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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/
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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SUMMARY:Terry Cooke
DESCRIPTION:China Comprehensively: Culturally\, Politically\, Economically\, Environmentally\, Militarily\nTerry Cooke is the Founding Director of the China Partnership of Greater Philadelphia since July 2011.The China Partnership of Greater Philadelphia (CPGP) is a non-profit organization that promotes collaboration – primarily on public/private clean technology initiatives – between Philadelphia and the People’s Republic of China. Its mission is to accelerate job creation\, attract investment\, and support clean technology business flows through strategic linkages between Greater Philadelphia and China. CPGP harnesses the Greater Philadelphia region’s exceptional academic\, government\, cultural and business resources to leverage regional and national initiatives in both countries. In July 2014\, CPGP’s work was awarded bi-national U.S. -China EcoPartnership recognition by U.S. Secretary of State Kerry and PRC State Councilor Yang at the annual high-level U.S.-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue talks. \nTerry Cooke was a 2010 Public Policy Scholar with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C.\, researching the U.S.-China clean energy relationship\, particularly the interface of technology\, policy and investment. His book Sustaining U.S.-China Cooperation in Clean Energy was launched via webcast by the Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute in September 2012. \nFrom 2006 to 2008\, Terry was Director for Asia Corporate Partnership for the World Economic Forum. Based with the Forum’s Centre for Global Industries in New York\, Terry worked on three continents and across the Forum’s 18 industry groups to design and implement closer engagement with Asian Global 500-level firms (having annual revenues of US $16 billion and above). Building on this strategic foundation\, Forum founder Klaus Schwab presented Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda a set of “CEO Climate Policy Recommendations to G8 Leaders” (signed by 100 Chairmen and CEOs) on June 20\, 2008 while Japan hosted the annual G8 Summit Meeting. \nThe GC3 Strategy model is to build value by bringing together specialty teams and innovative technology resources\, combined with insight into the commercial dynamics that are driving investment opportunity in the changing global marketplace. \nDuring a fifteen-year career with the U.S. Foreign Commercial Service (1988-2003)\, Terry held progressively more responsible positions at U.S. Missions in Asia (Taipei\, Tokyo\, Shanghai) and Europe (Berlin)\, including being the senior commercial representative of the United States in Taiwan and Berlin and the deputy senior commercial representative in Tokyo. His work involved consensus building with the ministerial-level in host countries; with the CEO-level in industry; and with top-levels of the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government. This work required skills in complex\, cross-cultural decision-making: transactional skills in major projects and in bilateral negotiations; policy and fund-raising skills in organizing international conferences/events; and administrative skills in managing substantial budgets and staffs. Terry was nominated by the U.S Department of Commerce and the White House to the Senior Foreign Service in March 2002 and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in June 2002.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/terry-cooke/
CATEGORIES:Luncheon Meeting
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SUMMARY:Dr. Paul Esqueda
DESCRIPTION:What Next Venezuela? Oil Prices Down/Opposition to President Up\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-2/
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SUMMARY:Molly Williamson
DESCRIPTION:Click HERE to see this presentation on line. \nAt the Intersection of the 3Es: Energy\, Environment and Economy\nMolly Williamson speaks extensively on US foreign policy. She is a scholar with the Middle East Institute\, a consultant\, frequent lecturer at Johns Hopkins University\, and a member of the Boards of the American Foreign Service Association and the American Academy of Diplomacy. She is a former Foreign Service Officer\, having served six U.S. Presidents\, achieving the rank of Career Minister. \nWilliamson has had a unique combination of senior executive policy positions in four Cabinet Departments of the government. Her postings include: senior foreign policy advisor to the US Secretary of Energy\, Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Departments of State\, Defense\, Commerce\, US interim ambassador to Bahrain\, and Chief of Mission and Consul General in Jerusalem during the Madrid Peace process which culminated in the Oslo Accords. \nWilliamson\, a native of California\, has been trained in both Arabic and Hebrew. She has won numerous awards for her many diplomatic accomplishments\, including two Presidential Service Awards\, as well as awards from the Secretaries of State\, Commerce\, Defense\, and Energy.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/molly-williamson/
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SUMMARY:Barbara Crossette
DESCRIPTION:India Changes Course-Right Or Far Right\nFor video playback\, click HERE \nBarbara Crossette (born 12 July 1939 in Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania) is an American journalist and author. In a long career at The New York Times she served as an editor and as the paper’s chief correspondent in Southeast Asia and South Asia. She was the Times’ United Nations bureau chief from 1994 to 2001. \nCrossette\, now United Nations correspondent for The Nation\, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, a trustee of the Carnegie Council on Ethics in International Affairs and a member of the editorial advisory board of the Foreign Policy Association.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/barbara-crossette/
