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May 17 Korean Cuisine and Culture
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May 14 Topic 4: Myanmar and SE Asia
Myanmar and Vietnam Programs
Myra Dahgaypaw Human Rights Activist, Karen State Coordinator, U.S. Campaign for Burma |
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The West has welcomed unprecedented democratic
reforms made by the government of Myanmar
(Burma), and this month the White House will
welcome the country’s leader for the first time
in nearly 50 years. In the face of ongoing human
rights concerns, is the country ready to join
the international community? What role will it
play in Southeast Asia, and what do the rise of
China and the United States’ strategic pivot to
Asia portend for the region?
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Where: Boston Public Library,
Commonwealth Salon
Date: Tuesday, May 14
Time: 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Cost: Free and open to the public!
WorldBoston's
GREAT DECISIONS 2013 lecture and
discussion series
is made possible by a generous grant from
The Lowell Institute.
GREAT DECISIONS
2013 Topics
All
discussions on the
following Tuesdays
at the Boston Public Library:
Future of the Euro - February 12
NATO - March 12
Egypt - April 9
Myanmar and Southeast Asia - May 14
Humanitarian intervention - Sept. 10
Iran - October 8
China in Africa - November 12
Threat assessment - December 10
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GREAT DECISIONS 2013
Egypt
(April
9)
Darin Johnson, U.S. Department of State
Office of Middle East Transitions
Professor Melani Cammett, Brown University
Watson Institute for International Studies
Wafik Farag, Ph.D.
Global Strategy Expert -- American-Egyptian
Professor Ibrahim Warde, Fletcher School of
Law and Diplomacy
Expert on Islamic Finance
Featured Panelists:
Foreign Policy Association
Video
NATO in the 21st Century
(March
12)
Featured Panelists:
Lori Murray, Ph.D.
Distinguished National Security Chair,
U.S. Naval Academy
Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Henrik Larsen
Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Danish Institute for International Studies
Lucas Kello, Ph.D.
Former
Consultant to the European Union
Foreign Policy Association
Video
Future of the Euro (February 12)
Featured Panelists:
Michalis Psalidopoulos, Ph.D.
Karamanlis Chair in European Studies,
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Fabio Ghironi, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics, Boston College
Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research
Foreign Policy Association
Video
GREAT DECISIONS 2012
State of the Oceans (December 11)
Featured Panelists:
Assistant Secretary of State Kerri-Ann Jones
Bureau of Oceans, International Environment, and
Scientific Affairs
Scott Borgerson, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Institute for Global Maritime Studies
Susan K. Avery, Ph.D.
President and Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution
Foreign Policy Association
Video
Indonesia (November 13)
Featured Panelists:
Elizabeth Osborn
Director, Indonesia Program, Harvard Kennedy School
Engelbertus Wendratama
Media Researcher and
Journalist, Indonesia
Fulbright Visiting
Scholar, Emerson College
Foreign Policy Association
Video
Exiting Iraq and Afghanistan (October 9)
Featured Panelists:
State Representative Harold Naughton, Jr.
(D-Clinton)
Chairman, Massachusetts House Joint Committe on
Public Safety
and Homeland Security
Major, U.S. Army Reserve
Mimi Gregory
Past President, Naples Council on World Affairs
Delegate, U.S. State Department Leadership Mission
to Afghanistan
Roger Knight
Director of Veteran Outreach, Red Sox Foundation and
Massachusetts General Hospital
Home Base Program
Bronze Star Recipient, U.S. Army Special Forces
(Afghanistan)
Foreign Policy Association
Video
Energy Geopolitics (September 11)
Robert F. Cekuta, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State,
Energy Resources
Bureau
Foreign Policy Association
Video
Cybersecurity (May 8)
Ciaran Martin,
Director of Security and Intelligence,
The Cabinet Office, United Kingdom
Foreign Policy Association
Video
Mexico (April 10)
Consul General Daniel Hernandez Joseph,
Consulate General of
Mexico in Boston
Foreign Policy Association
Video
Promoting Democracy (March 13)
Marcia K. Wong,
Director
for Intergovernmental Affairs,
United States Institute of Peace
Foreign Policy Association
Video
Arab Realignment (February 14)
Prof. Denis
Sullivan,
Director of the International Affairs Program and
The Middle East
Center, Northeastern University
Karim Haggag,
Career diplomat in Egypt's Foreign Service with expertise
in
Middle East regional security, arms control, and
Arab-Israeli diplomacy
Foreign Policy Association
Video
GREAT DECISIONS 2011
The Caucasus (December 6)
The Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
View the Great Decisions Fall Update
Global Governance (November 8)
Craig Murphy, Ph.D.,
Co-Director, Center for Governance and
Sustainability, The McCormack Graduate School at UMass Boston
View the Great Decisions Fall Update
Banks,
Governments, and Debt Crises (October
11)
Charles Kane,
Senior Lecturer in Finance, The MIT Sloan School
of Management; Board of Directors, One Laptop
Per Child
View the Great Decisions
Fall Update
Horn of Africa
(September
13)
Ambassador Charles
Stith,
Director of the African Presidential Archives
and Research Center, Boston University; Former
Ambassador to Tanzania
View the Great Decisions
Fall Update
National Security After Bin Laden (May
10)
Kelly Greenhill, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of International Relations,
Tufts University; Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center
Foreign Policy Association
Video
Germany Ascendant (April
12)
Paul Vallet, Ph.D.,
Visiting Professor, The Fletcher School,
Tufts University; Adjunct Faculty, Sciences-Po
(Paris)
Foreign Policy Association
Video
Rebuilding Haiti
(March
8)
Sanctions and Nonproliferation (February
8)
Pierre Cremieux, Ph.D.,
President, Community Health International
Foreign Policy Association
Video
Jim Walsh, Ph.D.,
Research Associate, Security Studies Program,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Foreign Policy Association
Video
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2013: WorldBoston's
6th Annual Competition |
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2013 Champion:
Walpole
High School
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