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Katherine Hutton 

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment

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Megan Glancey 

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment

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William Friedl 

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment

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Cody Earle 

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment

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Ken Webre

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

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Evan Weaver 

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

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Thinking Global

May 7, 2011

Berlin 1961: How Misreading Khrushchev Led to Confrontation

By Frederick Kempe

 Five years after his forced retirement, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in 1969 would concede to the American physician A. McGhee Harvey, a specialist who had visited Moscow to treat his daughter, that his watershed political event – the moment after which he “was no longer in full control” of the Kremlin — had been the […]

Thinking Global

May 7, 2011

Johanna Schumann Kempe Honored by University of Utah

By Frederick Kempe

On its front page, the Salt Lake Tribune published a moving tribute to my late mother, Johanna Schumann Kempe, who was honored by the University of Utah’s College of Humanities as one of two distinguished alumni at Friday’s graduation ceremony.  At a lunch in her honor a day earlier, Dean Robert Newman spoke of her […]

Thinking Global

May 7, 2011

Berlin 1961: Interview with Doug Fabrizio

By Frederick Kempe

The first long-form interview on the book tour for Berlin 1961 was with Doug Fabrizio of my hometown NPR station, Salt Lake City’s KUER RadioWest.

Thinking Global

May 6, 2011

Berlin 1961: Characters Who Clashed

By Frederick Kempe

“The Great Man Theory,” first developed by the Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle in the 19th Century, argues that history can be largely explained by the influence of towering historical figures from Shakespeare to Attila the Hun. Its detractors contend that the societal forces and trends which produce these people are more decisive. It wasn’t the […]

Thinking Global

May 5, 2011

Berlin 1961: Reliving the Cold War’s Tensest Moment

By Frederick Kempe

Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev’s face turned red with rage. Leaning in close to U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Khrushchev said that Cold War Berlin was “the most dangerous place on earth.” He told Kennedy he would “perform an operation on this sore spot – to eliminate this thorn, this ulcer…to the satisfaction of all peoples […]

Thinking Global

Apr 17, 2011

Global Water Cooler: Obama’s Foreign Policy Team

By Frederick Kempe

 Talk around the Global Watercooler on Sundays–at least among the internationally minded Washington set–revolves around what is typically the best edition of the Washington Post all week. This week’s was no exception. OBAMA’S FOREIGN POLICY TEAM The last thing you want when you enter one of those landmark years in history, which 2011 is likely to be, […]

Thinking Global

Apr 5, 2011

Global Watercooler: A More Robust UN?

By Frederick Kempe

 Around the watercooler today: UN acts in Ivory Coast; China outbids Australia for a Canadian copper mining company; and Germany chooses a new path. UN Watch:  Taking Sides in a Regime Change Strip out all the diplomatic niceties, and what we’re watching in the Ivory Coast is this: the United Nations is enforcing with military […]

International Organizations
Politics & Diplomacy

Thinking Global

Mar 31, 2011

Global Watercooler: Mission Creep or Regime Change for Libya?

By Frederick Kempe

Around the watercooler today: Decision time on Libya regime change; four crises that could sink the global economy; and successors to two global titans. Gaddafi: Mission Creep or Regime Change? Fareed Zakharia is as persuasive his arguments against the ongoing mission creep in Libya—but so is the Atlantic Council’s Walt Slocombe in explaining why the U.S. and its […]

Thinking Global

Mar 30, 2011

Global Watercooler: Scowcroft on Cyber

By Frederick Kempe

Around the watercooler today: the similarity between nuclear- and cyber-war; al Qaeda in Libya; and Greenspan takes on Dodd-Frank.

Cybersecurity
Security & Defense

Event Recap

Mar 29, 2011

Brent Scowcroft Speech at International Engagement on Cyber Conference

By James Joyner

Lt. General Brent Scowcroft delivered the following remarks at the conference on international engagement in cyberspace hosted by Georgetown University’s Institute for Law, Science, and Global Security and the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative. Congratulations to Catherine Lotrionte of Georgetown University and the Atlantic Council for bringing all of you together today. From what I am told, we […]

Cybersecurity
Security & Defense
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Congressman John Moolenaar on deterring aggression against Taiwan

AN #ACFRONTPAGE EVENT—Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, discusses how the United States and Taiwan can strengthen deterrence in the Taiwan Strait.
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