Recent Events

• The New Spycraft: Cyber Espionage in the 21st Century
  May 15, 2013
  
  

• A Conversation with Senator Christopher Murphy on International Climate Change
  May 14, 2013
  
  

• The New Partnership in the Pacific: Prospects for Renewal of the US-Japan Alliance
  Apr 23, 2013
  
  

• Nukes, Missiles, and Feints: The Real Deal on Iran and North Korea
  Apr 19, 2013
  
  

• The New Partnership in the Pacific: Prospects for Renewal of the US-Japan Alliance
  
  

• A Conversation with Former Defense Secretary Harold Brown
  Apr 9, 2013
  
  

• #CleanAndMean: DoDs Tactical and Operational Energy Innovations
  Apr 3, 2013
  
  

• Media and the Iraq War: Who Changed Whom?
  Mar 19, 2013
  
  

• Special Two Panel Event - 10 Years in Iraq: Perspectives from Washington to the Front Line
  Mar 14, 2013
  
  

• Behind the Firewall at DHS: One-on-One with Richard Spires
  Mar 13, 2013
  
  

• The Spy Who Hacked Me: America and Cyber Espionage
  Mar 7, 2013
  
  

• Why Mali Matters: Economics, Energy, and Extremism in North Africa
  Feb 27, 2013
  
  

• Women in Combat: The Changing Roles of Women in the U.S. Military
  Feb 21, 2013
  
  

• The New Team: Foreign and Security Policy in a Second Obama Administration
  Jan 29, 2013
  
  
  As President Obama’s second term kicks off, three key positions have turned over. Senator Kerry has been nominated to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the nation's top diplomat. Former Senator Chuck Hagel has been nominated to replace Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta as the head of the Pentagon. The President’s close adviser on counterterrorism, John Brennan, is slated to become the next Director of the CIA.

• Swerving to Avoid the "Fiscal Cliff": The Debt Ceiling, Sequestration and Tax Policy in America
  Jan 10, 2013
  
  
  At the 11th hour, Vice President Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell brokered a deal that averted the so-called "fiscal cliff," forestalling massive government cuts that could have plunged the country back into a recession. At the CNP Edmund S. Muskie Awards Banquet, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta described the sequestration budget cuts associated with the fiscal cliff as a gun held to the head of Congress. But the fiscal cliff deal only delayed sequestration and a decision on the federal debt ceiling. Our two expert speakers - no strangers to the federal budget and fiscal policy - provide some much-needed insight on what the deal really meant and how the White House and Congress can chart the dangerous waters ahead.

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