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SUMMARY:Crisis in U.S. Immigration Policy: Headache along the U.S. - Mexican Border with Lawrence Cohen
DESCRIPTION:For video replay\, click HERE \nMr.Cohen will describe current US immigration policy\, examination the roots of the crisis on our southern border\, and raise questions about the current\, unsustainable situation. \nLawrence Cohen is a retired diplomat with the U.S. Department of State. During his Foreign Service career\, Mr. Cohen served in Mexico\, Honduras\, India\, Hungary\, Nigeria\, Brazil\, and Afghanistan. His Washington\, D.C.\, assignments included stints in the Office of Environmental Policy working on bilateral U.S.-Mexico and NAFTA issues\, and as State Department Desk Officer to the Inter-American Development Bank. Mr. Cohen has also served on short-term Foreign Service assignments in Erbil\, Iraqi Kurdistan Region; Tunis; Jeddah; and Kuwait. \nMr. Cohen created the Foreign Service Institute’s Afghanistan pre-deployment training program\, facilitated Afghan training for USAID personnel\, and developed diplomatic tradecraft training for the South Sudanese Foreign Ministry in Juba. Mr. Cohen served as the Retiree Vice President on the Governing Board of the American Foreign Service Association (2013-15). He delivered a presentation on Afghanistan to the Reading World Affairs Council in September 2008. \nMr. Cohen earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in history and Mideast Studies from Dickinson College and his Masters of Arts degree in International Relations\, specializing in Middle East Affairs from the University of Chicago. He resides in Schwenksville\, Montgomery County. \nTo Register:\nCall (610) 375-7880 or email contactus@wacreading.org \nCost to attend:\nMembers $23\nNon-Members $30\nWithout Meal $10\nAmbassadors Included
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/united-states-immigration-policy-with-lawrence-cohen/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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SUMMARY:Kurdistan: An Island of Stability in a Turbulent Middle East with Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman
DESCRIPTION:For video playback Part 1\, click HERE\nFor video playback Part 2\, click HERE \nBayan Sami Abdul Rahman is the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Representative to the United States of America. \nKey to her role are strengthening ties between Kurdistan and the United States\, advocating her government’s position on a wide array of political\, security\, humanitarian\, economic\, and cultural matters and promoting coordination and partnership. Prior to her US appointment in 2015\, Ms. Abdul Rahman was the High Representative to the United Kingdom. She was elected to the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 2010. \nBefore her career in public service\, Ms. Abdul Rahman worked as a journalist for 17 years. She began her career on local newspapers in London and won the Observer Newspaper’s Farzad Bazoft Memorial Prize in 1993\, which led her to work at The Observer and later at the Financial Times. She worked for the FT in Britain and in Japan\, where she was Tokyo Correspondent. \nHer late father\, Sami Abdul Rahman\, was a veteran of the Kurdish freedom movement\, joining the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1963 and playing a critical leadership role in the Kurdish and Iraqi opposition to Saddam Hussein’s regime. He held the post of Deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government and General Secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). Sami Abdul Rahman was killed alongside his elder son Salah and 96 others in a twin suicide bombing in 2004. \nMs. Abdul Rahman was born in Baghdad. Her family briefly lived in Iran in the mid-1970s before moving to Britain in 1976. She is a history graduate from London University. \nTo Register:\nCall (610) 375-7880 or email contactus@wacreading.org \n\n\nCost to attend:\nMembers $23\nNon-Members $30\nWithout Meal $10\nAmbassadors Included
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/kurdistan-with-bayan-sami-abdul-rahman/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190612T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190612T133000
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SUMMARY:Terror Finance: The War Behind the War on Terror with John Cassara
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by: Hillcrest Racquet Club \nJohn Cassara began his 26 year government career as an intelligence officer during the Cold War. He later served as a Treasury Special Agent in both the U.S. Secret Service and US Customs Service where he investigated money laundering\, trade fraud and international smuggling. He was an undercover arms dealer for two years. Assigned overseas\, he developed expertise in Middle East money laundering\, value transfer and underground financial systems. Mr. Cassara pioneered the concept of trade transparency units (TTUs) and has worked to demonstrate the link between trade fraud and underground financial systems. He also worked six years for Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and was later detailed to the Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. Mr. Cassara’s final assignment was with Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI). Since his retirement\, he has consulted for both government and industry. He has lectured in the United States and around the world on a variety transnational crime issues. Mr. Cassara testified four times before Congressional committees on various topics related to threat finance. Mr. Cassara has authored or co-authored several studies\, articles and books\, including Hide and Seek\, Intelligence\, Law Enforcement and the Stalled War on Terrorist Finance\, On the Trail of Terror Finance – What Intelligence and Law Enforcement Officers Need to Know\, Demons of Gadara\, and Trade-Based Money Laundering: The Next Frontier in International Money Laundering Enforcement. More information can be found at www.JohnCassara.com   \n\nTo Register: Call (610) 375-7880 or email contactus@wacreading.org Cost to attend: Members $23 Non-Members $30 Without Meal $10 Ambassadors Included
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/terror-finance-the-war-behind-the-war-on-terror-with-john-cassara/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190530T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190530T140000
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SUMMARY:The Transatlantic Relationship in an Era of Great Power Competition with Consul General David Gill of Germany
