FULL TRANSCRIPT: Israel, Iran, and the Future of the Iranian Nuclear Deal: A Conversation with Ron Dermer, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States

Hudson Institute & Michael Doran

Transcript of the May 10 event...

FULL TRANSCRIPT: The Future of U.S. Naval Power: A Conversation with Congressman Rob Wittman

Hudson Institute & Seth Cropsey

Transcript of the May 10 event...

FULL TRANSCRIPT: Space 2.0: U.S. Competitiveness and Policy in the New Space Era

Hudson Institute

Transcript of the April 30 event...

FULL TRANSCRIPT: Regaining the Strategic Advantage in an Age of Great Power Competition: A Conversation with Michael Griffin

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Following is the full transcript of the April 13 Hudson event...

TRANSCRIPT: Merit-Based and Competitive Awarding of Federal IT Services: Public Policy and Department of Defense Cloud Computing

William Schneider

Full transcript of the April 12, 2018 event...

Michael Pregent Testifies Before the House Homeland Security Committee

Michael Pregent

State Sponsors of Terrorism: An Examination of Iran's Global Terrorism Network...

Full Transcript: Dialogues on American Foreign Policy and World Affairs: Senator Chris Coons and Walter Russell Mead

Chris Coons & Walter Russell Mead

Full transcript of February 28, 2018 event featuring Senator Chris Coons and Walter Russell Mead...

David Malpass' Remarks: The Trump Administration’s Global Economic Agenda

David R. Malpass

Remarks by Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, David R. Malpass at Hudson Institute...

Leon Kass’s “The Aspirations of Humankind—Athens, Jerusalem, Gettysburg”

Christopher DeMuth

From a symposium on Leon Kass’s “Leading a Worthy Life: Finding Meaning in Modern Times” held at the American Enterprise Institute ...

A Conservative Perspective

Michael O'Rielly

Remarks of FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly before the Hudson Institute on U.S. communications policy....

Senator Ted Cruz's Remarks: U.S. Responses to the North Korean Threat

Ted Cruz

Written remarks delivered by Senator Ted Cruz at the Hudson Institute, January 24, 2018....

Michael Pregent Testifies Before the House Oversight Committee

Michael Pregent

Michael Pregent's testimony before the House Oversight Committee's Subcommittee on National Security...

Full Transcript: The Future of Combating Terrorism and Countering the Use of WMD

Hudson Institute

Full transcript of December 13, 2017 event featuring Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Elaine Duke...

Modernizing AML Laws to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

Charles Davidson

Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Feinstein, and distinguished members of the committee, I appreciate the invitation to appear before you today. **S...

Michael Pillsbury Testimony Before the Senate Subcommittee on East Asia, The Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy

Michael Pillsbury

Michael Pillsbury testimony before U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relation...

Christopher Ford's Remarks: Countering Nuclear Terrorism and the Trump Administration’s Agenda

Christopher Ford

Remarks by Christopher Ford at Hudson Institute...

Representative Mike Gallagher's Remarks: Why Seapower?

Representative Mike Gallagher

I firmly believe today that we stand at an inflection point for American seapower...

Combating Kleptocracy with Incorporation Transparency

Charles Davidson

On October 3, 2017, Charles Davidson testified before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Following is the full text of his testi...

TRANSCRIPT: U.S. Strategic Command Commander’s Perspective on 21st Century Deterrence

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs & John P. Walters

Following is the full transcript of the September 20, 2017 Hudson event "__U.S. Strategic Command Commander’s Perspective on 21st Century Deterrence...

Teaching Hate, Inspiring Terrorism: Saudi Arabia’s Educational Curriculum

Nina Shea

Nina Shea House Testimony...

Financing the Reagan 600-ship Naval Modernization Program, 1981-89

William Schneider

William Schneider Senate Testimony...

Michael Doran Addresses the UN Security Council

Michael Doran

Click to View and Read the Remarks...

The Current State of Retirement Security in the United States

Walter Russell Mead

Testimony of Walter Russell Mead before the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Policy...

Potential Major Nuclear Deterrence Policy and Posture Changes Under a New Administration

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

The United States should move forward with the Obama administration’s current nuclear “refurbishment” plans, without delay—and should build on them...

L’Avenir des Relations Transatlantiques avec le Président Trump

Benjamin Haddad

Conférence-débat L’Amerique de Donald Trump : Interrogations et Defis...

Corruption: A Danger to Democracy in Europe and Eurasia

Charles Davidson

Across Eurasia, Western diplomats are increasingly ignored when they warn of corruption....

