Melissa Deehring is a licensed attorney in the State of California and works as a Clinical Assistant Professor and the founding director/creator of the Externship Program at Qatar University College of Law in Doha, Qatar. Since 2011, Melissa has negotiated agreements with more than 115 legal employers in Doha, developed clinical curricula, and taught legal […]
Joseph Braude, founder and president of the Center for Peace Communications, studied Near Eastern Languages at Yale and Arabic and Islamic history at Princeton. He is fluent in Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian. Over the past 20 years, he has lived and worked in North Africa, the Levant, the Gulf states, and Iran. His most recent […]
Dr. Kupchan will discuss the potential course of U.S. foreign policy after four years of the Trump Administration's America First approach. Drawing on both U.S. history and an assessment of the emerging geopolitical landscape, he will discuss what aspects of Trump's statecraft President Biden should reject, what aspects he should retain, and how the Biden […]
Since the inception of the Alan Miller Scholarship Program, nine Berks County High School graduates have been awarded scholarships to help them pursue further studies in International Relations, Political Science, Public Administration, or related global studies. The broadcast discussion will provide an update on the scholarship program, feature interviews with previous student recipients, and introduce […]
Dr. Timothy Medianick, Boulevard Dental Associates, Kenhorst, is a native of Ukraine. One of 10 children, his family immigrated to the United States when he was 13. A naturalized U.S. citizen, Dr. Medianick is a graduate of Messiah College and the Temple University of School of Dentistry. Dr. Medianick has returned to Ukraine twice in […]
Rebecca Pincus is Assistant Professor in the Strategic and Operational Research Department (SORD) in the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the US Naval War College, and a member of the Institute for Future Warfare Studies within SORD. She previously served as primary investigator (PI) at the US Coast Guard's Center for Arctic Study and […]
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Jayson Casper is the Middle East correspondent for Christianity Today, resident since 2019 with his family of six in Beirut, Lebanon. Prior to that he reported from Cairo, Egypt since 2011, and has lived additionally in Jordan, Tunisia, and Mauritania. He is seconded through IDEAS, an organization connecting skilled Christian professionals with educational and development […]
Ron Granieri is an FPRI Templeton Fellow, the Executive Director of FPRI’s 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 […]
Dr. Thomas Wright is the director of the Center on the United States and Europe and a senior fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution. He is also a contributing writer for The Atlantic and a nonresident fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. He is the author of “All Measures Short of War: […]