DESCRIPTION:For video playback of this event\, click HERE \nYour World Affairs Council of Greater Reading is excited and proud to have been selected by The World Affairs Councils of America as one of the top World Affairs Councils in the U.S. to take part in Wunderbar Together: The Year of German-American Friendship. This comprehensive and collaborative initiative is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office and supported by the Federation of German Industries. The goal is to create a positive understanding of the strong economic\, social and political ties the United States shares with Germany. \nWe are therefore extremely pleased to have the opportunity to host Mr. David Gill\, the German Consul General from the German Mission in New York City\, who will discuss the positive ties between our two countries.  Mr. Gill is responsible for consular and legal assistance for U.S. and German citizens within Pennsylvania\, New York\, New Jersey\, Connecticut and Bermuda. As he states in his Mission write-up: his role is to explain Germany\, understand America and foster successful discussions and exchange of ideas. \n \nThis event is Open to the Public \nDoors open at 11:30 AM\nRSVP required by May 28th: Call 610-375-7880 or Email contactus@wacreading.org\nCost: $20.00\, non-eating attendees – $10.00\, students – free. \nConsul General David Gill\, German Consulate General New York   Born in 1966\, Gill grew up in a protestant minister’s family in Herrnhut\, Saxony\, in former East Germany. He was denied a higher education by the communist regime for political reasons. Instead\, he trained and worked as a plumber before joining a preparatory protestant school and later the theological seminary of the Protestant Church in Berlin-Brandenburg. In 1990\, he initially was the chairman of Normannenstrasse Citizens’ Committee which oversaw the dissolution of the Ministry of State Security at the Stasi headquarters and served as the secretary of the Special Committee for the dissolution of the Stasi of the East German Parliament. After reunification\, Gill became spokesman and head of the research division of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi-Files before studying law in Berlin and Philadelphia. After holding positions in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and at the Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information in Berlin\, he served as the Deputy Representative of the Council of the Protestant Church in Germany to the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Union. During Federal President Joachim Gauck’s term from 2012-2017\, he was state secretary and chief of staff of the President. Since August 2017\, he has been the German Consul General in New York.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/the-transatlantic-relationship-in-an-era-of-great-power-competition-with-consul-general-david-gill-of-germany/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190508T120000
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SUMMARY:Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe with Sheri Berman
DESCRIPTION:For video replay\, click HERE \nSheri Berman is a professor of political science at Barnard College\, Columbia University. Her research interests include the development of democracy and dictatorship\, European politics\, populism and fascism\, and the history of the left. She is author of books on European social democracy and the fate of democracy during the interwar years\, social democracy and fascism in 19th and 20th century Europe and her latest book\, Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. In addition to her scholarly work\, she has published in a wide variety of non-scholarly publications including the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, Foreign Affairs\, Foreign Policy\, VOX\, The Guardian and Dissent. In her spare time she runs\, cycles and helps run an animal rescue organization in Brooklyn\, New York. \nTo Register:\nCall (610) 375-7880 or email contactus@wacreading.org \n\n\nCost to attend:\nMembers $23\nNon-Members $30\nWithout Meal $10\nAmbassadors Included
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/populism-in-the-west-with-sheri-berman/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190417T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190417T133000
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SUMMARY:BREXIT  with Dr. Randall Newnham
DESCRIPTION:For video replay of the lecture\, click HERE\nFor video replay of the Q&A\, click HERE \nDr. Randall Newnham\, Professor of Political Science\, Penn State Berks \nAt the end of March\, after two years of negotiation and confusion\, the United Kingdom is scheduled to leave the European Union. What will happen? Will this deadline be met? Or will the UK and EU postpone it\, prolonging the uncertainty? Will there be a ‘No-Deal Exit\,’ with potentially disastrous consequences? A so-called ‘Soft Exit\,’ leaving Britain still partly tied to the EU? Or could Brexit be cancelled entirely\, with a ‘Breturn?’ In any case\, the looming deadline is already having a serious impact on Britain and its partners. This talk will explore many questions\, although answers may be more difficult to find. \nDr. Newnham received his BA from Penn State University and his MA and PhD from UCLA. He has taught since 1995 at the Berks College of Penn State. He teaches courses in several subfields of Political Science\, including International Relations\, Comparative Politics\, and American Government. His research interests center on the role of economic linkage (sanctions and incentives) in International Relations. He has published 25 refereed articles\, in journals such as International Studies Quarterly\, German Studies Review\, International Politics and International Studies Review. His book “Deutsche Mark Diplomacy” focuses on the role of German economic influence in shaping its ties to Russia and Poland. \nTo Register:\nCall (610) 375-7880 or email contactus@wacreading.org \n\n\nCost to attend:\nMembers $23\nNon-Members $30\nWithout Meal $10\nAmbassadors Included \n\n\n 
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/brexit-with-dr-randall-newnham/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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SUMMARY:Israel: Prospects for Conflict Resolution with Dr. Eran Lerman
DESCRIPTION:Colonel (res.) Eran Lerman Ph.D.\nIsrael: A Study in Conflict Resolution\nFor video replay of this lecture\, click HERE.\nFor video replay of the Q&A session\, click HERE \nDr. Lerman is Vice President of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies. Previously\, Dr. Lerman was deputy director for foreign policy and international affairs at the National Security Council in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office. He held senior posts in IDF Military Intelligence for over 20 years. He also served for eight years as director of the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIViJ5sU2Qk&t=21sIsrael and Middle East office of the American Jewish Committee. He teaches in the Middle East studies program at Shalem College in Jerusalem\, and in post-graduate programs at Tel Aviv University and the National Defense College. He is an expert on Israel’s foreign relations\, and on the Middle East. A third-generation Sabra\, he holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics\, and a mid-career MPA from Harvard University. His recent publications include The Mediterranean as a Strategic Environment: Learning a New Geopolitical Language and The Game of Camps: Ideological Fault Lines in the Wreckage of the Arab State System. \nTo Register:\nCall (610) 375-7880 or email contactus@wacreading.org \n\n\nCost to attend:\nMembers $23\nNon-Members $30\nWithout Meal $10\nAmbassadors Included \n\n\n 
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/israel-prospects-for-conflict-resolution/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190213T120000
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SUMMARY:Cuba At A Crossroads:  Family\, Revolution & the United States\, 1959-2018 with Dr. Robert Portada
