23
September 2020
Past Event
Video Event | Dialogues on American Foreign Policy and World Affairs: A Conversation with Senator Marco Rubio

Video Event | Dialogues on American Foreign Policy and World Affairs: A Conversation with Senator Marco Rubio

Past Event
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
September 23, 2020
23
September 2020
Past Event

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

Speakers:
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Walter Russell Mead

Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship

Senator Marco Rubio

U.S. Senator for Florida

**Please be advised: This event will premiere on this page at 9:00 a.m. EDT, Wednesday, September 23.**

**To submit a question, email events@hudson.org.**

Join Hudson Institute for a discussion with Senator Marco Rubio on U.S. relations with China, Latin America and Iran. The event will also address the trajectory of U.S. foreign policy more broadly and the future of the Republican party in light of changes in the shape of the Republican coalition. Hudson Institute Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead will moderate the conversation.

Senator Rubio serves as the acting chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence and as chairman of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. He is a senior member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations where he serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women’s Issues. He also serves on the Senate Committee on Appropriations and the Special Committee on Aging.

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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