FIU Green School State of the World 2020 Program

STATE OF THE WORLD 2020

GLOBAL RELATIONS & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY JANUARY 9-10, 2020 FIU Graham Center Ballrooms #stateoftheworld2020

American Interest

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Program Agenda THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 2020 2:00 P.M. – 2:30 P.M. — REGISTRATION 2:30 P.M. – 2:40 P.M. — WELCOME

John F. Stack, Jr., Founding Dean, Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs, Florida International University (FIU)

2:40 P.M. – 2:55 P.M. — PEW SURVEY: HOW AMERICANS VIEW FOREIGN POLICY AND HOW THE WORLD

VIEWS THE UNITED STATES

Jacob Poushter, Associate Director, Global Attitudes Research, Pew Research 3:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. — SESSION I: 2020 IN THE UNITED STATES: IMPEACHMENT AND ELECTIONS Moderator:

David J. Kramer, Senior Fellow, Václav Havel Program for Human Rights and Diplomacy, and

Director for European & Eurasian Studies, Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs, FIU Panelists:

Nancy Ancrum, Editorial Page Editor, The Miami Herald

Natasha Bertrand, National Security Correspondent, Politico

Matt Kaminski, Editor-in-Chief, Politico

Jonathan Tepperman, Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy 4:05 P.M. - 5:05 P.M. — SESSION II: DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS AROUND THE GLOBE: HOW BAD IS IT?

Moderator: Lindsay Lloyd, Bradford M. Freeman Director of Human Freedom, George W. Bush Institute

Panelists:

Michael Abramowitz, President, Freedom House

Shari Bryan, Vice President, National Democratic Institute

Victoria Nuland, Senior Counselor, Albright Stonebridge Group

Daniel Twining, President, International Republican Institute 5:10 P.M. - 6:10 P.M. — SESSION III: IMMIGRATION — FINDING SOLUTIONS

Moderator: Kurt Volker, Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO

Panelists:

Juan Carlos Gómez, Director, Carlos A. Costa Immigration and Human Rights Clinic, College of Law, FIU

Elisa Massimino, Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights, Georgetown University Law Center

Anne Richard, Adjunct Professor, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University

Peter Skerry, Professor, Department of Political Science, Boston College 6:15 P.M. – 7:00 P.M. — A CONVERSATION: THE SCOURGE OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Introduction by Aminda “Mindy” Marques Gonzalez, Executive Editor and Publisher, The Miami Herald Cindy McCain, Chair of the Board, The McCain Institute, with Nicole Bibbins-Sedaca, Professor of Practice and Chair, Global Politics and Security Concentration, Georgetown University

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Program Agenda FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 2020 8:30 A.M. – 9:00 A.M. — REGISTRATION/COFFEE 9:00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M. — WELCOMING REMARKS BY FIU PRESIDENT MARK B. ROSENBERG 9:15 A.M. – 10:15 A.M. — SESSION IV: INITIATIVE FOR DEMOCRATIC AND ECONOMIC ALTERNATIVES (IDEAS) FOR CUBA Moderator:

Martin Palouš, Director, Václav Havel Program for Human Rights and Diplomacy, FIU Panelists:

Lincoln Díaz-Balart, Former U.S. Representative and Chair of the Congressional Hispanic

Leadership Institute

Rosa María Payá, President, Latin American Network of Youth for Democracy and Cuba Decide

José Carlos Sánchez Berzain, Former Bolivian Defense Minister and Director of Inter-American Institute

for Democracy

Maria Werlau, Executive Director, Cuba Archive 10:20 A.M. – 11:20 A.M. — SESSION V: VENEZUELA: WHAT TO DO?

Moderator: Jason Marczak, Director of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, Atlantic Council

Panelists:

Elliott Abrams, Special Representative for Venezuela, U.S. Department of State

Astrid Arrarás, Lecturer and Associate Director, Undergraduate Studies, Department of Politics &

International Relations FIU

Brian Fonseca, Director, Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy, and Adjunct Professor, Steven J.

Green School of International & Public Affairs, FIU

Frank Mora, Director and Professor, Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, FIU

Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera, Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, FIU, and

former President of Costa Rica 11:25 A.M. – 12:25 P.M. — SESSION VI: THE FUTURE OF EUROPE AND TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS Moderator:

Jeff Gedmin, Editor-in-Chief, The American Interest Panelists:

Nino Evgenidze, Executive Director, Economic Policy Research Center, Tbilisi, Georgia

Ben Hodges, LTG (Ret) and Pershing Chair, Center for European Analysis (CEPA)

Andrew Moravcsik, Professor of Politics and International Affairs and Director, European Union

Program, Princeton University

Zygimantis Pavilionis, Member of Parliament, Republic of Lithuania

Peter Van Praagh, President, Halifax International Security Forum 12:30 P.M. – 1:30 P.M. — LUNCH 2

