Monday in Washington, May 4, 2015

TTIP AND BEYOND: ACHIEVING EUROPE’S STRATEGIC TRADE GOALS. 5/4, 9:00-10:15am. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Anna Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Trade; Scott Miller, CSIS Senior Advisor.

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HIGH HOPES AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIES IN IRAQ. 5/4, 12:15-1:45pm. Sponsor: New America Foundation (NAF). Speakers: Author Emma Sky, Senior Fellow, Yale University; Peter Bergen, Director, International Security Program, NAF.

THE PATH FORWARD IN U.S.-JAPAN RELATIONS: TRADE, DIPLOMACY, AND SECURITY. 5/4, 1:00-3:00pm. Sponsor: Center for East Asia Policy Studies, Brookings. Speakers: Strobe Talbott, President of Brookings; Yasutoshi Nishimura, State Minister of the Cabinet Office of Japan, Member of Japan’s House of Representatives; Richard C. Bush III, Director of the Center for East Asia Policy Studies and Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings; Isamu Ueda, Member of Japan’s House of Representatives; Koichiro Gemba, Member of Japan’s House of Representatives; Tetsuro Fukuyama, Member of Japan’s House of Councillors, Vice Secretary General of the Democratic Party of Japan; Jeffrey A. Bader, John C. Whitehead Senior Fellow in International Diplomacy in Foreign Policy at the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings; Mireya Solís, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Center for East Asia Policy Studies and Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies at Brookings.

THE ARAB GULF AND THE US STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP IN BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE. 5/4, 2:00-3:00pm. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Abdullah Toukan, President and CEO, Strategic and International Risk Assessment; Anthony Cordesman, Chair in Strategy, CSIS.

CURRENT ISSUES IN US NATIONAL SECURITY AND DIPLOMACY. 5/4, 4:30-6:00pm. Sponsor: Institute of World Politics (IWP). Speaker: John Negroponte, Vice Chairman, McLarty Associates.

DEADLOCK TO DÉTENTE: COULD INDIA’S STRATEGIC COMPETITION WITH CHINA MEAN PEACE WITH PAKISTAN. 5/4, 5:30-6:45pm. Sponsor: Elliott School, George Washington University. Speakers: Neil Padukone, Fellow, Woman and Public Policy Program, Harvard University.

CURRENT DYNAMICS IN EURASIA REGION: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS. 5/4, 5:00-7:00pm. Sponsor: SAIS Central Asia – Caucasus Institute, Johns Hopkins University. Speakers: SAIS Fellows.

THE UNRAVELING: HIGH HOPES AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIES IN IRAQ. 5/4, 6:30-8:00pm. Sponsor: World Affairs Council. Speakers: Author Emma Sky, Senior Fellow, Yale University; Ronald Neumann, President, American Academy of Diplomacy.