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored Anonymously Dr. Robert Portada is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. He teaches courses in comparative politics and international relations. He has expertise in a variety of political science subfields\, including international relations theory\, modernization theory\, democratization theory\, revolutionary theory\, and security studies. His area of regional specialization is Latin American and the Caribbean\, and he has expanded his regional studies to include East Africa\, North Africa\, and the Middle East. He is author of a chapter entitled “Indirect Confrontation: The Evolution of the Political Strategy of the Cuban Catholic Church in Handbook of Contemporary Cuba: Economy\, Politics\, Civil Society\, and Globalization\, published by Paradign Publishers in 2013. Dr. Portada has also published research in the Journal of Third World Studies analyzing the role of private security companies in the process of security sector reform in South Sudan. Dr. Portada continued researching private security companies in South Sudan in 2017 and 2018. His areas of Expertise include: \n\nComparative politics and political modernization\nInternational relations theory\nAmerican foreign policy\nPolitics of Latin America and the Caribbean\nCuban politics\, religion\, and society\nDemocratization theory\nMarxism and revolutionary theory\nInternational security studies\nComparative methodology.\n\nHe received his B.A. from Hunter College\, CUNY; M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. To  \nTo Register:Call (610) 375-7880 or email contactus@wacreading.org \n\n\nCost to attend:Members $23Non-Members $30Without Meal $10Ambassadors Included \n\n\n 
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/cuba-u-s-relations-with-robert-portada/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190109T120000
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SUMMARY:Entrepreneurship in an Accelerating Global Technology Market with John Weidenhammer
DESCRIPTION:Entrepreneurship in an Accelerating Global Technology Market\nJohn Weidenhammer\nFOR VIDEO PLAYBACK\, CLICK HERE \nSponsored by: ComcastFounder and President. An IT Solutions Integrator and diversified provider of information technology related services and products. Weidenhammer Systems has three primary lines of business: 1) provides administrative application software to primary and secondary public education; 2) develops custom application software and IT consulting; 3) provides and manages computing infrastructure. The business takes a proactive\, strategic approach to assisting clients and seeks to help create competitive advantage via the innovative use of information. Clients range in size from Fortune 500 to emerging\, new businesses including K-12\, public and private sector organizations. Business activities include strategic consulting\, software development\, application software products\, systems integration and technology outsourcing. Technologies related to the Cloud Computing and e-Business are a company focus. Weidenhammer has received awards for innovations in wireless\, mobile computing and software achievement including being recently recognized as the MVP of Cloud Computing Sales by Ingram Micro. The company this year joined the prestegious VAR500 list of the largest 500 firms in the US providing IT solutions. The firm is headquartered in Wyomissing\, PA and employs 200 professionals. Clients are located nationwide and the firm has branch offices in Wayne\, Lancaster and Bethlehem\, PA; Kalamzzoo\, MI; Denver CO and Mesa\, AZ. Weidenhammer can be found on the web at www.hammer.net Graduate of Reading High School\, and Lehigh University with a BS in Industrial Engineering. Project Leader for Carpenter Technology 1969-1874. Consultant for Ernst & Young 1974-1978. \nTo Register: Call (610) 375-7880 or email contactus@wacreading.org Cost to attend: Members $23 Non-Members $30 Without Meal $10 Ambassadors Included
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/entrepreneurship-in-an-accelerating-global-technology-market/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181212T120000
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SUMMARY:Q&A with Ambassador Rick Barton
DESCRIPTION:For video replay\, click HERE \n\nAmbassador Frederick (“Rick”) Barton \nPeace Works Q&A \n\nSponsored  \nby Weik Capital Management \nAMBASSADOR RICK BARTON teaches at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University\, where he serves as a co-director of Princeton’s Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative and Ullman Fellowships. His 2018 book\, Peace Works: America’s Unifying Role in a Turbulent World\, uses a mix of stories\, history\, and analysis to offer an affirmative approach to foreign affairs through concrete and attainable solutions. Barton started USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives\, and was America’s ambassador to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations in New York\, the UN’s Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva and the first Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stabilization Operations. He led conflict management initiatives in over 40 crisis zones across the globe\, from Haiti\, Iraq\, Nigeria\, Burma\, Pakistan to Turkey. Published in The New York Times\, the Washington Post\, Politico\, The Boston Globe\, and numerous other international outlets\, Barton is a guest on news shows ranging from NPR to all of the major networks. He resides in Washington\, D.C. with his wife of 43 years\, Kit Lunney.   \n\nTo Register: Call (610) 375-7880 or email contactus@wacreading.org Cost to attend: Members $23 Non-Members $30 Without Meal $10 Ambassadors Included\n\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n\n 
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/qa-with-ambassador-rick-barton/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181114T133000
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SUMMARY:Syria: Why it Matters\, What Can Be Done. Ambassador Fred Hof
DESCRIPTION:For Video replay\, click HERE\nAmbassador Fred Hof\nSyria: Why it Matters\, What Can Be Done\nSponsored by: Diversity\, Inclusion\, Global Committee of the Y \nFrederic C. Hof has been a soldier\, diplomat\, CEO\, author\, and the Director of the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East.  He is currently on the faculty of Bard College and is a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Hariri Center. A native of New York\, Ambassador Hof received a BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and an MA in National Security Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School.  He studied Arabic in Tunisia and\, as a US Army officer\, served overseas in Vietnam and Lebanon.  He concluded his military service in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.  In the private sector he would become CEO of AALC Ltd.\, an international business consulting firm\, and would later establish a Syria practice at the Atlantic Council’s Hariri Center\, before becoming the Center’s Director in 2016. Ambassador Hof has written extensively on Middle Eastern political and security issues.  His published works have focused on Arab-Israeli boundary and water disputes and the Syrian crisis.  He served on the Department of Defense commission that investigated the 1983 bombing of the US Marine Corps barracks in Beirut\, drafting portions of the final report.  He was chief of staff of the 2000-2001 Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee (investigating the October 2000 Palestinian intifada) and principal drafter of the report submitted by former US Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell to President Bush and Secretary of State Powell.  He received the rank of ambassador in 2012 while serving as advisor to the Secretary of State on political transition in Syria. Ambassador Hof’s diplomatic mediation work has dealt with Jordanian-Israeli water issues\, Israeli-Syrian peace\, Lebanese-Israeli natural gas and exclusive economic zone disputes\, and Palestinian-Israeli security matters.  Among his military and civilian decorations is the Purple Heart.  He and his wife\, Brenda\, reside in Silver Spring\, MD\, and Kerhonkson\, NY.   To Register: Call (610) 375-7880 or email contactus@wacreading.org Cost to attend: Members $23 Non-Members $30 Without Meal $10 Ambassadors Included
