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HORACE A. BARTILOW, Professor of International Political Economy & American Foreign Policy, School of International Service at American University.
Horace A. Bartilow is a Jamaican-born political economist who received his Ph.D. in 1994 from the State University of New York at Albany. He is Professor of International Political Economy and American Foreign Policy at the School of International Service at American University where he is also a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Data Science at the School of Public Affairs.
He is a mixed-methods researcher with training in advanced statistical and qualitative research methods with particular expertise in documentary and archival analysis, elite and focus group interviewing. He has extensive research expertise in the study of licit and illicit international political economy. His research on licit economies has focused on the politics of international trade and finance, structural adjustment economic reform, the politics of sustainable development, and the politics of coercive diplomacy and economic sanctions. He is the principal developer of the Bi-SAP database – the Bartilow Index of Governments’ Implementation of the International Monetary Fund’s Structural Adjustment Programs, 1945 to 2021.
His research on illicit economies has focused on the politics of illicit trafficking, and the impact of U.S. drug enforcement on human rights and democratization in the developing world. His forthcoming published research features a large n-statistical analysis of how women’s political representation and participation in 118 countries increase governments’ compliance with international rules and norms against human trafficking.
His scholarly articles on these issues have appeared in prominent peer-reviewed international journals such as Third World Quarterly, Latin American Research Review, International Studies Quarterly, Latin American Politics and Society, International Politics, Foreign Policy Analysis, Security Studies, Journal of Conflict Studies, National Political Science Review and the Journal of Human Trafficking, Enslavement and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence.
Horace is the author of “The Debt Dilemma: IMF Negotiations in Jamaica, Grenada, and Guyana” (University of Warwick, London: Macmillan Press, 1997), “Drug War Pathologies: Embedded Corporatism and U.S Drug Enforcement in the Americas” (University of North Carolina Press, 2019); and his current book projects are “Pawns and Puppets: Orientalism and the Racial Origins of U.S. Cold War Ideology and Covert Intervention in the Developing World” (Under Contract Cambridge University Press); and “Sinophobia and the Liberal Order: Is China a Present Threat or Pending Manager of Global Liberalism?”
GISELLE DONNELLY, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
Giselle Donnelly is a senior fellow in defense and national security at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she focuses on national security and military strategy, operations, programs, and defense budgets.
From 1995 to 1999, Ms. Donnelly served as a policy group director and professional staff member at the House Armed Services Committee. She has also served as a member of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, the editor of Armed Forces Journal and Army Times, and the deputy editor of Defense News.
Ms. Donnelly has testified before Congress and has been widely published in the popular press, including in The Wall Street Journal and The Weekly Standard. Her many books include “Lessons for a Long War: How America Can Win on New Battlefields”(AEI Press, 2010), coauthored with Frederick W. Kagan and others; “Ground Truth: The Future of U.S. Land Power”(AEI Press, 2008), coauthored with Frederick W. Kagan; “Of Men and Materiel: The Crisis in Military Resources”(AEI Press, 2007), coedited with Gary J. Schmitt; “The Military We Need: The Defense Requirements of the Bush Doctrine”(AEI Press, 2005); and “Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Strategic Assessment”(AEI Press, 2004). She is currently working on “Empire for Liberty: The British Roots of American Strategy-Making.”
Ms. Donnelly has a master of international public policy from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College.
Formerly Thomas Donnelly, Giselle Donnelly’s previous work can be found here.
MATTHEW KAMINSKI, Editor-in-Chief, POLITICO.
Matthew Kaminski is POLITICO’s Editor-in-Chief, overseeing all editorial operations of the publication.
Starting as a freelancer from Eastern Europe before his senior year in college, Matt has reported on international affairs, politics and business on and off for the past quarter century. He covered the former Soviet Union for the Financial Times and Economist in 1994-97, and in 1997 joined the Wall Street Journal in Brussels as a correspondent. He subsequently held various writing and editing roles with the Journal in Paris and New York. In 2004, Matt was awarded the Peter Weitz Prize by the German Marshall Fund for a series of stories on the European Union. His coverage of the Ukrainian crisis won an Overseas Press Club prize in 2015. He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary that year.
