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November 27, 2012 |
Contact: Cara Philbin, NPR |
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2-4PM (ET)
BROADCAST TO FOCUS ON U.S. INTERNATIONAL POLICY,
LIVE STREAM AT NPR.ORG
WITH ROBERT KAGAN, DAVID IGNATIUS, GRAHAM ALLISON, CHENG LI, ASHLEY TELLIS
Attending the broadcast is FREE and open to the public with seat reservation (RSVP here). For local stations and broadcast times of Talk of the Nation, visit www.NPR.org/stations; this special will also be streamed live at www.NPR.org and www.wilsoncenter.org. The event is part of The National Conversation, an ongoing public event series of the Wilson Center and NPR focusing on pressing global and domestic issues. Follow and join the conversation online using #NationalConversation.
Hour 1
OBAMA'S FOREIGN POLICY: OPPORTUNITY AND RISK
As President Obama looks toward his second term, the list of foreign policy questions is extensive. The President was captured on camera earlier this year telling then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that a second term would allow greater flexibility in negotiating missile defense policies. If that's true, where else might Obama's new flexibility reach, and where should he start? Robert Kagan, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, David Ignatius, Associate Editor and columnist for the Washington Post, and NPR foreign correspondents join Conan for a discussion about the international opportunities and risks that await the Obama administration as it confronts the next four years.
Hour 2
AVOIDING ANOTHER COLD WAR: LESSONS LEARNED AND HOW TO PREVENT ANOTHER
As global relations become increasingly multi-polar and strategically complicated by nuclear weapons held by China, India, Pakistan and North Korea, Conan speaks with Graham Allison, Director of Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Cheng Li, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Ashley Tellis, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about how the lessons learned from the Cold War can be applied to a modern international landscape.
WHEN WOMEN LEAD
The goal of the Wilson Center's Women in Public Service Project is to see 50% of the world's public service jobs filled by women by 2050. Wilson Center President Jane Harman describes her vision of a future world run by as many women leaders as men.
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