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/syria-why-it-matters-what-can-be-done/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181010T120000
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SUMMARY:Nuclear Negotiations with North Korea: Moving Beyond Summit Diplomacy with Jenny Town
DESCRIPTION:Nuclear Negotiations with North Korea: Moving Beyond Summit Diplomacy\nJenny Town\nSponsored by: Suh \nSudhir Dalal\, CPA \nFor video recording\,\, click HERE \nEducation:\nMaster of International Affairs from Columbia University; BA in East Asian Studies and International Relations from Westmar University \nBackground:\nJenny Town is a Research Analyst at The Henry L. Stimson Center and the Managing Editor and Producer of “38 North\,” a web journal that provides policy and technical analysis on North Korea. She is the former Assistant Director of the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies where she focused on North Korea\, US-DPRK relations\, US-ROK alliance\, and Northeast Asia regional security. She is an expert reviewer for Freedom House’s Freedom in the World Index\, where she previously worked on the Human Rights in North Korea Project. She is an Associate Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at SAIS\, a Member of the National Committee on North Korea\, an Associate Member of the Council of Korean Americans and a Senior Fellow for Korea Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council. She serves on the Editorial Board for Inkstick\, an online foreign policy journal for emerging scholars. \n  \nTo Register:\nCall (610) 375-7880 or email contactus@wacreading.org \nCost to attend:\nMembers $23\nNon-Members $30\nWithout Meal $10\nAmbassadors Included
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/jenny-town/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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SUMMARY:Strategic Security Issues for the 21st Century with Nicholas Eftimaides
DESCRIPTION:For video playback\, click HERE \nSponsored by: Sam and Rosie DeWald\nNicholas Eftimiades recently retired from the US Department of Defense. His 34 year government career includes employment in CIA as a Technical Operations Officer\, Special Agent in the US Department of State\, Bureau of Diplomatic Security\, and a Senior Intelligence Officer in Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Mr. Eftimiades held positions in analysis\, human and technical intelligence collection\, and program management. He had overseas assignments in Vienna\, Frankfurt\, Moscow\, London\, and Tokyo. His long career in DIA includes senior assignments as the Chief of Counterterrorism Operations\, Transnational Issues Division\, Futures Division\, and Space Division. He has been awarded the National Intelligence Council Achievement Award and DIA Director’s Intelligence Award – that agency’s highest recognition of achievement. He distinguished himself numerous times in the senior ranks of the intelligence and defense communities. As a subject matter expert Nick was called upon to provide Congressional testimony and briefings to the Cox Commission\, the Joint Economic Committee\, President’s Commission on the Moon\, Mars\, and Beyond\, and individual meetings with Congressional Members and staff. \nMr. Eftimiades was also a Senior Research Fellow at King’s College War Studies Department\, London UK. He has an M.S. Strategic Intelligence\, National Defense Intelligence College; and a B.A. East Asian Studies\, George Washington University. Mr. Eftimiades has authored books and number of scholarly articles on national security\, technology\, and space issues. Nick’s book “Chinese Intelligence Operations\,” is an examination of the structure\, operations\, and methodology of the intelligence services of the People’s Republic of China. To date\, it remains the only scholarly analysis of China’s intelligence services and operational methodology. \nNick is a frequent lecturer and public speaker on future technology\, space\, and national security issues. He has appeared as an expert on CBS Evening News\, Dateline NBC\, ABC’s Day One\, BBC\, BBC America\, National Public Radio\, and dozens of other television and radio broadcasts. He has been quoted in hundreds of newspapers and magazines across the world. \nExpertise: Intelligence Operations\, Terrorist Operations\, National Security Space\, Diplomacy\, Asia Security issues \n  \nTo Register:\nCall (610) 375-7880 or email contactus@wacreading.org \nCost to attend:\nMembers $23\nNon-Members $30\nWithout Meal $10\nAmbassadors Included
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/nicholas-eftimaides/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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SUMMARY:Bonnie Rohde
DESCRIPTION:Tariffs\, Trade\, and Tribuations\nBonnie is an Instructor of Business at Albright College \nD.B.A.: Wilmington University (in progress)\nM.B.A.: Saint Joseph’s University (international business)\nB.S.: Albright College (computer science and marketing)\nA.S.: Lincoln Technical Institute (electronics technology) \nData Science Certification Johns Hopkins University through Coursera\, 2015 \nMasters Certificate – Project Management\, Stevens Institute of Technology & Lucent Technologies School of Business\, 1998 \nCertified in Total Quality Management as a Trainer\, Facilitator\, Team Leader\, and Team Member\, AT&T School of Business and Technology\, 1987
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/bonnie-rohde/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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SUMMARY:Dr. Tara O
DESCRIPTION:North Korea\nFor video replay Part 1: click HERE \nFor video replay Part 2: click HERE \nDr. Tara O is an Adjunct Fellow at the Pacific Forum CSIS. She is the author of The Collapse of North Korea: Challenges\, Planning\, and Geopolitics of Unification. She serves on the board of directors of the International Council on Korean Studies and was the editor-in-chief of its journal International Journal of Korean Studies (IJKS). A retired Air Force officer\, she worked on national security\, intelligence\, alliance\, and political-military issues at the Pentagon\, the United Nations Command/Combined Forces Command/U.S. Forces Korea\, and the U.S. European Command\, as well as intelligence agencies. She also worked counterterrorism\, counterproliferation\, and satellite issues. She worked in a variety of capacities\, including analysis\, liaison\, and leadership. \nAs a professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy\, she taught strategy and military operations. She was a faculty researcher at the Institute of National Security Studies. Her research areas include the Korean contingency and unification\, U.S. alliance relationships in Asia\, human rights in North Korea\, and the social integration of North Korean defectors. \nPrior to the military\, she also worked in the public\, private\, and non-profit sectors\, including the U.S. Agency for International Development in Nairobi\, Kenya\, working on drought assessment and food aid; the Asia Foundation in Bangkok\, Thailand and Vientiane\, Laos\, assisting the Laos Central Bank as it transitioned from a centrally-planned to a market-oriented economy; Bank of America\, managing syndicated loans to Latin America; the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica\, California\, assessing potential global flash points; and the United Nations Association of the USA in New York\,analyzing international economic institutions. \nShe holds a BA in International Relations from the University of California at Davis\, an MPA in Public Policy and International Affairs from Princeton University\, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Texas at Austin.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/dr-tara-o/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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SUMMARY:Thomas Wright
