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Barbara P. Billauer, Research Professor at The Institute of World Politics discussed scientific statecraft on August 20, 2014.

On September 5, 2014, Kenneth A. Cohen led a discussion on the topic of "Both Hands Tied Behind their Backs: Today's U.S. Rules of Engagement" at The Institute of World Politics.

Participants included Cheryl Cohen; Billy Vaughn, author of "Betrayed;" Karen Vaughn; Jeffrey Addicott, Director of the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary's University; and Ryan Zinke, Navy Veteran, Former Commander at SEAL Team VI.

Please note that the views expressed by our guest lecturers do not necessarily reflect the views of The Institute of World Politics.

Barbara P. Billauer, Research Professor at The Institute of World Politics discussed scientific statecraft on August 20, 2014.

Amb. Frank Lavin visited The Institute of World Politics on July 8, 2014 to discuss what may be the most important question in international relations in the 21st century: Where is China going?

Amb. Lavin is the CEO and founder of Export Now, which runs e-commerce stores in China for foreign companies.

In Government, Lavin served as Under Secretary for International Trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce 2005-2007. In that capacity, Lavin served as lead trade negotiator for both China and India and was the senior policy official in the Department responsible for commercial policy, export promotion, and trade negotiations across the globe. Lavin was U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore from 2001-05, where his duties included helping negotiate the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement.

In the private sector, Lavin served in senior finance and management positions in Hong Kong and Singapore with Bank of America, and Citibank.

Previously, Lavin served in the George H.W. Bush and Reagan Administrations, working in the Department of Commerce, Department of State, National Security Council, and White House. Lavin served as Director of the Office of Political Affairs in the White House 1987-89.

Lavin earned a B.S. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University; an M.S. in Chinese Language and History from Georgetown University; an M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from the School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University; and an M.B.A. in Finance at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

He has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and other periodicals.

Lavin is the co-author of "Export Now" (2011), a featured title by John Wiley & Sons. He was Editor of "Rising to the Challenge" (EDM 2010), the official book of the USA Pavilion at the Shanghai 2010 Expo.

Lavin serves on the Board of Directors of Globe Specialty Metals, the world's largest producer of silicon metal alloys, Consistel, the largest telecommunications firm for in-building services in Southeast Asia, and UOB Bank a Singapore-based regional bank. He also served as Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Shanghai 2010 World Expo USA Pavilion.

Amb. Frank Lavin visited The Institute of World Politics on July 8, 2014 to discuss what may be the most important question in international relations in the 21st century: Where is China going?

Amb. Lavin is the CEO and founder of Export Now, which runs e-commerce stores in China for foreign companies.

In Government, Lavin served as Under Secretary for International Trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce 2005-2007. In that capacity, Lavin served as lead trade negotiator for both China and India and was the senior policy official in the Department responsible for commercial policy, export promotion, and trade negotiations across the globe. Lavin was U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore from 2001-05, where his duties included helping negotiate the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement.

In the private sector, Lavin served in senior finance and management positions in Hong Kong and Singapore with Bank of America, and Citibank.

Previously, Lavin served in the George H.W. Bush and Reagan Administrations, working in the Department of Commerce, Department of State, National Security Council, and White House. Lavin served as Director of the Office of Political Affairs in the White House 1987-89.

Lavin earned a B.S. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University; an M.S. in Chinese Language and History from Georgetown University; an M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from the School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University; and an M.B.A. in Finance at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

He has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and other periodicals.

Lavin is the co-author of "Export Now" (2011), a featured title by John Wiley & Sons. He was Editor of "Rising to the Challenge" (EDM 2010), the official book of the USA Pavilion at the Shanghai 2010 Expo.

Lavin serves on the Board of Directors of Globe Specialty Metals, the world's largest producer of silicon metal alloys, Consistel, the largest telecommunications firm for in-building services in Southeast Asia, and UOB Bank a Singapore-based regional bank. He also served as Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Shanghai 2010 World Expo USA Pavilion.

Amb. Frank Lavin visited The Institute of World Politics on July 8, 2014 to discuss what may be the most important question in international relations in the 21st century: Where is China going?

Amb. Lavin is the CEO and founder of Export Now, which runs e-commerce stores in China for foreign companies.

In Government, Lavin served as Under Secretary for International Trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce 2005-2007. In that capacity, Lavin served as lead trade negotiator for both China and India and was the senior policy official in the Department responsible for commercial policy, export promotion, and trade negotiations across the globe. Lavin was U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore from 2001-05, where his duties included helping negotiate the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement.

