Recent Events
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Dinner with H.E. Sergey Kislyak
On September 22, the Center for the National Interest organized a small, off-the-record dinner with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak of Russia. Ambassador Kislyak discussed U.S.-Russia relations and Moscow’s perspective on the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria.
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Foreign Policy by Bumper Sticker
Ambassador Richard Burt, Managing Director of McLarty Associates and former Ambassador to Germany, and Dimitri K. Simes, President and CEO of the Center for the National Interest, spoke at the Center on September 11 about their article in the September/October 2015 issue of The National Interest magazine. The discussion addressed the damaging effects of a
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Russia’s Financial System: How Vulnerable?
On September 10th, Dr. Sergey Aleksashenko, a former senior economic official under President Yeltsin, discussed Russia’s financial sector at an event at the Center for the National Interest. Dr. Aleksashenko, who is currently a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, explained the state of Russia’s economy and the impact of Western imposed sanctions. The
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U.S.-Russian Dialogue
On July 27, the Center for the National Interest hosted a delegation of Russian academics as part of its U.S.-Russian dialogue program. This off-the-record event entitled “The United States, Russia, China and the International System” was broken into four panel discussions covering topics such as the BRICS, the SCO and the global order; the Ukraine
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America, Iran, and the Nuclear Talks
On July 17, the Center hosted a lunch panel to discuss the implications of the Iran deal. The panelists included Philip Gordon, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, who served until 2015 as Special Assistant to the President and Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf Region at
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