2024
October 7, 2024
Matt Pottinger, U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor 2019-2021
TOPIC - Embracing Deterrence: How to Keep the New Cold War with China from Turning Hot
June 6, 2024
Bradley Lusk, Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science
TOPIC - International Water Security, Sanitation, and Hygiene
May 15, 2024
James Dao, Editor for the Boston Globe
TOPIC - Disinformation, the Media and the 2024 Elections
April 16, 2024
Major Kenneth Bell, United States Air Force, National Intelligence University
TOPIC - Space as a Warfighting Domain
February 27, 2024
Lieutenant General Lawrence Nicolson, United States Marine Corps
TOPIC - The Growing Conflict in the Middle East with Iran and its Surrogates
January 26, 2024
Suzanne Loftus, Global Fellow at the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute
TOPIC - Russia's War in Ukraine Nearly Two Years in: Implications for US Foreign Policy
2023
December 19, 2023
Rachael Rizzo, Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Europe Center
TOPIC - The Transatlantic Relationship - Past, Present and Future
November 14, 2023
Sarah Yerkes, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
TOPIC - The Gaza War: How did we get here?
October 18, 2023
Elisabeth Braw, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
TOPIC - The West vs the Rest: What the Growing Geopolitical Tension Means for the Globalized Economy
May 30, 2023
Gonul Tol, Director Middle East Institute's Program on Turkey
TOPIC - Turkey and President Erdogan: A Strongman's Struggle at Home and in Syria
April 21, 2023
Brian Katulis, Senior Fellow and Vice President of Policy at the Middle East Institute
TOPIC - The Middle East as a Central Arena for Global Competition: The China-Brokered Saudi-Iranian Pact
March 31, 2023
Peter Rough, Director of the Center on Europe and Eurasia at the Hudson Institute
TOPIC - Ukraine on the Global Chessboard
February 24, 2023
David Daoud, Research Analyst for the Atlantic Council and for United Against Nuclear Iran
TOPIC - Israel: The Significance of the New Right Wing Government for Israel, the Palestinians and Ukraine
January 27, 2023
Dean Cheng, Senior Fellow with the Potomac Institute and Senior Advisor for the US Institute of Peace
TOPIC - The United States and China: Comprehensive Competition in the 21st Century
2022
November 30, 2022
Thomas Shannon, Jr., Ambassador to Brazil 2010-2013 and former US Deputy Secretary of State
TOPIC - The Return of Lula: Impact of Brazil's Elections on the United States and our Hemisphere
October 21, 2022
Aparna Pande, Research Fellow and Director, Hudson Institute's Initiative on the Future of India and South Asia
TOPIC - Making India Great: The Promise of a Reluctant Global Power
April 26, 2022
William Drozdiak, Senior Fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institute
TOPIC - The Last President of Europe: Emmanuel Macron’s Race to Revive France and Save the World
April 5, 2022
Miles Hansen, President and CEO World Trade Center Utah
TOPIC - Russia's War in Ukraine: Possible Endings and Ramifications
March 8, 2022
Annie Pforzheimer, Adjunct Professor City University of New York
TOPIC - The Current Situation in Afghanistan: Impact of US Windrawal and the Taliban Takeover
2021
November 19, 2021
Professor Michael C. Kimmage, Catholic University of America and the Kennan Institute
TOPIC - Where Does Russia Fit? Russia in the Foreign Policy of the Biden Administration
October 19, 2021
China Town Hall
TOPIC - Virtual interview with Fareed Zakaria, discussion afterwards by Prof. Robert Griffiths
Trade, economic and military conflicts, the future of Taiwan
May 19, 2021
Annie Pforzheimer, Center for Strategic and International Studies
TOPIC - The Next Phase of US Engagement in Afghanistan
April 21, 2021
Jason Tower, United States Institute of Peace
TOPIC - Myanmar's Coup: International Shockwaves and Prospects for Peace and Democracy
March 17, 2021
Tony Wayne, Woodrow Wilson International Center and former US Ambassador to Mexico
TOPIC - The Importance of Getting US-Mexico Relations Right
