Recent Events

  • Russia, Europe, China, and Energy

    On June 4, at the Center for the National Interest, Edward C. Chow, Senior Fellow in Energy and National Security for Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Andreas Goldthau, Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, shared their perspectives on European energy security after the Ukraine crisis. Paul Saunders, the Center’s Executive Director, moderated the event.

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  • National Security, Resource Competition and Climate Change

    The Center for the National Interest held a workshop at Tufts University European Center in Talloires, France, from May 8 to 11, 2014 to discuss “National Security, Resource Competition and Climate Change.” Thirteen participants examined topics ranging from rising sea levels to shortage of water in Asia in a successful two days gathering at the

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  • American International Leadership

    Debates over state of American global leadership and the shape it should take undergird every major foreign policy discussion in the United States. The Center hosted an event – as a part of a new series for the rising generation of foreign policy leaders – on these issues featuring John Bew of King’s College London,

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  • Will the American Energy Revolution Suffer from Low Energy Prices?

    On April 8, the Center held an event to discuss the future of America’s energy revolution. The panel included Karen Harbert, President and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for 21st Century Energy and J. Robinson West, founder and chairman of PFC Energy (1984-2013), a Center Board Member and Senior Advisor at the

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  • Australian Ambassador Kim Beazley on the Asia Pivot

    As the center of gravity in the global economy moves increasingly toward the Asia-Pacific region, security-related tensions there have also grown. As a key U.S. ally in Asia, Australia has both an important perspective and valuable contributions to make in managing these and other changes in Asia. On April 2, Ambassador Kim Beazley discussed Australia’s

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