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2012 Halifax International Security Forum

2012 Halifax International Security Forum

Date
November 16-18, 2012
Location
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Participants
300

Agenda & Speakers

Friday, November 16
Saturday, November 17
Sunday, November 18

8:30-9:45

Plenary 2: Syria’s Terror, the Middle East’s Tragedy On the record

Speakers

Anchor, Question Period, CTV News
Moderator
Kevin Newman

Kevin Newman

Mr. Kevin Newman has been a familiar face to television viewers in Canada and the US for more than 30 years. In 2011, Bell Media appointed Mr. Newman its first “Digital News Evangelist.” He is also anchor of the long-running political broadcast Question Period on CTV, and co-host/correspondent for the award- winning investigative series W5. Mr. Newman has received multiple Emmy Awards in the US and Gemini Awards in Canada including “Best Anchor.” He was part of the Peabody-Award winning team at ABC News that covered the arrival of the Millennium. Mr. Newman is also pioneering the development of quality storytelling for mobile platforms through his own company, NewMan Media Ltd., and is executive producer of an innovative four-screen adventure series “Operation Unplugged”, co-creator of iBard eTextbooks for Apple’s iPad, and producer/writer/narrator of international award-winning documentaries. Mr. Newman was awarded an honourary doctorate of laws from his alma mater, the University of Western Ontario, in 2011.

Journalist, Radikal Daily, Turkey

Cengiz Çandar

Cengiz Çandar

Mr. Cengiz Çandar is an expert on the Middle East and the Balkans and has worked for leading Turkish newspapers. Currently, he is the senior political columnist for the daily Radikal in Istanbul. From 1997 to 2011, he was a lecturer at Bilgi University in Istanbul. Between 1999 and 2000, he conducted research as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and was a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. Mr. Çandar served as special adviser to Turkish President Turgut Özal between 1991 and 1993.

Columnist and Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, Al Hayat
Raghida Dergham

Raghida Dergham

Ms. Raghida Dergham is columnist and senior diplomatic correspondent for the London-based Al Hayat, the leading independent Arabic daily. She writes a regular weekly strategic column on international political affairs. Ms. Dergham is also a member of the International Media Council of the World Economic Forum, composed by 100 of the most respected and influential media figures worldwide and was named one of the 100 Most Powerful Arab Women in 2011. She served as a political analyst for NBC, MSNBC and the Arab satellite LBC for eight years, and is founder and executive chairman of Beirut Institute, an independent and nonpartisan Arab think tank. Ms. Dergham is in the State University of New York’s Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Alumna and received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters in 2003.

Leadership Member, Kurdistan Democratic Party
Safeen Muhsin Dizayee

Safeen Muhsin Dizayee

Mr. Safeen Muhsin Dizayee is leadership member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and was minister for education from 2009 until 2012. Before his ministerial post, Mr. Dizayee was head of Kurdistan Democratic Party’s International Relations between 2005 and 2009. After regime change in Iraq, he worked as second deputy of Masoud Barzani as a member of the Iraqi Governing Council in 2003-2004 under the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Baghdad. From 1992 to 2003 Mr. Dizayee served as the Kurdistan Democratic Party’s (KDP) Representative in Turkey, based in Ankara. From 1980-1989 he was an active member of the Kurdistan Students Society in Europe, later elected as a secretariat member and head of UK branch of the KSSE. From 1986 to 1992 he also worked in private sector in real estate and housing. Born in Arbil in 1963, his family had to leave Iraq and lived in the UK in exile when he was in secondary school. He graduated from Maidenhead College of Art & Design studying interior design.

Member of Syrian National Council
Afra Jalabi

Afra Jalabi

 

Western powers have looked on with both hope and anxiety at the events unfolding in the Middle East. While the emergence of pro-democracy forces provide a cause for optimism, we’ve also seen unending bloodshed in Syria and the increasingly likely prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran. All the while, Western powers have struggled to decide just how much they should get behind pro-democracy forces, and how to do so most effectively.

