of international affairs and the Global View columnist for The Wall Street Journal. The series features influential policymakers and opinion leaders in candid conversation on timely questions of international affairs and national security.
**NOTE: This event is open to the press. All members of the media should RSVP to press@hudson.org.**
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