Monday in Washington, July 10, 2017

THE FUTURE OF AIR SUPERIORITY. 7/10, 9:30-10:30am. Sponsor: The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, War on the Rocks. Speakers: Brig Gen Alex Grynkewich, USAF, Air Superiority 2030 Lead; Col Tom Coglitore, USAF, Chief, Air Superiority Core Function Team, Air Combat Command; Mr. Jeff Saling, Analysis Lead, Air Superiority 2030; Moderator: Dave Deptula, Lt Gen USAF (Ret.), Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies; Ryan Evans, Commentator, War on the Rocks.

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ALL MEASURES SHORT OF WAR: THE CONTEST FOR THE 21ST CENTURY AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN POWER. 7/10, 4:30pm. Sponsor: Institute of World Politics. Speaker: Author, Thomas J. Wright, Director, Center on the United States and Europe, Fellow, Project on International Order and Strategy, Brookings.

SECURITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: SILK ROAD AND THE CASPIAN. 7/10, 10:00-12:30pm. Sponsors: Heritage Foundation, Caspian Policy Center; Institute for the Analysis of Global Security. Speakers: Ambassador Richard Norland, Foreign Policy Advisor, to Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff, Former U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan & Georgia; Dr. Timur Shaimergenov, Deputy Director, Library of the First President of Kazakhstan (Nazarbayev Center); Joshua Walker, CEO, President, USA Pavilion Astana World EXPO 2017; Ariel Cohen, Director, Center for Energy, Natural Resources and Geopolitics, Senior Fellow, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security; Elin Suleymanov, Ambassador of Azerbaijan, to United States; H.E. Erzhan Kazykhanov, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to, United States; H.E. Bakhtyor Ibragimov, Ambassador of Uzbekistan, to United Nations. Moderators: Efgan Niftiyev, Director, Caspian Policy Center; Luke Coffey, Director, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy, Heritage Foundation.

HOW THE VOICE HAS CHANGED: LOOKING BACK AT THE ORIGINS OF THE VOICE OF AMERICA. 7/10, Noon-1:30pm. Sponsor: University of South California (USC). Speakers: Adam Clayton Powell III, CCLP Director, Washington Programs, USC; Holly Cowan Shulman, Visiting Research Professor, History, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia.

RELIGION AND CLIMATE DIPLOMACY IN SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES. 7/10, 2:00-4:00pm. Sponsors: Environmental Change and Security Program, Wilson Center; Global Sustainability and Resilience Program, Wilson Center. Speakers: Christina Chan, Climate Resilience Director, World Resources Institute; Yamide Dagnet, Senior Associate, Collective Climate Action Objective, World Resources Institute; Ambassador Selwin Hart, Ambassador to the United States, Organization of American States for Barbados; Lizzie McLeod, Climate Adaptation Scientist, Nature Conservancy.

RECEPTION WITH VIETNAM PROVINCIAL LEADERS. 7/10, 5:30-7:30pm. Sponsor: U.S.-ASEAN Business Council U.S. Chamber of Commerce.