DESCRIPTION:The Contest for the 21st Century and the Future of American Power\nFor video replay Part 1\, click HERE\nFor video replay Part 2\, click HERE \nThomas Wright the director of the Center on the United States and Europe and a fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution. He is also a nonresident fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. Previously\, he was executive director of studies at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs\, a lecturer at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago\, and senior researcher for the Princeton Project on National Security. \nWright works on U.S. foreign policy and grand strategy\, Donald Trump’s worldview\, the future of Europe\, and Asian security. His book “All Measures Short of War: The Contest For the 21st Century and Future of American Power” was published by Yale University Press in 2017. \nWright has a doctorate from Georgetown University\, a Master of Philosophy from Cambridge University\, and a bachelor’s and master’s from University College Dublin. He has also held a pre-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a post doctoral fellowship at Princeton University. Wright’s writings have appeared in the American Political Science Review\, Orbis\, Survival\, The Washington Quarterly\, Financial Times\, International Herald Tribune\, and The Washington Post\, as well as a number of international newspapers and media outlets. \nWright’s affiliations include the Fulbright Commission\, Ireland\, vice chair and board member International Politics Reviews\, Palgrave Macmillan\, editorial board.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/thomas-wright/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180314T080000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Joseph Braude
DESCRIPTION:Broadcasting Change: Arabic Media as a Catalyst for Change\nSponsor:\nThe Reading Eagle Company\nJoseph Braude\, a Senior Fellow with FPRI’s Program on the Middle East\, is a Middle East scholar and author whose research appears in print and on air\, in Arabic as well as English. He studied in the departments of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale and Near Eastern Studies at Princeton. He developed his Arabic to broadcast quality through years of living and working in the Gulf states and North Africa\, and added fluency in Farsi to his knowledge of Persian literature as a graduate student at the University of Tehran. \nHis first book\, The New Iraq (Basic Books\, 2003)\, examines the challenge of civil society development in the country following the US-led invasion. His second\, The Honored Dead (Random House – Spiegel & Grau\, 2011)\, presents an unprecedented investigation of the inner workings of an Arab security service: Braude was embedded for half a year in an investigative unit of the Moroccan federal police in Casablanca\, where he read case files\, attended interrogations\, and accompanied police on nighttime forays into the shantytown. \nSince July 2010\, Joseph Braude’s weekly program in Arabic\, Risalat New York (Letter from New York)\, has aired nationally on Morocco’s MED Radio. He appears frequently as a commentator on Al-Arabiya and other satellite television networks. He writes a biweekly column in Al-Majalla\, the largest-distribution magazine in the Arabic language\, and contributes regularly to the daily newspaper Asharq Alawsat. In the United States\, he has written for The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, The American Interest\, Foreign Policy\, The Atlantic\, and The New Republic. He provides commentary on public radio programs\, and produces documentaries on current affairs in the Middle East for PRI’s America Abroad. He hosts the English-language podcast Eye on Arabia\, a light-hearted roundup of reporting and analysis from the Arab world. He is also a contributing editor at Tablet. \nJoseph Braude is Advisor at the Al-Mesbar Studies and Research Center in Dubai\, a think tank specializing in Islamist movements across the Middle East and North Africa. In addition to leading seminars and contributing research to its monthly book\, he conducts outreach on behalf of the Center in the United States and elsewhere. \nAs a consulting advisor\, Joseph Braude has assisted non-profit groups\, government\, and private companies in matters related to Middle East policy\, public diplomacy\, security sector reform\, and counterterrorism. He has worked with the United States Agency for International Development\, the US State Department’s Bureau of International Information Programs\, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty\, and Pyramid Research.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/dr-joseph-braude/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180109T190000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Shreeyash Palshikar
DESCRIPTION:For video playback\, click\nHERE \nDangerous Neighborhood: A Historical Background of the India-Pakistan Tensions\nSponsored by Weik Capital Management\nDr. Shreeyash Palshikar is an Assistant Professor of History at Albright College. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Chicago\, where he received a Fulbright fellowship to research in India. He also holds a B.A. from Amherst College\, and did a post-doctoral fellowship at Yale University. Before coming to Albright two years ago\, he served in the intelligence community as a South Asia political analyst. \nDr. Palshikar works on language politics and democracy in South Asia\, with a focus on modern India. He is currently completing a manuscript analyzing how formation of linguistic states relates to the development of India’s democracy with a special focus on the area around Bombay/Mumbai city. He has previously analyzed how vernacular propaganda helped create emotional appeal for an opposition political coalition\, and revealed how a contemporary political party appropriated rhetoric of a 1950s regional-linguistic movement. He teaches courses on World History\, South and East Asian History and the global history of magic
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/dr-shreeyash-palshikar/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171212T190000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Paul Esqueda
DESCRIPTION:For video playback\, click\nHERE \nVenezuela – Derailed Democracy?\nAlso reference the December 18\, 2017 New York Times article\, “Venezuela – Overwhelmed by malenution\, mortality of children.” \nDr. Paul D. Esqueda is the Sr. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Penn State Berks and a Professor of Engineering. His areas of interest are project management\, negotiations\, and operations management. He has a particular interest in developing negotiation case studies. For the last 30 years\, Esqueda has been primarily dedicated to administration in academic institutions. Past positions include Division Head of Engineering\, Business\, and Computing at Penn State Berks; Dean of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Administration (IESA) in Caracas\, Venezuela and President of the Engineering Research Institute also in Caracas. Esqueda served as a consultant for the European Union to review the European Union Latin American Scholarship Program from 2003-2008. He was part of a 20 expert panel (10 from Europe and 10 from Latin America) that met every year in Brussels to audit the program and advise the EU on the development of the program.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/dr-paul-esqueda/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171107T190000