“The message they want to bring to you is that the democracy movement feels abandoned. Not just over the last few years, but the last decade. In the Arab world, there’s almost an implosion of civil society.”

— Afra Jalabi, Member, Syrian National Council

US Congressional Delegation Press Conference On the record

The US Congressional Delegation  fielded questions from reporters, opining on topics ranging from the escalating crisis in Gaza and the bloodshed in Syria to climate change. Senator John McCain called on President Obama to institute a no-fly zone over Syria to help oust Bashar al-Assad  that Senator Mark Udall said deserved serious consideration.

10:15-11:30

Plenary 3: Mischief or Miscalculation? China and the Rise of Confusion-ism On the record

Speakers

Washington Editor-­at-­Large, The Atlantic
Moderator
Steve Clemons

Steve Clemons

Mr. Steve Clemons is the editor at large for the Atlantic and editor of Atlantic Live. He is also a senior fellow of the American Strategy Program, which he founded, at the New America Foundation. He previously served as executive vice president and remains actively involved in the direction of the American Strategy Program. Mr. Clemons is also Washington editor at large for The Atlantic and editor in chief of Atlantic LIVE. He has served as executive vice president of the Economic Strategy Institute, senior policy advisor on economic and international affairs to Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and the first executive director of the Nixon Center. Prior to moving to Washington, Mr. Clemons served as executive director of the Japan America Society of Southern California and co-founded the Japan Policy Research Institute. Mr. Clemons serves on several boards and writes frequently on matters of foreign policy, defense, and international economic policy.

Ambassador for Policy Planning and International Security Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan

Kazuyuki Yamazaki

Kazuyuki Yamazaki

The Honorable Mr. Kazayuki Yamazaki is ambassador for policy planning and international security policy in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Prior to his appointment in September 2012, Mr. Yamazaki served as minister and head of the economic section at the Japanese embassy in Beijing. Mr. Yamazaki has worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1983 and has held multiple posts at the Embassy of Japan in the United States including second secretary in 1986 and counselor and deputy head of the political section in 2001. Mr. Yamazaki also held positions as director of the First North America Division of the North American Affairs Bureau in 2003, and was director of both the International Press Division and the Coordination Section in the Minister’s Secretariat in 2007 and 2008. In 2009, he was a fellow at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, while simultaneously acting as minister at the Embassy of Japan in the US. Mr. Yamazaki graduated from Hitotsubashi University with a BA in economics and received diplomatic training at Swarthmore College.

Editorial Director, India Today and Headlines Today
Mobasshar Javed Akbar

Mobasshar Javed Akbar

Mr. Mobashar Jawed Akbar is editorial director of India Today and Headlines Today. Since 1971, Mr. Akbar has worked as a journalist for several publications, including the Times of India, Sunday, The Telegraph, The Asian Age—which he founded—and Deccan Chronicle. In 2010, he launched The Sunday Guardian, Delhi’s first Sunday newspaper. He also served in the Indian Parliament from 1989 to 1991 and worked as an as advisor in the Ministry of Human Resources. Mr. Akbar served as a visiting fellow on the Brookings Project on US Policy Towards the Islamic World. He holds a BA in English from Presidency College, Calcutta.

Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, US Department of Defense
James Miller

James Miller

Dr. James N. Miller was confirmed by the US Senate as the under secretary of defense for policy on May 25, 2012. He serves as the under secretary of defense for policy and provides advice and assistance to the secretary of defense and deputy secretary of defense on all matters concerning the formulation of national security and defense policy and the integration and oversight of Department of Defense policy and plans to achieve national security objectives. Prior to his confirmation, Dr. Miller served as principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy; senior vice president and director of studies at the Center for a New American Security (2007-2009), senior vice president (2003-2007) and vice president (2000-2003) at Hicks and Associates, Inc.; among others. In 2000 he received the Department of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. Dr. Miller received a BA with honors in economics from Stanford University, and master’s and PhD degrees in public policy from Harvard University.

