On November 20 at 6 pm, the Pacific Council will host Joel S. Wit, a former State Department official, for a conversation on his newest book release, Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea. For almost four decades, the United States has tried to stop North Korea’s attempts to build nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them. Wit takes readers to the front lines of nuclear negotiations and to fierce policy debates and secret diplomatic gambits, recounting how perilously close the United States and North Korea have come, on various occasions, to nuclear confrontation. 

On Tuesday, October 21 at 9 am PT the Pacific Council will host a webinar featuring Larry Diamond. He will provide members with unique insights and a thought-provoking discussion on the mounting threats to democracy both within the United States and around the world. A leading scholar of democracy and governance, Diamond will explore the resurgence of authoritarianism, democratic backsliding in established systems, and the erosion of trust in democratic institutions.

Join the Pacific Council on Wednesday, October 15, at 8 am PT, to explore the impact of increasing global dependence on AI and the loosening of climate regulatory policy in the U.S. with the passage of the Big, Beautiful Bill. The audience will hear from Samantha Gross, Director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative and a Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, and Allan T. Marks, Senior Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and Law Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and UCLA.