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The COVID-19 Security Challenges
With Walter Russell Mead, Rebeccah Heinrichs, & John Walters
The Realignment, Hudson Institute - April 15, 2020
Trade in a pandemic: Traditional Issues, New Concerns, and Optimal Policy Responses
With Daniel Ikenson, Simon Lester, & Inu Manak
Cato Institute - April 15, 2020
Containing the economic nationalist virus through global coordination
With Monica de Bolle, Sergei Guriev, & Adam S. Posen
Peterson Institute for International Economics - April 15, 2020
COVID-19 and the global economy: shutdown but not out?
With Dr. David Gordon
Sounds Strategic, International Institute for Strategic Studies - April 17, 2020
A short- and long-term approach to COVID-19
With Dr. William A. Haseltine
Brookings Institution - April 20, 2020
COVID-19 and International Security
With Greg Koblentz
Power Problems, Cato Institute - April 21, 2020
The Global National Security Effects of COVID-19
With John McLaughlin
Intelligence Matters, CBS News - April 22, 2020
WTH really happened at the Wuhan lab?
With Josh Rogin
What The Hell is Going On?, American Entreprise Institute - April 27, 2020
Global Economic Effects of COVID-19
With Olivier Blanchard
Intelligence Matters, CBS News - April 29, 2020
COVID-19 and Economic Migration
With Iulia Joja & Bob Hamilton
Middle East Focus, Middle East Institute - May 7, 2020
Coronavirus Political Impact: Power insecurity Threatens U.S.-China Relations
With Dr. Yuen Yuen Ang
National Committee on U.S-China Relations - May 8, 2020
Coronavirus Economic Impact: U.S.-China Commercial Relations, Challenges and Opportunities
With Ami Celico
National Committee on U.S-China Relations - May 8, 2020
The Global National Security Implications of COVID-19
With Michael Morrell
Intelligence Matters, CBS News - May 8, 2020
Containing COVID-19
With Dr. Michael Osterholm
Intelligence Matters, CBS News - May 13, 2020
The Global Struggle To Reopen
With Timothy Martin, Joanna Kakiki, Rob Schmitz, & David Kessler
World Affairs Council - May 18, 2020
COVID-19 in Conflict Zones
With Kelly Razzouk
Carnegie Council - May 19, 2020
PIIE Trade Winds: Disruption of Global Value Chains and International Trade Cooperation
With The Hon. Mary Ng, Ambassador Stephen de Boer, Anabel González, & Jeffrey J. Schott
Peterson Institute for International Economics - May 22, 2020
Leading in a Pandemic: How New Zealand eliminated COVID-19 while the United States is leaving people behind
With Teresa Cotsirilos, Indira Stewart, & Nicholas Kristof
World Affairs Council - May 23, 2020
Dark Days Ahead
With Victor Davis Hanson
The Classicist, Hoover Institution - May 30, 2020
The WTO in the Post-COVID-19 World
With The Hon. Arancha González-Laya, Anabel González, & Gary Clyde Hufbauer
Peterson Institute for International Economics - June 3, 2020
COVID-19 and the financial system How resilient are the banks? How are they supporting the economy?
With David Wessel, Jeremy Stein, Michael Blank, Samuel G. Hanson, Jeremy Stein, Adi Sunderam, Betsy Duke, Donald Kohn, Andrew Metrick, & Nellie Liang
Brookings Institution - June 8, 2020
Middle class economic security during the COVID-19 crisis
With Richard V. Reeves, Jeff Larrimore, Jenny Schuetz, & Camille Busette
Brookings Institution - June 18, 2020
Reopening the world - How to save lives and livelihoods
With Madiha Afzal, William J. Antholis, Célia Belin, Agneska Bloch, Jian Chen, Giovanna De Maio, Sam Denney, David Dollar, Bruce Jones, Kemal Kirişci, Filippos Letsas, Cheng Li, Suzanne Maloney, Steven Pifer, Tony Pipa, Natan Sachs, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Geoffrey Gertz, Shadi Hamid, Ryan Hass, & Bonnie Jenkins
Brookings Institution - June 25, 2020
After Coronavirus I: Can the Global Economy be Saved?
