YouTube Live Stream Link – Discussion and Q&A Session – 60 Minutes Long
Here is a streamed live discussion that the Hudson Institute held on Tuesday, March 31, 2020.
This discussion sheds light on global perspectives pertaining to the recent global pandemic known as the CoronaVirus or CoVid-19 that has spread worldwide since its late 2019 inception in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. Four experts in foreign policy, geopolitics, and national/global security addressed the projected impacts that CoVid-19 will have on the future of great power competition between states going forward. The future of the U.S. and China relationship was heavily emphasized throughout this discussion.
Panel of Experts
Eric Brown is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute, where he studies Asian and Middle East affairs, international security and development, alternative futures, and long-range strategy. He is also co-editor, with Hillel Fradkin and Husain Haqqani, of the review Current Trends in Islamist Ideology (www.CurrentTrends.org), and has written for The American Interest, Wall Street Journal, and China Heritage Quarterly, among other periodicals. He has conducted policy research throughout the Middle East and Asia, including on how societies have been seeking to cope with radicalism. His current work focuses on U.S. alliances policy and reforming international assistance to vulnerable societies. He serves as a director of the American University of Iraq Foundation.
Michael Doran is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC. He specializes in Middle East security issues. In the administration of President George W. Bush, Mr. Doran served in the White House as a senior director in the National Security Council, where he was responsible for helping to devise and coordinate United States strategies on a variety of Middle East issues, including Arab-Israeli relations and U.S. efforts to contain Iran and Syria. He also served in the Bush administration as a senior advisor in the State Department and a deputy assistant secretary of defense in the Pentagon. Born in Kokomo, Indiana, Mr. Doran went to elementary school in Carmel, outside of Indianapolis, before his family moved to Fullerton, California, where he graduated from Sunny Hills High School. He received a B.A. from Stanford and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton. Before coming to Hudson, Mr. Doran was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has also held teaching positions at NYU, Princeton, and the University of Central Florida. He is the author of Pan-Arabism before Nasser, which analyzes the first Arab-Israeli war as an inter-Arab conflict, and Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East. He appears frequently on television, and has published extensively in Foreign Affairs, The American Interest, Commentary, Mosaic Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
Blaise Misztal is a fellow at Hudson Institute, one of the leading think tanks in Washington, D.C. His research programme focuses on the Middle East, Europe, and strategic competition. Mitszal is a former director of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s national security program, a role in which he greatly contributed to U.S.-Turkey relations and issues around it through panels and papers, as he continues to do at the Hudson Institute
Dr. Nadia Schadlow is a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute. She was most recently U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy. Prior to joining the National Security Council, Dr. Schadlow was a Senior Program Officer in the International Security and Foreign Policy Program of the Smith Richardson Foundation, where she helped identify strategic issues which warrant further attention from the U.S. policy community. She served on the Defense Policy Board from September 2006 to June 2009 and is a full member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her articles have appeared in Parameters, The American Interest, the Wall Street Journal, Philanthropy, and several edited volumes. Dr. Schadlow holds a B.A. degree in government and Soviet studies from Cornell University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the John Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
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