Recent Events

  • Qatar’s Vision for the Middle East: Remarks and Q & A with Qatar’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister

    The Center hosted His Excellency Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the State of Qatar, where the Minister discussed “Qatar’s Vision for the Middle East.” Dimitri K. Simes, President and CEO of the Center for the National Interest moderated. The event was broadcast live on C-SPAN and can be

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  • Understanding Russian Deception

    On November 15, the Center for the National Interest organized a panel discussion entitled “Understanding Russian Deception.” Speakers included Paul Saunders, executive director of the Center for the National Interest, and Samuel Charap, a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. George Beebe, director of intelligence and national security programs at the Center for the

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  • Are New Threats to Freedom the Stepchildren of Communism?

    On November 8, the Center for the National Interest hosted an off-the-record conversation with Václav Klaus, former President of the Czech Republic. Center President Dimitri K. Simes moderated the discussion, which covered communism’s reemergence, the meaning of freedom, and the European Union, among other topics.

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  • Trump and the Iran Nuclear Deal

    On October 25, the Center for the National Interest organized a panel discussion entitled “Trump and the Iran Nuclear Deal.” Speakers included Michael Singh, managing director and Lane-Swig fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a former senior director for Middle East affairs on the National Security Council staff during the George

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  • War in Asia?

    On October 24, the Center for the National Interest hosted a panel discussion entitled “War in Asia?” Speakers included Harry J. Kazianis, executive editor at The National Interest as well as director of defense studies at the Center for the National Interest, and Michael Auslin, Williams-Griffis fellow in contemporary Asia at the Hoover Institution. Jacob

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