The Pacific Council invites its members to a timely conversation examining President Trump’s newly published national security strategy on Friday, December 19, at 12 pm PT. This webinar will feature a discussion between two expert voices on international affairs and U.S. foreign policy, Dr. Kiron Skinner, the Taube Family Chair Professor at Pepperdine University, W. Glenn Campbell Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Advisor to the President at The Heritage Foundation, and Board Member of the Pacific Council, and Dr. Jerrold D. Green, Interim President & CEO of the Pacific Council.

Their dialogue will explore the administration’s stated national security priorities, including economic security, migration, and burden-sharing, as well as the President’s regional focus areas spanning the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and Europe. In this session, participants will gain insight into the central pillars of the new strategy, highlight areas of continuity and departure from previous administrations, and offer insight into how we might interpret the road ahead.

The National Security Strategy document published by the White House can be read here.

Please send questions in advance to events@pacificcouncil.org.

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Guest Speaker

Kiron K. Skinner is the Taube Family Chair Professor at Pepperdine University, the W. Glenn Campbell Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Advisor to the President at The Heritage Foundation. She has served in senior roles in the State and Defense Departments. Her coauthored books on President Reagan have been New York Times bestsellers.

 

Presider

Dr. Jerrold D. Green is the Global Advisor to Cedars-Sinai Hospital, a Los Angeles-based healthcare organization, and a Senior Fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations. He is also the Interim President and CEO of the Pacific Council on International Policy, a position he previously occupied for 16 years while serving as a Research Professor of Communication, Business, and International Relations at the University of Southern California. Green was a Partner at Best Associates in Dallas, Texas, a merchant banking firm with global operations. He also occupied senior management positions at the RAND Corporation, where he was awarded the RAND Medal for Excellence. Dr. Green has a B.A. (summa cum laude) from the University of Massachusetts/Boston, as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. His academic career began at the University of Michigan, and he subsequently joined the University of Arizona, where he became a Professor of Political Science and Sociology as well as Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Green has lived and worked in Egypt, where he was a Fulbright Fellow, Iran, and Israel. He has been a visiting fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Science's West Asian Studies Center in Beijing; a visiting lecturer at the Havana-based Center for African and Middle East Studies (CEAMO), a fellow at the Australian Defense College, and delivered papers at conferences sponsored by the Iranian Institute of International Affairs in Tehran. Dr. Green led three U.S. Department of Defense-sponsored fact-finding delegations to Afghanistan, one to Iraq, and has served as an observer at the legal proceedings at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense.

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