Episode 26: The Global Impact Award 2018
Guest: Senator George J. Mitchell The 2018 Global Impact Award honored Senator George Mitchell for his distinguished career as a peacemaker in Northern Ireland and his work as a U.S. Senator. Senator Mitchell received CCWA’s Global Impact Award and delivered the Brooks Emeny Distinguished Lecture. The Global Impact Award from the Cleveland Council on World […]
Episode 25: NAFTA- North American Competitiveness is Job #1
Guest: The Honorable François-Philippe Champagne From the outset of the talks on the modernization of NAFTA, Canada’s approach has been to propose ideas and solutions that will benefit businesses and workers in all three countries. Technology, business, and society have evolved in North America over the past 24 years, and that needs to be reflected […]
Episode 24: The New Afghanistan Policy: How New Is It and What’s It Worth?
Guest: Ambassador Ronald Neumann CCWA hosted former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and current President of the American Academy of Diplomacy Ronald E. Neumann for a discussion on U.S. policy on Afghanistan. In August 2017, the Trump Administration announced a policy shift increasing troops in Afghanistan and dropping the time limits of U.S. departure from the […]
Episode 23: The North Korean Nuclear Crisis: How Does This End?
Guest: Evans J.R. Revere As North Korea is inching closer to becoming a nuclear-armed regime, the world braces for one of the world’s gravest security threats. Evans J.R. Revere, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for East Asia Policy Studies, addressed where U.S. policy on North Korea is heading. Will the U.S. accept […]
Episode 22: The 2018 Global Economic Outlook
Guest: Michael Weidokal As 2017 comes to a close, Michael Weidokal, Executive Director of International Strategic Analysis in Luxembourg, addressed the key economic, trade, investment, and geopolitical issues that will shape the global economy in 2018. Weidokal also explored the predictions of improved economic growth in 2018 contrasted against uncertainty in the West and increasing […]
Episode 21: The Myth of China’s Might- And What It Means for America
Guest: Jeremy R. Haft Jeremy R. Haft, a 20 year veteran of the China market, adjunct professor at Georgetown University, and CEO of SafeSource Trading, an export trading firm, discussed the rise of China and its true economic might. With U.S. security concerns in Asia influenced by China’s economic power, Haft addressed whether or not […]
Episode 20: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: The Future of U.S.-Cuba Policy
Guest: Ambassador Charles Shapiro Obama era Cuba policy rollbacks had begun to thaw relations with the island nation when the Trump Administration reversed some but not all of the re-opening to Cuba. Now with the mysterious health attacks against U.S. diplomats and the expulsion of Cuban diplomats from the U.S., tensions are escalating between the […]
Episode 19: Six Years Later: An Exploration into the Syrian Civil War
Guest: Faysal Itani Faysal Itani, Resident Senior Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council, joined CCWA for our first Foreign Policy Forum of the Fall 2017 season. After six years of armed conflict, 11 million refugees and internally displaced persons and almost 500,000 casualties in Syria, Itani explored what is […]
Episode 18: Britain, Brexit, and the U.S.
Guest: Ambassador Charles Ries The United Kingdom is grappling with its vote to leave the European Union, the world’s most powerful international economic and political union. Ambassador Charles Ries, Vice President, International at the RAND Corporation, joined CCWA to discuss the future and stability of the European Union and the status of the vital transatlantic […]
Episode 17: Gulliver’s Troubles Revisited: A Perspective on the Future of the Middle East
Guest: Aaron David Miller Aaron David Miller, Vice President for New Initiatives and Distinguished Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, is a well-known scholar on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Miller served in the State Department for more than two decades as a senior advisor on the Middle East. Miller […]