Program Agenda 1:30 P.M. – 2:30 P.M. — SESSION VII: TURMOIL IN THE MIDDLE EAST Moderator:

Eric Lob, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, FIU Panelists:

Eric Edelman, Counselor, Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments, and Hertog Practitioner in

Residence, Johns Hopkins SAIS

Stephen McInerney, Executive Director, Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED)

Nancy Okail, Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, Center for Development Democracy and the Rule of

Law (CDDRL)

Nicholas Rasmussen, Acting Executive Director, McCain Institute for International Leadership

Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America 2:35 P.M. – 3:35 P.M. — SESSION VIII: THE CHINA-RUSSIA THREAT Moderator:

Charles Davidson, Publisher, The American Interest Panelists:

Robert Kagan, Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program, Brookings Institution

Vladimir Kara-Murza, Vice President, Free Russia Foundation

Moisés Naím, Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Endowment

Laura Rosenberger, Senior Fellow and Director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy, German

Marshall Fund of the United States

Lilia Shevtsova, Associate Fellow at the Russia and Eurasia Program, Chatham House 3:40 P.M. – 4:15 P.M. — SESSION IX: THE SPECIAL CASE OF NORTH KOREA Moderator:

Lindsay Lloyd, Director, Human Freedom Initiative, George W. Bush Institute Panelists:

Victor Cha, Senior Adviser and Korea Chair, CSIS; Senior Fellow, George W. Bush Institute; Professor,

Georgetown University

Joseph Kim, Expert in Residence, Human Freedom Initiative, George W. Bush Institute

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Guest Speakers Michael Abramowitz is the president of Freedom House, a non-partisan voice dedicated to promoting democracy. There he oversees a unique combination of analysis, advocacy and direct support to frontline defenders for freedom, especially those working in closed authoritarian societies. Formerly he directed the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Levine Institute for Holocaust Education, and before that he led the museum’s genocide prevention efforts. He spent the first 24 years of his career at The Washington Post where he was National Editor and then White House correspondent. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and former fellow at the German Marshall Fund and the Hoover Institution. A graduate of Harvard College, he is also a board member of the National Security Archive, and a member of the Human Freedom Advisory Council for the George W. Bush Presidential Center.

Elliott Abrams is the Special Representative for Venezuela at the Department of State. He was Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., from which he is now on a leave of absence. He served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor in the Administration of President George W. Bush, where he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle East for the White House. He was an Assistant Secretary of State in the Reagan Administration and was president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., from 1996 until joining the White House staff in 2001.

He is a member of the board of the National Endowment for Democracy. He teaches U.S. foreign policy at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Nancy Ancrum has been the Miami Herald’s Editorial Page Editor since 2013 after having covered municipal government, healthcare, education and other topics for the editorial page.

She is focused on increasing the Editorial Board’s online presence and has incorporated video, Facebook Live interviews and community-engagement projects such as Connect Miami into the Board’s offerings. A board member of the American Society of News Editors, Ancrum is often asked to appear on local and national news programs, including those on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, to discuss why Florida, its politics, its voters and its weirdness resonate nationwide. A native of New York, Ancrum is a graduate of New York University, where she earned a degree in journalism. Upon graduation, she started her career as an editorial assistant at the Baltimore Evening Sun. Ancrum then became an editor for the then-new and trendsetting newspaper USA Today in Roslyn, Virginia. There, she worked in the Life section, editing stories on health, entertainment, dining and way too much Michael Jackson.

Astrid Arrarás is a University Lecturer and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Politics and International Relations at FIU. A recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Teaching Award, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on a range of topics including Comparative Politics, Political Violence, International Relations of Latin America, Politics of South America, Politics of Central America, Politics of Latin America and Democratization. Her area of specialization is democratization and her country of expertise is Uruguay. Her research interests include democratization, political violence, political and social movements, and human rights. She graduated from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez with a B.A. in Political Science in 1984. After receiving her B.A., she pursued graduate studies in Political Science at Princeton University. As part of the Ph.D. program, she specialized in Comparative Politics (Latin America), International Relations and Political Analysis. After earning her Ph.D. in 1998, she worked as a Lecturer at Princeton University for one year.

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Guest Speakers Natasha Bertrand is Politico’s National Security Correspondent. Previously, she was a staff writer for The Atlantic covering national security and politics. She worked as a politics reporter for Business Insider after graduating from Vassar College in 2014 with a dual degree in political science and philosophy. She is an NBC News and MSNBC contributor.

