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SUMMARY:Leadership Breakfast with The Hon. Christopher Wray
DESCRIPTION:Intelligence and National Security Alliance | Virtual Event \nDescription: Join intelligence and national security colleagues on Thursday\, February 29\, from 7:45-10:00 am at the Hilton Mclean Tysons Corner for a Leadership Breakfast with The Hon. Christopher Wray\, Director\, FBI. Following a coffee reception and plated breakfast\, Director Chris Wray will deliver prepared remarks\, follwed by a fireside chat with The Hon. Sue Gordon\, focused on the Bureau’s 2024 priorities\, including: \n\nLaunch of the FBI’s Five-Year Intelligence Program Strategy\nOpportunities and challenges posed by emerging technology\nEngaging with partners – across government and the private sector – to protect the United States from threats here at home and around the world\nWorkforce recruitment and retention\n…and more!\n\nThe registration link can be found below. 
URL:https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/event/leadership-breakfast-with-the-hon-christopher-wray/
LOCATION:Hilton McLean Tysons Corner\, McLean\, VA
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SUMMARY:Black Sea Security: Bulgaria’s Role and the Need for a Regional Strategy
DESCRIPTION:German Marshall Fund | Virtual Event \nDescription: Two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine\, tensions in the Black Sea region raise concern about its security. Russian forces in the Black Sea have been significantly weakened\, but the Kremlin still seeks to prevent the concentration of NATO forces there. Moscow has repeatedly attacked Ukrainian infrastructure\, and has put countless mines in the Black Sea. It also keeps trying to prevent Ukrainian grain from reaching the world market. Ukraine has forced Russia’s Black Sea fleet to retreat. Moscow is failing to project power across the region\, but it remains in control of key ports\, including some in Ukraine. Russia’s militarization of the sea and occupation of Crimea\, in the absence of any strong pushback by the West\, left the region vulnerable. A comprehensive NATO strategy for the Black Sea requires a more unified voice from the alliance members there\, and there are moves in that direction. Türkiye is increasing its regional role and ambitions\, while Bulgaria’s and Romania’s commitment to military modernization depends on domestic political dynamics. How do these dynamics impact Bulgaria’s role in Black Sea security? Do the complex relationships among the region’s actors lead to less security? Can smaller states\, such as Bulgaria\, have a stronger voice within NATO? Is a Black Sea security strategy desirable for the alliance? The panelists will discuss these questions and highlight the key challenges to and opportunities for enhancing security cooperation. \nThe registration link can be found below. 
URL:https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/event/black-sea-security-bulgarias-role-and-the-need-for-a-regional-strategy/
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SUMMARY:Taking Stock of US Child Soldier Prevention Efforts
DESCRIPTION:Stimson Center | In-Person & Virtual Event \nDescription: February 12\, 2024\, marks the 22nd anniversary of the entry into force of the landmark UN treaty banning the use of child soldiers. To mark the occasion\, join the Stimson Center for an expert discussion of U.S. efforts to end the recruitment and use of child soldiers worldwide through use of the 2008 Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA). The event will highlight the CSPA’s potential as a child soldier prevention tool\, examine its application and impact to date\, and consider opportunities to strengthen the law’s implementation in the years to come. \nThe registration link can be found below. 
URL:https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/event/taking-stock-of-us-child-soldier-prevention-efforts/
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SUMMARY:Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Elliott School of International Affairs| In-Person Event  \nDescription: The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war on terror. Some two decades later\, this securitized model of aid has become normalized across donor intervention in Palestine. Elastic Empire traces how foreign aid\, on which much of the Palestinian population is dependent\, has multiplied the sites and means through which Palestinian life is regulated\, surveilled\, and policed—this book tells the story of how aid has also become war. Drawing on extensive research conducted in Palestine\, Elastic Empire offers a novel accounting of the US security state. The US war chronicled here is not one of tanks\, grenades\, and guns\, but a quieter one waged through the interlacing of aid and law. It emerges in the infrastructures of daily life—in a greenhouse and library\, in the collection of personal information and mapping of land plots\, in the halls of municipal councils and in local elections—and indelibly transfigures lives. Situated in a landscape where the lines between humanitarianism and the global war on terror are increasingly blurred\, Elastic Empire reveals the shape-shifting nature of contemporary imperial formations\, their realignments and reformulations\, their haunted sites\, and their obscured but intimate forms. \nThe registration link can be found below. 
URL:https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/event/elastic-empire-refashioning-war-through-aid-in-palestine/
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