Recap: ARW #7, April 6-7, 2022

A New Era of Conflict and Competition

The seventh America’s Role in the World conference featured panel discussions on a variety of topics framed by the theme, A New Era of Conflict and Competition. Panel discussions featured expert scholars and practitioners on media and democracy, Russia's attack on Ukraine, international development, and many other topics.

Among many distinguished guests, we were joined by Amb. Bonnie Jenkins, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, Amb. William Taylor, Former Ambassador to Ukraine, Sen. Dan R. Coats, Former Director of National Intelligence, José Luis Sanz, Washington DC-based correspondent, El Faro, Nicole Lamb-Hale, Vice President and General Counsel, Cummins Inc., Tom Countryman, Chair, Arms Control Association, Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, and Joe Gebbia, (Co-founder and Chairman of Airbnb.org, who was presented with the 2022 Hamilton Lugar School Global Voices for Change Award. 

Amb. Bonnie Jenkins, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, joined us for a conversation with Elise Labott, contributing editor of Politico and CEO/Founder of Zivvy Media.

Richard G. Lugar Lecture with Amb. Bonnie Jenkins, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security

Ambassador Jenkins previously served in the Obama Administration as Special Envoy and Coordinator for Threat Reduction Programs in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation from July 2009 until January 2017.

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Conversation with Amb. William Taylor, Former Ambassador to Ukraine

Ambassador William B. Taylor is vice president, Russia and Europe at the U.S. Institute of Peace. In 2019, he served as chargé d’affaires at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv.

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Russia’s War Against Ukraine

With Mariana Budjeryn, Research Associate, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Olga Filippova, Sociology, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University; Sarah Phillips, Russian & East European Institute Director, IU Hamilton Lugar School; Justyna Zajac, Polish Studies Center Director, IU Hamilton Lugar School; Michael De Groot, IU Hamilton Lugar School (Moderator).

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Global Impacts of Russia’s War Against Ukraine

With Hussein Banai, International Studies, IU Hamilton Lugar School; Sumit Ganguly, Political Science, Indiana University; Jung H. Pak, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Marie Harf, Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service, Fox News Analyst & Contributor (Moderator).

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A New Nuclear Age

With Sarah Bidgood, Eurasia Nonproliferation Program Director, Middlebury Institute of International Studies; Mariana Budjeryn, Research Associate, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Tom Countryman, Chair, Arms Control Association, Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation; Elise Labott, Contributing Editor, Politico; CEO/Founder, Zivvy Media (Moderator).

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International Development in an Era of Great Power Competition

With Yuen Yuen Ang, Political Science, University of Michigan; Kristen Cordell, Sr. Policy Advisor, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); Samantha Custer, Policy Analysis Unit Director, AidData research lab, William & Mary; Sarah Bauerle Danzman, International Studies, IU Hamilton Lugar School (Moderator).

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The Global Refugee Crisis

With Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, Director, IU Center for Refugee Studies; Melanie Nezer, Sr. Vice President, Global Public Affairs, HIAS; Paula Reed Lynch, Director, Office of Policy and Resource Planning (PRM/PRP), Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, U.S. Department of State; Anne Richard, Distinguished Fellow/Afghanistan Coordination Lead at Freedom House; David Bosco, International Studies, IU Hamilton Lugar School (Moderator).

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Indiana and the World

With Bradley B. Chambers, Indiana Secretary of Commerce; Nicole Lamb-Hale, Vice President and General Counsel, Cummins Inc.; Vop Osili, President, Indianapolis City-County Council; Martin Baier, President and CEO, International Center (Moderator).

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Positioning Free Media on the International Agenda

With Natalia Arno, President & Founder, Free Russia Foundation; José Luis Sanz, Washington DC-based correspondent, El Faro; Veysel Ok, Co-Founder, Media and Law Studies Association; Nick Benequista, Senior Director, Center for International Media Assistance (Moderator).

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Global Lives: Languages and Learning

Iman Alramadan, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, IU Hamilton Lugar School; Deborah Cohn, Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University; Allan Goodman, CEO, Institute of International Education; Paula Reed Lynch, Director, Office of Policy and Resource Planning (PRM/PRP), Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, U.S. Department of State; Hilary Kahn, Associate Vice Chancellor for International Affairs at IUPUI Associate Vice President, International Affairs, Indiana University (Moderator)

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We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship. And we have the responsibility to speak plainly when we disagree with the administration, but to avoid inflammatory rhetoric that is designed merely to create partisan advantage or to settle partisan scores.

Sen. Richard Lugar, during the Senate debate on the nomination of Condoleezza Rice to be US Secretary of State (2005)

Conference conveners

Nick Cullather

Interim Dean, Hamilton Lugar School

Rep. Lee Hamilton

Distinguished Scholar and Namesake, Hamilton Lugar School

Sen. Daniel R. Coats

HLS Distinguished Scholar, Former Director of National Intelligence

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