Nicole Bibbins Sedaca serves as the Chair for the Global Politics and Security Concentration in Georgetown University’s Master of Science in Foreign Service program and is a Professor in the Practice of International Affairs in the program. She teaches graduate seminars on democracy, human rights, ethics and decision making. She is a Fellow in the Human Freedom Initiative at the George W. Bush Institute and a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council. She served for ten years in the United States Department of State, working on democracy promotion, human rights, human trafficking and religious freedom. Following her governmental service, she opened and directed the International Republican Institute’s local governance program in Ecuador and taught at the Universidad de San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador) on democratization and conflict resolution.

Shari Bryan is Vice President of the National Democratic Institute. She joined NDI in 2000 and served as senior associate and regional director of the Institute’s democratic programs in Southern and East Africa from 2001 through early 2008. Ms. Bryan has been actively involved in law, international development and foreign affairs since 1988. She has conducted assessments or missions to more than 50 countries during her tenure at NDI, and played a key role promoting democratic assistance programs in Africa; conceptualizing and organizing projects on political party finance; governance and HIV/AIDS; and increasing the role of legislatures in overseeing the extractive industries. Before joining NDI, Ms. Bryan served as an attorney in the former UN Trust Territory of Palau, where she worked on negotiating the Compact for Free Association in 2004. She also worked as an attorney for the United States Attorney’s Office in Washington, DC, and served with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

As a Senior Fellow in Human Freedom at the George W. Bush Institute, Victor Cha is helping lead an initiative on the problem of human rights in North Korea. In addition, he is a senior adviser and the inaugural holder of the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., and Director of Asian Studies and holder of the D.S. Song-KF Chair in the Department of Government and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. From 2004 to 2007, he served as Director for Asian Affairs at the White House on the National Security Council (NSC), where he was responsible primarily for Japan, the Korean peninsula, Australia/New Zealand, and Pacific Island nation affairs. Dr. Cha was also the Deputy Head of Delegation for the United States at the Six-Party Talks in Beijing and received two Outstanding Service Commendations during his tenure at the NSC. Dr. Cha is a former John M. Olin National Security Fellow at Harvard University, a two-time Fulbright Scholar, and a Hoover National Fellow, CISAC Fellow, and William J. Perry Fellow at Stanford University. He has been a guest analyst for various media including CNN, ABC Nightline, NBC Today Show, CBS Morning Show, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, BBC, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and National Public Radio. Dr. Cha holds a B.A., an M.I.A., and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, as well as an M.A. from Oxford University.

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Guest Speakers Charles Davidson is Publisher of The American Interest since its founding in 2005, and Executive Director of the Kleptocracy Initiative at Hudson Institute. Davidson co-founded the think tank Global Financial Integrity in 2006, chaired its board and was instrumental in founding the FACT Coalition. He is Executive Producer of We’re Not Broke, a documentary about corporate tax avoidance/evasion, that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2012 (available on Netflix). Until recently he was a vice-chair of the Board of Trustees at Freedom House. Prior to 2005, Davidson spent his career in the information technology industry in various technical and executive positions, segueing into venture capital in 1996. He is a graduate of Bowdoin College (1981) and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business (1988).

Lincoln Diaz-Balart was elected to the United States Congress in 1992, where he had a distinguished career until 2011. In 1996, he drafted legislation which codified U.S. sanctions on the Cuban dictatorship, making the normalization of U.S. economic relations with Cuba contingent upon the liberation of all political prisoners and the scheduling of multiparty elections in Cuba. He was the author of the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act of 1997 (NACARA), which granted legal residency to thousands of immigrants in the U.S. who were previously at risk of possible deportation. He co-sponsored legislation to fund U.S. assistance to the Cuban internal opposition, assistance which continues to this day. Now a practicing attorney based in Miami, Florida, he is the Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute (CHLI), which works to expand educational opportunities for college students throughout the United States.

Eric S. Edelman is currently Counselor at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and the Roger Hertog Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He retired as a Career Minister from the U.S. Foreign Service on May 1, 2009. He was the Miller Center for Public Policy’s James R. Schlesinger Professor for 2016 at the University of Virginia and is currently a non-resident fellow there. Previously, he has served in senior positions at the Departments of State and Defense as well as the White House. He served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republics of Finland and Turkey in the Clinton and Bush Administrations and was Principal Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs.

Nino Evgenidze serves as an Executive Director at the Economic Policy Research Center. She is a co-founder of several organizations including the Tbilisi International Conference together with the McCain Institute for International Leadership; the Leadership Academy for Development with Stanford University Center for Democracy, Development and Rule of Law (CDDRL); and of the Democracy Frontline Center. She was a visiting scholar at John Hopkins University at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and a Stanford University Fellow in the CDDRL Program. Previously, she was an advisor at the Center for Economic Reforms of the State Chancellery of Georgia (President Administration), Head of Public Outreach Department of the Anti-corruption Policy Coordination Council of Georgia. She is a Chair of the board of the first Child Hospice in Georgia.