Commander, Royal Canadian Navy
Paul Maddison

Paul Maddison

Over the last decade Western countries have begun worrying and in some cases panicking about the rapid ascent of China as a world power. Are we truly on the verge of a radical shift in the power of balance, or do we need to re-evaluate the assumptions underlying that argument? Whatever the answer, it is worth examining how exactly China will exercise its growing power through cyber warfare, traditional military strength, and growing economic influence. In other words, what exactly does China want?

12:00-13:15

Plenary 4: The Good Guys? The Special Burden of Democratic Nations On the record

Speakers

Author and Journalist
Moderator
Kathleen Koch

Kathleen Koch

Ms. Kathleen Koch is a Washington-based speaker, moderator, author and freelance journalist. Her best-selling book, Rising from Katrina, which traces her Mississippi hometown’s recovery from Hurricane Katrina and her experiences covering it, won the gold medal for best non-fiction in the Southeast region in the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Ms. Koch spent 18 years at CNN covering the White House, the Pentagon, Capitol Hill and aviation. Her two documentaries on Bay St. Louis’s recovery received a New York Festivals Gold Medal. She also shared in the Peabody Award that CNN won for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Ms. Koch currently serves on the USM School of Mass Communications and Journalism Advisory Board.

Minister of National Defence, Canada
Minister Peter MacKay

Minister Peter MacKay

The Honourable Peter MacKay was first elected as a member of Parliament in Canada in 1997. He was re-elected in his northern Nova Scotia constituency in 2000, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2011. On May 18, 2011, Mr. MacKay was reappointed as minister of national defence. He also serves as regional minister for Nova Scotia. In May 2003, he was elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. In March 2004, following the unification of the Progressive Conservative Party and the Canadian Alliance Party, he was named deputy leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Prior to his most recent appointment, Mr. MacKay served as foreign affairs minister, minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, and minister for the Atlantic Gateway. In 1993, he accepted an appointment as crown attorney for the Central Region of Nova Scotia, where he prosecuted cases at all levels, including youth and provincial courts as well as the Supreme Court of Canada. He holds an arts degree from Acadia University and he studied law at Dalhousie University. He was called to the Nova Scotia Bar in June 1991.

Senator (R-­‐AZ), United States

John McCain

John McCain

The Honorable John McCain is a Republican senator of the state of Arizona. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986. Senator McCain attended college at the United States Naval Academy and launched a 22-year career as a naval aviator upon his graduation. His naval honors include the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart, and the Distinguished Flying Cross. In 1982, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona, serving until his election to the U.S. Senate. Senator McCain is currently the ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee. He also serves on the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; and the Committee on Indian Affairs.

Publisher-­‐Editor, Die Zeit

Josef Joffe

Josef Joffe

Dr. Josef Joffe is publisher-editor of the German weekly Die Zeit. Previously, he was columnist and editorial page editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung (1985-2000). He writes for numerous publications, including the New York Review of Books, Commentary, New Republic, Slate, Weekly Standard, Prospect (London), Commentaire (Paris), Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Time and Newsweek. In 2005, he co-founded the foreign policy journal The American Interest in Washington, where he serves on the Executive Committee. In addition to his journalist career, he is very active in academia. Dr. Joffe was appointed senior fellow at Stanford’s Institute for International Studies and fellow in international relations at the Hoover Institution. He has taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, the University of Munich, Princeton and Dartmouth. Dr. Joffe is the author of numerous books and articles. Dr. Joffe received his MA from Johns Hopkins University and PhD in government from Harvard University.

