by WAC Reading | Aug 13, 2025
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 &...
by WAC Reading | Aug 10, 2025
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. From 2014 to 2017, Kupchan served as special assistant to...
by Gordon Perlmutter | May 21, 2025
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...
by Gordon Perlmutter | May 21, 2025
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...
by Gordon Perlmutter | May 21, 2025
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. Prior to entering academia, she had a highly successful diplomatic career, spanning 23...
by Gordon Perlmutter | May 21, 2025
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...
by Gordon Perlmutter | May 21, 2025
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...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Apr 3, 2025
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...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Feb 21, 2025
The World Affairs Council of Greater Reading presents: A Tale of Two Colleges. The U.S. Army War College and Dickinson College. An in-depth tour of The War College. APRIL 10, 2025, ITINERARY8:30 a.m.: Tour bus departs from Walmart, Wyomissing.10: a.m.: Arrive at...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Feb 21, 2025
The Greater Reading World Affairs Council’s local AWQ competition is scheduled for March 11th, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Schmidt Training and Technology Center at Reading Area Community College. Ten Berks County school districts (Antietam, Boyertown, Conrad...