February 17, 2021
Lawrence J. Haas, American Foreign Policy Council
TOPIC - Biden and the US Global Role: Restoring America's Moral Voice
January 13, 2021
Charles Kupchan, Council on Foreign Relations
TOPIC - Aspects of Trump's Foreign Policy Were Good for the US and Biden Should Keep Them
2020
November 18, 2020
David Sacks, Council on Foreign Relations
TOPIC - US/Taiwan Relations in the Xi Jinping Era
October 21, 2020
Raphael Cohen, Phd, RAND Corporation
TOPIC - The Future of Warfare and the Implications for American Defense Policy
September 16, 2020
Sankar Swaminathan, MD
TOPIC - The COVID19 Epidemic: How and When It Will End
February 11, 2020
Dennis Jett
TOPIC - Making Foreign Policy Today: And Why Incoherence May Be Here to Stay
January 3, 2020
Andrew G. McCabe
TOPIC - The Threat: How the FBI Protects America
2019
November 18, 2019
China Town Hall
TOPIC - Telecast of a panel discussion on China moderated by George Stephanopoulos
October 23, 2019
SPEAKER - Barbara Slavin
TOPIC - Iran: Back to the Axis of Evil
May 22, 2019
SPEAKER - Miles Hansen
TOPIC - Saudi Arabia and Mohammad bin Salman
April 24, 2019
SPEAKER - Aparna Pande
TOPIC - India's Critical Parliamentary Elections of 2019 - What Lies Ahead?
March 18, 2019
SPEAKER - Jim Dao, New York Times Op-Ed Editor
Topic - The Rise of Illiberal Democracy and the Threat to Free Speech and Independent Journalism
February 26, 2019
SPEAKER - Joe Bryan
Topic - Climate Change, Clean Energy, and National Security: Why US Leadership Matters
January 14, 2019
SPEAKER - Matthew Brodsky
Topic - Syria and the Impact of a U.S. Withdrawal
2018
November 27, 2018
SPEAKER - Theodore Bromund
Topic - Brexit: Its Past, Present and Future
October 30, 2018
SPEAKER - Maria J. Stephan
TOPIC - How Civil Resistance Can Challenge Rising Global Authoritarianism
October 2, 2018
SPEAKER - Gene Fitzgerald
TOPIC - Saint Vladimir of Putin in the Russian Historical Context
May 22, 2018
SPEAKER - Dean Cheng
TOPIC - Northeast Asian Security: The Three Nots
April 11, 2018
SPEAKER: Adam Lysenko
TOPIC: The Post-Engagement US-China Relationship
March 21
SPEAKER: Daniel Benaim
TOPIC - The Trump Administration and the Middle East
February 21, 2018
SPEAKER: Burton Hersh
TOPIC: On the Assassination of JFK--in the Time of Trump
January 17, 2018
SPEAKER - Paul Zajac
TOPIC - Emmanuel Macron's Vision for France and Europe
2017
November 29, 2017
SPEAKER - William Wechler
TOPIC - Terrorists, Criminals and Drug Cartels - Combatting Threats from Non-State Actors
October 30, 2017
SPEAKER - Moises Rendon
TOPIC - Venezuela, the New Totalitarian Regime
October 11, 2017
SPEAKER - Omar Samad
TOPIC - Afghanistan: "Is There a Light at the End of This Tunnel?
May 17, 2017
SPEAKER - Nick Heras
TOPIC - What Does It Mean to Put Iran on Notice?
April 19, 2017
SPEAKER - Ambassador Vicki J. Huddleston, Ret.
TOPIC - From Obama to Trump -- What's Next in U.S. and Cuba Relations?
March 14, 2017
SPEAKER - Christopher Wilson
TOPIC - "South of the Border, Down Mexico Way"
February 7, 2017
SPEAKERS - Sergey Parkohmenko and Dr. Stacy Closson
TOPIC - The Future of U.S. - Russia Relations: Thinking Beyond Trump and Putin
January 18, 2017
SPEAKER - Thomas Wright
TOPIC - Foreign Policy in the Trump Administration
2016
May 26, 2016
SPEAKER - Professor Luis Betancourt, William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies
TOPIC - Corruption in Brazil
April 5, 2016
SPEAKER - Ambassador Christopher Hill
TOPIC - Understanding the Syrian Civil War
March 8, 2016
SPEAKER - Peter Brookes, Senior Fellow, Heritage Foundation
TOPIC - Anxious in Asia: Beijing's Military Buildup
February 11, 2016
SPEAKER - Geoffrey Harris, Deputy Head of Office of the European Parliament Liaison Office to the U.S. Congress
TOPIC -- The Refugee Crisis Currently Facing Europe
January 13, 2016
SPEAKER - Ambassador Thomas Pickering
TOPIC - Challenges Facing U.S. Foreign and Security Policies
2015
November 12, 2015
SPEAKER - Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes
TOPIC - The Scourge of Human Trafficking -What Can Be Done?
