PAST EVENTS
"North Korea: Progress or Stalemate?"
The Common Good was pleased to present a special briefing with Gordon Chang, leading North Korea expert and author. The stakes are high - for the Korean Peninsula, the nations of the far East and the United States.
The Common Good was pleased to present a special briefing with Gordon Chang, leading North Korea expert and author. The stakes are high - for the Korean Peninsula, the nations of the far East and the United States.
Gordon Chang discussed the crucial US- North Korea relations and examine next steps to avoid a nuclear showdown or other possible conflict.
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“Are they playing us? I don’t know..If they’re playing Trump, we’re going to be in a world of hurt, because he’s going to have no options left. This is the last, best chance for beace right here.”
“Chang knows Asia well, and has his eyes set on the long tem... In his eyes, it is the duty of the world’s dominant power to protect the international system from developing- world states seeking to go nuclear.”
Gordon Chang is a renowned expert on North Korea and China. Chang is the author of Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World, and a columnist at The Daily Beast. He worked in China and Hong Kong for almost two decades as Counsel to Paul Weiss and Partner at Baker and McKenzie. Chang has briefed at the National Intelligence Council, the CIA, the State Department, U.S. Strategic Command, and the Pentagon. His writing on China and North Korea has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The National Interest, The American Conservative, The International Herald Tribune, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, National Review and Barron’s.
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Special Discussion with Michael Morell - March 1, 2018
The Common Good was pleased to present an important off-the-record conversation with Michael Morell, former Acting Director and Deputy Director of the CIA, with Jeh Johnson, former Security of Homeland Security. Morell discussed the most worrying dangers to national security and how current US policy does not align well to meet these perils.
The Common Good was pleased to present an important off-the-record conversation with Michael Morell, former Acting Director and Deputy Director of the CIA, with Jeh Johnson, former Security of Homeland Security.
Morell discussed the most worrying dangers to national security and how current US policy does not align well to meet these perils. He will cover global conflict zones from China, North Korea, Russia and Middle East with particular emphasis on the rising threats from the Pacific Rim area.
Michael Morell is the former CIA Acting Director and Deputy Director, has a great depth of experience in intelligence and foreign policy with over three decades in the CIA. He has receiver the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the Agency’s highest honor, for his role in the successful operation to take down Osama bin Laden, and authored the New York Times best-seller The Great War Of Our Time. He is also a Senior National Security Contributor for CBS News and a regular op-ed writer on foreign policy, as well as a member of the council on Foreign Relations and American Economic Association.
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A Conversation with Rob Riemen, “To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism and Humanism”
The Common Good presented a special conversation with Rob Riemen, public intellectual and founder of the Nexus Institute in Amsterdam. Riemen offered a thoughtful meditation on the rise of authoritarian and xenophobic strains in many corners of contemporary Europe and beyond, and how the romanticization of authoritarianism in the western societies contributes to the steady erosion of democratic ideals.
The Common Good presented a special conversation with Rob Riemen, public intellectual and founder of the Nexus Institute in Amsterdam. Riemen offered a thoughtful meditation on the rise of authoritarian and xenophobic strains in many corners of contemporary Europe and beyond, and how the romanticization of authoritarianism in the western societies contributes to the steady erosion of democratic ideals. We ignore the new global changes at our own peril, is a warning that Riemen has sounded for some time that resonance in our hemisphere as well. Reimen’s latest book, “To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism and Humanism”, is already a bestseller in many countries.
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“Extremely relevant, urgent call to receive true democracy and acknowledge the perils of the fascist ideology”
“This is a book for the people who want the West to regain its moral high ground, and who want to think hard about how to help help achieve that. ”
“Rob Riemen is one of the great modern champions of the enlightenment and the best of its legacy. ”
Rob Riemen, a European public intellectual and cultural critic, is the founder, president and CEO of the Nexus Institute, a leading international center for philosophical debate and and intellectual discourse. The Nexus Institute was founded in 1994 by Riemen to stimulate intellectual debate in the European tradition of humanism. The Nexus Institute is widely acknowledged for the quality of its insight into contemporary issues and an approach that offers the appreciation of the humanistic culture and philosophy as a counterweight to the dominance of commercial values in today’s society. Riemen has lectured around the world and is also an international best-selling author with a number of critically acclaimed publications.
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