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SUMMARY:Academic World Quest 2025
DESCRIPTION:The Greater Reading World Affairs Council’s local AWQ competition is scheduled for\nMarch 11th\, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Schmidt Training and Technology Center at Reading Area Community College.\n\nTen Berks County school districts (Antietam\, Boyertown\, Conrad Weiser\, Governor Mifflin\, Exeter\, Muhlenberg\, Schuylkill Valley\, Twin Valley\, Wilson\, Wyomissing) ten advisors and eighty-nine students will compete for a chance to advance to the National level\, with hotel and dining expenses covered by individual\, college and corporate sponsors.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/academic-world-quest-2025/
LOCATION:Reading Area Community College\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Sudan Nightmares: An Update with Dr. Randall Fegley
DESCRIPTION:Dr. 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. \nTHIS EVENT WILL BE HELD VIRTUALLY. \nClick here to register for this webinar
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/sudan-nightmares-an-update-with-dr-randall-fegley/
LOCATION:Virtual Event\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Is There a New AmericaS First Policy? with Dr. Ryan Berg
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Ryan C. Berg\, has focused broadly on U.S. – Latin American relations. He contends that the new administration will move from “An America First” foreign policy to an “AmericaS First”\, focusing more and more on Latin America\, due to the fact that its agenda intersects with the region so much. Dr. Berg will focus on these oft ignored regions of Latin America and the reasons for this enhanced US interest. More importantly\, he will attempt to share how this revived interest will be interpreted by our friends to the south. \nDr. Berg obtained a Ph.D. and an M.Phil. in political science and an M.Sc. in global governance and diplomacy from the University of Oxford\, where he was a Senior Hulme fellow. Earlier\, he obtained a B.A. in government and theology from Georgetown University. He is the director of the Americans Program and head of the Future of Venezuela Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He also serves as a professor at Catholic University of America and a course coordinator at the US Foreign Service Institute. Dr. Berg was a Fulbright scholar in Brazil and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed academic and policy-oriented journals. He routinely testifies before the Senate Foreign relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee. \nTHIS EVENT IS BEING HELD VIRTUALLY \nClick here to register for this webinar now
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/is-there-a-new-americas-first-policy-with-dr-ryan-berg/
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CATEGORIES:Special Event
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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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SUMMARY:Russia-Ukraine: Negotiated Settlement of Continued War with Ambassador Steven Pifer
DESCRIPTION:Steven Karl Pifer (born 1953) is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center on the United States and Europe as well as the director of Brookings’ Arms Control Initiative. He was formerly senior adviser with the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington\, D.C.\, and the third United States Ambassador to Ukraine from 1998 to 2000. \nHe served at the United States Embassies in Warsaw\, London and Moscow\, and as advisor on the U.S. delegation to the negotiations on intermediate-range nuclear forces in Geneva. \nFrom 1978 to 2004 he was a foreign service officer with the US Dept. of State. From 1996 to 1997\, he served special assistant to the president and senior director for Russia\, Ukraine and Eurasia on the National Security Council. From 1998 to 2000\, he served as the United States Ambassador to Ukraine. From 2001 to 2004\, he served as deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs\, with responsibility for Russia and Ukraine. \nThis webinar event will he held on zoom. \nClick here to register for this webinar now
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/ukraine-with-ambassador-steven-pifer/
LOCATION:Virtual Event\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:The Saudi Arabian Vision and the Future of Saudi/U.S. Relations with Fahad Nazer
DESCRIPTION:Fahad Nazer is the official spokesperson for the Embassy of Saudi Arabia to the United States. He was\nappointed to this role on January 18\, 2019. Prior to this appointment\, Nazer was a non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington and served as an International Fellow at the National Council on U.S. Arab Relations. Additionally. He was also a columnist for the daily newspaper Arab News. His publications have appeared in Foreign Affairs\, The New York Times\, CNN\, Foreign Policy\, YaleGlobal Online\, The National Interest\, and Newsweek. Nazer earned his BA in political science from New York University and an M.A in political science from Saint John’s University in New York City. He has also completed the credit and examination requirements of the PhD program in political science at the Catholic University of America in Washington. \nClick here to register for this webinar now \n  \n 
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/the-saudi-arabian-vision-and-the-future-of-saudi-u-s-relations-with-fahad-nazer/
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