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SUMMARY:Philip J. (P.J.) Crowley
DESCRIPTION:For video playback\, click\nHERE \nRed Line: Foreign Policy in a Time of Fractured Politics and Failing States\nSponsored by Mountain Springs Restaurant and Captains Cove Bar and Lounge\nIn this book\, RedLine -Foreign Policy in a Time of Fractured Politics and Failing States\, former Deputy Secretary of State P. J. Crowley\, one of America’s most insightful national security commentators\, unpacks the legacy of American triumphs and failures in Iraq . He argues that presidents have fallen victim to the Iraq Syndrome—the disconnect between politics\, policy\, strategy\, and narrative—that has hampered America’s foreign policy in the Middle East and hotspots throughout the world. In order to maintain America’s global leadership role\, Crowley argues that the next president must realign American’s national security politics\, policies\, strategies\, and narrative for the long term. \nPhilip J. (P.J.) Crowley is a Professor of Practice and Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication at The George Washington University\, where he currently teaches courses on public diplomacy and crisis communications. P.J. appears frequently as a national security commentator on national and global television networks. His opinion pieces have been published in a wide range of print and on-line outlets\, including The Washington Post\, The Guardian and the BBC. \nHe served as the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and Spokesman for the U.S. Department of State between 2009 and 2011 under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and was the primary U.S. government interlocutor with major media regarding the impact of the release of classified diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks. He resigned from that position after making public comments critical of the government’s pre-trial treatment of Private First Class Bradley/Chelsea Manning. Atlantic Magazine named him as one of 21 Brave Thinkers in 2011. \nAfter leaving the State Department\, P.J. held the 2011-2012 Omar Bradley Chair of Strategic Leadership at the Penn State Dickinson School of Law and School of Public Affairs\, Dickinson College and the Army War College. While there\, he authored The Rise of Transparency and Decline of Secrecy in the Age of Global and Social Media for the Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs. \nBefore joining the Obama administration\, P.J. was a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress\, with a particular focus on homeland security in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. He authored a number of detailed analyses on security issues\, including Safe at Home\, a national security strategy to protect the American homeland\, improve national preparedness and rebuild the U.S. standing in the world. He remains engaged on these issues as a member of the Aspen Institute Homeland Security Group. His most recent analysis in this area is Homeland Security and the Post-9/11 Era\, published by the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy. \nP.J. is a retired Air Force colonel and is a veteran of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 1991. He served on the National Security Council staff at the White House as a special assistant to President Clinton and deputy press secretary. He deployed to NATO Headquarters in Brussels during the 1999 Kosovo crisis to support then NATO Secretary General Javier Solana\, helping to develop a strategic communication capability in support of the NATO campaign.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/philip-j-p-j-crowley/
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CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171010T200000
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SUMMARY:Ron Granieri
DESCRIPTION:For Video playback Part 1\, click\n HERE \nFor Video playback\, Part 2\, click\nHERE \nEurope: Old Continent\, New Challenges-Post Election EU\nSponsored by Sam and Rosie DeWald\nRon Granieri is the Executive Director of Foreign Policy Research Institute’s (FPRI) Center for the Study of America and the West\, Editor of the Center’s E-publication The American Review of Books\, Blogs\, and Bull\, and Host of Geopolitics with Granieri\, a monthly series of events for FPRI Members.  He is a specialist in Contemporary German and International History with degrees from both Harvard and the University of Chicago. He is the recipient of a Federal Chancellor Scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and is a member in the American Council on Germany’s Young Leader Program. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania\, Temple University\, Syracuse University\, Furman University\, and the University of Tubingen. He is the author of The Ambivalent Alliance: Konrad Adenauer\, the CDU/CSU\, and the West\, 1949-1966 (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books\, 2003)\, and is currently completing a book entitled: The Fall and Rise of German Christian Democracy\, From Detente to Reunification\, for Oxford University Press.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/ron-granieri/
LOCATION:PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ambassador Charles Ray
DESCRIPTION:The Need for a Stronger Diplomatic Force – American Diplomacy at Risk\nCharles A. Ray is a retired Foreign Service Officer who served 30 years in the US Foreign Service\, and before that\, 20 years in the US Army. During his army service\, including two tours in Vietnam\, he served in Military Intelligence\, Special Operations\, and Public Affairs\, with tours of duty in Germany\, Korea\, Vietnam\, and Panama\, as well as posts throughout the U.S.\, and retired in 1982 with the rank of Major. \nDuring 30 years in the Foreign Service\, he was posted to China\, Thailand\, Sierra Leone\, Vietnam\, Cambodia\, and Zimbabwe. His overseas assignments included service as Deputy Chief of Mission in Sierra Leone during that country’s transition to democratic rule\, he was the first US Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City\, Vietnam\, and was ambassador to Cambodia and Zimbabwe. From 2006 to 2009\, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW/Missing Personnel Affairs and Director of the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office. \nSince retirement from public service\, he has been a full time freelance writer and consultant\, and is the author of more than 60 books of fiction and non-fiction\, including three books on leadership. He is a frequent blogger and contributor to several Internet news and content sites. Ray is also a photographer and artist\, and has worked as a journalist and artist for a number of publications in the US and abroad. During the late 70s he was editorial cartoonist for the Spring Lake (NC) News\, a weekly newspaper near Fort Bragg\, NC. He was the first chairman of the American Foreign Service Association’s Professionalism and Ethics Committee. He runs a workshop on professional writing for Rangel Scholars at Howard University each summer\, and has lectured at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute of Johns Hopkins University\, speaking on global hotspots and the History of American Diplomacy. He has also done consulting work for the Department of Defense on personnel recovery (working with the Angel Thunder PR exercise) and as an interagency subject matter expert during army unit pre-deployment training. \nRay is a member of the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA)\, the Association of Black American Ambassadors\, and the American Academy of Diplomacy. \nA native of Texas\, Ray now makes his home in North Potomac\, MD\, a suburb of Washington\, DC.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/ambassador-charles-ray/
