Articles in US foreign policy
June 1: ACSI China Business Proficiency Series Part 4: Ignorance, Experience & Success in Business
“Ignorance, Experience, & Success in Business will feature Dan Miller, Executive Director of the Institute for Global Enterprise in Indiana & Ting Gootee, Vice President of Investments at Elevate Ventures.
May 30: Lugar Energy Center head Peter Schubert on energy geo-politics
What is thought of as energy geopolitics today has come to encompass much more than physical control over resources to advance state interests. It also refers to the ability to influence or even set world prices for fuels and technologies, and to leverage energy power to achieve a larger political end or ward off interference from other states and nongovernmental bodies. Energy geopolitics can still mean expanding one state’s power and security at the expense of another’s in a zero-sum game, but it also can involve human rights or humanitarian intervention.
May 16: Beyond Afghanistan and Iraq: The critical role of Contractors in International Peace Operations
Doug Brooks is a specialist on private sector capabilities and African security issues and has written extensively on the regulation and constructive utilization of the private sector for international peacekeeping and humanitarian missions.
April 24: Veteran journalist and diplomat Liz Colton on “Diplomacy, Global Politics and the Media”
Liz Colton has been one of the US’s most experienced diplomats, with senior diplomatic posts in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iraq, Sudan and Bahrain. Colton also boasts considerable expertise as a journalist: She worked as Middle East correspondent for Newsweek, the Cairo office of which she managed. She has reported for a number of major US news agencies, including ABC, NBC and National Public Radio
April 18: Milind Thakar on promotion of democracy
Milind Thakar speaks to the Mid-North Shepherds Center Great Decisions series. Should the US be promoting democracy as part of its foreign policy?
April 17: “Iraq 20 Years After: Missing the Arab Spring”
A talk by Raed Jarrar, an Iraq-born architect, blogger, and political advocate based in DC. Since 2003, Mr. Jarrar has worked closely in building bilateral relationships between the United States and Iraq. He founded a USAID-funded organization that implemented hundreds of reconstruction projects around Iraq and worked with Iraqi leaders representing the full range of factions in the Iraqi political spectrum, facilitating discussions and meetings between Iraqi officials and their US and international counterparts.
April 11: Doug Wissing on the US withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan
Indiana global journalist Doug Wissing speaks to the North United Methodist Church to kick off its Great Decisions series. Wissing is author of a forthcoming book about how the US lost the war in Afghanistan, Funding the Enemy: How U.S. Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban.
March 28: African trends and prospects — looking ahead in 2012
Dr. Stephen A. Emerson is an African-affairs specialist with over twenty-five years of experience working on African political and security issues.
March 21: Patricia DeGennaro on “Iran — Where do we go from here?”
Patricia (Tricia) DeGannaro is an international security specialist, geopolitical risk analyst, and expert media commentator.
March 20: Art Mob to Mark Anniversary of War
An action to mark the anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and memorialize all victims of war; soldiers and civilians alike. Featuring a temporary gallery outside the City Market with the nationally touring art exhibit,
