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Hosted in partnership with the Foreign Policy Research Institute, America Georgia Business Council's conference will look at the growing relationship between the United States and Georgia. It will examine how the US and Georgia work together in security, trade and investment, and how to manage shared challenges.

Speakers will include: 

Richard Wike, Director of Global Attitudes Research Pew Research Center, will discuss the results of Pew Foundation studies regarding attitudes of Middle Eastern nations and people of the United States.

New York Times journalist, Anemona Hartocollis, has been chosen as the National Resource Centers’ Global Distinguished Lecturer for 2016. In her talk she will discuss her experience following a group of migrants and refugees from the Greek Island of Kos to Denmark. She will explore the struggles, hopes and desires of people she met along the way and ponder the unknown outcomes of this mass exodus from the Middle East and North Africa.

The Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy welcomes you to its final talk of the 2015 Spring semester! Jonathan Winkler, "The Historical Roots of the Snowden Revelations"

A Tuition-Free Six-Part Lecture Series: Wednesday Evenings at 7pm beginning March 4, 2015

The Honorable John McCain, long-serving United States Senator from Arizona, former presidential candidate, and decorated Navy veteran held in captivity in Viet Nam for five and a half years, joins Council members and guests to present the stories of Americans at war through the personal accounts of thirteen remarkable soldiers who fought in major military conflicts from the Revolutionary War of 1776 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Dirty Wars, Richard Rowley’s documentary tracking investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill on a global hunt to uncover America’s secret wars on terror, won the Cinematography award at the Sundance Film Festival.

In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, city officials, police departments and security personnel across the country – and around the world – have begun to reassess current protocol to address similar crowd-gathering events and the possible need to upgrade and/or revamp systems in place. Although authorities have questioned the ability to secure miles of spectator routes for an event such as a marathon, attention is being directed to means of preventing similar attacks and protecting citizens.