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CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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SUMMARY:Dr. Jose Esparza
DESCRIPTION:The Global Challenge of Confronting Emerging Epidemics: From AIDS to Zika\, and Beyond\n  \nJosé Esparza is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the Institute of Human Virology\, University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is also the current President of the Global Virus Network (2016). From 2004 to 2014 he was Senior Advisor on HIV Vaccines and Vaccines at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle\, WA. From 1986 to 2004 he was with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) in Geneva\, Switzerland\, were he coordinated an international effort to develop HIV vaccines. From 1974 to 1985 he worked at the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC)\, becoming Professor of Virology and Chairman of Microbiology and Cell Biology. Esparza received his MD degree in Venezuela in 1968 and a PhD in Virology and Cell Biology from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston\, Texas\, in 1974. He has published over 185 scientific articles in medical virology\, vaccinology and HIV/AIDS. He is a member of the Venezuelan Academy of Medicine and serves in several international scientific advisory boards. He is also a vaccine consultant for several companies.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/dr-jose-esparza/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170406T200000
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SUMMARY:David Satter
DESCRIPTION:Putin and Russian Corruption \nSatter was born in Chicago. He graduated from the University of Chicago and from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar. From 1976 to 1982\, he was the Moscow correspondent of the Financial Times of London. He then became a special correspondent on Soviet affairs of The Wall Street Journal. He is currently a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a fellow of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He has been a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. \nIn the 1990s\, Satter wrote extensively about post-Soviet Russia. In an article in The Wall Street Journal Europe\, April 2\, 1997\, he wrote: “When the Soviet Union fell… the moral impulse motivating the democratic movement had to become the basis of Russia’s political practices. The tragedy of the present situation is that Russian gangsters are cutting off this development before it has a chance to take root.” \nDavid Satter is the author of four non-fiction books about Russia\, It Was a Long Time Ago and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past (2011)\, Age of Delirium: the Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union (1996)\, Darkness at Dawn: the Rise of the Russian Criminal State (2003)\, and The Less You Know\,The Better You Sleep (2016).
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/david-satter/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170321T200000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Eric Trager
DESCRIPTION:Arab Fall: Why Egypt’s Tahrir Square Revolution Failed\nEric Trager\, the Esther K. Wagner Fellow at The Washington Institute\, is an expert on Egyptian politics and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. He was in Egypt during the 2011 anti-Mubarak revolts and returns frequently to conduct firsthand interviews with leaders in Egypt’s government\, military\, political parties\, media\, and civil society. His writings have appeared in numerous publications\, including the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Foreign Affairs\, the Atlantic\, and the New Republic. \nTrager is the author of Arab Fall: How the Muslim Brotherhood Won and Lost Egypt in 891 Days (Georgetown University Press\, 2016) which chronicles the precipitous rise to power of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood\, culminating in the election of President Mohamed Morsi in 2012\, and its sudden demise just a year later. The book also assesses the current state of Egyptian politics and the prospects for a reemergence of the Brotherhood. \nDr. Trager has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania\, where his doctoral research focused on Egyptian opposition parties. From 2006-2007\, he lived in Egypt as an Islamic Civilizations Fulbright fellow\, where he studied at the American University in Cairo and received his M.A. in Arabic studies with a concentration in Islamic studies. He served as a research assistant at The Washington Institute from 2005 to 2006 upon graduation from Harvard University with a degree in government and language citations in Arabic and Hebrew.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/dr-eric-trager/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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SUMMARY:Colonel Scott Sanborn\, USAWC
DESCRIPTION:Drones – Past\, Present and Future\nCOL Sanborn is qualified as both an Aviation and a Military Intelligence officer serving in a variety of assignments over the past 28 years. He has commanded at the company\, battalion and brigade level and held multiple staff positions including Chief of Staff of US Army Cyber Command. His Pentagon assignments include HQ\, Department of the Army G2\, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence\, and the Secretary of Defense’s Intelligence\, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Task Force. Mostly recently\, COL Sanborn served as the Chief of Staff of the Army Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security a national defense policy oriented think tank located in Washington\, DC. COL Sanborn’s deployment experience includes: operation DESERT SHIELD/STORM as an attack helicopter pilot with the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment; deployments to Albania and Hungary during the mid-1990s as the commander of a provisional/experimental Predator unmanned aerial system company in support of operations PROVIDE PROMISE\, DENY FLIGHT\, DELIBERATE FORCE\, and JOINT ENDEAVOR; and\, multiple deployments to South America in support of airborne ISR operations. COL Sanborn also commanded the 224th Military Intelligence Battalion (Aerial Exploitation) during a deployment to Iraq from 06-07 where his unit conducted manned and unmanned airborne ISR operations in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.  From 2010-2012\, COL Sanborn commanded the US Army Air Operations Group\, where his unit was responsible for the global transport of the Army’s most senior leaders\, rotary wing transport of senior Defense Department leaders in the National Capital Region\, technical rescue engineer operations\, as well as the operation of Davison Army Airfield at Ft Belvoir\, VA and the Pentagon Heliport. From 2012-2014\, he served as the second Chief of Staff of US Army Cyber Command/Second Army as the command continued to evolve as the Army Service Component of US Cyber Command and the newly established Second Army. \nCOL Sanborn’s education includes a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics from the University of Iowa\, a Master of Science in Computer Resources and Information Management from Webster University (with honors)\, and a Master of Science in National Security Strategy from the National War College. He is a graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College\, the US Army Military Intelligence Officer Adv  Course\, and the US Army Avn Officer Basic Course.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/colonel-scott-sanborn-usawc/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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SUMMARY:Dr. Randall Fegley
