Past Events of Academic Year 2016-2017
Fall 2016
“Combating Threats at Home and Abroad”
- Jeh C. Johnson, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security
- September 8, 2016
Small Group Meeting with Dina Powell
- Dina Powell, former President of the Goldman Sachs Foundation
- September 14, 2016
“Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783”
- Michael Green, Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) and Chair in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
- October 4, 2016
Foreign Policy in the 2016 Election Debate
- Moderated by Heather Hurlburt, a senior foreign policy official in the Clinton Administration, and Robert Karem, a foreign policy advisor to the Jeb Bush campaign
- October 18, 2016
Small Group Meeting with Ambassador Hahn Choong-hee
- Ambassador Hahn Choong-hee, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations
- October 19, 2016
“America at a Crossroads: The 2016 Election”
- Ambassador Dave and Kay Phillips Family International Lectureship
- Jim Messina, Deputy Chief of Staff and Campaign Manager to President Barack Obama
- Karl Rove, Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush
- October 25, 2016
“The Future of NATO as a Force for Global Stability: post-Turkish Coup and post-Brexit”
- Admiral James Stavridis, former supreme allied commander of NATO and former commander of the U.S. Southern Command
- November 1, 2016
“City of Man: The Practice of Politics Before, During and After the 2016 Election”
- Peter Wehner, Senior Fellow of Ethics and Public Policy Center, former advisor and deputy director of speech writing for George W. Bush
- November 3, 2016
Spring 2017
“The Grand Strategy Surprises that Await President Trump”
- Colin Kahl, Former National Security Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden
- January 25, 2017
“How President Trump’s Nationalist Foreign Policy Will Affect America”
- Paul D. Miller, Former Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan on the National Security Council
- February 01, 2017
“Where the Pentagon Meets Silicon Valley”
- Christopher Kirchhoff, Former Director for Strategic Planning at the National Security Council and Partner at the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx)
- February 10, 2017
Coffee & Office Hours with William H. Tobey
- William Tobey, Former Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration within the U.S. Department of Energy
- February 14, 2017
“How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything”
- Rosa Brooks, Former Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
- February 23, 2017
Lunch Discussion with Kori Schake
- Kori Schake, research fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of “Warriors and Citizens: American Views of Our Military”
- February 24, 2017
“Economic Tools & American Foreign Policy in a Time of Change”
- David McCormick, co-CEO of Bridgewater Associates LP and former Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
- March 8, 2017
“Cyberpowers in the New World Disorder”
- Jared Cohen, President of Jigsaw, Formerly Google Ideas
- March 21, 2017
Small Group Meeting with Charlie Hill
- Charlie Hill, Professor at Yale University
- March 21, 2017
“Challenges and Opportunities for the U.S. Military in the Caribbean, Central, and South America”
- Admiral Kurt W. Tidd, Commander of U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM)
- March 27, 2017
Careers in Foreign Policy and National Security- the Annual AGS Alumni Career Panel
- Tyler Duke (MPP’16), Olivia Wasteneys (T’14), and Ella Lipin (T’10)
- April 4, 2017
“Deterrence and Dissuasion in Cyberspace: China, Russia, and the U.S.”
- Dr. Joseph S. Nye Jr, former Dean, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
- April 7, 2017
“Staying Ahead of the Curve: Securing a Nation Amid Change”
- General (Ret.) Keith Alexander, former director of USCYBERCOM and the National Security Agency
- April 21, 2017
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