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SUMMARY:Sudan with Dr. Randall Fegley - EVENT CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:EVENT CANCELLED \nDr. Randall Fegley\, Associate Professor of History at Penn State Berks\, was named Executive Director of the Sudan Studies Association (SSA) during the organization?s 32nd Annual Conference on May 24\, 2013\, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. This followed his completion of a two-year term as SSA President. In this role\, Fegley will oversee the organization?s transition to a new generation of officers and board members. \nThe Sudan Studies Association (SSA) is an independent professional society founded in the United States in 1981. Membership is open to scholars\, teachers\, students\, and others with interest in the Sudan. The Association exists primarily to promote Sudanese studies and scholarship.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/sudan-with-dr-randall-fegley/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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SUMMARY:Oversight of Government Programs and Funds: Domestic and International Structures and Challenges - with Ann Calvaresi Barr
DESCRIPTION:This event is rescheduled for Thursday February 20 due to an inclement weather forecast. \nFormer Inspector General Ann Calvaresi Barr led the oversight of activities conducted by USAID\, the U.S. African Development Foundation\, the Inter-American Foundation\, the Millennium Challenge Corporation\, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. In fiscal year 2017\, USAID alone managed nearly $30 billion in budgetary resources to provide humanitarian assistance and advance economic growth and democracy around the world. Ms. Calvaresi Barr also works with the Inspectors General of the Department of State and the Department of Defense to coordinate each OIG’s activities under the Lead Inspector General for Overseas Contingency Operations initiative. Ms. Calvaresi Barr took office in November 2015 and worked tirelessly to strengthen OIG’s contributions to and support of integrity\, efficiency\, and effectiveness in the Nation’s complex foreign assistance programs and operations. \nMs. Calvaresi Barr previously served as the Deputy Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Transportation from 2010 to 2015. In that position\, Ms. Calvaresi Barr provided leadership and direction of audits and investigations of transportation issues\, as well as oversight of Office of Inspector General operational support activities. \nMs. Calvaresi Barr joined the U.S. Department of Transportation as the Principal Assistant Inspector General for Auditing and Evaluation in March 2009. She directed and oversaw all audit work on the Department’s air\, highway\, public transit\, maritime\, and rail programs\, including implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009\, which invested over $48 billion in the Nation’s transportation infrastructure. She assumed this position after a 25-year career at the U.S. Government Accountability Office. \nAt GAO\, Ms. Calvaresi Barr served as a director in the Acquisition and Sourcing Management team in Washington\, DC. As a senior executive\, Ms. Calvaresi Barr was responsible for directing numerous engagement teams\, producing reports\, and delivering congressional testimony on technology transfer\, the defense supplier base\, and contract management. Ms. Calvaresi Barr started her GAO career in 1984\, working on healthcare and intergovernmental relations issues. From 1988 to 1993\, she completed an overseas tour in GAO’s former European office in Frankfurt\, Germany\, where she worked largely on defense\, international affairs\, and national security issues. Prior to her GAO career\, she worked for the City of Reading\, PA\, and for the City Manager of Rockville\, MD. \nMs. Calvaresi Barr is a graduate of Dickinson College in Carlisle\, PA\, where she earned a B.A. degree in political science in 1982. She also holds a 1984 master of public administration degree from American University in Washington\, DC; is a graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government Senior Executive Fellows Program; and received a Massachusetts Institute of Technology fellowship in Foreign Politics\, International Relations\, and the National Interest. \nThis event is rescheduled for Thursday\, February 20 due to an inclement weather forecast. \nClick here to register for this event.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/oversight-of-government-programs-and-funds-domestic-and-international-structures-and-challenges-with-ann-calvaresi-barr/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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SUMMARY:The Status of Women's Global Leadership with Linda Robinson. An International Women's Day Event.