He joined POLITICO in late 2014 to become the founding editor of the European edition, which launched in April 2015. He moved to Washington in the fall of 2018 to help lead the publication’s global expansion efforts, and took on his current role in April 2019.
Born in Poland, Matt immigrated to the United States as a child and grew up in Washington. He holds degrees from Yale College and the University of Paris and lives in Washington with his wife, Alexandra Geneste, and their two children.
JEFFREY MANKOFF, Distinguished Research Fellow at the U.S. National Defense University’s Institute for National Strategic Studies.
With areas of expertise in Russian Foreign Policy; Eurasia, Ethnic Conflict; and Energy Security, Dr. Jeffrey Mankoff is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the U.S. National Defense University’s Institute for National Strategic Studies. He is the author of Russian Foreign Policy: The Return of Great Power Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009, 2011). His forthcoming book, Empires of Eurasia: How Imperial Legacies Shape International Security (Yale, 2021), examines the impact of the imperial past on Chinese, Iranian, Russian, and Turkish politics and foreign policy. He also writes frequently for Foreign Affairs, War on the Rocks, CNN, and other outlets.
Mankoff was previously a senior fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and served as an adviser on U.S.-Russia relations at the U.S. Department of State as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. From 2008 to 2010, he was associate director of International Security Studies at Yale University and an adjunct fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He also held the John M. Olin National Security Fellowship at Harvard University (2006-07) and the Henry Chauncey Fellowship at Yale University (2007-08). Mankoff received B.A. degrees in international studies and Russian from the University of Oklahoma, and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in diplomatic history from Yale University. He is a Truman National Security Fellow and a past Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
MODERATOR: WILLIAM EGGINTON, Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute.
Bill is the Decker Professor in the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches literature, literary theory, and the relation between literature and philosophy, and where he Directs the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute.
He is the author of How the World Became a Stage (2003), Perversity and Ethics (2006), A Wrinkle in History (2007), The Philosopher’s Desire (2007), The Theater of Truth (2010), in Defense of Religious Moderation (2011), and The Man Who Invented Fiction (2016). He is co-author with David Castillo of Medialogies (2017). He is also co-editor with Mike Sandbothe of The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy (2004), translator and editor of Lisa Block de Behar’s Borges, the Passion of an Endless Quotation (2003), co-editor with David E. Johnson of Thinking With Borges (2009). His most recent book, The Splintering of the American Mind, was published by Bloomsbury in 2018.
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Wednesday, February 2, 2022 @ 7PM Eastern, FREE via Zoom Online
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Respected legal and political minds gather to discuss the role of the Supreme Court and the recent and upcoming decisions that can change the American social and political landscape and the course of history, while conveying perspectives culled between the lines.
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JOEY JACKSON, Trial Attorney & CNN/HLN Legal Analyst.
Joey Jackson is a nationally-recognized attorney who has for over two decades represented individuals and labor unions in state and federal court. As Principal and Founder of Joey Jackson Law, PLLC, Mr. Jackson oversees every aspect of the practice. Mr. Jackson and his associates at Joey Jackson Law, have represented a diverse group of clients under the glare of cameras as well as those who have never attracted public attention. He has built an outstanding career as a trial lawyer representing clients who have fallen into high-stakes personal and professional crises, as well as those who are average citizens in need of his fierce and benevolent counsel.
Mr. Jackson has been a member of the New York Bar since 1995. After graduating from Hofstra Law School, Mr. Jackson was appointed Assistant District Attorney under Robert Morgenthau. Following a successful career as a prosecutor where he received the Distinguished Public Service Award, Mr. Jackson joined the firm of Koehler & Isaacs LLP where he served as Senior Trial Counsel specializing in criminal defense. Mr. Jackson has tried cases and received favorable verdicts in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, as well as Nassau, Rockland, Suffolk, and Westchester Counties. At the Federal level, he handles cases in both the Eastern and Southern Districts.
Mr. Jackson’s straight-talking legal expertise is held in high regard by media outlets, as he has frequently appeared on various cable news programs over the last decade. He is currently employed by CNN/HLN as a Legal Analyst.
Mr. Jackson attended Hofstra Law School. While in law school, he served as editor for the Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal and a member of the National Moot Court and National Trial teams.
