Baltimore Council
on Foreign Affairs
Recent Programs
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Current 2021-2022 Programs
Tom Andrews
U.N. special rapporteur for Myanmar
"Is the world letting Myanmar down?"
Wai Wai Nu
Rohingya Burmese activist and former political prisoner
"Atrocity and Genocide Prevention in Myanmar"
Thursday, September 15, 2022
The Hon. John Bolton
Former National Security Advisor
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
“Threats Facing the United States”
Corinne Graff, Ph.D.
Senior Advisor, Conflict Prevention and Fragility
United States Institute of Peace
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
“An Aid Program for Countries At The Edge of Chaos”
Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
“The Perilous State of Indian Democracy”
Steve Carmel
Senior Vice President, Maersk Line
&
Bill Doyle
Executive Director of the Maryland Port Administration
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
“The Supply Chain Crisis 2.0”
Remarks FULL ARTICLE
Michael Kofman
Research Program Director, the Russia Studies Program,
Center for Naval Analyses;
Fellow, the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center
Monday, May 16, 2022
“Still a great power? The Russian military after the invasion of Ukraine”
Mr. David Schenker
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
Taube Senior Fellow and Director, Program on Arab Politics
The Washington Institute
Thursday, April 21, 2022
“The Ukraine Crisis: Why America’s Mideast Partners are Sitting on the Fence”
Admiral (Ret.) James Foggo
Distinguished Fellow with the Center for
European Policy Analysis;
Dean of Center for Maritime Strategy,
Navy League of the United States
Thursday, March 24, 2022
“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: Implications for European Security”
Dr. Paul Pillar
Former Deputy Chief of the Counterterrorist Center at the CIA;
Non-Resident Senior Fellow,
Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University;
Non-resident Senior Fellow in the Center
for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution
“Afghanistan Isn’t Good Terrorist Real Estate”
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Dr. Ömer Taşpinar
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Professor National War College
Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s SAIS
“Turkey, the Middle East and the West: Deciphering Mutual Misunderstandings”
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Dr. Lawrence C. Schuette
Director of Global Science & Technology
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Former Director of Research (DOR) at the Office of Naval Research
Former STEM Director for the Department of the Navy
“Technology – Once Again, the Future is Now…”
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Jerry M. Hultin
Chair and Co-founder, Global Futures Group, LLC;
Former Under Secretary of the Navy;
Former Dean of the Business School at Stevens Institute of Technology;
Former President of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute
“The Future from Three Perspectives: Cities, Work, and Nation-States”
Thursday, December 9, 2021
Elbridge A. Colby
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development,
The Department of Defense
“The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict”
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Michael O’Hanlon, Ph.D.
Director of Research, Foreign Policy Program
Specialist in U.S. Defense Policy
The Brookings Institution
“The Art of War in an Age of Peace: The U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint”
Thursday, October 7, 2021