Blasphemy Laws and Censorship by States and Non-State Actors: Examining Global Threats to Freedom of Expression

Nina Shea

As a foreign policy priority, the United States should make an unapologetic defense of free speech in every appropriate forum....

America's Insatiable Demand for Drugs: Examining Alternative Approaches

David W. Murray

David Murray on the Obama Administration's current drug control policy....

Russian Violations of Borders, Treaties, and Human Rights

David Satter

The Russian leaders need to be convinced that the U.S. is fully aware of their true character. ...

White House Narratives on the Iran Nuclear Deal

Michael Doran

Cut the size of the NSC by limiting its budget and by putting tight restrictions on the number of detailees that it can borrow from other Departments ...

Carrier Air Wing and the Future of Naval Aviation

Seth Cropsey

A Legislative Hearing on Four Communications Bills

Robert M. McDowell

Congress has a terrific opportunity to pass these bills on a bipartisan basis and further the cause of Internet freedom....

Game Changing Innovations and the Future of Surface Warfare

Bryan McGrath

Civil Nuclear Cooperation with Pakistan: Prospects and Consequences

Husain Haqqani

The U.S. objective should be to help Pakistan come to terms with its size and its economic and political needs....

America the Indispensable

Rupert Murdoch

Like so many naturalized citizens, I felt that I was an American before I formally became one....

Dr. Henry Kissinger's Speech Introducing Rupert Murdoch, Hudson Institute Global Leadership Award Honoree

Henry Kissinger

I once introduced Lord Carrington in England with rare eloquence and when I was finished he said, I can hardly wait to hear what I'm going to say....

Options for Reforming U.S. Overseas Broadcasting

Kenneth R. Weinstein

Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations...

The War on Police: How the Federal Government Undermines State and Local Law Enforcement

John P. Walters

Hudson Institute COO John Walters testifies before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rig...

Revisiting the Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces

Bryan McGrath

The best option is to embark on a broad based defense increase, one that would grow the current force as allocated both in size and in capability....

Ending Sanctions: Contrasting the Iran and Libya Cases

Douglas J. Feith

Given its record, there's no good reason to assume Iran will comply....

Global Challenges, U.S. National Security Strategy, and Defense Organization

Walter Russell Mead

Walter Russell Mead's Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services on global challenges, national security strategy, & defense orgs....

Taiwan Needs Submarines to Defend Itself

Seth Cropsey

Seth Cropsey's speech on why Taiwan needs submarines to defend itself against China...

Official English Fosters the Patriotic Assimilation of Immigrants

John Fonte

The United States is the most successful immigration country in the history of the world for one basic reason: the triumph of patriotic assimilation....

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and the Military Balance in the Middle East

Walter Russell Mead

Walter Russell Mead's Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services on the JCPOA...

The Danger of Incorrect Assumptions

Douglas J. Feith

Iran is a strategic problem, and not—as the Obama administration seems to think—a strategic partner and a strategic opportunity....

Examining the True Costs of Alcohol and Drug Abuse in Native Communities

John P. Walters

This preventable harm would begin with increased drug availability, use, and addiction and all the related threats they pose to public health. ...

Interview on the P5+1 Iran Deal

Douglas J. Feith

Douglas J. Feith's July 21, 2015 interview with Secure Freedom Radio on the P5+1 Iran Deal. For a full transcript, click through on the link below....

Implications of a Nuclear Agreement with Iran

Michael Doran

Obama’s Iran policy will deliver disequilibrium to the Middle East, the exact opposite of what the administration is claiming....

Egypt Two Years After Morsi: Part 1

Samuel Tadros

The U.S. needs to work for an Egypt that does not descend into the regional chaos that has overwhelmed so many Arab countries....

FCC Reauthorization: Improving Commission Transparency, Part II

Robert M. McDowell

We need to modernize our communications laws to reflect current market conditions and technologies....

Subcommittee Hearing: The Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act

Kenneth R. Weinstein

Corruption undermines the rule of law, erodes confidence in democratic institutions, threatens representative government and challenges human rights....

King v. Burwell Supreme Court Case and Congressional Action that can be taken to Protect Small Businesses and Their Employees

Jeffrey H. Anderson

Committee concluded a hearing to examine King vs. Burwell and congressional action that can be taken to protect small businesses and their employees...

The Role of Surface Forces in Presence, Deterrence, and Warfighting

Bryan McGrath

Bryan McGrath's testimony before the House Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces on the role of surface forces...

Five Years of Broken Promises: How the President's Health Care Law is Affecting America's Workplaces

Tevi Troy

Click below to read Tevi Troy's testimony before the House Committee on the Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, an...

