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2014 Global Agenda Speaker Series: Global Demands, Regional Responses

The world's regions display important differences but they share many common demands: from battling poverty and inequality to confronting global terrorism, navigating the tensions of the Arab Spring, adapting to China's new role in the global balance of superpowers, building democracy in the midst of economic difficulties, and listening to what public opinion demands. In this series we will learn how regions respond to these challenges as they try to adapt to the emerging global community.

Global Agenda 2014 explores how different regions respond to the shared global pressures of the 21st century.

SPRING 2014 SPEAKERS: GLOBAL DEMANDS / REGIONAL RESPONSES

FEBRUARY 19, 2014 - 7:30 PM

Africa in the 21st Century

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Emira Woods is co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, and an expert on U.S. foreign policy with a special emphasis on Africa and the developing world. She has written on a range of issues from debt, trade and development to U.S. military policy. Emira serves on the Board of Directors of Africa Action, Just Associates, Global Justice and the Financial Policy.

MARCH 5, 2014 - 7:30 PM

Global Public Opinion

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Richard Wike is director of the Global Attitudes Project at Pew Research Center. He has conducted research about global public opinion on topics including America’s image in the world, perceptions in Muslim-majority countries, China’s economic surge, social networking, and the Arab Spring.

MARCH 12, 2014 - 7:30 PM

The Arab Spring and Beyond

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Dayna Greenfield is acting director of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council. A democracy and governance specialist, she leads the Atlantic Council’s Yemen Policy Initiative and writes frequently about Yemen, Jordan, and Egypt, as well as US aid to the Arab world.

MARCH 25, 2014 - 7:30 PM

The UK and Europe

Canceled due to weather

Sir Peter Westmacott is the British Ambassador to the United States. He was appointed to his position in 2012, following four years of service as Ambassador to France. His forty-year career in the British Diplomatic Service has included postings in Tehran, Brussels, and Ankara.

APRIL 23, 2014 - 7:30 PM

China's Challenges

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Susan Shirk is the Chair of the 21st Century China Program and Ho Miu Lam Professor of China and Pacific Relations at UC San Diego. She served under the Clinton Administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs with responsibility for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mongolia from 1997 to 2000.

APRIL 30, 2014 - 7:30 PM

Latin America Today

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Michael Reid is the Americas editor of The Economist. A journalist specializing in development, international affairs, Latin & South America, politics, and public policy, he is the author of the book Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America’s Soul.