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May 14 CHAT & CHOWDA Author Series
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May 8 Topic 4: Cybersecurity:
New Age Defense Director of Security and Intelligence, The Cabinet Office, United Kingdom |
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The securitization of cyberspace has caused a sea change for both governments and the private sector, presenting new threats, new battlegrounds and new opportunities. Faced with challenges such as international cybercrime and authoritarian control of networks, how will the U.S. and its democratic allies approach the cyber frontier? How does this new domain figure in U.S. strategic interests? Briefing Book excerpt. |
Where: Boston Public Library
The
Boston Room, 1st Floor (Boylston Street
Entrance)
Date: Tuesday, May 8
Time: 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Cost: Free and open to the public
WorldBoston's
GREAT DECISIONS 2012 lecture and
discussion series
is made possible by a generous grant from
The Lowell Institute.
GREAT DECISIONS 2012 Topics
All
discussions on the
following Tuesdays
at the Boston Public Library:
Middle East Realignment - February 14
Promoting Democracy - March 13
Mexico - April 10
Cybersecurity - May 8
Exit from Afghanistan and Iraq - September 11
State of the Oceans - October 9
Indonesia - November 13
Energy Geopolitics - December 11
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WorldBoston in March, and we'll give you a copy of the GREAT DECISIONS 2012 Briefing Book free! ($20 value)
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GREAT DECISIONS Spring 2012
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
GREAT DECISIONS Fall 2011
The Caucasus (December 6)
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
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
GREAT DECISIONS Spring 2011
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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Spring
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5th Annual Competition |
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April 21, 2012: WorldBoston
champs head to
D.C. |
Walpole
Becomes New Champion!
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