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An aerial view of a container ship arriving at the Port of Oakland on October 10, 2025, in Oakland, California. (Getty Images)
16
November 2017
Past Event
British Politics in Turmoil: A Conversation with Alan Mendoza
Featured Speakers:
Alan Mendoza
Kenneth R. Weinstein
15
November 2017
Past Event
Kleptocratic Regimes and National Security: A Pervasive Threat and How It Can be Neutralized
Featured Speakers:
Kate Bateman
Elise Bean
Brad Brooks-Rubin
Charles Davidson
Michael Dziedzic
Len Hawley
Len Hawley
Jason Ladnier
Michael Loughnane
Michael Miklaucic
Ted Moorman
Louise Shelley
Kelly Uribe
Jodi Vittori
David Williams
15
November 2017
Past Event
Kleptocratic Regimes and National Security: A Pervasive Threat and How It Can be Neutralized
A conference on threats caused by kleptocracies from terrorism and organized crime to state failure and genocide
Featured Speakers:
Kate Bateman
Elise Bean
Brad Brooks-Rubin
Charles Davidson
Michael Dziedzic
Len Hawley
Len Hawley
Jason Ladnier
Michael Loughnane
Michael Miklaucic
Ted Moorman
Louise Shelley
Kelly Uribe
Jodi Vittori
David Williams
14
November 2017
Past Event
Sustaining U.S. Leadership Against Nuclear Terrorism and Proliferation: A Conversation with Dr. Christopher Ford
Featured Speakers:
Christopher Ford
Richard Weitz
09
November 2017
Past Event
Mounting Challenges to U.S. Naval Power: A Book Discussion with “Seablindness” Author Seth Cropsey
Featured Speakers:
Congressman Mike Gallagher
Seth Cropsey
Rear Admiral James Stark (ret.)
Bryan Clark
09
November 2017
Past Event
Mounting Challenges to U.S. Naval Power: A Book Discussion with “Seablindness” Author Seth Cropsey
Rep. Mike Gallagher, Seth Cropsey, RADM James Stark, and Bryan Clark discuss the U.S. Navy, readiness, and national security.
Featured Speakers:
Congressman Mike Gallagher
Seth Cropsey
Rear Admiral James Stark (ret.)
Bryan Clark
31
October 2017
Past Event
An Integrated Approach to the Himalayas: Report of the Working Group on the Himalayan Region
Featured Speakers:
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
Eric Brown
Michael Kugelman
Andrew Small
Jeff Smith
Ambassador Husain Haqqani
Aparna Pande
31
October 2017
Past Event
An Integrated Approach to the Himalayas: Report of the Working Group on the Himalayan Region
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse gives a keynote at the launch of a new report An Integrated Approach to the Himalayas
Featured Speakers:
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
Eric Brown
Michael Kugelman
Andrew Small
Jeff Smith
Ambassador Husain Haqqani
Aparna Pande
26
October 2017
Past Event
Maintaining Transatlantic Unity on Ukraine
Featured Speakers:
H.E. Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Ambassador William B. Taylor
Ambassador Alexander Vershbow
Hannah Thoburn
26
October 2017
Past Event
Maintaining Transatlantic Unity on Ukraine
H.E. Anders Fogh Rasmussen discusses transatlantic unity in response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its proxy war in eastern Ukraine
Featured Speakers:
H.E. Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Ambassador William B. Taylor
Ambassador Alexander Vershbow
Hannah Thoburn
25
October 2017
Past Event
“Neighbours in Arms: An American Senator’s Quest for Disarmament in a Nuclear Subcontinent”
Featured Speakers:
Senator Larry Pressler
Ambassador Husain Haqqani
25
October 2017
Past Event
“Neighbours in Arms: An American Senator’s Quest for Disarmament in a Nuclear Subcontinent”
Senator Larry Pressler and Ambassador Husain Haqqani launch the new book Neighbours in Arms and discuss U.S.-India-Pakistan relations.
Featured Speakers:
Senator Larry Pressler
Ambassador Husain Haqqani
24
October 2017
Past Event
The Future of Orthodox Christianity in Syria and America
Featured Speakers:
Patriarch John X
Metropolitan Joseph
Samuel Tadros
23
October 2017
Past Event
Countering Violent Extremism: Qatar, Iran, and the Muslim Brotherhood
Featured Speakers:
Hillel Fradkin
Secretary Leon E. Panetta
Lally Weymouth
Representative Brad Sherman (D-CA)
Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX)
Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA)
Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA)
General Charles “Chuck” Wald, US Army (Ret.)
Ambassador Alberto Fernandez
Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad
Ray Takeyh
William Wechsler
Lally Weymouth
General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.)
Representative Don Bacon (R-NE)
Ambassador Dennis Ross
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR)
Catherine Herridge
Representative Robert Pittenger (R-TX)
Representative Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)
Stephen K. Bannon
Husain Haqqani
23
October 2017
Past Event
Countering Violent Extremism: Qatar, Iran, and the Muslim Brotherhood
Countering Violent Extremism: Qatar, Iran, and the Muslim Brotherhood
Featured Speakers:
Hillel Fradkin
Secretary Leon E. Panetta
Lally Weymouth
Representative Brad Sherman (D-CA)
Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX)
Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA)
Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA)
General Charles “Chuck” Wald, US Army (Ret.)
Ambassador Alberto Fernandez
Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad
Ray Takeyh
William Wechsler
Lally Weymouth
General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.)
Representative Don Bacon (R-NE)
Ambassador Dennis Ross
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR)
Catherine Herridge
Representative Robert Pittenger (R-TX)
Representative Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)
Stephen K. Bannon
Husain Haqqani
19
October 2017
Past Event
Dialogues on American Foreign Policy and World Affairs: Senator Cory Gardner & Walter Russell Mead
Featured Speakers:
Senator Cory Gardner
Walter Russell Mead
18
October 2017
Past Event
The Implications of China's Growing Involvement in Latin America
Featured Speakers:
Evan Ellis
Ambassador Jaime Daremblum
