Dorothea Green Lecture Series

“State of the World 2019”

January 10, 2019 from 3:30 PM to 6:30 PM &
January 11, 2019 from 8:15 AM - 5:15 PM

FIU Graham Center Ballrooms
Modesto A. Maidique Campus (MMC)
11200 S.W. 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199

Join us

For a timely discussion with leading experts on some of the most pressing issues facing the globe, including threats to democracy, foreign policy in hotspots such as North Korea and Russia and immigration and Cuba.

Featuring

Anne Marie Slaughter, President, New America

Vladimir Kara-Murza, Vice Chair, Open Russia

Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent, New York Times

Susan Glasser, Washington columnist for New Yorker

Elliot Abrams, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

David Ignatius Columnist for Washington Post and commentator for MSNBC

Luis Guillermo Solis, former president of Costa Rica and visiting scholar at FIU

Plus:

Boris Sanchez, CNN; Edward Luce, Financial Times; Laura Silver, Pew Research; Matt Kaminski, Politico; Moises Naim, Carnegie Endowment; William Reinsch, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Kurt Volker, McCain Institute; Frank Mora, FIU; Elisa Massimino, Harvard University; Anne Richard, Georgetown University; Peter Skerry, Boston College; Brian Fonseca, FIU; Michele Dunne, Carnegie Endowment; Stephen McInerney, Project on Middle East Democracy; Nancy Okail, Tahrir Institute; Charles Davidson, The American Interest; Nicole Bibbins-Sedaca, Georgetown University; Will Inboden, U/Texas-Austin; Martin Palous, FIU; Daniel Twining,International Republican Institute; Heather Conley, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Nino Evgenidze, Economic Policy Research Center, Georgia; Daniel Fried, Atlantic Council; Zygimantis Pavilionis, Parliament of Lithuania

AGENDA

Please note: Program subject to change

Thursday, January 10, 2019

3:30 – 4:00: Registration

4:00 – 4:15: Welcome

4:15 – 5:15: Session I: Journalists’ Roundtable: From 2018 to 2019 -- What To Look For

5:15 – 5:30 Pew Survey

5:30 - 6:30: Session II: Cuba Poll

Friday, January 11, 2019

8:15 – 8:30: Registration/coffee

8:30- 9:30: Session III: Hot Spots Around the Globe: Top Challenges for U.S. Foreign Policy in 2019

9:40 – 10:40: Session IV: Immigration: Who’s In and Who’s Out?

10:40 – 11:00: Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:00: Session V: U.S. Foreign Policy After the Midterms: The View from Congress

12:15 – 12:45: Lunch

12:45 – 2:00: Session VI: The Mess in the Middle East

2:00 – 3:00: Session VII: Threats to Democracy: Corruption, Authoritarianism, Ultra-Nationalism, Disinformation

3:10 – 4:10: Session VIII: The Particular Problem of Putin’s Russia