2021 Global Impact Award Event
The 2021 Global Impact Award honors Dr. Robert M. Gates, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, for his distinguished career in national security. Dr. Gates will receive CCWA’s Global Impact Award and deliver the Brooks Emeny Distinguished Lecture before taking part in a moderated conversation regarding his newest book, Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and […]
2021 Global Gauntlet: CCWA’s World Trivia Challenge
Mark your calendars for CCWA’s virtual fundraiser & friendraiser to support the Cleveland Council on World Affairs! Join us on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 for our annual Global Gauntlet World Trivia Challenge! Teams of up to four compete to answer questions that test your knowledge of international affairs, current events, and foreign policy. This year’s […]
COVID-19 and the Transatlantic Relationship
The 2019-2020 Foreign Policy Forum series is presented by Hitachi Healthcare Americas. Wednesday May 28, 2020 from 4:00-5:00 PM Join CCWA as we host a virtual Foreign Policy Forum on how the COVID-19 pandemic will affect the U.S.-Europe relationship. How can governments respond to support cooperation during this international crisis? It seems clear that the […]
Coronavirus in Conflict Zones
The 2019-2020 Foreign Policy Forum series is presented by Hitachi Healthcare Americas. Thursday May 7, 2020 from 4:00-5:00 PM Join CCWA as we host a virtual Foreign Policy Forum on the impact of COVID-19 in conflict zones. Jarrett Blanc, from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, will discuss the realities of coronavirus in conflict-affected nations, […]
Global Gauntlet 2020: CCWA’s World Trivia Challenge
This event has been cancelled. If possible, we will reschedule at a later date in the season. Join us on Thursday, April 2 for our third annual Global Gauntlet World Trivia Challenge! Teams of up to four compete to answer questions that test your knowledge of international affairs, current events, and foreign policy. Topics include […]
American Diplomacy in a Disordered World
The 2019-2020 Foreign Policy Forum series is presented by Hitachi Healthcare Americas. With more than three decades of experience as an American diplomat, Ambassador Burns played a significant role in the most important diplomatic events of his time- including the end of the Cold War, post-Cold War relations between the United States and Russia, the […]
Working Internationally: Global Competency for Business
Do you work on a global team? Do you interact with international clients or partners? Are you interested in working more effectively with people from other cultures? WHAT Join the Cleveland Council on World Affairs for a series of workshops to develop skills for working more effectively internationally. Participation in the full series is recommend. […]
Happy Dog Takes on the World: What’s Next for the U.S. and Iran?
On January 3, 2020, the United States carried out a drone strike near Baghdad International Airport in Iraq which resulted in the death of nine people, including Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, a powerful security and intelligence commander and longtime leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force. On January, 8, 2020, Iran retaliated by firing missiles […]
Africa: Facts, Fiction and Reality- Why Does it Matter to the United States?
The 2019-2020 Foreign Policy Forum series is presented by Hitachi Healthcare Americas. Please note this Forum is now on February 4, 2020. It was previously scheduled for March of 2020. Africa’s economic and political landscape is rapidly changing, and 7 of the 20 fastest growing economies in the world are now found in sub-Saharan Africa. […]
Trade, Politics, and the Global Economic Outlook in 2020
The 2019-2020 Foreign Policy Forum series is presented by Hitachi Healthcare Americas. Global growth slowed considerably over the last three quarters of 2018 and into 2019, and rising trade and global tensions have increased uncertainty in both the global trading system and in international cooperation in general. In an overall economic outlook published in November […]
