Monday in Washington, March 10, 2014
Social Sciences

Monday in Washington, March 10, 2014


YOUNG JAPANESE SCHOLARS PROGRAM: NEW VIEWS ON POLITICS AND POLICY FROM TOKYO TO TAIWAN. 3/10, Noon-1:30pm. Sponsor: East-West Center. Speakers: Chihiro Okawa, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Kanagawa University; Madoka Fukuda, Associate Professor of Global Politics, Hosei University.

DISCUSSION ON THE 2014 QDR AND FY2015 DEFENSE BUDGET. 3/10, 1:00-3:00pm. Sponsor: International Security Program, CSIS. Speakers: Christine Wormuth, US Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Force Development; Clark Murdock, Senior Advisor, Defense and National Security Group; Maren Leed, Senior Advisor, CSIS; Stephanie Sanok Kostro, Acting Director, Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, CSIS; Samuel Brannen, Senior Fellow, International Security Program, CSIS.

PROMISING PARTNERSHIPS: EMERGING AND ESTABLISHED POWERS IN THE 21ST CENTURY. 3/10, 1:30-2:30pm. Sponsor: German Marshall Fund. Speaker: Peter Wilson, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative, UK Mission to the UN.

RENOUNCING WAR: A CONSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL CHALLENGE IN JAPAN. 3/10, 2:00-3:30 pm, Washington, DC. Sponsor: US-Asia Institute. Speaker: Professor Hideyuki Osawa of Keio University.

UKRAINE ON THE BRINK. 3/10, 2:15-4:00pm. Sponsor: Carnegie Endowment. Speakers: Andrew Weiss, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie; Yevgeny Kiselyev, Journalist and Political Analyst, Russian Television.

AFGHAN ELECTIONS AND THE US ROLE BEYOND 2014. 3/10, 2:30-3:30pm. Sponsor: Center for American Progress (CAP). Speakers: Robert Casey, D-PA; Neera Tanden, President, CAP; Caroline Wadhams, Senior Fellow, CAP.

GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY, GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP, AND THE HEALTH AND SECURITY NEXUS. 3/10, 3:00-4:30pm. Sponsor: Stimson Center. Speakers: Bonnie Jenkins, Coordinator, Threat Reduction Programs, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation; Julie Fischer, Researcher, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University.

FOREIGN POLICY BY ANALOGY: US DECISION MAKING AND THE USES OF THE VIETNAM WAR. 3/10, 4:00-5:30pm. Sponsor: History and Public Policy Program, Wilson Center. Speaker: Mark Lawrence, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas.




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