DESCRIPTION:Linda Robinson is senior fellow for women and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) where she writes about women’s political and economic leadership\, the relationship between gender equality and democracy\, technology-facilitated violence\, and current international affairs. She was previously a senior international researcher and director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the RAND Corporation. She has also been a fellow at the Wilson Center\, the Merrill Center at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies\, the International Institute for Strategic Studies\, and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. A former foreign correspondent for U.S. News & World Report and senior editor at Foreign Affairs\, Ms. Robinson provides frequent commentary on international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. Her books include Masters of Chaos\, a New York Times bestseller; Tell Me How This Ends\, a Foreign Affairs bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book of 2008; One Hundred Victories\, about Afghanistan; and Intervention or Neglect\, about Central America. She received the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Reporting on National Defense and the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University for reporting on Latin America. She has published over twenty RAND studies and hundreds of articles based on extensive field research\, and has testified before Congress on special operations\, the Iraq war\, and the Middle East. \nThis hybrid luncheon event is being held at the McGlinn Conference Center \nRegister to attend this live event in person! \nClick here to attend this live event virtually
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/the-status-of-womens-global-leadership-with-linda-robinson/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Role of the Inspector General in the Battle for Honest and Accountable Government with Glenn Fine
DESCRIPTION:Glenn Fine is a nonresident fellow in the Governance Studies program at The Brookings Institution. \nFine served as the Inspector General for the Department of Justice from 2000 to 2011 in the Clinton\, Bush\, and Obama Administrations. As the Inspector General\, he supervised and issued reports of investigations and audits on many high-profile issues facing the Department of Justice. \nAfter practicing law at a firm\, Fine returned to government\, and in January 2016 he became the Acting Inspector General for the Department of Defense. In this role\, he led the largest inspector general’s office with more than 1700 staff in 50 offices around the country and the world\, for over four years. \nFine has testified more than 50 times before Congressional committees and has written articles on the role of inspectors general\, federal investigations\, and management in federal agencies. He has received numerous honors for his inspector general work\, including being named the Lawyer of the Year by the National Law Journal. \nFine graduated from Harvard College\, where he majored in economics. He was the co-captain of the Harvard basketball team and was selected in the 10th round of the 1979 NBA draft by the San Antonio Spurs. Instead of trying out for the Spurs\, he attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. \nFine earned a law degree from Harvard Law School. After law school\, he worked as an Assistant United States Attorney in Washington D.C. Fine is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School. \nThis luncheon meeting is being held at the McGlinn Conference Center \nClick here to register
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/the-role-of-the-inspector-general-in-the-battle-for-honest-and-accountable-government-with-glenn-fine/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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SUMMARY:Threat Multiplier: Climate Change\, the Military\, and Global Security with Sherri Goodman
DESCRIPTION:Sherri Goodman\, Senior Fellow at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program and Polar Institute\, and Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security\, is credited with educating a generation of US military and government officials about the nexus between climate change and national security\, using her famous coinage\, “threat multiplier\,” to fundamentally reshape the national discourse on the topic. Sherri serves as Vice Chair of the Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board and on the EXIM Bank’s Council on Climate. A former first Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security) and staff member on the Senate Armed Services Committee\, Goodman has founded\, led\, or advised nearly a dozen research organizations on environmental and energy matters\, national security\, and public policy. \nHer new book\, Threat Multiplier:  Climate Change\, the Military and Global Security was published in August 2024.  It will be on sale at the luncheon event. \nThis hybrid luncheon event is being held at the Flynn Complex Alvernia University\, This event is also available virtually for those not wishing to attend the luncheon. \nImportant Notice: The venue for the  World Affairs Council luncheon May 14 has been changed from the McGlinn Conference and Spirituality Center to the Tom and Helen Flynn Complex of Alvernia University. The Flynn Complex is directly across 460 Bernardine Street from the McGlinn Center.  Instead of turning into the McGlinn Center from Bernardine Street turn just the opposite into the Flynn Complex.  Easy to see.  Plenty of parking.  Convenient short walk into the Flynn building.   \nClick here to register to attend live \nClick here to register for this webinar
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/threat-multiplier-climate-change-the-military-and-global-security-with-sherri-goodman/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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SUMMARY:Europe in the Post-Atlantic Age with Ron Granieri
DESCRIPTION:Ronald J. Granieri is a 2024 Templeton Fellow and the Director of the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He also hosts People\, Politics\, and Prose\, a monthly event series at FPRI. Dr. Granieri is also Professor of History in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the United States Army War College. A graduate of Harvard and the University of Chicago and a former Federal Chancellor Scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung\, Dr. Granieri is the author of The Ambivalent Alliance: Konrad Adenauer\, the CDU/CSU\, and the West\, 1949-1966 (Berghahn\, 2003) as well as articles on German History\, European-American Relations\, the Cold War\, and contemporary politics in journals such as Orbis\, Central European History\, Foreign Policy\, and The International History Review and has also published op-ed essays in The Hill and the Washington Post. \nClick here to register for this live event now
