NEWSLETTER / February 11, 2021
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The Pacific Council’s biweekly Newsletter shares international affairs commentary and analysis by our members and experts plus news from the Council and recaps of our recent events.
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The Pacific Council recently hosted Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti as he delivered his third State of the Global City Address, featuring his vision for strengthening LA as a global city and how U.S. cities can work with the Biden administration on foreign policy. |
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Dr. Luis Rubio, president of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI)
More than 25 years after NAFTA was enacted, Mexico has improved in innumerable aspects, but its essential challenges—poverty, regional inequality, a bad justice system, wholesale violence and criminality, and an incompetent government—remain there as always.
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Maro Youssef, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas, Austin, Meriem Aissa Ph.D. candidate in political science at Rutgers University, and Suzie Abdo, Security Fellow at the Truman National Security Project
Ten years after the Arab Spring uprisings, a look at the impact on women’s rights in the Maghreb.
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Bennett Ramberg, former foreign affairs officer in the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs in the George H.W. Bush administration
As the Biden administration addresses the threat from the hostile landscape inhabited by jihadis who continue to plot attacks on the United States, it must decide whether to continue or affirm the Trump administration’s retreat from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Somalia.
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Jongsoo Lee, Center Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University
Pacific Council member Jongsoo Lee interviews Geoffrey See, founder of Choson Exchange.
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Monday, February 22 / 12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. PT / Open to the public
Announcing the launch of the Pacific Council's First 100 Days Memo on U.S.-Mexico Policy, with recommendations for the Biden administration regarding this essential bilateral relationship. Experts will share their recommendations as if they are presenting for the Biden administration. |
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Thursday, February 25 / 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. PT / Open to the public
A discussion on solutions to public health challenges faced by migrant communities amidst the pandemic, as part of the Pacific Council's First 100 Days Memo on U.S.-Mexico Policy series, presented in partnership with International Medical Corps.
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Monday, March 15 / 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. PT / Open to the public
A keynote conversation featuring Robert Zoellick, World Bank president (2007-2012), U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (2005-2006), U.S. Trade Representative (2001-2005), and author of America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, as part of the Pacific Council's First 100 Days Memo on U.S.-Mexico Policy series.
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