Brian Fonseca is Director of the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy at Florida International University’s Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs. Fonseca’s technical expertise is in U.S. national security and foreign policy. He also serves as a Cybersecurity Policy Fellow at the D.C.-based think tank New America. His analysis has been featured in local and national media, including ABC, BBC, Bloomberg, Fox News, Miami Herald and MSNBC. He joined FIU after serving as the Senior Research Manager for SocioCultural Analysis at United States Southern Command’s Joint Intelligence Operations Center 6

Guest Speakers South (JIOC-S). His recent publications include an edited volume with Eduardo A. Gamarra titled Culture and National Security in the Americas (Lexington Books, 2017) and he is co-author of The New U.S. Security Agenda: Trends and Emerging Threats (Palgrave, 2017).

Juan Carlos Gómez is the Director of Clinical Program and Associate Clinical Professor at FIU College of Law. He has been defending the rights of individuals in immigration matters for over 25 years. During this time he has represented persons before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, as well as the United States Departments of Justice and Homeland Security in complex immigration matters. As an attorney for a Central American Refugee Project, he helped in the representation of thousands of individuals in the Southeastern United States in a national class action. He has represented refugees from every part of the world where there have been conflicts over the last three decades. As director of East Little Havana Legal Services, he led a team of attorneys to resolve the series of problems faced by clients.

Jeffrey Gedmin is editor-in-chief of The American Interest (TAI) and CEO of the TAI Group. From 2015 to 2018, he was senior adviser at Blue Star Strategies. From 2011 to 2014, he was President and CEO of the London-based Legatum Institute. Prior to joining the Legatum Institute in early 2011, he served for four years as President and CEO of Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) headquartered in Prague. Previously, he served as President and CEO of the Aspen Institute in Berlin. Before that, he was Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C and Executive Director of the New Atlantic Initiative. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Hidden Hand: Gorbachev and the Collapse of East Germany (1992).

Frederick Benjamin “Ben” Hodges graduated from the United States Military Academy in May 1980 and was commissioned in the Infantry. After his first assignment as an Infantry Lieutenant in Germany, he commanded Infantry units at the Company, Battalion and Brigade levels as the 101st Airborne Division and in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. He also served in an operational assignment as Director of Operations, Regional Command South, in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He also served in a variety of Joint and Army Staff positions, including Chief of Plans, 2nd Infantry Division in Korea; Aide-de-Camp to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe; Army Congressional Liaison Officer; Chief of Staff, XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg; Director of the Pakistan Afghanistan Coordination Cell on the Joint Staff, Chief of Legislative Liaison for the United States Army; and Commander, NATO Allied Land Command. He holds the Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies at the Center for European Policy Analysis.

Robert Kagan is a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. He is a contributing columnist at The Washington Post. His new book is The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World (Knopf, September 2018). His previous book was the New York Times bestseller, The World America Made. For his writings, Politico Magazine has named him one of the “Politico 50,” the top “thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics.” He served in the State Department from 1984 to 1988 as a member of the policy planning staff, as principal speechwriter for Secretary of State George P. Shultz and as deputy for policy in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs. He is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and holds a doctorate in American history from American University.

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Guest Speakers Matthew Kaminski is Global Editor of Politico and the Founding Editor of Politico’s European edition. Matt has reported on the Continent on and off for the past quarter century. He covered the former Soviet Union for the Financial Times and Economist in 1994-97, and in 1997 joined the Wall Street Journal in Brussels as a correspondent. He held various roles with the Journal in Paris and New York. In 2004, Matt was awarded the Peter Weitz Prize by the German Marshall Fund for a series of columns about the European Union. His coverage of the Ukrainian crisis won an Overseas Press Club prize in 2015. He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary that year. He holds degrees from Yale and the Free University of Brussels.

Vladimir V. Kara-Murza is a Russian democracy activist, author and filmmaker. He was a longtime colleague of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov and chairs the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom. He is a former deputy leader of the People’s Freedom Party and was a candidate for the Russian State Duma. He has testified before Parliaments in Europe and North America and played a key role in the passage of the Magnitsky legislation that imposed targeted sanctions on Russian human rights violators in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, and several EU countries. He is a vice president of the Free Russia Foundation and a senior fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights; and has been a visiting fellow at the University of Chicago, leading a seminar course on contemporary Russia.

