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"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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The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Steve Coll
The Common Good was pleased to present a special discussion with the inestimable Steve Coll. Coll briefed us on America’s covert involvement in Afghanistan and Pakistan and its impact on our intervention there, as detailed in his recent New York Times best seller, Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
The Common Good was pleased to present a special discussion with Steve Coll, Pulitzer Price-winning journalist, Dean of Columbia School of Journalism, and staff writer at The New Yorker, generously hosted by Rubén Kraiem, Partner, Covington & Burling. Coll briefed us on America’s covert involvement in Afghanistan and Pakistan and its impact on our intervention there, as detailed in his recent New York Times best seller, Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Coll knows the true story of this regional conflict — how our own intelligence and military services have often been at odds with each other, the nature of Pakistan’s often duplicitous relationship with the US, as seen in efforts by Pakistan’s spy agency, ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence), and their covert support for the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Coll’s analysis of these covert operations is extremely timely as we remain enmeshed in the region.
“The dance of blame, with the US swaying at one moment towards Pakistan and the next towards Afghanistan, is a choreography familiar to CIA chiefs, US presidents and writers who have tackled the subject. Coll refuses to follow this tired tune, and the result is masterful”
Steve Coll was appointed Dean of Columbia Journalism School in 2013 after serving as president of New America Foundation (2007-2012. He joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2005 and continues to write for the publication on politics, national security, and the media. Coll is also the author of eight nonfiction books, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and a former reporter, foreign correspondent and senior editor at the Washington Post (1985-2005).
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