Past Events

A Statesmen’s Forum with

His Excellency Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg
Minister of Defense of the Federal Republic of Germany

On

The Future of the Transatlantic Relationship: Afghanistan, NATO’s New Strategic Concept, and the Challenges of Burden Sharing

The CSIS Kissinger Chair hosted Dr. Edward Luttwak, CSIS Senior Associate on the occasion of his new book, The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire. Luttwak discussed how the Byzantines’ strategic thinking evolved over the years and applies today to statecraft and war.

CSIS Energy and National Security Program and the Institut Francais des Relations Internationales (IFRI) are hosted a session on Carbon Trading.

Agenda

Introduction and Welcome:
David Pumphrey
Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS

The 7th CSCAP General Conference titled New Challenges to Asia-Pacific Security will be held in Jakarta, Indonesia on 16-18 November 2009. 

CSIS, in cooperation with Unity Productions Foundation (UPF) and the Charter for Compassion, hosted a screening of “Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think,” a new documentary that provides an eye-opening view of global Muslim opinions on such topics as terrorism, democracy, women, and the West.

Ambassador Sung Kim, Special Envoy for the Six Party Talks, discussed the latest developments in attempts to bring North Korea back to the multilateral negotiation process. 

The Summit, co-organized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the Chinese Society of Astronautics (CSA), the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and the Space Foundation, and co-sponsored by American Astronautical Society (AAS), the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), and the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), will involve high

The Hills Program on Governance co-hosted with Partners for Democratic Change (PDC) , a discussion by PDC's development practitioners working in the field in Eastern Europe and Middle East on coalition-building to achieve development goals. The event wasmoderated by Gerald Hyman.