Recent Events

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  Ambassador Ashok Kumar Mirpuri on the U.S. and ASEAN

  H.E. Ashok Kumar Mirpuri, Singapore’s Ambassador to the United States, joined the Center for the National Interest for an off-the-record dinner on September 8, 2014. The Ambassador focused on the U.S. role in Asia, the rise of China and the strategic importance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

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  Andranik Migranyan and Nikolas Gvosdev on Russia’s Policy in the Ukraine Crisis

  Andranik Migranyan, Director of the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation, and Nikolas Gvosdev, Associate Professor at National Defense University, present different perspectives on the Ukraine crisis. Both agreed that the United States’ response to the crisis has been reactive rather than planned. In order to reach any kind of negotiated resolution, the U.S. must develop

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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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