Joseph Kim is an Expert in Residence on the Human Freedom Initiative at the George W. Bush Institute. He was born and raised in North Korea. At the age of 12, his father died of starvation and he was separated from his mother and sister. In 2006, Joseph escaped North Korea and went to China, where he connected with an international NGO called Liberty in North Korea. In China, he connected with an international NGO called Liberty in North Korea. A year later, he left China for the United States and claimed refugee status under the North Korean Human Rights Act, signed by President George W. Bush in 2004. In 2013, Joseph delivered a TED Talk on the importance of hope and published a memoir, “Under the Same Sky”. Joseph interned as a research assistant at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Korea Chair. He is a former America Needs You Fellow and Council of Korean Americans PSI Intern. He completed a B.A. in political studies from Bard College and published a thesis titled, “Marketization in North Korea is Corrupting the Corrupted”.

David J. Kramer joined Florida International University’s Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs as a Senior Fellow in May 2017. He is also Director of the European and Eurasian Studies program at the Green School. Previously, Kramer was Senior Director for Human Rights and Democracy at the McCain Institute for International Leadership; President of Freedom House; and Senior Transatlantic Fellow with the German Marshall Fund. Kramer served during the George W. Bush administration as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. He is author of the recent book, Back to Containment: Dealing with Putin’s Regime.

Eric Lob is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at FIU. His research focuses on the intersection of development and politics in the Middle East. It specifically explores how state and non-state actors in the region instrumentalize development as a soft power mechanism to further their political interests both domestically and internationally. He teaches courses on comparative politics and international relations of the Middle East and on political violence and revolution. Before joining the faculty at Florida International University, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Brandeis University’s Crown Center for Middle East Studies. Between 2009 and 2011, he conducted fieldwork and studied Persian in Iran. He also studied Arabic at Georgetown and Damascus Universities between 2005 and 2007.

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Guest Speakers Lindsay Lloyd is the Bradford M. Freeman Director of the Human Freedom Initiative at the George W. Bush Institute, where he manages original research and programmatic efforts to advance freedom and democracy in the world. This includes the work of the Freedom in North Korea project, which raises awareness of human rights violations in North Korea, proposes new policy solutions and engages leaders to help improve the lives of the North Korean people.

Previously, he served for 16 years at the International Republican Institute (IRI), most recently as senior advisor for policy. Previously, he was IRI’s regional director for Europe and co-director of the regional program for Central and Eastern Europe, which was based in Slovakia. He also worked for several members and the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Jason Marczak is the Director of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center at The Atlantic Council. He has more than 15 years of expertise in Latin American policy leadership and was previously director of policy at Americas Society/Council of the Americas and co-founder of Americas Quarterly magazine. His background also includes leadership of civil society engagement at Partners of the Americas as well as positions at the National Endowment for Democracy and in managing foreign affairs in the office of then-Representative Sam Farr (CA).

He is an adjunct professor at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of

Aminda “Mindy” Marqués González is Editor and Publisher of The Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald. The first Hispanic to lead the newsroom, Marqués has been named the National Press Foundation’s Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year. Marqués grew up in South Florida and began her journalism career in 1986 as an intern at the Miami Herald. During her tenure, the Miami Herald has won two Pulitzer Prizes and has been a finalist five times. Most recently, she led the Miami Herald’s coverage of youth gun violence in observance of the anniversary of the Parkland tragedy in an unprecedented collaboration with the non-profit The Trace and McClatchy newsrooms across the country. Marqués is a 1986 graduate of the University of Florida, where she was honored in 2012 as an Alumni of Distinction by the College of Journalism and Communications. She serves on the board of the Pulitzer Prizes, is past president of the Florida Society of News Editors, is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Hall of Fame and is an advisory board member for the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for Women in Communication at Florida International University.

Elisa Massimino is the Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights at Georgetown University Law Center. She recently served as a Senior Fellow with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and as a Practitioner-in-Residence at Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. Previously, she spent 27 years—the last decade as President and CEO—at Human Rights First, one of the nation’s leading human rights advocacy organizations. She has a distinguished record of human rights advocacy in Washington. She has testified before Congress dozens of times, writes frequently for mainstream publications and specialized journals, appears regularly in major media outlets and speaks to audiences around the country. Massimino is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S. Supreme Court Bar. Cindy Hensley McCain has dedicated her life to improving the lives of those less fortunate both in the United States and around the world. As the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University, she oversees the organization’s focus on advancing character-driven global leadership based on security, economic opportunity, freedom and human dignity. She also chairs the Institute’s Human Trafficking Advisory Council. In addition to her work at the McCain Institute, she serves on the Board of Directors of Project C.U.R.E and the Advisory Boards of Too Small To Fail and Warriors and Quiet 9

Guest Speakers Waters. She is a member of the USC Rossier School of Education Board of Councilors. She is the Chairman of her family’s business, Hensley Beverage Company, which is one of the largest Anheuser-Busch distributors in the nation.

