26
October 2020
Past Event
Video Event | Dialogues on American Foreign Policy and World Affairs: Discussing the Future of the Liberal World Order with Robert Kagan

Video Event | Dialogues on American Foreign Policy and World Affairs: Discussing the Future of the Liberal World Order with Robert Kagan

Past Event
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
October 26, 2020
26
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

Robert Kagan

Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution, contributing columnist at The Washington Post

**Please be advised: This event will premiere LIVE on this page at 12:00 p.m. EDT, Monday, October 26.**

Join Hudson Institute for a discussion on the state of the liberal world order and the future of U.S. foreign policy with Robert Kagan, Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution and contributing columnist at The Washington Post. Hudson Institute Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead will moderate the conversation.

Robert Kagan served on the policy planning staff at the U.S. Department of State from 1984 to 1988, as the principal speechwriter for Secretary of State George P. Shultz and as deputy for policy at the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs. He is the author of several bestselling books, including Return of History and the End of Dreams, The World America Made and, most recently, The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World.

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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