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SUMMARY:The Promise and Peril of Trump's America First Statecraft - with Charles Kupchan
DESCRIPTION:Charles Kupchan is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and professor of international affairs at Georgetown University in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of Government.\nFrom 2014 to 2017\, Kupchan served as special assistant to the president and senior director for European affairs on the staff of the National Security Council (NSC) in the Barack Obama administration. He was also director for European affairs on the NSC during the first Bill Clinton administration.  Before joining the Clinton NSC\, he worked in the U.S. Department of State on the policy planning staff.  Previously\, he was an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University.\nKupchan is the author of Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself From the World (2020)\, No One’s World: The West\, the Rising Rest\, and the Coming Global Turn (2012)\, How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace (2010)\, The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century (2002)\, Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order (2001)\, Civic Engagement in the Atlantic Community (1999)\, Atlantic Security: Contending Visions (1998)\, Nationalism and Nationalities in the New Europe (1995)\, The Vulnerability of Empire (1994)\, The Persian Gulf and the West (1987)\, and numerous articles on international and strategic affairs.\nKupchan has served as a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs\, Columbia University’s Institute for War and Peace Studies\, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London\, the Centre d’Étude et de Recherches Internationales in Paris\, and the Institute for International Policy Studies in Tokyo. From 2006 to 2007\, he was the Henry A. Kissinger scholar at the Library of Congress and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. From 2013 to 2014\, he was a senior fellow at the Transatlantic Academy.\nKupchan received his BA from Harvard University and MPhil and DPhil from Oxford University \nClick here to register for this webinar now
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/the-promise-and-peril-of-trumps-america-first-statecraft-with-charles-kupchan/
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SUMMARY:Is the Midddle East at an Inflection Point? with Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Kurtzer is 45th annual Leo Camp Memorial Lecturer.\nKurtzer joined the United States Department of State and was serving as a junior officer at the American Embassy in Cairo when Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981. He served in Israel between the years of 1982 and 1986\, then became Deputy Director of the State Department’s Egypt desk in Washington\, D.C. He later served on the Policy Planning Staff\, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs\, and as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research. When asked why he was drawn to the Middle East\, he later replied: “The work never seems to be finished in this region. It is not a place where tuxedos and cocktail parties characterize diplomacy.”\nKurtzer joined the staff of Secretary of State James Baker. He helped write Baker’s noteworthy speech to American Israel Public Affairs Committee in May 1989. The speech was originally drafted by Harvey Sicherman\, who used uncontroversial pro-Israel language in his text. Kurtzer’s revisions included an attention-getting line that encouraged Israel and its supporters to abandon the Greater Israel idea. According to Aaron David Miller\, he and Kurtzer wrote short memos for Baker on issues at hand\, rather than longer\, strategic papers.\nKurtzer was also part of the Clinton administration’s team of advisers on the Arab–Israeli peace process. According to Miller\, Kurtzer left in 1994 because he “felt shut out by” the Special Middle East Envoy\, Dennis Ross.\nIn 2006\, he retired from the State Department and the U.S. Foreign Service with the rank of Career-Minister and assumed a chair in Middle East policy studies at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He co-chaired\, with Scott Lasensky\, the Study Group on Arab-Israeli Peacemaking\, a project supported by the United States Institute of Peace. They published their recommendations in a 2008 book. \nKurtzer is the co-author of Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East; co-author of The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest for Arab Israeli Peace\, 1989–2011; and editor of Pathways to Peace: America and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. He is also a frequent contributor of academic articles and opinion pieces. \nThis is a free event and open to the public.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/is-the-midddle-east-at-an-inflection-point-with-ambassador-daniel-kurtzer/
LOCATION:Albright College\, McMillan Student Center South Lounge\, 13th and Bern Streets\, Reading\, PA\, 19612\, United States
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