Changing American National Security Priorities
2013-2020
Program Schedule
Thursday, November 29
Dogwood Room, Indiana Memorial Union
| 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. |
Opening General Session: Gene Coyle, (CIA-ret)-- SPEA and Global Village LLC
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| 10:15 - 12:00 p.m. | Session I Regional Issues China as a growing regional and world power Dr. Gardner Bovington, Central Eurasian Studies Impact of China in Latin America and Africa Dr. Evan Ellis, Professor at the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University North Korea Dr. Seongji Woo, Associate Professor at the College of International Studies, Kyung Hee University Student Moderator: Alyssa Kelly |
| 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. | Session II Middle East and Iranian Challenges Ambassador Feisal Istrabadi, Director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East/COAS Student Moderator: Anne Willborn |
| 2:15 - 3:40 p.m. | Session III Resurgent Russia and Collapsing Europe Moderator: Dr. Maria Bucur-Deckard, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Panelists: Dr. Regina Smyth, Political Science/COAS; Dr. Dina Spechler, Political Science/COAS; and Tyler Drumheller - former C/EUR/CIA |
| 3:45 - 5:15 p.m. | Session IV Thematic Issues Challenges for the Intelligence Community (IC): Example of Politicization: Iraq WMD (Curveball case), Tyler Drumheller Changing Tasks for the CIA in the 21st Century, Tyler Drumheller and Gene Coyle Student Moderator: Alex Wilson |
| 5:30 - 6:45 p.m. | Keynote Speaker, Whittenberger Auditorium The Honorable Mary Beth Long, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Affairs |
Friday, November 30
Georgian Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Continuation of Thematic Issues and a Wrap-Up Panel
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9:00 - 10:15 a.m. |
Session V Domestic National Security Issues FBI priorities in coming years, Robert Jones, FBI SAC, Indianapolis Civil Liberties/Privacy vs Security, Beth Cate, SPEA Student Moderator: Emilce Sanchez |
| 10:30 - 12:00 p.m. | Session VI Cyber Issues Defense against cyber espionage, crime and warfare -- The threats and who should run these defensive efforts? Overview of the threat and issue of government-private sector cooperation against the threats, Fred Cate, Director, Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research Domestic and international law aspects, David Fidler, LAW |
| 12:00 - 12:45 p.m. | Lunch |
| 12:45 - 1:50 p.m. | Session VII Monitoring International Flows of Ideas, People and Money Vicki Allums, Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property Defense Information Systems Agency, Department of Defense Jeff Tunis, retired career foreign service officer |
| 2:00 - 3:55 p.m. | Session VIII Natural Resource Issues Energy (Supply, Foreign Dependence, Conservation); Worldwide Water Scarcity Policy considerations on energy, John Clark, former Energy Advisor to Governor Daniels and Richard Hertzberg, Chairman and CEO of the ENPEX Corporation The human dimensions of energy and water use? Dr. Shahzeen Attari, SPEA Professor Water as a source of conflict in the world, Dr. Todd Royer, SPEA Professor |
| 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. | Wrap Up Panel What Have We Learned? Can we be optimistic about the coming years? Moderator: Gene Coyle Panelists: Mary Beth Long, Tyler Drumheller, Dan Denning, and Anthony Koliha. |