Prior to Law School, he earned his M.P.A. from SUNY Albany’s Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy. While earning his Master’s Degree, he worked for the N.Y.S. Assembly Speaker as a Legislative Analyst. He also holds a B.A. from SUNY Brockport, where he participated in the honors program, directed the student-run Legal Information Service, served as student body president, and interned with the N.Y.S. Education Department as well as Congressman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) in Washington, D.C. He also worked for the N.Y.C. Mayor’s Office in the Division of Special Projects.
Professor Michael J. Klarman is the Charles Warren Professor of Legal History at Harvard Law School, where he joined the faculty in 2008. He received his B.A. and M.A. (political theory) from the University of Pennsylvania in 1980, his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1983, and his D. Phil. in legal history from the University of Oxford (1988), where he was a Marshall Scholar. After law school, Professor Klarman clerked for the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (1983-84). He joined the faculty at the University of Virginia School of Law in 1987 and served there until 2008 as the James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of History.
Klarman’s first book, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality, was published by Oxford University Press in 2004 and received the 2005 Bancroft Prize in History. He published two books in 2007, also with Oxford University Press: Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement and Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History, which is part of Oxford’s Inalienable Rights series. In 2012, he published From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage. In 2016, Oxford University Press published his comprehensive history of the Founding, The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the US Constitution, which was a finalist for both the George Washington Book Prize and the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award. In 2020, he authored the Harvard Law Review Foreword on “The Degradation of American Democracy—and the Court.”
Klarman sees trouble ahead in large conservative majority on Supreme Court
BILL KRISTOL, American Neoconservative Writer, Editor & Commentator on MSNBC.
William Kristol is a founding director of Defending Democracy Together, an educational and advocacy organization dedicated to defending America’s liberal democratic norms, principles, and institutions. Kristol has long been recognized as a leading participant in and analyst of American politics and has helped shape the national debate on issues ranging from American foreign policy to the meaning of American conservatism.
Kristol is now editor-at-large of The Bulwark. In 1995, Kristol was a founder of the Weekly Standard and edited the influential magazine for over two decades. Before starting the Weekly Standard, Kristol led the Project for the Republican Future, where he helped developed the strategy that produced the 1994 Republican congressional victory. Before that, Mr. Kristol served in senior positions in the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administrations. Before coming to Washington, Mr. Kristol taught politics at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University. He received his undergraduate degree and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
KIMBERLY WEHLE, Law Professor & former CBS News Legal Analyst.
Kimberly Wehle is a tenured law professor and has been teaching law full-time since 2006. She is also a book author, lawyer and former CBS News legal analyst. In addition to her scholarly work, she writes regular columns for Politico, The Atlantic, The Bulwark, and The Hill. She also provides frequent legal commentary for CNN, MSNBC, NBC, BBC, NPR, and numerous other media outlets.
At the University of Baltimore School of Law, her teaching and scholarship focuses on the separation of powers, administrative agencies, and civil litigation. She is a 2020 recipient of the prestigious Board of Regents Faculty Award for the University of Maryland for excellence in scholarship, research and creative activity. She is also a former Assistant United States Attorney, Associate Independent Counsel in the Whitewater Investigation, and author of the books What You Need to Know about Voting–and Why, and How to Read The Constitution–and Why. Her new book, forthcoming in February 2022, is How to Think Like a Lawyer–and Why: A Common Sense Guide to Everyday Dilemmas. Follow Kim Wehle on Twitter and Instagram @kimwehle. She has an IGTV series on Instagram called #SimplePolitics.
MODERATOR: WILLIAM EGGINTON, Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute.
Bill is the Decker Professor in the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches literature, literary theory, and the relation between literature and philosophy, and where he Directs the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute.
He is the author of How the World Became a Stage (2003), Perversity and Ethics (2006), A Wrinkle in History (2007), The Philosopher’s Desire (2007), The Theater of Truth (2010), in Defense of Religious Moderation (2011), and The Man Who Invented Fiction (2016). He is co-author with David Castillo of Medialogies (2017). He is also co-editor with Mike Sandbothe of The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy (2004), translator and editor of Lisa Block de Behar’s Borges, the Passion of an Endless Quotation (2003), co-editor with David E. Johnson of Thinking With Borges (2009). His most recent book, The Splintering of the American Mind, was published by Bloomsbury in 2018.
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