Recent Events

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  Lunch with Ambassador Vitaly Churkin

  On September 16, the Center for the National Interest held a small, off-the-record meeting in New York with Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations. The meeting was moderated by the Center for the National Interest’s Vice Chairman Drew Guff and was attended by a high-level group, including Center President Dimitri K.

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  Russia’s Military Response to the NATO Summit

  On Tuesday, July 26, the Center for the National Interest hosted an event focusing on Russia’s military response to the recent NATO summit, held in Warsaw, Poland. The featured speaker was Ruslan Pukhov, director of the Center for the Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST) in Moscow. Mr. Pukhov discussed courses of action that the government of

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  The Future of Free Trade

  On July 19, the Center for the National Interest hosted a discussion of the future of free trade with Milton Ezrati, recently senior economist and market strategist at Lord, Abbett & Co. and Bruce Stokes director of global economic attitudes at the Pew Research Center. The discussions focused on public opinion research on the growing skepticism of trade agreements

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  U.S. Policy Towards Syria

  On July 15, the Center organized a panel with former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad and Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution Paul Pillar to discuss U.S. policy in Syria, Bashar al-Assad’s regime, and the options available to President Obama’s successor. Center President Dimitri K. Simes served as a discussant and shared insight on the Russian

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  Sanctions and Foreign Policy

  Sanctions can be effective when their objectives are limited, but typically cannot persuade governments to make fundamental policy changes, according to Washington Institute Iran sanctions expert Dr. Patrick Clawson, who spoke during a Center for the National Interest panel discussion of sanctions on July 12. Clawson, Morningstar Senior Fellow and Director of Research at the

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