Westminster Institute talks

https://westminster-institute.org/events/challenges-facing-christian-communities-in-turkey-today/ Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian is a sociologist (with a  particular reference to sociology of religion) and Associate Faculty  Member of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. He has published  extensively and lectures on minorities in contemporary Middle East;  inter-ethnic conflicts i...

https://westminster-institute.org/events/the-armenian-azerbaijani-crisis/ Svante E. Cornell is Director of the American Foreign Policy  Council’s Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, and a co-founder of the  Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm. His main  areas of expertise are security issues, state-building, and  transnational crime in Southwest and Central...

https://westminster-institute.org/events/the-nature-of-putins-regime-and-the-reasons-for-its-foreign-policy/ David Satter , a former Moscow correspondent, is a  long time observer of Russia and the former Soviet Union. He is a senior  fellow at the Hudson Institute and a fellow of the Foreign Policy  Institute of Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International  Studie...

https://westminster-institute.org/events/how-china-sees-the-world/ Dean Cheng is The Heritage Foundation ‘s  research fellow on Chinese political and security affairs. He  specializes in China’s military and foreign policy, in particular its  relationship with the rest of Asia and with the United States. He is  fluent in Chinese, and uses Chinese language materials regularly in...

Harun Maruf is a reporter and writer at VOA Africa Division with an extensive experience in working in conflict zones. He also covers security, extremism, piracy, human rights, politics and other current affairs issues. He secured the first radio interview with the late American jihadist Omar Hammami.  Maruf has also reported on the emergence of pro-Islamic State militants in Somalia; the tra...

https://westminster-institute.org/events/the-chinese-communist-partys-plan-to-dominate-asia-and-the-world/ Steven W. Mosher is an internationally recognized  authority on China and population issues, as well as an acclaimed  author, speaker. He has worked tirelessly since 1979 to fight coercive  population control programs and has helped hundreds of thousands of  women and fami...

https://westminster-institute.org/events/the-crucifix-on-meccas-front-porch/ David Pinault received his B.A. in French literature from Georgetown University and his M.A.and Ph. D in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include comparative Christology and the status of Christian populations in Muslim-majority so...

https://westminster-institute.org/events/who-lost-afghanistan/ Hy Rothstein recently retired from the faculty at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Hy spent considerable time in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Philippines observing the conduct of those wars. Dr. Rothstein has written and edited books about Afghanistan (Afghanistan and the Troubled Future of Unconventional Warfare (2006) and...

https://westminster-institute.org/events/you-will-be-assimilated-chinas-plan-to-sino-form-the-world/ David Goldman  is an American economist, music critic, and author, best known for his series of online essays in the  Asia Times  under the pseudonym Spengler . He is the Wax Family Fellow at the Middle East Forum, a Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, and a membe...

https://westminster-institute.org/events/iraq-past-present-and-pivotal-future/ Hassan Mneimneh is Principal at Middle East  Alternatives in Washington DC. He is Scholar at the Middle East  Institute and Contributing Editor at Fikra Forum at the Washington  Institute for Near East Policy. He was previously Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall  Fund of the United St...

Transcript : https://westminster-institute.org/events/china-and-us-strategic-competition/ Seth Cropsey is a senior fellow and director of the Center for American Seapower at Hudson Institute. He specializes in defense strategy, U.S. foreign and security policy in the Middle East and East Asia, and the future of U.S. naval power. Cropsey began his career in government at the U.S. Department of Defe...

Transcript : https://westminster-institute.org/events/analysis-of-the-geopolitics-of-the-libya-conflict-june-2020/ Dr. Walid Phares served as a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump and Mitt Romney and is Fox News national security expert. Dr. Phares is an engaging and highly sought after Middle East expert  and pacesetter, often predicting trends and situations on the ground  years bef...

Transcript : https://westminster-institute.org/events/the-reemergence-of-civilizations-including-russias-as-the-defining-factor-in-the-future-of-the-middle-east/ Dr. David Wurmser is a Senior Analyst at the Center  for Security Policy. He has over 35 years of experience in foreign  policy with the State Department, Department of Defense, the National  Security Council and...

Transcript : https://westminster-institute.org/events/inside-iran-what-forces-will-decide-its-future-and-how/ Mehdi Khalaji  is the Libitzky Family fellow at The Washington Institute, focusing on the politics of Iran and Shiite groups in the Middle East. A Shiite theologian by training, Mr. Khalaji has also served on the editorial boards of two prominent Iranian periodicals and...

Transcript : https://westminster-institute.org/events/is-the-muslim-brotherhood-still-a-threat-today/ Cynthia Farahat  is a Writing Fellow at the Middle  East Forum and a founder of the Egyptian Liberal party, which was the  first secular classical liberal political party in the history of modern  Egypt. She co-authored  Desecration of a Heavenly Religion , which  ana...

https://westminster-institute.org/events/total-competition-the-china-challenge-in-the-south-china-sea/ Patrick M. Cronin  is the Asia-Pacific Security Chair  at Hudson Institute. Dr. Cronin’s research program analyzes the  challenges and opportunities confronting the United States in the  Indo-Pacific region, including China’s total competition campaign, the  future of the...

https://westminster-institute.org/events/saudi-arabias-unpredictable-future/ Dr. Ali Alyami  is the founder and Executive Director  of the Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, based in  Washington, D. C. He is a native of Saudi Arabia and has been an avid  advocate for political reforms in Saudi Arabia. The Center for Democracy & Human Rights in Saudi...

https://westminster-institute.org/events/iraqi-freedom-confronts-iranian-domination/ Dr. Bilal Wahab  is the Nathan and Esther K. Wagner fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where he focuses on governance in the Iraqi Kurdish region and in Iraq as a whole. He has taught at the American University of Iraq in Sulaimani, where he established the Center for Developme...

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The United States’ approach to China since the Communist regime in  Beijing began the period of reform and opening in the 1980s was based on  a promise that trade and engagement with China would result in a  peaceful, democratic state. Forty years later the hope of producing a  benign People’s Republic of China has evaporated. The Communist Party of  China deceived the Wes...

Transcript : https://westminster-institute.org/events/indonesias-muslim-counter-radicalization-movements/ Paul Marshall is Wilson Distinguished Professor of Religious Freedom at Baylor University and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom . He is also a Senior Fellow at the Leimena Institute ,  Jakarta, Indonesia, and Visiting Professor at the Graduate Sch...

Transcript : https://westminster-institute.org/events/the-ongoing-war-in-the-persian-gulf-why-does-it-matter-to-the-us/ David Des Roches  is Associate Professor at the  Near East South Asia Center for Security Studies  at  National Defense University. Prior to this, he was the Defense  Department director responsible for policy concerning Saudi Arabia,  Kuwait, Qatar,...

https://westminster-institute.org/events/liberty-in-the-things-of-god-the-christian-origins-of-religious-freedom/ Robert Louis Wilken is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of the  History of Christianity emeritus at the University of Virginia. He is an  elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, past  president of the American Academy of Religion, the North Americ...

Transcript: https://westminster-institute.org/events/the-art-of-peace-engaging-a-complex-world/ Dr. Juliana Geran Pilon  is a Senior Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, and teaches at American University. For several decades, she has been one of the finest analysts and best proponents of public diplomacy in the war of ideas. Her new...

Transcript: https://westminster-institute.org/events/the-fertile-crescent-after-isis-between-russia-iran-and-israel/ Dr. Shmuel Bar  served for thirty years in the Israeli government, first in the IDF Intelligence and then in the analytic and operational positions in the Israeli Office of the Prime Minister. Since the mid 1980s, he has specialized in the ideology and operational cod...