The United States and Regional Great Power Rivalry: Can America Still Pass the Mearsheimer test?

The United States and Regional Great Power Rivalry: Can America Still Pass the Mearsheimer test?

Speaker: Dr. Mark Katz (Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University) Date: 25 July 2023 Speaker Session Summary International relations (IR) experts widely perceive the US global political influence to be in a decline, especially in regions farther...
Update on the sUAS Ecosystem: Understanding the Basics:  Vulnerability Assessment, Detection, CUAS Technology, and Law

Update on the sUAS Ecosystem: Understanding the Basics:  Vulnerability Assessment, Detection, CUAS Technology, and Law

Speaker: Colonel (Ret) Bill Edwards (Building Intelligence Inc.) Date: 20 July 2023 Speaker Session Summary Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are still a relatively new technology and an even newer commercial product; however, the growth of the UAV market has been...
Back to the Future: Trajectories, Simulations and Alternative Futures of Great Power Competition

Back to the Future: Trajectories, Simulations and Alternative Futures of Great Power Competition

Speaker: Dr. Mark Abdollahian (Claremont Graduate University; Acertas) Date: 12 July 2023 Speaker Session Summary The US and China have been locked in a great power competition (GPC) that will decide who has more political influence among both developing and developed...
Spheres of Influence in the Coming Decades: Four Alternative Scenarios

Spheres of Influence in the Coming Decades: Four Alternative Scenarios

Speakers: Dr. Mathew Burrows (Stimson Center), Mr. Collin Meisel (Stimson Center), Mr. Caleb Petry (Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures), Dr. Jonathan D. Moyer (Josef Korbel School of International Studies; Frederick S. Pardee Center for International...
Russian Uncrewed Systems in Ukraine

Russian Uncrewed Systems in Ukraine

Speaker: Mr. Samuel Bendett (Center for Naval Analyses) Date: 6 July 2023 Speaker Session Summary The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is having a significant impact on the war in Ukraine, changing how Russia and Ukraine are actively fighting and carrying out...
Beyond the Wire: US Military Deployments and Host Country Public Opinion

Beyond the Wire: US Military Deployments and Host Country Public Opinion

Speaker: Dr. Carla Martinez Machain (University at Buffalo, SUNY) Date: 27 June 2023 Speaker Session Summary The presence of a US military base in a host country naturally increases interactions between that host country’s citizens and US military personnel. These...