The Week That Will Be

Event Announcements

Monday, June 12, 2023, at 10 a.m. ET: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace hosted a webinar to discuss the strategic future of the Palestinian national movement. The discussion featured Aaron David Miller, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian leader, legislator, activist, scholar, and former official spokesperson of the Palestinian delegation to the Middle East peace process. 

Tuesday, June 13, 2023, at 9 a.m. ET: The Center for Strategic & International Studies will host a live-streamed moderated discussion on the opportunities and challenges in civilian-military humanitarian coordination. The panel will include a brief on the key findings of this year’s Civilian-Military Humanitarian Coordination research symposium and workshop hosted by Brown University’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies. It will feature Adam Levine, professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Services, Policy & Practice at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, and Jonathan Robinson, humanitarian specialist at the U.S. Naval War College.

Tuesday, June 13, 2023, at 10 a.m. ET: The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary will host a hearing to discuss oversight of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and related surveillance authorities. Witnesses will include David Cohen, deputy director at the Central Intelligence Agency; George Barnes, deputy director at the National Security Agency; Chris Fonzone, general counsel at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Paul Abbate, deputy director at the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Matt Olsen, assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice National Security Division.

Tuesday, June 13, 2023, at 1 p.m. ET: The Center for Strategic & International Studies will host a webinar on a new report that lays out a framework for recalibrating the NATO political-strategic conversation on burden sharing, including how NATO might recast its thinking about how allies are sharing security and strategic responsibilities going forward. The discussion will feature co-author Daniel Fata, CSIS nonresident senior advisor and former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for Europe and NATO Policy; and Max Bergmann, CSIS Director of the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program and Stuart Center; E.J. Herold, former NATO deputy assistant secretary general for defense investment. It will be moderated by Donatienne Ruy, CSIS Director of Executive Education and Abshire-Inamori Leadership Academy and CSIS Fellow at the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program.

Tuesday, June 13, 2023, at 2:30 p.m. ET: The Senate Committee on the Judiciary will host a hearing to discuss artificial intelligence and human rights. Witnesses include Geoffrey Cain, senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation; Alexandra Reeve Givens, CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology; Aleksander Madry, Cadence Design Systems professor of computing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Jennifer DeStefano, a victim of an AI deepfake kidnapping/extortion scam. 

Tuesday, June 13, 2023, at 3 p.m. ET: The Atlantic Council will host a virtual panel discussion on the mechanisms of corruption in Iran with an aim to analyze the consequences of this corruption on the country’s economic growth, internal institutions, and social justice. The panel will feature Ali Dadpay, associate professor of finance at the University of Dallas; Brian O’Toole, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council; and Majid Zamani, founder of Farayan. The panel will be moderated by Nadereh Chamlou, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. 

Wednesday, June 14, 2023, at 10 a.m. ET: The Atlantic Council will host a hybrid public event on “NATO membership and security guarantees: Getting Ukraine right at the Vilnius summit.” The event will feature speakers from the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, the  Transatlantic Security Initiative, the Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia, the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and the U.S. Department of State. 

Wednesday, June 14, 2023, at 10 a.m. ET: The Senate Subcommittee on the Indo-Pacific will hold a hearing to discuss achieving peace through strength in the Indo-Pacific, including an examination of the FY24 budget priorities. The subcommittee will hear from the Hon. Daniel J Kritenbrink, assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and Clay Epperson, acting deputy assistant administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development Asia Bureau. 

Thursday, June 15, 2023, at 2:30 p.m. ET: The Brookings Institution will host a live-streamed panel to discuss NATO enlargement since the end of the Cold War. The discussion will feature James Goldgeier, visiting foreign policy fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe; Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson, associate professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy; Jim Townsend, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security’s Transatlantic Security Program; and Susan Colbourn, associate director at Duke University’s Program in American Grand Strategy. Peter Baker, the New York Times’s chief White House correspondent will moderate the panel.

Friday, June 16, 2023, at 9 a.m. ET: The Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub and Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security will host a virtual event to discuss lessons learned by global leaders from Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine and how the application of such lessons could increase the risk of a crisis over Taiwan in the next few years.  The event will feature John K. Culver, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub; Sarah Kirchberger, nonresident senior fellow at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and the Scowcroft Strategy Initiative; Valbona Zeneli, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center; Andre Nien-Dzu Yang, secretary general of the Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies; and Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. It will be moderated by Jane Rickards, Taiwan correspondent for The Economist, with opening remarks by Matthew Kroenig, vice president and senior director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.

Employment Announcements (More Details on the Job Board)

Deputy Director, Free Expression Project, Center for Democracy & Technology

Visiting Associate Professor of Law and Fellowship, National Security, Cybersecurity, and Foreign Relations Law, George Washington University Law School

Policy Associate/Analyst, Center for Democracy & Technology

Director of Finance and Administration, American Society of International Law

Director of Programs, American Society of International Law

Fall 2024 Student Volunteer Program, U.S. Cyber Command

Research Assistant, National Security Institute, Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University