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Emails

Collection of the semi-monthly “WACMB Recommends” emails with links to interesting articles.

Audios

The Challenge of World Leadership in the 21st Century

The Honorable Leon E. Panetta
Former United States Secretary of Defense

Presented before the World Affairs Council of the Monterey Bay Area on March 28, 2024

India, Russia and the United States: The War in Ukraine & Changing Alliance

Professor Anshu N. Chatterjee
Senior Lecturer, Naval Postgraduate School, Department of National Security Affairs

Presented before the World Affairs Council of the Monterey Bay Area on July 14, 2023

Looming Confrontation in the Indo-Pacific?

Professor James Russel
Department of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School

Presented before the World Affairs Council of the Monterey Bay Area on June 26, 2023

Update on Turkey: Between Earthquakes and Elections

Scott Kilner
Retired Foreign Service Officer and former U.S. Consul General, Istanbul

Presented before the World Affairs Council of the Monterey Bay Area on April 28, 2023

Japan’s Shifting Defense Policy and the United States

Professor Dustin Wright
California State University, Monterey Bay

Presented before the World Affairs Council of the Monterey Bay Area on January 16, 2023

Ethiopia: Understanding the Conflict and the Prospects for Peace

Colonel Bruce Sweeney, U.S. Army (Retired)

Presented before the World Affairs Council of the Monterey Bay Area on December 19, 2022

Liberalism and Its Discontents:
A Conversation with Francis Fukuyama

Presented before the World Affairs Council of the Monterey Bay Area on November 14, 2022

Videos

Postmortem on US Involvement in Afghanistan by Professor Thomas H. Johnson of the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School at the WACMB Luncheon on February 25, 2022

Cross Strait Relations: How the China-Taiwan Conflict Could Intensify US-China Competition by Professor Christopher Twomey of the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School at the WACMB Luncheon on March 28, 2022

Russia and Its War Against Ukraine by The Hon. Steven Pifer, US Ambassador to Ukraine, 1998 – 2000; Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. Presented at the WACMB Luncheon on April 29, 2022

Russia’s War on Ukraine by The Honorable William B. Taylor of the US Institute of Peace and former US Ambassador to Ukraine. The lecture was presented remotely at the WACMB Luncheon on September 21, 2022