Stephen McInerney is Executive Director of the Washington, D.C.-based Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED). He has extensive experience in the Middle East and North Africa, including graduate studies of Middle Eastern politics, history and the Arabic language at the American University of Beirut and the American University in Cairo. He has spoken on Middle East affairs with the BBC, MSNBC, CBS News and Al Jazeera. His writing on Middle East affairs and U.S. policy has been published by Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, Foreign Policy and The Washington Post. He received a master’s degree from Stanford University.

Frank O. Mora is Director of the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center and Professor of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University (FIU).

Previously, Dr. Mora served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Western Hemisphere from 2009-2013. He has held several teaching positions, including Professor of National Security Strategy and Latin American Studies at the National War College, National Defense University (2004-2009) and Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of International Studies, Rhodes College (2000-2004). During the last 20 years, Dr. Mora worked as a consultant to the Library of Congress, U.S. Department of the Air Force, Department of the Army and the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), to name a few. He is a recipient of the Medal for Exceptional Public Service, Department of Defense (2012).

Andrew Moravcsik is Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Founding Director of the European Union Program and Director Designate of the Liechtenstein Institute at Princeton University. He has published over 150 scholarly works on European integration, international relations, international law and organization and qualitative methods, as well as more than 200 opinion and policy articles. A recent study ranks him as the most-cited, U.S.-based political scientist of his cohort. In the policy world, he has served as a U.S. government trade negotiator and assistant to the Deputy Prime Minister of Korea. He also worked for the European Commission. He is Book Review Editor (Europe) at Foreign Affairs magazine. His criticism and scholarship on classical music, particularly opera, have appeared in Financial Times, New York Times, as well as academic publications.

Moisés Naím is a Distinguished Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an internationally syndicated columnist and a contributing editor to The Atlantic. He is also the host and producer of Efecto Naím, an Emmy winning weekly television program on international affairs that airs throughout the Americas. He was the editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine for 14 years and is the author of many scholarly articles and 12 books on international economics and politics. His 2013 book, The End of Power, a New York Times bestseller, was selected by the Washington Post and the Financial Times as one of the best books of the year.

He has served as Venezuela’s minister of trade and industry, director of Venezuela’s Central Bank and executive director of the World Bank.

Victoria Nuland is Senior Counselor at the Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategic advisory and commercial diplomacy firm based in Washington, D.C. She is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Distinguished Practitioner in Grand Strategy at Yale University, and a member of the Board of the National Endowment for Democracy. She was CEO of the Center for a New American Security, a bipartisan national security think tank in Washington, from January 2018 until February 2019. A U.S. diplomat for 32 years, she served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from September 2013 until 10

Guest Speakers January 2017 under President Obama and Secretary Kerry. She was State Department Spokesperson during Secretary Hillary Clinton’s tenure, and U.S. Ambassador to NATO during President George W. Bush’s second term, 2005-2008.

Nancy Okail is the Executive Director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP). She holds a Ph.D., with a focus on power relations of foreign aid, from the University of Sussex in the U.K. Prior to joining TIMEP, she was country director of Freedom House’s Egypt program. She has 20 years of experience in promoting democracy and development in the Middle East/North Africa region. She has worked with the Egyptian government as a senior evaluation officer of foreign aid and has managed programs for Egyptian pro-democracy organizations that challenged the Mubarak regime. She was also one of the defendants convicted and sentenced to prison in the widely publicized case of 43 nongovernmental organization workers charged with using foreign funds to foment unrest in Egypt.

Since January of 2011, Martin Palouš has been the Director of the Václav Havel Program for Human Rights and Diplomacy at the Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs at Florida International University. He is also President of the Václav Havel Library Foundation as well as of the International Platform for Human Rights in Cuba. He belonged to the original signatories of Charter 77, served as its spokesperson in 1986 and participated at the creation of Civic Forum during the Velvet Revolution (November 1989). After the fall of Communism in what is now the Czech Republic, he was a member of Parliament (1990), Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs (1990-1992, 1998-2001), Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States (2001-2005) and Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the United Nations (2006-2011). Žygimantas Pavilionis has been a member of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania since 2016. Just before his election to the Parliament, he served as Chief Coordinator for Lithuania’s presidency of the Community of Democracies as well as chief coordinator for the Transatlantic Cooperation and Security Policy Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He also served as Lithuanian Ambassador to the U.S. and Mexico from 2010-2015. Throughout his career, he also worked in Brussels, Belgium, at the Lithuanian Permanent Mission and was later promoted to lead the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ European Integration Department. He began his career as a diplomat when he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1993 and was instrumental in helping Lithuania achieve accession into NATO and the European Union.

Rosa María Payá is a pro-democracy activist and President of the Latin American Network of Young People for Democracy and Cuba Decide, which advocates that the government hold a binding referendum in favor of free and plural elections for the first time in Cuba in 67 years.