Iran's Noncompliance With Its International Atomic Energy Agency Obligations

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Click below to read Rebeccah Heinrich's testimony before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on The Middle East and North Africa on...

Protecting the Internet and Consumers Through Congressional Action

Robert M. McDowell

The 114th Congress has a historic opportunity to end the "net neutrality" debate by forging ahead with a legislative alternative....

Priorities for Future Canada - United States Defense Relations

Christopher Sands

The United States and Canada have a strong defense relationship that has endured through numerous wars and conflicts of the twentieth and now twenty-f...

Congressional Testimony: Nuclear Negotiations with Iran - What Do America's Allies Think?

Michael Doran

If the administration does not take steps immediately to reconstitute the leverage that it held over Iran just a year ago, then we can be assured that...

The Risk of Nation-State Conflict

Walter Russell Mead

While it is difficult to see into the future at all and impossible to make detailed predictions, everything we know about history and human developmen...

Prospects for Improving Canada's Relations with Mexico

Christopher Sands

Click below to read Christopher Sands’s testimony to the Senate of Canada Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade regarding Canada's re...

Why Net Neutrality Matters: Protecting Consumers and Competition through Meaningful Open Internet Rules

Robert M. McDowell

Click below to read Commissioner Robert M. McDowell’s testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary regarding Net Neutrality....

Economic Perspectives on an Open Internet

Harold Furchtgott-​Roth

During my career, I have had occasion to think about the network neutrality issues before the Commission, and about the Commission itself. From 1995-1...

Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS)

Bryan McGrath

Live and Recorded Public meetings of Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) Requirements Assessment for U.S. Committee on...

Net Neutrality: Is Antitrust Law More Effective than Regulation in Protecting Consumers and Innovation?

Robert M. McDowell

Click below to read Commissioner Robert M. McDowell's testimony before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Co...

Douglas J. Feith’s Introduction of a Program on Menahem Begin Featuring Daniel Gordis and Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Douglas J. Feith

There are reasons why Begin’s name is well known and there are reasons why Begin is historically important. But the latter aren’t the same as the form...

Inequality in Communist China: Theory, Practice, Reality

Charles Horner

The Communist Party of China, since its founding in 1921, believes that it can make words mean what it wants them to mean whenever it wants to. ...

Address: If You Want Peace, Prepare for War—U.S. Military Pre-Eminence and Why it Matters

Jack David

The U.S. has preserved its political and economic freedom, and that of our friends, by maintaining military preeminence since the 1950s....

Barred from Russia: An Interview with David Satter

David Satter & Kenneth R. Weinstein

Last month, journalist and Hudson Institute fellow David Satter was expelled from Russia after being denied a renewal of his work visa. Satter, a we...

U.S. Asia-Pacific Strategic Considerations Related to P.L.A. Naval Forces Modernization

Seth Cropsey

Testimony on China and the US Navy by Seth Cropsey, Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute, a nonpartisan policy research organization dedicated to innovative research and analysis that promotes global security, prosperity, and freedom....

Human Rights Abuses in Egypt

Samuel Tadros

Testimony on Copts, Egypt, and Muslims by Samuel Tadros, a Research Fellow at Hudson Institute, a nonpartisan policy research organization dedicated to innovative research and analysis that promotes global security, prosperity, and freedom....

Europe’s Role Within the Global Order and France’s Role Within Europe

Jean-​Francois Cope

Congressional Testimony on "Improving FCC Process"

Robert M. McDowell

Experience has taught me that decreasing onerous or unnecessary regulations increases investment, spurs innovation, accelerates competition, lowers pr...

Turkey at a Crossroads: What do the Gezi Park Protests Mean for Democracy in the Region?

Hillel Fradkin

Religious Minorities in Syria: Caught in the Middle

Nina Shea

The question of the treatment of religious minorities concerns America’s core values as a nation, but, in recent foreign policy, it is one that the ...

South and East China Seas: Challenges and Opportunities for Enduring Regional Peace and Security Power Point Presentation

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Weighing What We Do for Democracy in the South Caucasus

Charles Fairbanks

After twenty years of Western effort to help the South Caucasian countries in various ways, it is appropriate to take stock of what we are doing and w...

Robert Nisbet and Our Continuing Quest for Community

William A. Schambra

Last week, Bob Woodson of the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise took a group of conservatives to visit one of the grassroots groups he works with in ...

Two Paths to the Internet Protocol Transition

Ajit Pai

Growing Philanthropy in the Global Community

Carol Adelman

Dr. Carol Adelman spoke on "Growing Philanthropy in the Global Community"; Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University's 25th annual Symposium. Novem...

