Sunday, June 23, 2024

Monday Asia Events June 24, 2024

CHINA STRATEGY INITIATIVE LAUNCH EVENT. 6/24, 8:15am-1:00pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Council on Foreign Relations. Keynote Address (8:45-10:00am): Sustaining U.S. Strategy in the Indo-Pacific, Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell. Speakers: Elbridge Colby, Principal, Marathon Initiative; Former Deputy Assistant, Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development, U.S. Department of Defense (2017–18); CFR Member Bonny Lin, Director, China Power Project and Senior Fellow, Asian Security, CSIS; CFR Member Matthew Pottinger, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution; Former Deputy National Security Advisor (2019–21); CFR Member Stephen Wertheim, Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Presider: Rush Doshi, Senior Fellow for China and Indo-Pacific Studies and Director of the China Strategy Initiative, Council on Foreign Relations; Maher Bitar, Deputy Assistant to the President and Coordinator for Intelligence and Defense Policy, National Security Council; Tarun Chhabra, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Technology and National Security, National Security Council; Presider: Ellen Nakashima, National Security Reporter, Washington Post. AGENDA

ISRAELI-SAUDI NORMALIZATION: AN EFFECTIVE INCENTIVE FOR ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACEMAKING? 6/24, 10:00-11:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Middle East Institute. Speakers: Asher Kaufman, John M. Regan, Jr. Director, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame; Nimrod Goren, Senior Fellow for Israeli Affairs, Middle East Institute; Aziz Alghashian, Fellow, American Gulf States Institute in Washington; Sectarianism, Proxies, & De-sectarianisation Project; Michal Yaari, Lecturer, Hebrew University, Ben Gurion University; Open University; Huda Abuarquob, Independant Consultant, Peacebuilding Specialist and Conflict Transformation.

THE ORIGINS OF ELECTED STRONGMEN HOW PERSONALIST PARTIES DESTROY DEMOCRACY FROM WITHIN. 6/24, 11:00am-Noon (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Center for a New American Security. Speakers: Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Senior Fellow and Director, Transatlantic Security Program, CNAS; Joe Wright, Professor of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University; Erica Frantz, Associate Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University.

A THREAT LIKE NO OTHER - THE RUSSIA-NORTH KOREA ALLIANCE. 6/24, 110:00-11:45am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Maria Snegovaya, Senior Fellow for Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program, CSIS; Jude Blanchette, Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS; Sydney Seiler, non-resident Senior Adviser for Korea Chair, CSIS; Scott Snyder, President and CEO of Korea Economic Institute of America. 

THE IRAN CHALLENGE: A CONVERSATION WITH FORMER CENTCOM COMMANDER GEN. KENNETH ‘FRANK’ MCKENZIE JR. 6/24, Noon-1:00pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Stimson. Speaker: General Kenneth F. “Frank” McKenzie, Jr., Executive Director, University of South Florida’s Global, National Security Institute.

THE STATE OF RUSSIA'S DEFENSE INDUSTRY AFTER TWO YEARS OF WAR AND SANCTIONS. 6/24, 1:00-2:30pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Dara Massicot, Senior Fellow, Russia, Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Samuel Bendett, Senior Associate, Europe, Russia, Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Maria Snegovaya, Senior Fellow, Europe, Russia, Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 

SCHRIEVER SPACEPOWER SERIES: GEN STEPHEN WHITING. 6/24, 2:00pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Mitchel Institute for Aerospace Studies. Speaker: Gen Stephen N. Whiting, Commander, United States Space Command, United States Space Force. 

REPORT LAUNCH: THE ROLE OF TRUST IN ADVANCING EQUITY IN INNOVATION. 6/24, 4:00-5:30pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Jessica Milli, Research 2 Impact; Holly Fechner, Invent Together, Covington & Burling; Breann Branch, Research 2 Impact; Margo A. Bagley, Emory University School of Law.

BELIEVERS AND OUR ETHICS IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE. 6/24, 4:00-5:45pm (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University. Speakers: Jonathan Chaplin, Fellow, Wesley House, Cambridge Theological Federation, Research Fellow, Cardus, Canada; Daniel Madigan, Matteo Ricci Professor of Interreligious Theology, Director, Loyola Institute, Australian Catholic University, Rector, Newman College, University of Melbourne; Mahan Mirza, Professor, Keough School of Global Affairs, Executive Director, Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion, University of Notre Dame.

THE ORIGINS OF ELECTED STRONGMEN HOW PERSONALIST PARTIES DESTROY DEMOCRACY FROM WITHIN. 6/24, 11:00am-Noon (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Center for a New American Security. Speakers: Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Senior Fellow and Director, Transatlantic Security Program, CNAS; Joe Wright, Professor of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University; Erica Frantz, Associate Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University.

WIDENING THE CIRCLE: BUILDING NEW TRANSATLANTIC ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIPS. 6/24, 10:00-11:30am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsors: American-German Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. Speakers: Heather Hurlburt, Associate Fellow, Chatham House, former Chief of Staff, United States Trade Representative; Michael Kilpper, Deputy Head of Division, USA, Canada, Mexico, German Ministry, Economic Affairs and Climate Action; Dan Mullaney, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Europe and the Middle East; Luisa Santos, Deputy Director-General, BusinessEurope; Claudia Schmucker, Head of the Center for Geopolitics, Geoeconomics, and Technology, German Council on Foreign Relations.

BIOTECH INNOVATION AND BAYH-DOLE: A FIRESIDE CHAT WITH GILLIAN M. FENTON. 6/24, 10:00-10:30am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Gillian M. Fenton, former President of the Licensing Executives Society, Special Counsel for Innovation and Government Collaboration, GSK; Dr. Walter G. Copan, Senior Adviser, Non-Resident, Renewing American Innovation Project.

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