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/germany-europe-update-with-ron-granieri/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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SUMMARY:Putin's War Against the West with John J. Sullivan
DESCRIPTION:Ambassador John J. Sullivan\, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State and former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation\, was recently named a Distinguished Senior Fellow in Columbia Law School’s National Security Law Program. He is a partner in Mayer Brown’s Washington DC and New York offices and co-leads the firm’s National Security practice. \nAmbassador Sullivan’s career spans four decades in public service in prominent diplomatic and legal positions under five U.S. presidents. His earlier positions included Deputy Secretary of Commerce under President George W. Bush\, following his service from 2005 to 2007 as the general counsel of the department. In President Bush’s first term\, he served as deputy general counsel of the Defense Department. In the George H.W. Bush Administration\, Ambassador Sullivan was counselor to Assistant Attorney General J. Michael Luttig in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. \nIn private practice at Mayer Brown\, which he first joined in 1993\, Ambassador Sullivan has been a member of the Supreme Court and Appellate practice and was a co-founder of the National Security practice. \nAmbassador Sullivan received his bachelor’s degree from Brown University and his law degree from the Columbia University School of Law\, where he was Book Reviews Editor of the Columbia Law Review. He was a law clerk for Associate Justice David H. Souter of the Supreme Court of the United States\, and for Judge John Minor Wisdom of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. His many professional honors include the Distinguished Alumnus Award of Columbia Law School’s DC Alumni Association. \nThis luncheon event is being held at the McGlinn Conference Center\, Alvernia University \nClick here to register for this live event now \nClick here to register for this webinar now
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/midnight-in-moscow-with-ambassador-john-j-sullivan/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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SUMMARY:ISIS Funding and the Future of Terrorism with Colin P. Clarke
DESCRIPTION:Colin P. Clarke is a political scientist at the RAND Corporation\, where his research focuses on terrorism\, insurgency and criminal networks. At RAND\, Clarke has directed studies on ISIS financing\, the future of terrorism and transnational crime\, and lessons learned from all insurgencies between the end of WWII and 2009. \nIn addition to his work at RAND\, he is an associate fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)-The Hague\, in the Netherlands\, and a lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University where he teaches courses on terrorism\, insurgency and the future of warfare. \nClarke has briefed his research at a range of national and international security forums\, including the U.S. Army War College\, US Air Force Special Operations School\, Society for Terrorism Research International Conference\, the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF) and the Counter ISIS Financing Group (CIFG)\, which is part of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS. \nHe appears frequently in the media\, has been quoted in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and The Wall Street Journal\, and has published his research in Foreign Affairs\, Foreign Policy\, The Atlantic\, Politico\, Lawfare\, and numerous scholarly journals\, including Small Wars & Insurgencies\, Historical Methods\, and Military Operations Research. \nClarke is the author of Terrorism\, Inc.: The Financing of Terrorism\, Insurgency\, and Irregular Warfare\, published in 2015 by Praeger Security International and is currently working on Terrorism: The Essential Reference Guide\, also by Praeger and due to be published in 2018. He received his Ph.D. in international security policy from the University of Pittsburgh. \nThis will be a hybrid event with the luncheon speaker live on zoom. \nClick here to register for this live event now \nAttend Virtually (Zoom Webinar)
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/8247/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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SUMMARY:America in the Arctic: Foreign Policy and Competition in the Melting North with Mary Thompson Jones
DESCRIPTION:Mary Thompson-Jones\, Ed.D. is a Professor at the U.S. Naval War College. Before joining the USNWC\, she directed a master’s program in Global Studies at Northeastern University. \nPrior to entering academia\, she had a highly successful diplomatic career\, spanning 23 years a as U.S. Foreign Service Officer in leadership roles in the Czech Republic\, Canada\, Guatemala\, Spain\, and Washington\, D.C. She retired with the rank of Minister-Counselor\, having received several Superior and Meritorious Honor awards along the way. \nDr. Thompson-Jones’ new book\, America in the Arctic\, Foreign Policy and Competition in the Melting North\, has been praised by Sen. Angus King\, I-ME\, as “a finely crafted chart that can guide us through rough seas ahead to a peaceful and prosperous future\,” and by Amb. Paula Dobriansky\, former Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs\, as “a compelling testament to the importance of U.S. engagement and a must-read for policymakers.” She is also the author of To the Secretary: Leaked Embassy Cables and America’s Foreign Policy Disconnect \nRegister to Attend Virtually \nRegister to Attend Live
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/america-in-the-arctic-foreign-policy-and-competition-in-the-melting-north-with-mary-thompson-jones/
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:20260114T113000
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SUMMARY:Transatlantic Security in an Era of Great Power Competition with Dr. Andrew T. Wolff
DESCRIPTION:Andrew T. Wolff\, Associate professor of political science and international studies at Dickinson College in Carlisle\, PA. My primary research concerns are NATO\, European security\, and American foreign policy. At Dickinson\, he teaches courses on American foreign policy\, European security\, national security\, international diplomacy\, and international relations.  \nIn the Fall 2021 semester he was in Brussels\, Belgium as a Fulbright NATO Security Studies scholar. He was also a visiting professor with the College of Europe in Bruges\, Belgium teaching courses on European defense and security governance in Europe. \nWolff is an Associate Professor of International Studies & Political Science. Contributing faculty to Security Studies program. \nClick here to register for this live event now