Minister of Defence, Colombia
Juan Carlos Pinzón Bueno

Juan Carlos Pinzón Bueno

Mr. Juan Carlos Pinzón Bueno assumed his current position on September 5, 2011. Previously, he worked as secretary general in the president’s office during President Juan Manuel Santos’ administration. Between 2006 and 2009, he served as vice minister of defense for strategy and planning. In this role, he led the design of the democratic security consolidation policy, directed the implementation of the equity tax, helped structure the modernization for the armed forces and carried out welfare and education program reforms. Previously, he worked at the World Bank, was vice chairman of the Banking Association, assistant vice president of investment banking at Citibank, private secretary to the Ministry of Finance and Citigroup economist for Colombia. Mr. Pinzón has a master’s degree in public policy from Princeton University, as well as a master’s degree from Javeriana University. He completed graduate studies in strategic studies and international relations at Johns Hopkins University and attended the science and technology program at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Recent events in the Middle East and Africa have given a new urgency to the age-old question: What responsibility do democratic nations have to promote democracy and prevent bloodshed around the world? How will the rise of democracies like Brazil, Turkey and India change this conversation? Policymakers and journalists convened in this panel to cast new light on these questions and discuss how effective international institutions can be in resolving such conflicts.

“We can’t right every wrong, or put out every fire. But where we can, we should. Because it’s in our interest to see countries develop, to have a chance at democracy and freedom and all the things we’ve stood for in our country for over 200 years.”

— John McCain, U.S. Senator

14:30-15:00

Halifax Chat On the record

Speakers

Director, International Affairs, Henry Jackson Society
Moderator
Robin Shepherd

Robin Shepherd

Mr. Robin Shepherd is director of international affairs at the Henry Jackson Society, the non-partisan, London-based think tank. He is also a senior fellow of the Central European Policy Institute (CEPI), based in Bratislava, Slovakia. Mr. Shepherd has held senior fellowships with several top think tanks in the United States, Britain and Europe. Before entering the think tank world a decade ago, he was a foreign correspondent, firstly for Reuters and subsequently The Times of London, where he was the Moscow bureau chief. He is also the owner/publisher of Britain’s fastest growing new media outlet, The Commentator. He has been associated with Halifax International Security Forum since its inception.

Minister, Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction

Mohammed Shtayyeh

Mohammed Shtayyeh

Senior Research Associate, Institute for National Security Studies
Brigadier General Shlomo Brom

Brigadier General Shlomo Brom

Brigadier General (ret.) Shlomo Brom, a senior research associate at the Institute for National Security Studies, joined the Jaffee Center in 1998 after a long career in the IDF. His most senior post in the IDF was director of the Strategic Planning Division in the Planning Branch of the General Staff. Brig. Gen. Brom participated in peace negotiations with the Palestinians, Jordan, and Syria, and in Middle Eastern regional security talks during the 1990s. He continued to be involved in Track 2 dialogues on these subjects after his retirement from the IDF. In 2000 he was named deputy to the National Security Advisor, returning to JCSS at the end of his post. In 2005-2006, Brig. Gen. Brom was a member of the Meridor committee established by the Minister of Defense to reexamine the security strategy and doctrine of the State of Israel. His primary areas of research are Israeli-Palestinian relations and national security doctrine.

“From the point of Israel, the goals of this campaign have been accomplished. But Israel can’t stop if the other side doesn’t stop. We have the building blocks for stopping it. The two most important actors, Israel and Hamas, in my opinion, are interested in a ceasefire….but there is no dialogue between these two parties….this fact actually causes any ceasefire to be very fragile.”

— Shlomo Brown, Senior Research Fellow and Director, Program on Israel-Palestinian Relations Institute for National Security Studies

“Why is it taking place? In my opinion it’s face-saving for Netanyahu, who banged the drums of war against Iran and it didn’t work. This is a war by proxy against Iran. It is an egotistic issue for Netanyahu.”

