Recent Events
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Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) on a War Powers Consultation Act of 2014
On July 23, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine spoke at the Center for the National Interest about his work with fellow Senator John McCain on a War Powers Consultation Act of 2014. He argues that if Congress is going to make the decision to go to war, then there needs to be a clear idea of
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Annette Heuser on U.S.-German Relationship
In a July 21 lunch discussion on US-German relations, Annette Heuser, Executive Director of the Bertelsmann Foundation in Washington DC and a top expert in the trans-Atlantic relationshiop, discussed how the discord caused by the recent U.S. espionage scandal in Germany will not resolve itself. Click here to watch the event.
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Obama’s Climate and Energy Policy
In a July 11 panel on climate and energy policy speakers Jeffrey Hopkins, Vice President for Policy and Analysis at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, Vaughan Turekian, Chief International Officer at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Samuel Thernstrom, Executive Director of the Energy Innovation Reform Project and Senior Fellow
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The Triangular Relations of Russia, China and the United States
In a July 2 lunch event at the Center, Graham Allison, Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, and Dimitri K. Simes, President of the Center for the National Interest, discussed the United States’ bilateral relations with Russia and the potential to push Russia towards a stronger relationship with
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Tensions in the South China Sea
In a June 27 discussion at the Center, Abraham Denmark, Vice President of the National Bureau of Asian Research, and Dan Blumenthal, Director of Asian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, evaluated deterrence and assurance strategies in dealing with expansion in the South China Sea. Harry Kazianis, Managing Editor of The National Interest magazine, moderated.
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