October 7, 2015
SPEAKER - Lisa M. Ruth, CIA Directorate of Operations and Intelligence
TOPIC - The Iranian Nuclear Deal - Is it Enforceable?
May 13, 2015
SPEAKER- Lisa Ruth
TOPIC- Iran, Syria and Isis: Is There a Path to Peace?
April 15, 2015
SPEAKER- Gretchen Birkle
TOPIC- Africa: On the Road to Better Governance or Corruption and Jihad?
March 26, 2015
SPEAKER- Jean H. Lee
TOPIC- Inside North Korea: Daily Life in the Hermit Kingdom
February 25, 2015
SPEAKER- Hussain Haqqani
TOPIC- US, Pakistan and an Epic History of Misunderstanding
January 21, 2015
SPEAKER- Dodge Billingsley
TOPIC- ISIS and the New Middle East
2014
November 5th, 2014
SPEAKER- Jose Cardenas
TOPIC- Does Venezuela Matter to US?
October 8th, 2014
SPEAKER- Luke Coffey
TOPIC- Russia, Ukraine and the 'reset'
May 14th, 2014
SPEAKER- Husain Haqqani
TOPIC- Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States and an Epic history of Misunderstanding
April 16th, 2014
SPEAKER- Christopher Merrill
TOPIC- The Intersection of Culture and Diplomacy
March 19th, 2014
SPEAKER- John Price
TOPIC- Africa and Middle East: The Challenges of a Destabilized Region
February 19th, 2014
SPEAKER- Aparna Pande
TOPIC- India's Foreign Policy- India/U.S.Ties
January 16th, 2014
SPEAKER- Christian Whiton
TOPIC- Smart Power: Between Diplomacy and War
2013
November 20th, 2013
SPEAKER – Lamont Colucci
TOPIC – The National Security Doctrines of the United States
October 29th, 2013
SPEAKER – David B. Ottaway
TOPIC – Revolution and Counterrevolution in the Arab World
May 23rd, 2013
SPEAKER – Priscilla Clapp
TOPIC – Building Democracy in Burma
April 24th, 2013
SPEAKER – Tamim Khallaf
TOPIC – Egypt and the New Middle East- Challenges and Repercussions
March 20th, 2013
SPEAKER – Peggy Sands Orchowski
TOPIC – Immigration and Globalization: America's Challenge for Immigration Reform
February 20th, 2013
SPEAKER – Panel Discussion with Keith Martin, Jane Day and Ibtissam Gale TOPIC – Morocco and its Utah Connection
January 16th, 2013 SPEAKER – Nicholas Kralev
TOPIC – The U.S. Foreign Service: Behind the Scenes of America Diplomacy
2012
November 15th, 2012
SPEAKER – Barbara Slavin
TOPIC – Time to Rethink US Policy on Iran
October 2nd, 2012
SPEAKER – Blaine Harden
TOPIC – North Korea: Totalitarianism Forever?
May 22nd, 2012
SPEAKER – Jeremi Suri
TOPIC – Liberty's Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founder's to Obama
April 30th, 2012
SPEAKER – Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.
TOPIC – U.S. China Relations: 2012 and Beyond
March 15th, 2012
SPEAKER – Robert Cassidy
TOPIC – The Long War in Afghanistan: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
February 16th, 2012
SPEAKER – Steven A. Cook
TOPIC – The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square
January 18th, 2012
SPEAKER – Ambassador John Price
TOPIC – When the White House Calls
2011
November 17th, 2011
SPEAKER – Dr. Tim Chambless
TOPIC – U.S.-China Relations: The Need for Cooperation and to Avoid Conflict
October 12th, 2011
SPEAKER – Ambassador Patrick Duddy
TOPIC – The Venezuelan or Brazilian Model- Which Way Forward for South America?
