January 18, 2024 | 10:00-11:00 AM EST | Hybrid Please join the Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) for a discussion from 10:00–11:00am ET on January 18th, 2024, for an Armchair Discussion with Pranay Vaddi, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Arms Control,...
January 18, 2024 • 1:00 pm ET | In-Person & Online Join the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security for a discussion moderated by Felicia Schwartz of the Financial Times on Thursday, January 18, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. ET, on what more than 250...
January 23, 2024 | 1:00 - 2:30 PM | Hybrid China’s Use of Armed Coercion: To Win Without Fighting analyzes China’s use of its armed forces to coerce other actors in the international system in an effort to achieve policy aims short of armed conflict. Drawing...
January 23, 2024 | 2:00 PM—3:00 PM EST | In-Person & Online As the BRICS bloc grows to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, this year could bring about greater renminbi use across emerging markets—thanks in part to the growth of renminbi...
January 25, 2024 | 10:00 – 11:00 am EST | Hybrid The Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) Live Debate Series is back! The PONI Debate Series was started in 2009 to have a more dynamic and free flowing exchange of ideas, resulting in an enriched...
February 5, 2024 | 9:00—10:00 AM ET / 2:00-3:00 PM GMT | Hybrid Due to popular demand, in-person registrations have reached capacity. Future RSVPs will be for a virtual audience only. In the face of unprecedented global attention and interest in the World Bank, President...
February 6, 2024 | 10:00 AM| Virtual Ricardo Hausmann from Harvard University sparked a heated debate in 2017 on the role of Wall Street in financing wannabe autocrats by calling Venezuela’s government debt “The Hunger Bonds.” Drawing from an analogy between investing in environmentally harmful...
February 6, 2024 | 12:00pm to 1:20pm| Hybrid This panel will explore Chile's constitutional reform process. Discussants will take a step back and evaluate what happened over the last four years and what it means going forward. Speakers: Claudia Heiss, Professor in the Faculty of...
February 6, 2024 | 15:00-16:15 GMT | Online In El Salvador’s 2024 elections, on 4 February, the country votes for its President, Vice President and members of its National Assembly. Join Canning House and our panel for this webinar discussing the election's results and...
February 6, 2024 | 1500-1615 | Virtual El Salvador went to the polls on 4 February, with its citizens voting for its President, Vice President and members of its National Assembly. Late on Sunday, Nayib Bukele claimed he and his party had garnered over 85% of the vote,...
February 07, 2024 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EST | Virtual 2024 will be a historic year for elections. Democracies comprising 41% of the world’s population and 42% of its GDP will cast their votes around the globe. Yet recent shifts in the information...
February 12, 2024 | 11:00am – 12:00pm ET | Virtual Rather than fixating on the Belt and Road Initiative’s (BRI) many well discussed negative attributes, Simon Curtis and Ian Klaus, authors of the soon-to-be-released book The Belt and Road City: Geopolitics, Urbanization, and China’s Search...
February 13, 2024 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Hybrid This panel will discuss Javier Milei's presidency focusing on his reform initiative, Argentina's institutions, and more. Speakers: Carla Yumatle, Professor of Political Theory, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Federico Sturzenegger, Full Professor of Economics and Business, Universidad de San...
February 14, 2024 | 8:30 - 9:30 AM | Virtual With ongoing conflicts in Europe and the Middle East, the international community’s ability to uphold a liberal international order continues to be tested. In addition, with numerous elections taking place across the globe, including the...
February 15, 2024 | 4:30pm to 6:30pm | Hybrid Speaker: Juan Luis Manfredi, Príncipe de Asturías Distinguished Visiting Professor, Georgetown University. Moderated by Javier Lafuente Preciados, Harvard Nieman Fellow. This event is hybrid, to attend register here. Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the...
February 15, 2024 | 7:00-8:00PM | Virtual Victor Blue, 2023-24 ASU Future Security Fellow, photojournalist and writer focusing on the legacy of armed conflict, his work appears in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and Harper’s Magazine, earned seven Pictures of the Year International awards, five NPPA...
February 16, 2024 | 12:30 PM | Virtual Remittances to the Latin America and Caribbean region in 2023 were over US$160 billion, five percent of the region’s income as part of continued growth. Recent data shows that a competitive and diverse number of money transfer...
February 20, 2024 | 12:00pm to 1:20pm | Hybrid This project examines citizens' commitment to democracy and their role in monitoring politicians' undemocratic behavior. The most commonly used measures of support for democracy come from public opinion surveys, based on questions that may suffer from...
February 23, 2024 | 11:00am – 12:00pm ET | Virtual Brazil assumed the presidency of the G20 in December 2023, a significant role in foreign policy for President Lula's administration. The G20 includes the 19 wealthiest countries globally, alongside the African Union and the European...
February 27, 2024 | 12:00pm to 1:20pm | Hybrid We experimentally evaluate the social and political consequences of a military policing intervention in Cali, Colombia, one of the world’s most violent cities. Despite null or adverse effects on crime and human rights, we show that...
March 7, 2024 | 3:00 – 4:00 pm EST | Online In this new era of great power competition, the Global South is rising on the geopolitical agenda and emerging as a pivotal battleground for influence and prosperity in the 21st century. Yet, the...
March 6, 2024 | 2:00pm – 3:15pm ET | Online During an election year, political risk is top of mind for financial analysts and investors. On June 2nd, 2024, Mexico will hold its largest election in history, creating both vulnerabilities and opportunities for business development....
March 11, 2024 | 10:00am – 11:15am ET | Hybrid Brazilian journalist Igor Patrick spent four years in China and Latin America researching his book on how China’s propaganda organs influence Latin American media. Through detailed case studies on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, Patrick...
March 11, 2024 | 10:00 am ET | Online Please join the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center and GeoEconomics Center on Monday, March 11 at 10:00 a.m. ET for a virtual discussion on mobilizing private investment in climate mitigation and adaptation in the Global...
March 12, 2024 | 10:00 -11:30 AM | Virtual This event will be held in Spanish. Micro-credentials have the potential to promote social and economic mobility for individuals in and out of the labor market in Latin America and the Caribbean. For training institutions,...