With Pr. Dan Drezner
Power Problems, Cato Institute - June 30, 2020
National COVID-19 Testing: A Roadmap to Reopening
With Pr. Paul M. Romer & Dr. Jonathan Quick
World Affairs Council - June 22, 2020
The Struggle To Test and Trace COVID-19
With Dr. George Rutherford, Melissa Millsaps, Jon Jacobo, and Cat Brooks
World Affairs Council - June 25, 2020
The Roots of the Nation’s Struggle to Control the Pandemic
With David Sanger
The Truth of the Matter, Center for Strategic and International Studies - July 22, 2020
After Coronavirus II: The pandemic and the Defense Budget
With The Hon. Bernie Sanders, Andrew Lautz, Jonathan Bydlak, Eric Gomez, Lauren Sander, & Brandon Valeriano
Power Problems, Cato Institute - July 28, 2020
WTH is going on with a COVID vaccine?
With Dr. Moncef Slaoui
What The Hell is Going On?, American Entreprise Institute - August 6, 2020
How South East Asia Flattened the COVID-19 Curve
With Hannah Beech, Dr. Todd Pollock, & Guy Thwaites
World Affairs Council - August 10, 2020
Shaping the Future
In a Few Words
Great Power Competition
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Beyond the Headlines
The Price of Peace
With Victor Davis Hanson & Peter Robinson
Hoover Institution - March 10, 2018
The Return of Great Power Competition
With Arthur Herman & Christopher DeMuth
Cato Institute - January 15, 2019
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucyclide’s Trap?
With Pr. Graham Allison
Nixon Presidential Library - September 29, 2018
The Return of Marco Polo’s World
With Robert D. Kagan
Carnegie Council - March 16, 2018
Does America Need an Enemy?
With Dominic Tierney
Foreign Policy Research Institute - October 16, 2017
Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World’s Oceans
With Admiral James Stravidis
Carnegie Council - June 12, 2017
America’s War for the Greater Middle East
With Andrew Bacevich
Cato Institute - April 13, 2016
“The End of History?” 25 Years Later
With Pr. Francis Fukuyama
Cato Institute - June 6, 2014
Why the West Rules For Now
With Pr. Ian Morris
World Affairs Council - November 23, 2010
The Rise of China
With Rt. Hon. Lord Patten of Barnes CH
Royal United Services Institute - May 17, 2010
Learning from History
Lessons of Leadership
From the Very Best
General David Petraeus
Reagan Forum - May 10, 2018
Rt. Hon. Margaret Thatcher MP
Oxford University - 31 October 31, 2017
The Hon. Leon E. Panetta
World Affairs Council - March 18, 2015
Dr. Henry Kissinger
World Affairs Coucil - March 15, 2013
James A. Baker and Dr. Condoleezza Rice
World Affairs Council - November 10, 2011
Secretary Robert S. McNamara
Royal United Services Institute - July 6, 2009
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
By Graham Allison
Mariner Books - 2018
This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
By Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff
Princeton University Press - 2009
Rise of the Vulcans; The History of Bush’s War Cabinet
By James Mann
Penguin Book - 2004
Global Pandemics
How Africa is tackling COVID-19
With Michael E. O’Hanlon, Zoe Marks, Alexandra (Xander) Meise, Youssef Travaly, & Desiree Cormier Smith
Brookings Institution - July 24, 2020
The Global Economy After COVID-19
With James Manyika, Mohamed El-Erian, & Gilian Tett
World Affairs Council - July 6, 2020
Envisioning COVID-19’s legacy on global stability and security
With Hal Brands, Kori Schake, Colin Dueck, Elizabeth Economy & Francis Gavin
American Enterprise Institute - September 30, 2020
Chinese-U.S. Relations after the COVID-19 Pandemic
With Michael Swaine, Bonnie Glaser, Doug Bandow, & Eric Gomez
Cato Institute - May 27, 2020
How China Is Weaponizing the Belt and Road Initiative
With Daniel Russel
Asia Society - September 9, 2020
The Geopolitics of a New Decade
With Rebecca Lissner & Mira Rapp-Hooper
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs- October 2, 2020
Vox Populi: What Americans Think About Foreign Policy
With Dina Smelz & Mark Hannah
Carnegie Council - May 29, 2020
Boris Johnson’s Brexit Challenge
With HE Stavros Lambrinidis & HE Daniel Mulhall
American Entreprise Institute - May 28, 2020
Tragedy in Beirut
With Paul Salem & Randa Slim
Middle East Focus, Middle East Institute — August 7, 2020