DESCRIPTION:Rwanda Rebuilding After Trauma\nA political historian at Pennsylvania State University’s Berks College\, Randall Fegley specializes in the study of mass trauma\, especially long-term conflicts\, gross human rights violations and prolonged disasters in Rwanda\, Equatorial Guinea\, Uganda\, South Sudan and Sudan. He lived\, taught and completed Ph.D. research in Sudan from 1980 to 1984 and has returned to work there and in other African countries numerous times. In November 2003\, he received Penn State Berks’ Beaver Community Service Award for restoring schools in war-torn Kajo Keji County\, South Sudan as part of a program of the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem. He has been particularly active in the Sudan Studies Association\, the leading scholarly organization on Sudan. Host of the SSA’s 22nd annual conference in May 2002 and a member of the association’s board from 2003 to 2007\, he has also served as the organization’s president and executive director. As the coordinator of Penn State’s four-year degree program in Global Studies\, he set up an internship program in Rwanda. His latest book is A History of Rwandan Identity and Trauma: The Mythmakers’ Victims. His other published works have examined Rwandan\, Sudanese\, Belgian and Equatorial Guinean political history\, the mythologies that perpetuate conflict; elections and governance in post-trauma societies; and the rehabilitation of former slaves and child soldiers. He and his wife Connie live in Berks County.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/dr-randall-fegley/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161213T190000
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SUMMARY:Captain Paul Tortora\, USN
DESCRIPTION:For video playback\, click\nHERE \nCyber Security\nCAPTAIN Paul Tortora\, USN (ret)\, is currently the Director of the Center for Cyber Security Studies and the first Chair of the new Cyber Science Department at the United States Naval Academy. Paul recently retired from the Navy following a 26-year active duty career originally as a Nuclear Submarine Officer and then as a Naval Intelligence Officer. During his active service he served and deployed on two nuclear fast attack submarines\, two amphibious assault ships\, and a nuclear aircraft carrier\, conducting various operations across the globe. His ashore assignments included Director of Training at the Navy and Marine Corps Intelligence Training Command\, on the staff of the Director of Naval Intelligence\, as Naval Aide and Intelligence Officer to the Secretary of the Navy\, and with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Paul is a 1989 graduate of the Naval Academy\, where he majored in Mathematics\, minoring in Spanish. He holds a Masters of Science in Management from the University of Maryland\, and a Masters of Arts in National Security Strategy from the Naval War College. His personal awards include the Legion of Merit\, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal\, and the Meritorious Service Medal. He is a recipient of both the National Military Intelligence Association’s Vice Admiral Rufus Taylor Award for Intelligence Leadership and the Rear Admiral Edwin T. Layton Award for outstanding leadership in Naval Intelligence.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/captain-paul-tortora-usn/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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SUMMARY:Dr. Katy Oh Hassig
DESCRIPTION:Kim Jong-un’s North Korea: Old Politics\, New Economy\, and Porcupine Policy\nFor video playback\, click HERE \nDr. Kongdan (Katy) Oh Hassig is a Senior Asian Scholar at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA).  She was formerly a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Bookings Institution and a member of the political science department of the RAND Corporation and has taught courses at a number of universities.  She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, the Board of Directors of the United States Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific\, and she is the co-founder and former co-director of The Korea Club of Washington\, D.C.  She is co-chair of the Board of Directors of the Sejong Society in Washington\, DC. \nShe received her B.A. at Sogang University and an M.A. at Seoul National University.  She subsequently earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Asian Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley.  She is the co-author of North Korea through the Looking Glass (2000) and The Hidden People of North Korea (2009). \nHer recent articles include “The United States between Japan and Korea\,” The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis\, June 2010\, “Kim Jong-un Inherits the Bomb\,” International Journal of Korean Unification Studies\, 2011\,  “Military Confrontation\,” Joint Force Quarterly\, February 2012\,  “The ROK President of 2013-2018: Who Should Lead the Nation at This Critical Time?” The Journal of East Asian Affairs\, Spring/ Summer 2012\, “The Costs of Korean Division and the Benefits of Korean Unification of US National Security\,” and “The Costs and Benefits of Korean Unification for the United States\,” in edited books by Korea Institute for National Unification\, respectively December 2012 and December 2013.    She served as the task leader for the US Government & Japanese Government to revise the US-Japan defense cooperation guidelines from 2013-14.  The second edition of her book\, The Hidden People of North Korea was published in April 2015.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/dr-katy-oh-hassig/
LOCATION:PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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SUMMARY:Dr. Oya Dursun-Ozkanca
DESCRIPTION:Turkey’s Challenges\nDr. Oya Dursun-Ozkanca is an Associate Professor at the Department of Politics\, Philosophy\, and Legal Studies\, and the Director of the International Studies Minor at Elizabethtown College. A native of Turkey\, she received her BA in Political Science and International Relations at Bosphorus University in Istanbul\, and MA and PhD in Government at the Univesity of Texas in Austin. Her research interests include Turkish foreign policy\, tranatlantic security\, European politics\, the Balkans\, and peacebuilding missions. \nDr. Dursun-Ozkanca is the author of a number of scholarly articles in leading peer -reviewed journals. In Summer 2013\, she served as a LSEE Research on South Eastern Europe Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics\, and conducted fieldwork in Serbia and Bosnia on Turkish foreign policy in the Balkans. Her first co-authored book\, External Interventions in Civil Wars: The Role of Impact on Regional and International Organizations\, was published by Routledge in July 2013.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/dr-oya-dursun-ozkanca/
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CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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