11
May 2020
Past Event
Video Event | Dialogues on American Foreign Policy and World Affairs: Discussing the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security with Jake Sullivan

Video Event | Dialogues on American Foreign Policy and World Affairs: Discussing the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security with Jake Sullivan

Past Event
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
May 11, 2020
11
May 2020
Past Event

1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 400
Washington, DC 20004

Speakers:
Jake Sullivan

Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden

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Walter Russell Mead

Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship

**Please be advised: This event will be premiering at 12:00 p.m. EDT, Monday, May 11.**

Join Hudson Institute for a discussion on America’s future role in global affairs with Jake Sullivan, national security and foreign policy advisor to Vice President Joe Biden. Hudson Institute Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead will moderate the conversation on the U.S. response to the coronavirus and the effect the pandemic will have on global affairs.

Mr. Sullivan serves as an advisor to Biden’s presidential campaign and previously served as his national security advisor during his tenure as vice president. He was the director of policy planning at the U.S. Department of State and deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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 Global View columnist at the Wall Street Journal. The series features influential policymakers and opinion leaders in candid conversation on timely questions of international affairs and national security.

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