Halifax International Security Forum uses video to introduce each plenary panel. These short visual essays use a combination of moving images, still images, and popular music to convey appropriate urgency. The videos, together with the written opinion essays and the panel titles themselves, enhance the topics and create an atmosphere that is conducive to constructive and honest conversations that embrace new ideas and inspire action.
Writing for @ForeignAffairs, @Jim_Dobbins highlights the importance of preparing post-conflict stabilization plans to follow when #Maduro’s regime topples in #Venezuela, but reports there is no sign that the #US has started to do so. ow.ly/SE5650uLO7S
10 hours agoIn upcoming Jerusalem summit, #Russia will be the focus as the #US and #Israel hope to persuade President Putin to help in reducing #Iran’s influence in Syrian Civil War, observes @markmackinnon for @globeandmail ow.ly/qXCG50uLO6g
12 hours agoSusan Rice, national security advisor under Obama, argues that while calling off the strikes on #Iran was the right decision, war may still be imminent. @nytimes ow.ly/zSst50uLO4k
14 hours ago