Recent Programs
ISRAEL-PALESTINE TALKS RESUME: GAUGING THE FUTURE OF THE PEACE PROCESS
A Conference Call Exchange with Dr. Einat Wilf, Member of the Knesset (MK), Labor Party and Former Foreign Policy Advisor to Vice President Prime Minister Shimon Peres; Moderated by. Mr. Jim Prince, President, Democracy Council
Date: September 1, 2010
Time: 11:00am - 12:00noon
MORE...
INDIA IN AFGHANISTAN: PROBLEM OR SOLUTION?
EDGERTON SOUTH ASIAN SECURITY SERIES with DR. ASHLEY TELLIS
Senior Associate for South Asia, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Date: August 17, 2010
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location: Los Angeles
MORE. . .
COUNTDOWN TO ZERO - FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
Featuring: Lawrence Bender, Producer, Lawrence Bender Productions, Inc.
Moderated by: Jane Harman, Congresswoman, 36th District of California
Chair, Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence & Terrorism Risk Assessment
Date: August 1, 2010
Time: 7:30pm - 9:45pm
Location: Los Angeles
MORE...
CAN THE GOALS BE REACHED BY 2015?
Featuring Leanne Rios, Advocacy & Communications Analyst, United Nations Millennium Campaign, North America
Date: July 26, 2010
Time: 12 noon - 2:00pm
Location: Santa Monica
MORE...
COUNTERINSURGENCY AND MODERN WARFARE: THE CHALLENGE OF "AF-PAK"
EDGERTON SOUTH ASIAN SECURITY SERIES with DR. DAVID KILCULLEN
President and CEO, Caerus Associates & Former Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor in Iraq
Date: July 14, 2010
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location: San Francisco
MORE...
COUNTERINSURGENCY AND MODERN WARFARE: THE CHALLENGE OF "AF-PAK"
EDGERTON SOUTH ASIAN SECURITY SERIES with DR. DAVID KILCULLEN
President and CEO, Caerus Associates & Former Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor in Iraq
Date: July 13, 2010
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location: Los Angeles
MORE...
MEETING CALIFORNIA'S PORTFOLIO STANDARDS: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR RENEWABLES
A Discussion with Tony Brunello, Deputy Secretary for Climate Change and Energy California Natural Resources Agency
Date: July 1, 2010
Time: 12:00 noon - 2:00pm
Location: San Francisco
MORE...
ON THE GROUND: PACIFIC COUNCIL IN IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN
Featuring: Amb. Frank Baxter, Chairman Emeritus, Jefferies and Company; Dr. Jerrold D. Green, President & CEO, Pacific Council; Ms. Maria Hummer-Tuttle, Philanthropist; Mr. Willem Mesdag, Partner, Red Mountain Capital Partners LLC; Mr. Marc Nathanson, Chairman, Mapleton Investments; Amb. Robert H. Tuttle, Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Date: June 29, 2010
Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Location: Los Angeles
MORE...
RAID OF THE GAZA FLOTILLA: GLOBAL TENSIONS
A Conference Call Exchange featuring Dr. Ian Lesser, Senior Transatlantic Fellow German Marshall Fund
Date: June 16, 2010
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 noon
MORE...
GETTING THE MOST FROM A PHILANTHROPIC DOLLAR: NEW APPROACHES TO IMPROVING HEALTH IN AFRICA
Featuring: Dr. Jenna Davis, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Stanford University and Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, and Mr. Charles Slaughter, Founder and President, Living Goods.
Date: June 15, 2010
Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location: San Francisco
MORE...
A WORLD THAT DELIVERS: WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT
Assessing Progress on Millennium Development Goal Number Five
A Conference Call Exchange featuring Purnima Mane, Deputy Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Date: June 9, 2010
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
MORE...
COUNTDOWN TO ZERO - FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
Featuring Lawrence Bender, Producer, Lawrence Bender Productions, Inc.
Date: June 8, 2010
Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: Los Angeles
MORE...
IS COOPERATION ENOUGH? PRESIDENT CALDERON'S STATE VISIT AND THE US-MEXICO AGENDA
A Conference Call Exchange featuring Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan, Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. and Ambassador Carlos Pascual, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
Date: June 2, 2010
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
MORE...
CHINA CHOICES: NAVIGATING THE PASSAGE FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE TO PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING
Featuring Ms. Mei Fong, Former China Correspondent (Pulitzer Prize Winner), The Wall Street Journal and Professor, USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism; Mr. Ian Johnson, China Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal (Pulitzer Prize Winner); Dr. Jeffery Wasserstrom, Professor History, University of California, Irvine & Co-Founder, The China Beat
Date: June 1, 2010
Time: 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Los Angeles
MORE...
REINVENTING THE US-INDIA PARTNERSHIP
EDGERTON SOUTH ASIAN SECURITY SERIES with AMB. TERESITA SCHAFFER
Director, South Asia Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies
Date: May 17, 2010
Time: 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Location: San Francisco
MORE...
REINVENTING THE US-INDIA PARTNERSHIP
EDGERTON SOUTH ASIAN SECURITY SERIES with AMB. TERESITA SCHAFFER
Director, South Asia Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies
Date: May 18, 2010
Time: 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Location: Los Angeles
MORE...
BRAZIL, THE UNITED STATES AND THE INTERNATIONAL AGENDA
A Conference Call Exchange featuring Ambassador Tom Shannon, U. S. Ambassador to Brazil and Ambassador Marcel Biato, Foreign Policy Advisor to President Lula Da Silva
Date: Thursday, May 6, 2010
Time: 11:00am - 12noon
MORE...
OBAMA'S NUCLEAR AGENDA: IS FULL DISARMAMENT POSSIBLE?