— Mohammed Shtayyeh, Minister, Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction

15:00-16:00

Plenary 5: American Global Leadership After the Election On the record

Speakers

Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs
Moderator
Jonathan Tepperman

Jonathan Tepperman

Mr. Jonathan Tepperman is managing editor of Foreign Affairs. He started his journalism career at Foreign Affairs as a junior editor before moving on to Newsweek International, where he was deputy editor in charge of Asia, Europe, Africa, and Middle East coverage, and then to EurasiaGroup, where he was managing editor and a director. He has written for a range of publications including The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune, The New Republic, and The American Prospect. He is the co-editor of the books The U.S. vs Al Qaeda: A History of the War on Terror (2011) and Iran and the Bomb: Solving the Persian Puzzle (2012). Mr. Tepperman has a BA in English Literature from Yale University and law degrees from Oxford and New York University. He is currently vice chairman of the board of Halifax International Security Forum.

Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Shlomo Avineri

Shlomo Avineri

Dr. Shlomo Avineri is professor of political science at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a graduate of Hebrew University and the London School of Economics, and served as director-general of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He held visiting appointments at Yale, Cornell, University of California, Cardozo School of Law, Australian National University, Oxford and Northwestern University; and has been a fellow at The Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Institute for World Economy and International Relations, and Collegium Budapest. In 1996, he received the Israel Prize, the country’s highest civilian decoration. His op-ed articles have appeared in, among others, Ha’aretz, New York Times, Financial Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Jordan Times, Daily Star (Beirut).

Patron to Cyber Security Challenge and Special Government Representative to Business on Cyber Security, House of Lords, United Kingdom
Pauline Neville‐Jones

Pauline Neville‐Jones

Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones was formerly the minister of state for security in the United Kingdom. Most recently, she was appointed as Patron to Cyber Security Challenge and Special Government Representative to Business on Cyber Security, In 2007, Baroness Neville-Jones was appointed shadow security minister and national security adviser to the Leader of the Opposition. She is also an honourary fellow of Lady Margaret Hall and doctor of London University, City University and the Open University. She was made a companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1987 and a dame commander in the 1996 New Year’s Honours. From 1994 until her retirement, she was political director in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in which capacity she led the British delegation to the Dayton negotiations on the Bosnia peace settlement.

Senator (D-­‐CO), United States
Mark Udall

Mark Udall

The Honorable Mark Udall has represented Colorado in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives since 1999. Senator Udall’s assignments on the Armed Services, Energy and Natural Resources, Intelligence and Aging committees give him a unique perspective to address security issues spanning from natural resources to border control. In 2011, he introduced the Department of Defense Energy Security Act to spur the Pentagon’s renewable energy development to curb its reliance on oil, reducing costs and increasing troop safety. Senator Udall was born in Tucson, Arizona, graduating from Williams College in 1972. An avid mountaineer, he was Outward Bound’s executive director for a decade. He now lives in Eldorado Springs with his wife, Maggie Fox.

America remains the post powerful military and diplomatic power in the world. Yet questions remain about the role the country can (and wants to) play in the coming years. How will the economic crisis affect Americas global impact? After a decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, how much political will remains in the United States to shoulder a global peacekeeping burden? Leading policymakers from the trans-Atlantic community and Middle East discussed possible answers to these questions in the context of the recent Presidential election.

“The no-fly zone proposal is worthy of some deep and thoughtful consideration. The longer this conflict continues, the more dangerous it is for the region.”

— Mark Udall, U.S. Senator

16:30-17:45

Plenary 6: North America Off Foreign Oil and Its Impacts Everywhere Else On the record

Speakers

Chief Political Correspondent, Global National News
Moderator
Tom Clark

Tom Clark

Mr. Tom Clark is chief political correspondent for Global News and host of Global Television’s weekly political program The West Block with Tom Clark. Mr. Clark has a long history of covering politics in Canada and has interviewed nearly every prime minister since Pierre Trudeau. In a previous role, he secured Canada’s first televised interview with a sitting US President in over 30 years. Mr. Clark also hosted CTV’s daily political programPower Play with Tom Clark and served as senior correspondent for North America’s longest-running current affairs program, W-FIVE. Mr. Clark has reported from five war zones, most notably from southern Iraq in 2003.