She has led civil society activities in Cuba since 2009. She was part of the Coordination Team of the Christian Liberation Movement (Movimiento Cristiano Liberación or MCL) and worked as a member of the Redaction Council of Somos Liberación (We are Liberation), a publication of the MCL. She has made appearances in several international forums since 2013, including the United Nations Human Rights Council, the European Parliament, the Senate of the United States, the Organization of American States, among others.

Jacob Poushter is an associate director at Pew Research Center. He is an expert in international survey research and writes about international public opinion on a variety of topics, including the international image of the United States and perceptions of global threats. He is also responsible for designing survey questionnaires, managing survey projects, analyzing data and developing topics for the annual Global Attitudes Survey. He is also an author of studies on global attitudes of cultural change, views of the American11

Guest Speakers German relationship and contrasting opinions among elites and the American public. He regularly talks about the Center’s findings in print and broadcast media and has been featured on Bloomberg TV and CTV, as well as in other international media outlets.

Nicholas Rasmussen is acting Executive Director and Senior Director for National Security & Counterterrorism programs at the McCain Institute for International Leadership. Rasmussen is a national security professional with over 27 years in U.S. government service, including in senior counterterrorism posts at the White House and in the U.S. Intelligence Community from 2001 to 2017. He concluded his government career as director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), leading more than 1,000 professionals from across the Intelligence Community, federal government and federal contractor workforce. Rasmussen served in senior posts across three administrations, including as special assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council staff under Presidents Bush and Obama before being appointed director of NCTC by President Obama and continuing his tenure at the request of President Trump’s administration. From 1991-2001, he served in policy positions at the Department of State.

Laura Rosenberger is the director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy and a senior fellow at The German Marshall Fund of the United States. Previously, she was foreign policy advisor for Hillary for America, where she coordinated development of the campaign’s national security policies, messaging and strategy. Prior to that, she served in a range of positions at the State Department and the White House’s National Security Council (NSC).

As chief of staff to Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken and as then-Deputy National Security Advisor Blinken’s senior advisor, she counseled on the full range of national security policy. She also served as NSC director for China and Korea, managing and coordinating U.S. policy on China and the Korean Peninsula, and focused on the Asia-Pacific region at the State Department.

Anne Richard teaches at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and is affiliated with Georgetown’s Institute for the Study of International Migration. She served as Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration in the Obama Administration (2012-2017). Prior to joining the Obama Administration, she was the vice president of government relations and advocacy for the International Rescue Committee.

She was also a non-resident Fellow of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University/SAIS and a board member of the Henry L. Stimson Center. Earlier in her career, she served in other senior positions at the State Department, at Peace Corps Headquarters and at the US Office of Management and Budget.

José Carlos Sánchez Berzaín is Director of the Interamerican Institute for Democracy in Miami, Florida. He was the Minister of State of the Republic of Bolivia five times, Minister of the Presidency of the Republic twice, Minister of Government twice and Minister of National Defense, in the constitutional governments of President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. He has promoted and participated in the Constitutional Reform 1994-5, and was a promoter and executor of reform measures known as Popular Participation, Social Capitalization, Educational Reform and others. As Minister of Government he led the fight against drug trafficking in Bolivia for more than three years and promoted alternative development. He was the National Deputy for Cochabamba from 1997 to 2002 and Head of the Congress and Head of the Parliamentary Opposition in the same period.

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Guest Speakers Lilia Shevtsova is an Associate Fellow at the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Chatham House, member of the boards of Andrei Sakharov Center on Democratic Development (Lithuania), Liberal Mission Foundation (Moscow); and member of the editorial boards of the journals The American Interest, Journal of Democracy and New Eastern Europe. She is an Honorary Doctor of the St. Gallen University (Switzerland). She was Senior Associate of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, founding chair of the Davos World Economic Forum Council on Russia’s Future, ReaganFascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy and Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Senior Scholar at the Davis Center, Harvard University. She served as Chair of the Program on Eurasia and Eastern Europe, SSRC (Washington) and member of the Social Council for Central and Eastern European Studies.

Peter Skerry teaches political science at Boston College. He is also a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia and a contributing editor at The American Interest. He has been a fellow at the Brookings Institution as well as the American Enterprise Institute. He writes on immigration policy and politics, and is completing a book about Muslims in contemporary American society and politics.

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the President and CEO of New America and the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.

From 2009-2011 she served as the director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State, the first woman to hold that position. Prior to government, Slaughter was the Dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (2002–2009) and the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School (1994-2002). She has written or edited seven books and is a frequent contributor to a number of publications. In 2012 she published “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” in The Atlantic, which became one of the most read articles in The Atlantic’s history.

