07
October 2020
Past Event
Video Event | Dialogues on American Foreign Policy and World Affairs: A Conversation with Senator Tom Cotton

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

Past Event
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
October 07, 2020
07
October 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

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Tom Cotton

United States Senator, Arkansas

**Please be advised: This event will premiere on this page at 3:00 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, October 7.**

Join Hudson Institute for a discussion with Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas on the foreign policy of the first Trump administration and what the foreign policy priorities of a second Trump administration may be. Senator Cotton and Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead will also discuss the future of U.S global leadership and current geopolitical challenges the U.S. faces, including competition with China. Hudson Institute Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead will moderate the conversation.

Senator Cotton serves on the Senate Committee on Armed Services as the chair of the Air Land Power Subcommittee and on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, where he chairs the Economic Policy Subcommittee. Senator Cotton also serves on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Joint Economic Committee.

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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