May 25th, 2011
SPEAKER – Ambassador Barbara Bodine
TOPIC – Avoiding the Worst Policy Mistakes in Yemen
April 20th, 2011
SPEAKER – Imam Muhmammad Musri
TOPIC – Role of Moderate Muslims After 9/11
March 10th, 2011
SPEAKER – Ambassador Christopher Hill
TOPIC – Engaging the Axis of Evil
February 10th, 2011
SPEAKER – Bruce E. Bechtol Jr.
TOPIC – Not Going Away: The Persistent Challenge of North Korea
January 11th, 2011
SPEAKER – Dr. Arthur I. Cyr
TOPIC – Presidential Politics and Foreign Policy- Continuity or Change?
2010
November 11th, 2010
SPEAKER – Ambassador Carey Cavanaugh
TOPIC – How do you Advance Peace and Fight Terrorism in Today's Troubled World?
October 13th, 2010
SPEAKER – Husain Haqqani
TOPIC – The Critical Importance of Strategy in U.S.-Pakistan Relations
September 15th, 2010
SPEAKER – Dr. Robert H. Donaldson
TOPIC –Reviewing the reset with Russia: Hit or flop?
June 30th, 2010
SPEAKER – Roxane Farmanfarmaian
TOPIC – The Middle East: How the Past Informs the Future
May 19th, 2010
SPEAKER – Valerie Hudson
TOPIC – The Heart of the Matter: The Security of Women and the Security of States
April 20th, 2010
SPEAKER – Marshall Goldman
TOPIC – Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia
March 17th, 2010
SPEAKER – Ambassador Princeton N. Lyman
TOPIC – A Fresh Look at Africa: It's Growing Strategic and Economic Importance
February 23rd, 2010
SPEAKER – Gladys N. Ashitey, MD
TOPIC – Fulfilling a Political Promise: Inventing a Healthcare System for 22 Million Ghanaians
February 3rd, 2010
SPEAKER – Henry D. Sokolski
TOPIC – The Pitfalls of our Current Arms Control Proposals
2009
November 17th, 2009
SPEAKER – Dr. Cynthia A. Watson
TOPIC – What's Burning? Immediate International Priorities
October 29th, 2009
SPEAKER - Amos N. Guiora
TOPIC - Freedom from Religion: Rights and National Security
September 23rd, 2009
SPEAKER- Charles Horner
TOPIC- Rising China and its Postmodern Fate
May 21st, 2009
SPEAKER- Dr. Jay C. Davis
TOPIC- Nuclear Weapons: Why do we still have them and how many do we need?
April 20th, 2009
SPEAKER - Bahman Baktiari
TOPIC - How to Engage Iran? Lessons from three decades of troubled US-Iranian Relations
March 10th, 2009
SPEAKER - Jeremy Martin
TOPIC - US-Mexico Relations: Energy, Security and the Merida Initiative
February 12th, 2009
SPEAKER - Dr. Peter Mansoor
TOPIC - The Iraq War: Opportunities Missed and Lessons Learned
January 20th, 2009
SPEAKER - Rocky Anderson
TOPIC - Genocide, Lost Opportunities and the high road for human rights
2008
November 13th, 2008
SPEAKER - Aric Mutchnick
TOPIC - The Israeli/Palestinian conflict: Can there ever be peace in the holy land
October 9th, 2008
SPEAKER - Dr. Seyom Brown
TOPIC - The Higher Realism: A New Foreign Policy for the United States
September 18, 2008
SPEAKER - Dr. Asbed Kotchikian
TOPIC - Underneath the Shadow of the Bear: Georgian-Russian Relations
April 17, 2008
SPEAKER - Carlyle (Karl) Thayer
TOPIC - China's 'Harmonious World' Doctrine and Southeast Asia
March 19, 2008
SPEAKER - Ambassador William D. Montgomery
TOPIC - Crisis in the Balkans: The Implications of Kosovo Independence
January 29, 2008
SPEAKER - Salvador Jimenez, US Mexican Consul
TOPIC - Mexico-Utah Relations
2007
November 27, 2007
SPEAKER - Leslie S. Lebl, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council of the US
TOPIC - Radical Islam in Europe
October 23, 2007
SPEAKER - Dr. Bruno Tertrais, Senior Research Fellow
TOPIC - Trans-Atlantic Relations: A New Beginning?
