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America’s Role in the World

America’s Role in the World

Thursday, March 5, 2020

Higher Education's Premier Nonpartisan Foreign Policy Conference

What is the future of American diplomacy? The IU Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies will bring diplomats, journalists, politicians, and scholars to the IU Bloomington campus to debate this and other questions and engage with globally-minded students.

The fifth annual conference will feature an diversity of guests, including former Ambassador William J. Burns, Senator Todd Young, Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch, The New Yorker's Susan Glasser, and 60 Minutes correspondent Bill Whitaker.

Welcome

Amb. Lee Feinstein, Founding dean, IU Hamilton Lugar School

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Session 1: Climate Change and the American Public

Isabella Fallahi, Youth Climate Strike
Lee Gunn, Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Janet McCabe, IU Environmental Resilience Institute
Jessica O’Reilly, IU Hamilton Lugar School
Emily Atkin moderator, HEATED

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Session 2: National Security Challenges in the 2020s

Andrew Bell, IU Hamilton Lugar School
Kelly Magsamen, Center for American Progress
Nicholas Rasmussen, McCain Institute
Frank Rose, Brookings Institution
Lara Jakes moderator, The New York Times

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Session 3: US-China Relations

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Axios
Wendy Leutert, IU Hamilton Lugar School
Adam Liff, IU Hamilton Lugar School
Daniel Twining, International Republican Institute
John Yasuda moderator, IU Hamilton Lugar School

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Session 4: The Foreign Policy Inbox
Introduction by Rep. Lee H. Hamilton

Ambassador William J. Burns, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, speaks with Susan Glasser, writer at The New Yorker and global affairs analyst at CNN.

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Session 5: Richard G. Lugar Lecture

Sen. Todd Young gives remarks followed by a moderated conversation with John Stehr, Anchor Emeritus at WTHR.

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Session 6: Presidential Elections and US Foreign Policy

Whit Ayres, North Star Opinion Research
Geoffrey Garin, Hart Research Associates
Allison Stanger, Middlebury College
Bill Whitaker, CBS 60 Minutes
Marie Harf moderator, Fox News

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Session 7: Richard G. Lugar Award presentation

Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, former US Ambassador to Ukraine, speaks with
Ambassador Lee Feinstein and takes questions from students.

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