Global Philanthropy: Heloise Waislitz Oration

Carol Adelman

Dr. Carol Adelman presented at the Heloise Waislitz Oration through the Center for Social Impact on Global Philanthropy, in Sydney, Australia. Novembe...

Beyond the Border, Beyond 2012: The Future of U.S.-Canada Border and Regulatory Cooperation After the 2012 Election

Christopher Sands

Transcript of Hudson Senior Fellow Christopher Sands Keynote Address to the Vancouver Board of Trade on October 24, 2012....

Continental and Maritime Visions in China’s Grand Strategies

Charles Horner

Now that I have indicated via the heading of these remarks that my subject is “China’s Grand Strategies” I will begin by saying that I will try to avo...

Sustainable Growth: Common Sense and Compromise Rather Than Ideological Purity

Irwin M. Stelzer

Hudson Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Policy Studies Group, Irwin Stelzer delivered the President's Lecture at Illinois Institute of Technolog...

Challenges of Regional Peace and Stability in East Asia

Christopher Ford

Good morning, everyone.  Let me start by expressing my thanks to the Congressional Taiwan Caucus for inviting us here.   In preparing my remarks fo...

The Next Thirty Years' Peace in Asia

Eric B. Brown

I want to thank the Taiwan Congressional Caucus for hosting this discussion on "Asia's Next Thirty Years Peace" and what it will require. T...

Remarks at the Hudson Institute/Hunter College Speakers Series

Vaclav Klaus

Many thanks for organizing this gathering and for making it possible for me to introduce the book __Europe: The Shattering of Illusions__ to the poten...

Romney Gaff

Irwin M. Stelzer

I know a gaffe when I see one, having made many myself, and Romney's 47% remark was no gaffe. It was an expression of a belief so deeply held, and so ...

Philanthropy's War on Community

William A. Schambra

Editor?s note: William Schambra delivered this speech on September 15, 2012 at the Small Enough to Succeed conference at Hope College in Holland, Mic...

Making Sense of the U.S. Nuclear Posture-and Making It Make Sense

Christopher Ford

Good morning everyone.  It's a pleasure to be here, and I'm grateful to Paul Ingram and Anne Penketh of BASIC for inviting me...

Bernanke Sets Job Creation as the Fed’s Top Priority

Irwin M. Stelzer

Hudson Senior Fellow and Directory of the Economic Policy Studies Group, Irwin Stelzer, released the economic update, __Bernanke Sets Job Creation as ...

Weak Jobs Report Puts the Ball in the Fed’s Court

Irwin M. Stelzer

Economic Update released on September 7, 2012 by Hudson Senior Fellow and Director of the Economic Policy Studies Group, Irwin Stelzer....

The Jobs Report: Nothing to Write Home About

Irwin M. Stelzer

Hudson Senior Fellow and Directory of the Economic Policy Studies Group released an Economic Update on __The Jobs Report: Nothing to Write Home About_...

Take Your Pick: Gloom, Gloomier, or Gloomiest

Irwin M. Stelzer

Hudson Senior Fellow and Director of Director of Hudson Institute's Economic Policy Studies Group, Irwin Stelzer, released an economic update titled _...

The RAISE Act

Tim Kane

Chairman Roe, Ranking Member Andrews, and Distinguished Members of the Congress, Thank you for this opportunity to testify today on the vital issue...

Marketplace Equity Act of 2011

Hanns Kuttner

Within the past year we provided a view of the future of buying and selling with a focus on issues that relate to today’s hearing: how advances in t...

The Economy Is Slowing, But Perhaps Not For Long

Irwin M. Stelzer

Hudson Senior Fellow and Director of the Economic Policy Studies Group, released an economic update titled "The Economy is Slowing, But Perhaps Not f...

Forget The Past Three Years, Let’s Talk About Fairness

Irwin M. Stelzer

Hudson Senior Fellow and Director of the Economic Policy Studies Group, Irwin Stelzer, released an economic update titled, __Forget the Past Three Yea...

Economy-Watchers Should Keep an Eye on the Courts

Irwin M. Stelzer

Hudson Senior Fellow and Director of the Economic Policy Studies Group, Irwin Stelzer, released an economic update titled __Economy-Watchers Should Ke...

Perilous Precedents: Proliferation as Policy in Alternative Nuclear Futures

Christopher Ford

Good afternoon.  I want to thank the CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues and the Los Alamos National Laboratory for having me here today.  New Mexico is ...

A Rapidly Changing Energy World, Or Perhaps Not

Irwin M. Stelzer

Hudson Senior Fellow and Director of the Economic Policies Studies Group, Irwin Stelzer, released an economic update titled __A Rapidly Changing Energ...