September 18, 2007
SPEAKER - Ambassador Donald P. Gregg
TOPIC - North Korea: The Longest Running Failure in the History of American Espionage
June 6, 2007
SPEAKER - Patrick Mendis
TOPIC - Glocalizaton: The Human Side of Globalization
April 11, 2007
SPEAKER - Dr. Paula Newberg
TOPIC - Afghanastan and Pakistan and Their Neighbors
March 28, 2007
SPEAKER - Gerald Robbins
TOPIC - Redefining Turkey's Strategic Importance
February 13, 2007
SPEAKER - Dr. Ronald W. Mortensen
TOPIC - Humanitarian Assistance and U.S. Foreign Policy
January 23, 2007
SPEAKER - Dr. Dean Collinwood
TOPIC - Whither the New Japan?
2006
November 28, 2006
SPEAKER - Dr. Robert D. LangenKamp
TOPIC - The Geopolitics of Oil
October 11, 2006
SPEAKER - Pauline Baker
TOPIC - Weak and Failing States: What are they? How do we recognize them? What do they signify? How should we respond?
September 27, 2006
SPEAKER - Roxanne Farmafarmian
TOPIC - Iran : Rogue on the Sidelines or Lynch Pin to the Middle East
August, 2006
SPEAKER - David R. Irvine, Brigadier General (ret.)
TOPIC - Tortured Times for American Values
May 2006
SPEAKER - Tony Sullivan
TOPIC -The Riddle of Palestine: Arab Politics, U.S Policy and the Dialectic of Civilization.
April 2006
SPEAKER - Elizabeth A. Whitaker
TOPIC - Latin America Turn Left: U.S Policy- Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, and Venezuela
March 2006
SPEAKER - Tom Blau, Professor of National Security Affairs, School for National Security Executive Education,National Defense University, where he manages the Regional Defense Counter Terrorism Fellow Program for Foreign officers and U.S government Staff
February 2006
SPEAKER - Amb. Abderahman Salaheldin
TOPIC - Egypt and the U.S.: A Model for Dialogue Between Civilizations
January 2006
SPEAKER - Amb. Joseph C. Wilson IV, Currently manages J.C. Wilson International Ventures on Strategic Management and International Business Development; formerly Ambassador, Gaboese Republic and Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe; also served in Niger, Togo, South Africa, Burundi, Congo and Germany; last official American meeting with Saddam Hussein before Desert Storm as Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S Embassy, Baghdad, Iraq
2005
November 2005
SPEAKER - Christopher Kojm
TOPIC - The 9-11 Commission Recommendations: One Year Later
October 2005
SPEAKER - Rami G. Khouri
TOPIC - Democratization in the Middle East and American Foreign Policy
September 2005
SPEAKER - Isaac Cohen
TOPIC - Will CAFTA Work?
May 2005
SPEAKER - Alexander Konovalov
TOPIC - Russo-American Relations and Security
April 2005
SPEAKER - Henry Sokolski
TOPIC - Nuclear World War: The Next Big Worry
March 2005
SPEAKER - Michael K. Young
TOPIC - Religious Tolerance in a Divided Word: Possibilities and Pitfalls
Febuary 2005
SPEAKER - Sean Anderson
TOPIC - Iran: Lessons for the War on Terror
January 2005
SPEAKER - Prof. Ibrahim A. Karawan
TOPIC - Terrorism in the Name of Islam; The Doctor and the Sheikh
2004
December 2004
SPEAKER - Johathan Clarke
TOPIC - America Alone: The New-Conservatives and the Global Order
November 2004
SPEAKER - E. Wayne Merry
TOPIC - Trans-Atlantic Relationships Bad and Getting Worse (Regardless of Our Election Outcome): Why and What Needs to Be Done.
October 2004
SPEAKER - Dr. Kenneth Jensen
TOPIC - The Presidential Debate on Foreign Policy and Administration Transition
September 2004
SPEAKER - Dr. Jay C. Davis, Director
TOPIC - The Real Proliferation Threat: Iran and North Korea
_________________________________________
We need your consent to load the translations
We use a third-party service to translate the website content that may collect data about your activity. Please review the details in the privacy policy and accept the service to view the translations.