Premier, Alberta
Alison Redford

Alison Redford

Ms. Alison Redford was elected leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party and sworn-in as Alberta’s 14th premier in October 2011. Previously, Ms. Redford was minister of justice and attorney general and led the Safe Communities Secretariat. She has been the political minister for Calgary and has served as an advisor to the Privy Council Office on Canada’s future involvement in Afghanistan. Ms. Redford has been actively involved in provincial and national politics since the 1980s. She served as senior policy advisor to the Right Honourable Joe Clark, secretary of state for external affairs, and in the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada from 1988 to 1990. In Parliament, she was also the principal legislative advisor to the secretary of state for external affairs. Throughout the 1990s, Ms. Redford worked as a technical advisor on constitutional and legal reform issues in Africa for the European Union, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Canadian and Australian governments. Ms. Redford completed her post-secondary education at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law.

Senator (R-­‐WY), United States

John Barrasso

John Barrasso

Senator John Barrasso was sworn in to the United States Senate in 2007 having represented the people of Natrona County in the Wyoming State Senate. He was then elected to the United States Senate on November 4, 2008. Senator Barrasso has a long and recognized career in both medicine and public service. During 24 years as an orthopedic surgeon in Casper, Senator Barrasso served as President of the Wyoming Medical Society and was named Wyoming Physician of the Year. He also served as medical director of the Wyoming Health Fairs. Senator Barrasso serves on the Republican leadership team as the Chairman of the Senate Republican PolicyCommittee, as well as Chairman of the Senate Western Caucus. Additionally, he serves on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee, the Indian Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He and his wife, Bobbi, live in Casper, Wyoming with their three children.

Head of Policy Planning, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Fabrice Pothier

Fabrice Pothier

The recent discovery of new energy sources in North America and elsewhere could re-define the debate about energy independence. Traditionally oil-rich countries like Russia and Saudi Arabia could find themselves with significantly less economic and geopolitical leverage. Yet the prospect of true energy independence for the Western world also raises new questions about global interconnectedness and engagement: would the West be tempted to turn inwards and become more isolationist?

19:30-21:30

Dinner Sessions

Criminal Networking, Global Threats


WITH: Victor Toews, Minister of Public Safety, Public Safety Canada

WITH: Pedro Cateriano, Minister of Defense, Peru

HOSTED BY: Adam Blackwell, Secretary for Multidimensional Security, Organization of American States

 

Diplomacy in the Age of YouTube

WITH: Leonard Lidov, Co-­Founder, President and CEO, Morningside Analytics

WITH: Derrick Ashong, Former Host of The Stream, Ashong Ventures LLC

HOSTED BY: Peter Boehm, Ambassador of Canada to the Federal Republic of Germany

 

Get a Grip: Gaining Control of Loose Weapons and Loose Chemicals


WITH: Lincoln Bloomfield, Jr., Chairman, Stimson Center

WITH: Christian Schmidt, Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Defense, Germany

HOSTED BY: Janice Stein, Director, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

 

Impacting Industry: Technology Transfers and the Costs of International Defense Policy

WITH: Stéphane Abrial, Former Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, North Atlantic Treaty Organization

WITH: Mike Greenley, Chair, Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries

HOSTED BY: Bruce Weinrod, Senior Advisor, Global Impact, Inc.

 

India: How Involved in the World?


WITH: Neelam Deo, Director, Gateway House, Indian Council on Global Relations

WITH: Premvir Das, Executive Council, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

HOSTED BY: Daniel Kurtz-­Phelan, Senior Fellow, Center for Policy Research, New Delhi, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

 

Just Do It: Middle East Peace

WITH: Shlomo Brom, Senior Research Fellow and Director, Program on Israel-­Palestinian Relations, Institute for National Security Studies

HOSTED BY: Klaus Linsenmeier, Executive Director, Heinrich Böll Foundation North America

 

Learning from Israel

WITH: Jeremy Issacharoff, Deputy Director General for Strategic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel

