Academic Exchange Alumni Retreat

Topics:

Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice in International Relations

• Will Ruger: Vice President for Research and Policy, Charles Koch Institute
• Steve Del Rosso: Director of International Peace and Security at the Carnegie Corporation
• Bruce Jentleson: William Preston Few Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Duke University
• Moderator: Dr. Reiss

China and the Great Powers in the Middle-East

• Avery Goldstein: David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania
• Dalia Dassa Kaye: Senior fellow at UCLA’s Burkle Center for International Relations
• Moderator: Jonathan Caverley, Professor in Strategic and Operational Research and director of the Bernard Brodie Strategy Group at the United States Naval War College

Israel and the Shifting Terrain in the Middle-East

• Ebtesam al-Ketbi, Founder and President of the Emirates Policy Center; member of the Consultative Commission of the Gulf Cooperation Council

Contemporary Issues in the Middle-East

• Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin: Israeli political analyst and public opinion expert; Policy Fellow at Century International, a New York-based progressive public policy think-tank
• Ghaith al-Omari: Fellow in The Washington Institute’s Irwin Levy Family Program on the U.S.-Israel Strategic Relationship and former executive director of the American Task Force on Palestine.
• Eric Schwartz: President of Refugees International
• Moderator: Charles Kupchan, Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University, and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations

Geopolitics and Regional Dynamics

• Gregory Gause: John H. Lindsey ’44 Chair, Professor of International Affairs and Head of the International Affairs Department at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University
• Gen. (ret) Karl Eikenberry: Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan; Senior advisor to the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Defense on its defense and military transformation plan; faculty member of Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University in Beijing
• Suzanne Maloney: Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy, the Brookings Institution
• Moderator: Shane Harris: Intelligence and National Security Correspondent for the Washington Post

The Constitution of Knowledge – A Defense of Truth

            Jonathan Rauch: Senior fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings