Bill Browder talked about his experiences as one of the the largest foreign investors in Russia and his work to end worldwide human rights abuses. He was expelled in 2005 from Russia for exp…
1,849 viewsBruce Bechtol talked about his book, North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era: A New International Security Dilemma, in which he discusses the challenges posed by North Korea…
673 viewsBritish Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for the Middle East and South Asia Alistair Burt gave a British perspective on recent Middle East uprisings and world energy security. He focuse…
45 viewsMarc Garlasco talked about his personal experience investigating conflicts in Afghanistan, Georgia, Iraq and Lebanon. As a senior military analyst for Human Rights Watch’s emergency team he …
85 viewsMatthew Simmons talked about the effects of the energy crisis in North America. He said that the shared investments of the U.S., Mexico, and Canada are essential to the discovery and impleme…
706 viewsRich Karlgaard talked about future trends in international business, the current financial markets crisis, and the possible effect of the Obama administration. Following his remarks he respo…
215 viewsArmy Colonel (Ret.) Peter Mansoor talked about the strategy of the military surge in Iraq. He emphasized that of greater importance than merely the increased number of troops was the resulti…
301 viewsGeorge Ayittey talked about the future of Africa. He argued that Africa is poor because its resources have been mismanaged over the centuries.
286 viewsShafeeq Ghabra, former 1st president & Co-founder of The American University of Kuwait, talked about the size and future of the youth population in the Middle East, where approximately half …
75 viewsFormer Secretary of State Baker talked about his biography "Work Hard, Study...and Keep Out of Politics!": Adventures and Lessons from an Unexpected Public Life, published by Putnam. Preside…
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