January 11, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific) | Online Despite the policy failures that enabled and even encouraged the buildup of risk in the banking system and ultimately led to the global financial crisis of 2007-2009, “reformed” rules remain poorly designed, the...
Jan 11, 2024 | 1:00 PM EST | Online Join climate security expert Sherri Goodman and nuclear security expert Jamie Kwong in conversation with Stimson Center non-resident fellow Theo Kalionzes to discuss how climate change is affecting nuclear policy. We will cover topics like how...
January 11, 2024 | 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Online The Guyanese-Venezuelan territorial controversy over the border territory around the Essequibo River has emerged as a significant geopolitical challenge in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Essequibo, a vast territory encompassing about two-thirds of...
January 15 2024 | 15.00-16.30 Copenhagen ( 9:00 AM EST) | Hybrid In the past few years, Taiwan has attracted growing attention from Europe, including the Nordic region. Apart from its geopolitical centrality in the US-China rivalry, Taiwan has made headlines because of its indispensable...
January 16, 2024 | 9:30 am ET | Online Please join the GeoEconomics Center to launch new research as part of the inaugural Bretton Woods 2.0 Fellowship. This Fellowship aims to cultivate a new generation of economists to help reimagine the shape of the...
February 8, 2024 | 10:00–12:15 | In-Person & Online In 1899, the Swedish scholar Rudolf Kjellén coined the term "geopolitics". Already centuries before, scholars had been interested in the interaction between territorially embedded factors and foreign policy or international relations. In Europe, the field...
Jan. 16, 2024 | 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Online When we think of climate, the stories we tell about the future are bad: megastorms, crop failures, and heat waves loom over us. These narratives are compelling, but can leave us feeling hopeless, helpless,...
January 16, 2024 | 4:30 pm ET | In-Person & Online 2024 is set to be a pivotal year for the Caribbean’s development amid rapidly changing climate, energy, and economic dynamics. As electricity prices remain high and the effects of climate change are worsening,...
Jan. 16, 2024 | 8:00pm – 9:15pm ET | Virtual At long last food was on the climate negotiation table at the COP28. Lauded as one of the most positive outcomes of the COP, 159 countries signed the Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems...
Jan. 16, 2024 | 8:00pm – 9:15pm ET | Online At long last food was on the climate negotiation table at the COP28. Lauded as one of the most positive outcomes of the COP, 159 countries signed the Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food...
January 17, 2024 | 2:00—3:00 PM ET / 7:00-8:00 PM GMT | Virtual The world economy is facing a turbulent period: Global growth is projected to remain subdued in 2024, given tight monetary policy and more restrictive credit, and downside risks abound—from escalating conflict in...
January 17, 2024 | 9:30 AM Eastern | Hybrid Does U.S. nuclear security culture rely too much on secrecy and exclusion? How does this impact threat perception, access to sensitive information and materials, and hiring practices? In an exploratory study, the Stimson Center spoke with...
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 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | Virtual Since mid-October 2023, Yemen's Houthi militia has carried out repeated attacks on Red Sea maritime commerce, disrupting global trade and prompting the United States and United Kingdom to launch retaliatory airstrikes as well as...
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...