A professor, diplomat and politician, Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera served as President of Costa Rica from 2014-2018. He is currently a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at FIU’s Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center. In 1984, he began his service to Costa Rica in the Foreign Ministry, leading Costa Rican delegations to the United Nations, the Organization of American States and the European Union. He was the country’s Ambassador for Central American Affairs and for two decades held the office of Secretary General of the governing National Liberation Party. He is a graduate of the University of Costa Rica and has a master’s degree in political science and sociology from Tulane University. He previously taught at the University of Michigan and in 1999 was a Fulbright Scholar at FIU. He has published more than 10 books and dozens of articles for professional journals.

Jonathan Tepperman is the editor in chief of Foreign Policy and the author of The Fix: How Countries Use Crises to Solve the World’s Worst Problems. Before joining Foreign Policy, he served as managing editor of Foreign Affairs and, before that, as deputy editor of Newsweek’s international edition. He has written for a long list of publications and appears frequently on TV and radio. He has degrees from Yale, Oxford and New York University.

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Guest Speakers Daniel Twining joined International Republican Institute (IRI) as president in September 2017, where he leads the institute’s mission to advance democracy and freedom around the world. He leads IRI’s team of nearly 600 global experts to link people and governments, motivate people to engage in the political process and guide politicians and government officials to be responsive to citizens. Previously, he served as counselor and director of the Asia Program at The German Marshall Fund of the United States. Prior to that, Twining served as a member of the U.S. Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, as the foreign policy advisor to U.S. Senator John McCain and as a staff member of the U.S. Trade Representative. He has been a columnist for Foreign Policy and the Nikkei and served as an advisor to six presidential campaigns.

Peter Van Praagh is the founding President of Halifax International Security Forum. Peter has served as Senior Director for Foreign Policy at the Washington, DC-based German Marshall Fund of the United States, as Deputy Vice President of Programs at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, DC, and as Chief of Party for the National Democratic Institute both in the former Soviet Union and in Turkey. In 2006-07, Peter served as Senior Policy Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada. Peter is a graduate of University College, the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics.

Kurt Volker is a leading expert in U.S. foreign and national security policy with some 30 years of experience in a variety of government, academic and private sector capacities. He served as U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations from 2017 to 2019, and as U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 2008-2009. From 2012-2019, he was the founding Executive Director of The McCain Institute for International Leadership, a part of Arizona State University based in Washington, D.C. He is currently Senior International Advisor at BGR Group, which provides government relations, public relations and business advisory services to a wide array of international clients. He also serves on the advisory board of Augustus, an artificial intelligence start-up company, and has previously served as a Director of CG Funds Trust and the Wall Street Fund.

Maria Werlau is co-founder and Executive Director of Free Society Project, also known as Cuba Archive/Archivo Cuba, a non-profit think tank incorporated in Washington, D.C., to advance human rights through research and scholarship. Her extensive publications on Cuba cover a wide range of issues: economics/foreign investment, international law, policy, politics, human rights and others. An independent consultant and former Second Vice President of Chase Manhattan Bank, she has a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a master’s in International Affairs from Universidad de Chile. Born in Cuba, she left for the U.S. when she was eight months old with her family and has lived and worked in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Chile and Venezuela.

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An Open Letter from

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he American Interest has always been a publication of purpose. Today, we are working to clarify that purpose.

We see today as a moment of significant political and cultural realignment, both on the American right and left. TAI readers have likely gathered, but let us now be explicit: The American Interest will not belong to either side. It will not be nationalist-conservative or progressive as those terms are used today. Open intellectual debate is vital, but the fragmenting we witness and the sectarian quicksand now commonplace will not make America strong, healthy, and whole again.

The center of American politics is being hollowed out. The American Interest is determined to do its part in the rebuilding it. If you want a bumper sticker, call us RPC—dedicated to “rebuilding the political center.” Do not mistake this for moderation without a cause, however.

We advocate a responsible international role for America. We believe that to play this role, America will need friends and allies abroad.

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s we speak we are unable to imagine the next twists and turns in the impeachment process, yet we feel obligated to weigh in.

The constitution is given to some ambiguity, but it is clear that high crimes and misdemeanors are not limited to actual crimes. In our view, President Trump’s attempt to trade state assets for personal and political gain is the abuse and violation of public trust envisioned by the Framers as grounds for impeachment. Whether he is convicted in the Senate or not, for a growing list of reasons Donald J. Trump has shown himself unfit for office.

Look to The American Interest to help articulate what new leadership in 2020 must look like. We care deeply about the roots of Trumpism. Elected leaders and elites must listen and learn, so that gaps are bridged and trust in representative democracy is restored.

We must contemplate institutional reform. For this, we need expertise, fact-based work, and considered opinion. And we must never lose sight of this: Only a prizing of the common good over sectarian interests will enable us to stave off conspiracy theories and the upending pathologies that threaten to pull America apart.

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