FP and Security Policy

Nicholas Burns, Director of the Belfer Center's Future of Diplomacy Project, talks with Indian Diplomat Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Indian Ambassador to the United States 

Conversations in Diplomacy: S. Jaishankar — April 17, 2014

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Policy Amidst Regional Instability: A Conversation with Prince Turki Al Faisal of Saudi Arabia

Middle East Initiative Speaker Series
Malkin Penthouse
November 18, 2014, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

A public address by His Royal Highness Prince Turki Al Faisal of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, former Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United States.

Moderated by Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at Harvard Kennedy School.

About HRH Prince Turki Al-Faisal:

Prince Turki was Director General of the General Intelligence Directorate (GID), Saudi Arabia's main foreign intelligence service, from 1977 until 2001.  In 2002 he was appointed as the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, a position he served until 2005, when he was appointed as Ambassador to the United States. He retired in February 2007.

A Founder and Trustee of the King Faisal Foundation, Prince Turki is also the Chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies.  In addition, he is a Trustee of the Oxford Islamic Center at The University of Oxford and the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University, as well as being a Commissioner at the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. Prince Turki received an honorary PhD in Law from the University of Ulster in 2010 and has been a visiting Distinguished Professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

Prince Turki Al Faisal on Saudi Arabia's Foreign Policy

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With the 2008 U.S.-India nuclear deal, India obtained a unique exemption from the Nuclear Suppliers Group ban on nuclear trade with states outside of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.&nbsp; Please join us for a view from New Delhi on India&rsquo;s nuclear priorities and challenges on January 24th from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. as the Proliferation Prevention Program welcomes Dr. (Read more at https://csis.org/events/indias-nuclear-challenges)

India's Nuclear Challenges

Professor Nicholas Burns speaks with Ambassadors Daniel Feldman, Marc Grossman, and Richard Olson, all former U.S. Special Representatives to Afghanistan and Pakistan, about U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.

Conversations in Diplomacy: Special Representatives to Afghanistan and Pakistan — April 24, 2017

Nicholas Burns sits down with former Secretary of Commerce, and Future of Diplomacy Project Klein Fellow, Penny Pritzker for a conversation in diplomacy.

Conversations in Diplomacy

Conversations in Diplomacy: Penny Pritzker — October 25, 2017

Jacqueline Hazelton challenges the conventional wisdeom that states must make liberalizing reforms and win the population’s “hearts and minds” to defeat insurgencies.

See the interview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H68NHhpMf98

Read the article here: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00283

The "Hearts and Minds" Fallacy — Jacqueline Hazelton on International Security Author Chats

This episode examines China’s role in the World Health Organization (WHO), and how its relationship with the organization has changed over time. Our guest, Dr. Jeremy Youde, discusses how China has influenced how the WHO responds to global health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Youde also explores the challenges WHO leadership faces when balancing public health concerns with sensitive geopolitical issues, best illustrated by China’s opposition to Taiwan’s inclusion in the organization. 

Dr. Jeremy Youde is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He is a member of the editorial board of Global Health Governance and is the current chair of the Global Health Section of the International Studies Association. Previously, Dr. Youde was an associate professor in the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University.

Examining China's Influence in the World Health Organization: A Conversation with Jeremy Youde

In this episode, the Trade Guys and Andrew kick off the episode with more good news. They also discuss updates on EU export restrictions and a recent executive order allowing deferrals on some tariff payments.
 (Read more at https://csis.org/podcasts/trade-guys/tariff-man-gonna-tariff-man)

Tariff Man Gonna Tariff Man

In this episode, the Trade Guys and Andrew welcome Joseph Glauber, a Senior Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, DC.&nbsp; They discuss the motivations behind the latest export restrictions by some countries, and the latest news on meat processing plants.
 (Read more at https://csis.org/podcasts/trade-guys/meat-situation)

The Meat Situation

In this episode of Russian Roulette, Jeff sits down with Stephen Blank, Michael Petersen, and Samuel Bendett to discuss the Russian military's developing operational concepts and capabilities, and what they mean for the United States and its Allies. Steve, Mike, and Sam contributed chapters to the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program's recent report "Improvisation and Adaptability in the Russian Military." (Read more at https://csis.org/podcasts/russian-roulette/improvisation-and-adaptability-russian-military-part-i-russian-roulette)

Of Improvisation and Adaptability in the Russian Military, Part I - Russian Roulette Episode 102

This episode explores China’s efforts to integrate its military and civilian sectors to support its military development and broader national security agenda. Our guest, Mr. Greg Levesque, discusses how Military-Civil Fusion (MCF) fits into China’s grand strategy and evaluates how effectively it has implemented the program to date. Mr. Levesque also weighs the risks and rewards of MCF in Beijing’s strategic calculus, and offers a path for how the US and its allies can respond to the growing nexus between military and civil development in China.
 
Greg Levesque is co-founder and CEO of Strider, a technology company enabling organizations to combat intellectual property theft and supply chain vulnerabilities outside of the cyber domain. Greg has advised and supported Fortune 500 companies as well as US and European government agencies on matters of economic statecraft, particularly around China.

Xi Jinping's Military-Civil Fusion Project: A Conversation with Greg Levesque

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Online Event: Humanitarian Operations During Covid-19: A Conversation with Peter Maurer of the ICRC

This episode unpacks China’s push to develop a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Our guest, Dr. Kevin Desouza, explains Beijing's motives and compares China’s plans for creating its own national digital currency with those of other countries that have undertaken similar initiatives. Dr. Desouza explores how a national digital currency can be used to bolster China’s finance and technology sectors, as well as its economy as a whole. He also offers his views on what China’s timeline might be for rolling out its own CBDC, particularly in light of the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Dr. Kevin Desouza is a professor of Business, Technology and Strategy in the School of Management at the Queensland University of Technology Business School. Dr. Desouza is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the China Institute for Urban Governance at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has held tenured faculty appointments at the University of Washington, Virginia Tech, and Arizona State University.

India's Nuclear Challenges

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