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/europe-and-nato-with-dr-andrew-t-wolff/
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:20260211T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260211T133000
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SUMMARY:Securing the Indo-Pacific: Strategies for Keeping the Peace - Dr. Ely Ratner
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Ely Ratner served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs. Prior to confirmation\, he served as the Director\, DoD China Task Force and as a Senior Advisor to China to the Secretary of Defense. Before arriving at the Department of Defense\, Dr. Ratner was the Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS)\, where he was a member of the executive team and responsible for managing the Center’s research agenda and staff. \nDr. Ratner served from 2015 to 2017 as the Deputy National Security advisor to Vice President Joe Biden\, and from 2011 to 2012 in the office of Chinese and Mongolian affairs at the State Department. He also previously worked in the U.S. Senate as a Professional Staff Member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and in the office of Senator Joe Biden. Outside of government\, Dr. Ratner has worked as a Senior Fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations\, a Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at CNAS\, and as an Associate Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. \nClick here to attend live \nClick here to register for this webinar now
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/securing-the-indo-pacific-strategies-for-keeping-the-peace-dr-ely-ratner/
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:20260311T113000
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SUMMARY:The Plight of the Kurds with Kani Xulam
DESCRIPTION:Kani Xulam is a native of Kurdistan. He studied International Relations at the University of Toronto\, holds a BA in history from the University of California Santa Barbara and an MA in the International Service program at American University. \nAt the University of Toronto\, he represented Kurdistan at the Model United Nations\, which passed a nonbinding resolution recognizing the right of the Kurdish people to self-determination.\nAt the University of California Santa Barbara\, he was part of a group of peace activists who protested the first Gulf War by taking part in a sit-in at Chancellor’s office in January 1991. Everyone was arrested. Mr. Xulam pled not guilty\, defended himself\, and was sentenced to 18 hours of community service to plant saplings in Santa Barbara. \nIn 1993\, at the urging of Kurdish community leaders in America\, he left his family business in Santa Barbara\, California to establish the American Kurdish Information Network (AKIN) in the nation’s capital. AKIN is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering Kurdish-American understanding and friendship. \nClick here to register for this live event now
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/the-plight-of-the-kurds-with-kani-xulam/
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:20260408T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T130000
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SUMMARY:Venezuela\, An  Update with Dr. Paul Esqueda
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Paul D. Esqueda is a Professor Emeritus 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. \nClick here to register for this webinar now
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/venezuela-an-update-with-dr-paul-esqueda/
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:20260513T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260513T130000
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SUMMARY:Middle East Tensions with Michael O'Hanlon
DESCRIPTION:Michael O’Hanlon is a senior fellow\, and director of research\, in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution\, where he specializes in U.S. defense strategy\, the use of military force\, and American national security policy. He co-directs the Security and Strategy Team\, the Defense Industrial Base working group\, and the Africa Security Initiative within the Foreign Policy program\, as well. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia\, Georgetown\, and Syracuse universities\, and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. O’Hanlon was also a member of the External Advisory Board at the Central Intelligence Agency from 2011-2012. \nO’Hanlon’s latest books include: The Senkaku Paradox: Risking Great Power War over Limited Stakes (Brookings\, 2019); Beyond NATO: A New Security Architecture for Eastern Europe (Brookings\, 2017); The Future of Land Warfare (Brookings\, 2015); and Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century (with Jim Steinberg\, Princeton University Press\, 2014). Previously\, he wrote Bending History: Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy (with Martin Indyk and Kenneth Lieberthal\, Brookings\, 2012); A Skeptic’s Case for Nuclear Disarmament (Brookings\, 2010); The Science of War (Princeton University Press\, 2009); Crisis on the Korean Peninsula (with Mike Mochizuki\, McGraw-Hill\, 2003); Winning Ugly: NATO’s War to Save Kosovo (with Ivo Daalder\, Brookings\, 2000); and Technological Change and the Future of Warfare (Brookings\, 2000)\, among others. \nO’Hanlon has written several hundred op-eds in newspapers including The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Washington Times\, The Financial Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Japan Times\, USA Today\, and Pakistan’s Dawn paper. His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs\, The National Interest\, Survival\, Washington Quarterly\, Joint Forces Quarterly\, and International Security\, among other publications. O’Hanlon has appeared on television or spoken on the radio some 4\,000 times since eptember 11\, 2001. \nO’Hanlon was an analyst at the Congressional Budget Office from 1989-1994. He also worked previously at the Institute for Defense Analyses. His Ph.D. from Princeton is in public and international affairs; his bachelor’s and master’s degrees\, also from Princeton\, are in the physical sciences. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Congo/Kinshasa (the former Zaire) from 1982-1984\, where he taught college and high school physics in French. Earlier\, he worked on a dairy farm in Upstate New York\, where he grew up\, and attempted (unsuccessfully) with a team of Princeton experimental physicists in the “Gravity Group” to disprove Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. \nClick here to attend live \nClick here to register for this webinar now
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/middle-east-tensions-with-michael-ohanlon/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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