Venice Global Issues 2022

Our 51st Year

Global Issues 2022
Venice

Lectures are held in the Venice Community Center 326 S Nokomis Ave
Lectures start at 2:30 pm on Tuesdays, at 10:00 am on Fridays

Click on speaker name for biography, click on description for program summary

	Tuesday		Friday
J A N	11	The Next Germany Jeffrey Gedmin	14	Stories That Never Made It Into Print: Backstairs at the White House Thomas DeFrank
	18	Pandemics: From "What If" to "What Now"? John Sinnott	21	Making Peace in the Middle East Brian Hook
	25	Energy Transition: Is It Feasible? What Will It Entail? Richard Jones	28	Independence Corrupted: How America's Judges Really Make Their Decisions Charles Schudson
F E B	1	The Dragon and the Bear: Russo-Chinese Relations Robert Barylski	4	Can Europe Become French Again? Martin Walker
	8	U.S. Policy Towards the Middle East Dennis Ross	11	How American Democracy Has Renewed Itself in the Past Jeremi Suri
	15	The Online Accelerator Margaret Jay	18	Reckoning With the Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Robert Jones
	22	Military Assistance vs Military Operations: A Cure for the Forever Wars Charles Ray	25	New Hardline President Raisi and U.S.- Iran Relations Mohsen Milani
M A R	1	Military Support to Civil Authorities Russel Honoré	4	What Makes Vladimir Putin Tick? John Beyrle
	8	Ethiopia and its Prime Minister-From Nobel Laureate to War Crimes William Davison	11	Can a Democratic America Compete with a Totalitarian China? Robert Lieber
	15	Current Issues in U.S. Intelligence Mark Lowenthal	18	Domestic Extremism Peter Bergen
	22	Negotiating with North Korea Stephen Biegun	25	Why America No Longer Gets Asia Evan Feigenbaum
	29	Our Own Worst Enemy: The Global Assault From Within on Modern Democracy Thomas Nichols	1	Like War: How Social Media Has Become Weaponized, and What We Need to Know About It Peter Singer