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Book Launch: “Exiting the Cold War; Entering a New World”
Kissinger Center professors Kristina Spohr and Mary Sarotte participated in a discussion on the end of the Cold War and the beginning of a new world order to celebrate the launch of a new book, "Exiting the Cold War, Entering a New World."
Book Salon for Professor Philip Zelikow’s To Build a Better World
The Kissinger Center hosted a salon dinner with SAIS students, academics, and practitioners and special guest Philip Zelikow, the White Burkett Miller Professor of History and J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance at the University of Virginia.
America and the future of Great Power Competition at Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus
The Kissinger Center hosted SAIS alumni Robert Work (MA '93), former deputy secretary of defense, and Richard Fontaine (MA '02), CEO of the Center for New American Security, at the Johns Hopkins Homewood undergraduate campus for a discussion, moderated by Professor Hal Brands, on the future of war and America's relationships with China and Russia.
American Policy in the Trump Era and Beyond at Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus
The Kissinger Center brought SAIS professors Hal Brands, Andrew Mertha, Adria Lawrence, and Matthias Matthijs to the Johns Hopkins University undergraduate Homewood campus in Baltimore to share their perspectives on U.S. foreign policy under President Trump and where it might go in the future, as well as preview the undergraduate courses the presenters will teach at Homewood during the spring 2020 semester.
Hal Brands publishes new book: The Last Card: Inside George W. Bush’s Decision to Surge in Iraq
Professor Hal Brands published a book The Last Card: Inside George W. Bush’s Decision to Surge in Iraq, co-edited with Timothy Andrews Sayle, Jeffrey A. Engel, and William Inboden.
The Future of US-Middle East Policy: A Carnegie Squares Session with Dr. Tamara Wittes
Dr. Tamara Wittes, Senior Fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, addressed the challenges in crafting impactful Middle East Policy in her seminar with IPSCON Junior Scholars.
Dr. Alexander Bick selected as a Wilson Center Fellow for 2019-2020
Dr. Alexander Bick, a Research Scholar at the Kissinger Center, was selected as a Wilson Center Fellow affiliated with the Middle East Program and the Kennan Institute for 2019 – 2020.
IPSCON Program hosts 20 PhD Candidates for Summer Retreat on Policy-Relevant Research
The Carnegie International Policy Scholars Consortium and Network (IPSCON) program hosted its fifth annual Minnowbrook Retreat in Blue Mountain Lake, New York in June.
First cohort of undergraduate students complete the Kissinger Seminar at Johns Hopkins University
The Kissinger Seminar on American Grand Strategy, a new initiative by the center, is designed to link SAIS with the undergraduate International Studies major at the Johns Hopkins University’s campus in Baltimore, Homewood.
Ambassador Robert Blackwill publishes CFR report, “Trump's Foreign Policies Are Better Than They Seem”
Diller–von Furstenberg Family Foundation Distinguished Scholar Robert D. Blackwill published a Council Special Report for the Council on Foreign Relations, “Trump's Foreign Policies Are Better Than They Seem” assessing the Trump Administration’s foreign policy — including the United States’ ties with allies, relations with China and Russia, and policies toward the Middle East, North Korea, Venezuela, trade, and climate change—halfway through the president’s first term.