In the private sector, Lavin served in senior finance and management positions in Hong Kong and Singapore with Bank of America, and Citibank.

Previously, Lavin served in the George H.W. Bush and Reagan Administrations, working in the Department of Commerce, Department of State, National Security Council, and White House. Lavin served as Director of the Office of Political Affairs in the White House 1987-89.

Lavin earned a B.S. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University; an M.S. in Chinese Language and History from Georgetown University; an M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from the School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University; and an M.B.A. in Finance at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

He has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and other periodicals.

Lavin is the co-author of "Export Now" (2011), a featured title by John Wiley & Sons. He was Editor of "Rising to the Challenge" (EDM 2010), the official book of the USA Pavilion at the Shanghai 2010 Expo.

Lavin serves on the Board of Directors of Globe Specialty Metals, the world's largest producer of silicon metal alloys, Consistel, the largest telecommunications firm for in-building services in Southeast Asia, and UOB Bank a Singapore-based regional bank. He also served as Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Shanghai 2010 World Expo USA Pavilion.

Amb. Frank Lavin visited The Institute of World Politics on July 8, 2014 to discuss what may be the most important question in international relations in the 21st century: Where is China going?

Amb. Lavin is the CEO and founder of Export Now, which runs e-commerce stores in China for foreign companies.

In Government, Lavin served as Under Secretary for International Trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce 2005-2007. In that capacity, Lavin served as lead trade negotiator for both China and India and was the senior policy official in the Department responsible for commercial policy, export promotion, and trade negotiations across the globe. Lavin was U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore from 2001-05, where his duties included helping negotiate the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement.

In the private sector, Lavin served in senior finance and management positions in Hong Kong and Singapore with Bank of America, and Citibank.

Previously, Lavin served in the George H.W. Bush and Reagan Administrations, working in the Department of Commerce, Department of State, National Security Council, and White House. Lavin served as Director of the Office of Political Affairs in the White House 1987-89.

Lavin earned a B.S. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University; an M.S. in Chinese Language and History from Georgetown University; an M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from the School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University; and an M.B.A. in Finance at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

He has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and other periodicals.

Lavin is the co-author of "Export Now" (2011), a featured title by John Wiley & Sons. He was Editor of "Rising to the Challenge" (EDM 2010), the official book of the USA Pavilion at the Shanghai 2010 Expo.

Lavin serves on the Board of Directors of Globe Specialty Metals, the world's largest producer of silicon metal alloys, Consistel, the largest telecommunications firm for in-building services in Southeast Asia, and UOB Bank a Singapore-based regional bank. He also served as Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Shanghai 2010 World Expo USA Pavilion.

Amb. Frank Lavin visited The Institute of World Politics on July 8, 2014 to discuss what may be the most important question in international relations in the 21st century: Where is China going?

Amb. Lavin is the CEO and founder of Export Now, which runs e-commerce stores in China for foreign companies.

In Government, Lavin served as Under Secretary for International Trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce 2005-2007. In that capacity, Lavin served as lead trade negotiator for both China and India and was the senior policy official in the Department responsible for commercial policy, export promotion, and trade negotiations across the globe. Lavin was U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore from 2001-05, where his duties included helping negotiate the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement.

In the private sector, Lavin served in senior finance and management positions in Hong Kong and Singapore with Bank of America, and Citibank.

Previously, Lavin served in the George H.W. Bush and Reagan Administrations, working in the Department of Commerce, Department of State, National Security Council, and White House. Lavin served as Director of the Office of Political Affairs in the White House 1987-89.

Lavin earned a B.S. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University; an M.S. in Chinese Language and History from Georgetown University; an M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from the School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University; and an M.B.A. in Finance at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

He has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and other periodicals.

Lavin is the co-author of "Export Now" (2011), a featured title by John Wiley & Sons. He was Editor of "Rising to the Challenge" (EDM 2010), the official book of the USA Pavilion at the Shanghai 2010 Expo.

Lavin serves on the Board of Directors of Globe Specialty Metals, the world's largest producer of silicon metal alloys, Consistel, the largest telecommunications firm for in-building services in Southeast Asia, and UOB Bank a Singapore-based regional bank. He also served as Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Shanghai 2010 World Expo USA Pavilion.

On June 26, 2014, Dr. J. Phillip London, Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of CACI International Inc., discussed his new book entitled "Character: The Ultimate Success Factor" at The Institute of World Politics.

On June 26, 2014, Dr. J. Phillip London, Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of CACI International Inc., discussed his new book entitled "Character: The Ultimate Success Factor" at The Institute of World Politics.