WITH: Hilary Krieger, Washington Bureau Chief, Jerusalem Post

HOSTED BY: Robin Shepherd, Director, International Affairs, Henry Jackson Society

 

Mexico Matters

WITH: Julian Ventura, Undersecretary for North American Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico

WITH: Ian Brodie, Strategic Advisor, Inter­-American Development Bank

HOSTED BY: Helga Flores Trejo, Principal External Relations Advisor, Inter-­American Development Bank

 

The Natural Gas Revolution and the Future of Global Energy Security

WITH: Sharon Burke, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy Plans and Programs, US Department of Defense

WITH: Gal Luft, Co-Director, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security

HOSTED BY: Robbie Diamond, Founder, President and CEO, Securing America’s Future Energy

 

North Korea’s New Kim: Just Like the Old Kim?

WITH: Nobushige Takamizawa, President, National Institute for Defense Studies

WITH: Russell Trood, Special Envoy of the Prime Minister for Eastern Europe, Australia

HOSTED BY: Michael Auslin, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; and Columnist, Wall Street Journal

 

Pakistan: Pivotal?

WITH: Liam Fox, MP, British Parliament

WITH: Ahmed Rashid, Journalist and Author

HOSTED BY: Joshua Foust, Fellow, American Security Project

 

Responding to Massacre: NATO’s Role

WITH: Dov Zakheim, Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies and Senior Fellow, Center for Naval Analysis

WITH: Blaise Cathcart, Judge Advocate General, Canadian Forces

HOSTED BY: Mike Abramowitz, Director, Committee on Conscience, United States Holocaust Museum

 

The Right and Responsibility to Report the News

WITH: Steve Clemons, Washington Editor-­at-­Large, The Atlantic

WITH: David Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent, New York Times

HOSTED BY: Gideon Rose, Editor, Foreign Affairs

 

Russia, Still

WITH: Vasil Sikharulidze, Chairman, Atlantic Council of Georgia

WITH: Andris Teikmanis, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Latvia

HOSTED BY: David Kramer, President, Freedom House

 

Sanctions: Effective Tool or Old Fashion Delay Tactic?

WITH: Ali Alfoneh, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

HOSTED BY: Roland Paris, University Research Chair in International Security and Governance, University of Ottawa

 

Securing Global Supply Chains

WITH: Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence, Canada

WITH: Said Jawad, CEO, Capitalize LLC

HOSTED BY: Stephen Flynn, Professor and Founding Co-­Director, George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security, Northeastern University

 

Sphinx-­Like: Egypt

WITH: Leslie Campbell, Senior Associate and Regional Director, Middle East and North Africa Programs, National Democratic Institute

WITH: Smadar Perry, Middle East Senior Editor, Yediot Aharonot Daily

HOSTED BY: Matthew Kaminski, Member, Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal

 

Strategic Warfare in Cyberspace

WITH: Pauline Neville-­Jones, Patron to Cyber Security Challenge and Special Government Representative to Business on Cyber Security, House of Lords, United Kingdom

WITH: Eneken Tikk-­Ringas, Senior Fellow for Cyber Security, IISS Middle East Office

HOSTED BY: Rafal Rohozinski, Principal and CEO, The SecDev Group

 

Syria

WITH: Andrew Tabler, Senior Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy

WITH: Lokman Slim, Director, Hayya Bina

HOSTED BY: Suat Kınıklıoglu, Director, Center for Strategic Communications

 

Triple A: Building Confidence in the Arctic, Amazon and the Antarctic

WITH: Guy Thibault, Chairman, Inter-­American Defense Board

WITH: Eirik Øwre Thorshaug, State Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Norway

HOSTED BY: Carsten Søndergaard, Permanent Ambassador of Denmark to NATO

 

Work in Progress: Humanitarian and Development Assistance After Haiti

WITH: Johanna Mendelson Forman, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies

WITH: Antonio Jorge Ramalho da Rocha, Professor of International Relations, University of Brasilia

HOSTED BY: John Glenn, Policy Director, US Global Leadership Coalition

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