The third annual America’s Role in the World conference at Indiana University’s School of Global and International Studies in Bloomington will address the major foreign policy challenges we face, with an eye toward a deeper understanding of how they affect and are affected by domestic developments.

Co-convened by two of America’s most esteemed voices in foreign policy, Sen. Dick Lugar and Rep. Lee Hamilton, this conference will discuss the important role of diplomacy and development as essential pillars of our national security policy and aims to build non-partisan support for the principle that America’s future is global and our engagement in the world is essential.

Welcome & Introduction
Lee Feinstein
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Session 1: Democratic Deconsolidation
Moderator: Jeffrey Isaac
Panelists: Michael Abramowitz, Sergio Berensztein, Yascha Mounk, Katie Simmons
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Session 2: Refugee Policy
Moderator: Dan Balz
Panelists: Assad Alsaleh, Rebecca Erbelding, Eric Schwartz, Ronald Vitiello
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Session 3: Asia’s Rise
Moderator: David Bosco
Panelists: Alyssa Ayres, Mark Minton, James Keith, John Yasuda
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Session 4: Global Engagement, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Congress
Moderator: Marie Harf
Panelists: Sen. Richard Lugar, Rep. Lee H. Hamilton
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Session 5: Global Russia
Moderator: Sarah Phillips
Panelists: James Collins, Andrew Kuchins, Maria Lipman, Celeste Wallander
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Session 6: Global Food Security
Remarks: Sen. Todd Young
Moderator: Christine Barbour
Panelists: Sen. Richard Lugar, Sen. Todd Young, Gebisa Ejeta, Jon Eldon
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Session 7: Indiana in the World
Remarks: Michael A. McRobbie
Moderator: Lauren Robel
Panelists: Karen Freeman-Wilson, Blair Milo, James T. Morris, Jamie Merisotis
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