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Tuesday, January 27th at 9:30 am: The Brookings Institution will host Ambassador Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia, for an address entitled Unity in Challenging Times: Building on Transatlantic Resolve. In her speech, Ambassador Nuland will discuss how the events of the last year have breathed new life into the Transatlantic alliance. Brookings Senior Fellow Fiona Hill will provide introductory remarks and moderate the conversation. RSVP here. Wednesday, January 28th at 11:30 am: At the Williard InterContinental Hotel, the Center for a New American Security will host a Transatlantic forum discussion on The Third US Offset Strategy and its Implications for Partners and Allies. Robert Work, Deputy Secretary of Defense, will deliver a keynote address and General Jean-Paul Palmeros, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation NATO, will provide additional remarks. Michele Flournoy will moderate. Register here. Wednesday, January 28th at 1 pm: In October, the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party declared the "rule of law" the central theme for the Fourth Plenum of the 18th Central Committee, committing to reforms that will transform China's legal culture and history. Following this historic announcement, the Brookings Institution will host Madame Tao Kaiyuan, Vice President of the Supreme People's Court of China for a conversation on the Rule of Law in China. Senior Fellow Cheng Li will provide introductory marks and moderate the discussion. RSVP. Thursday, January 29th at 10 am: The Wilson Center invites you to join them for a major address by Jeh Johnson, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Jane Harman, director of the Wilson Center, will moderate the discussion afterwards. For more information, visit the event announcement. Friday, January 30th at 4:30 pm: The Institute of World Politics will host Kenneth Daigler for a discussion entitled Spies and Intelligence: The American Revolution and Contemporary Parallels. Daigler is a former CIA officer and author of Spies, Patriots, and Traitors: American Intelligence in the Revolutionary War, and will highlight portions of his book to illustrate the historical paradigm of early intelligence activities and the logical connection between those early American intelligence actions and more modern operations. RSVP.
Cody Poplin is a student at Yale Law School. Prior to law school, Cody worked at the Brookings Institution and served as an editor of Lawfare. He graduated from the UNC-Chapel Hill in 2012 with degrees in Political Science & Peace, War, and Defense.