The CCP’s Ambitions to Control and Manipulate Information Spaces: Theory and Practice

The CCP’s Ambitions to Control and Manipulate Information Spaces: Theory and Practice

Speaker(s): Ohlberg, M. (Senior Fellow and Leader of the Stockholm China Forum, Asia Program, The German Marshall Fund [GMF] of the United States) Date: 22 June 2022 Speaker Session Summary SMA hosted a speaker session with Dr. Mareike Ohlberg (Senior Fellow, Asia...
Weaponizing Critical Resources on a Changing Planet

Weaponizing Critical Resources on a Changing Planet

Speaker(s): Alessa, L. (President’s Professor and Director, Center for Resilient Communities, University of Idaho; Chief Scientist (ST), United States Special Operations Command) Date: 14 June 2022 Speaker Session Summary SMA hosted a speaker session with Dr. Lilian...
The Nature, Causes, and Consequences of Extreme Inequality and Why It Persists in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Nature, Causes, and Consequences of Extreme Inequality and Why It Persists in Sub-Saharan Africa

Speaker(s): Muyeba, S. (Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver) Date: 8 June 2022 Speaker Session Summary SMA hosted a speaker session with Dr. Singumbe Muyeba (Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver) as part of...
Avoiding a Climate Arms Race: Why We Need the Baruch Plan 2.0 for Climate Geoengineering

Avoiding a Climate Arms Race: Why We Need the Baruch Plan 2.0 for Climate Geoengineering

Speaker(s): Chalecki, E. (Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Nebraska Omaha; 2022 Fulbright Research Chair, Fulbright Canada) Date: 18 May 2022 Speaker Session Summary SMA hosted a speaker session with Dr. Elizabeth L. Chalecki (Associate...
The Exploitable Conditions Framework: Anticipating Exploitation of the Operational Environment

The Exploitable Conditions Framework: Anticipating Exploitation of the Operational Environment

Speaker(s): Laster, N. (US Army TRADOC G-2, Global Cultural Knowledge Network (GCKN)); Johnson, A. (US Army TRADOC G-2, GCKN) Date: 5 May 2022 Speaker Session Summary SMA hosted a speaker session with Dr. Nicole M. Laster (Lead Social Scientist, US Army TRADOC G-2,...
The Perils of Sticky Rhetoric: A Discussion Led by Professor Ian Lustick

The Perils of Sticky Rhetoric: A Discussion Led by Professor Ian Lustick

Speaker(s): Lustick, I. (University of Pennsylvania) Date: 14 April 2022 Speaker Session Summary SMA hosted a speaker session with Professor Ian Lustick (Bess W. Heyman Chair (Emeritus), University of Pennsylvania) as part of its SMA “Anticipating the...