LOCATION:PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jamal Abodalo
DESCRIPTION:Click HERE to see this presentation on line. \nThe Syrian Situation: ISIS\, Refugees\, Assad and Iran\nJamal Abodalo was born and raised in Damascus\, Syria. He received a Masters degree in both engineering and business in England. As an oil engineer\, Jamal traveled all over the world being exposed to different cultures and frequent conflict situations.  He has engineered all over Europe and the Middle East. He has lectured on the Middle East at Alvernia University Senior’s College. Along with Steve Elmarzouky\, Jamal lectured on ISIS at a WAC breakfast in February 2015\, which set a WAC Reading breakfast attendance record. He is currently employed as Muhlenberg Township Manager.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/jamal-abodalo/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160113T030000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Spencer Stober
DESCRIPTION:Click HERE  to see this presentation on line. \nClimate Change\nDr. Spencer Stober is a Probessor of Biology and Educational Leadership at Alvernia University. He taught biology for 30 years including undergraduate courses in Genetics\, Botany\, and Environmental Sciences. Since earning his doctorate at Temple University\, with a specialization in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies\, he teaches graduate courses in education and leadership. In 2005 he received Alvenia’s Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching. He also served in a number of administrative positions at Alvernia College\, including Department Chairperson\, Dean of Arts and Sciences\, and Dean of Graduate and Continuing Studies. His research interests include environmental sustainability\, and intersection between religion and science. He publishes regularly in the International Journal of Environmental\, Cultural\, Economic and Social Sustainability. He co-authored a book with Dr. Donna Yarri entitled\, God\, Science\, and Designer Genes: An Exploration of Emerging Issues in Genetic Technologies.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/dr-spencer-stober/
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SUMMARY:Archive 2014-2015
DESCRIPTION:1/8/14 Dr. Solmon Lausch – Education: Keeping Things in Perspective \n2/12/14 Wilfred Muskens – NAFTA – 20 Years Later\nClick HERE to see Part 1 of this presentation on line.\nClick HERE to see Part 2 of this presentation on line. \n3/13/14 Molly Williamson – The Geopolitics of Petroleum-US Shale and     Foreign Policy Implications \n4/9/14 Eva Horelova – Emergence of the E.U. Role in the World: It’s Economic\, Poitical\, and Foreign Policy Implications \n5/14/14 Edward J. Hartung – Cybersecurity \n6/11/14 Robert Musil\, Ph.D. – Women and the Global Environment: From Rachel Carson to Today \n9/10/14 Randell Newnham\, Ph.D. – Crisis in the Ukraine \n10/8/14 Peter D. Barbey – The Impact of Global Unrest on Media Reporting\nClick HERE to see this presentation on line. \n11/12/14 Frank Farrokh Sabouri – Iran\nClick HERE to see this presentation on line. \n12/10/14 Ben Dalton – Covering Global Conflict from the Ground\nClick HERE to see this presentation on line. \n1/14/15  Dr. Kerwin Shaffer  U.S. Cuba Ties\nClick HERE to see this presentation on line. \n2/11/15  Dr. Oya Dursun-Ozkanca  Turkey Today \n3/11/15  Linda Maizels\, Ph.D.  Israel:Prospects for Peace in the Middle East\nClick HERE to see this presentation on line. \n4/10/15  Dr. Susan Martin  U.S. Immigration Policy\nClick HERE to see this presentation on line. \n5/13/15  Dr. Michael Barry  Afghanistan\nClick HERE to see this presentation on line. \n6/3/15  Molly Williamson  Global Energy Security\nClick HERE to see this presentation on line. \n9/9/15  Robert L. Grenier  Counterinsurgency Issues\nClick HERE to see this presentation on line. \n10/14/15  Metodija Koloski  The American Case for Macedonia\nClick HERE to see this presentation on line. \n11/11/15  Dr. Donald Lee  Update on U.N. Millennium Goals\nClick HERE to see this presentation on line. \n12/9/15  Carol Jenkins  The Power of Education to Change Lives Globally \nClick HERE to see this presentation on line.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/archive-2014-2015/
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SUMMARY:SPEAKERS 2012-2013
DESCRIPTION:1/11/12 Michael Miller – Inside Japanese Schools \n2/8/12  Leon Shahabian – Arab Media \n3/15/12 John Seager – Managing Popluation Growth \n4/11/12 Mary Jean Eisenhower – Peace through Understanding \n5/9/12  Dr. Michael Scheuer – One Year After Bin Laden \n6/13/12 Michael Klugman – Pakistan \n9/12/12 Dr. Amany Jamal – Understanding Muslim Societies \n10/10/12 S. Eugene Poteal – CIA Covert Operations \n11/14/12 Hon. Yaron Sideman – Update on Israel & MIddle East \n12/12/12 Ambassador Linda Jewel – Equador an South America \n1/9/13  E.J. Hogendoorn – Africe: Region in Crisis \n2/13/13 Dr. Valerie Rouxel-Laxon – Financial Turmoil in Europe \n3/13/13 Dr. Stephen Hood – Korea \n4/10/13 Michael Slackman – Foreign Policy of 2nd Obama Admin. \n5/8/13 Dr. Paul Esqueda – Venezuela After Chavez \n6/12/13 Molly Williamson – Israel-Palestine \n9/11/13 Shihoko Goto – Economic Relations between US and East Asia \n10/9/13 Christine Gilfillan – Combat Human Trafficking US & Worldwide \n11/13/13 Kani Xulam – Kurds Within the Middle East \nClick HERE to see this presentation on line. \n12/11/13 Haleh Esfandiari – Iran’s New President: Reformer/Old Guard
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/speakers-2012-2013/
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