A Conference Call Exchange featuring Dr. George Perkovich, Vice President for Studies and Nuclear Policy Program Director, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Date: April 29, 2010
Time: 11:00 am - 12 noon
MORE...
MUST INDIA AND PAKISTAN BE ENEMIES?
EDGERTON SOUTH ASIAN SECURITY SERIES with DR. MARSHALL M. BOUTON
President, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Date: April 27, 2010
Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Location: Los Angeles
MORE...
CONFRONTING THE GLOBAL CRISIS OF WOMEN'S HEALTH: Global Perspectives and Local Challenges
Featuring Stephen Tomlin, VP for Program Policy and Planning, International Medical Corps and Janeen Simon, Executive Director, WINGS
Date: April 22, 2010
Time: 6:00 - 7:30pm
Location: Los Angeles
MORE...
US IMAGE IN THE WORLD: CAN OBAMA MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
A Conference Call Exchange with Colleen Graffy, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy for Europe & Eurasia; Director of Global Programs, Pepperdine University and Philip Seib, Director, USC Center on Public Diplomacy
Moderated by: Cari Guittard, Executive Director, Business for Diplomatic Action
Date: April 22, 2010
Time: 11:00 am - 12 noon
MORE...
THE US AND THE FUTURE OF ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE
A Conference Call Exchange with Dr. Aaron David Miller, Fellow Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Moderated by: Dr. Dalia Dassa Kaye, Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation
Date: March 26, 2010
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
MORE...
GLOBAL ENERGY ISSUES: REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS AND FUTURE TRAJECTORY
A Conversation with Donald Voelte, Managing Director & CEO, Woodside Energy
Date: Friday, March 19, 2010
Time: 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Los Angeles
MORE...
POST ELECTION PROSPECTS IN IRAQ
A Conference Call Exchange with Ambassador Ryan Crocker
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
MORE...
STALEMATE IN DOHA: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS FOR GLOBAL TRADE
A Conference Call Exchange with Rufus H. Yerxa, Deputy Director General, World Trade Organization
Moderated by: Monu Joseph, Co-founder and Partner, The Catalina Group
Date: Thursday, March 11, 2010
Time: 10:00am - 11:00am
MORE. . .
MIDDLE EAST REGIONAL AFFAIRS
A Conversation with Egyptian Ambassador Sameh Shoukry
Date: Monday, March 8, 2010
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Los Angeles
MORE...
U. S. PAKISTAN RELATIONS: A DEFINING GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP
A Conversation with the Honorable Anne Patterson, US Ambassador to Pakistan
Moderated by: The Honorable Jane Harmon, Congresswoman, 36th District of California
Date: Friday, March 5, 2010
Time: 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Los Angeles
MORE...
GLOBAL FALLOUT FROM TOYOTA: IMPLICATIONS FOR JAPAN AND US-JAPAN RELATIONS
A Conference Call Exchange with Steve Clemons, Senior Fellow & Director, American Strategy Program
New American Foundation
Moderated by: Tom Plate, Syndicated Columnist & Founder, Pacific Perspectives Media Center
Date: Thursday, March 4, 2010
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30pm
MORE...
DEVELOPMENTS IN IRAN: THE VIEW FROM WASHINGTON
A Conference Call Exchange with Ambassador John Limbert
Deputy Secretary for Iran, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department
Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
MORE...
THE QDDR: SEPARATING THE US CIVILIAN AND DEFENSE MISSIONS
A Conference Call Exchange with Dr. Gordon Adams, Distinguished Fellow, Stimson Center
Date: Friday, February 19, 2010
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm (PT)
MORE...
POST-CRISIS CHALLENGES FOR THE US-CHINA RELATIONSHIP: SYMBIOSIS OR TENSION?
A China Financial Markets Conference Co-Sponsored with the Asia Society of Northern California
Featured Dr. Stephen Roach, the Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, and Mr. Andrew Sheng, the Chief Adviser of the China Banking Regulatory Commission.
Date: Thursday, February 18, 2010
Location: Silicon Valley
MORE...
GOOGLE, CHINA AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
A Conference Call Exchange with Dr. Ernest J. Wilson III
Dean, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California
Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm (PT)
MORE...
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT
A Conversation with His Excellency Michael B. Oren
Israeli Ambassador to the United States
Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Los Angeles
MORE...
THE NEXT AMERICAN ECONOMY: GLOBAL SAN FRANCISCO
A Conversation with Bruce Katz
Vice President & Founding Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, The Brookings Institution
Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Location: San Francisco
MORE...
PREVENTING ANOTHER HAITIAN CRISIS: PREPAREDNESS AND MITIGATION AS AID
A Conversation with Dr. Brian Tucker
President and Founder, GeoHazards International
Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Time: 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: San Francisco
MORE...
THE RISING ROLE OF CHINA IN WORLD AFFAIRS & THE CHANGING DYNAMICS OF CHINA-US RELATIONS
A Conference Call Exchange Featuring Dr. Wang Yong
Professor, School of International Studies & Director, Center for International Political Economy, Peking University
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Time: 5:00- 6:00 pm PST
MORE...
HAITI: THE HUMANITARIAN CHALLENGE AHEAD
A Conference Call Exchange Featuring Nancy Aossey, Thomas Tighe, and Richard Walden
Featuring Nancy Aossey, President & CEO, International Medical Corps; Thomas Tighe, President & CEO, Direct Relief International; and Richard Walden, President & CEO, Operation USA
Date: Friday, January 15, 2010
Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm (PT)
MORE...
AL QAEDA'S GRAND STRATEGY AND THE WAR ON TERROR IN 2010
A Conference Call Exchange Featuring Dr. Bruce Hoffman
Professor, Security Studies Program, Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Date: Friday, January 8, 2010
Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm (PT)
MORE...