Civil Counterpoints: A Campus Conversation Series aims to stimulate thoughtful and respectful dialogue on volatile contemporary issues among members of the Texas Tech community. The sixth program of this series concerns the U.S. role in international relations.
Program Description: Since taking office, the Trump administration has delivered on its promise to disrupt the status quo in global affairs and put the United States' interests first. From targeted travel bans to unconventional diplomacy to criticizing allies (and even U.S. intelligence agencies) to erecting significant trade barriers, much of the established wisdom and process regarding policy, politics and trade has been upended. At the same time, some senior members of Congress, the diplomatic corps and other government officials have endeavored to reassure overseas allies. This interactive session will bring together experts from policy, trade and military fields to discuss the present and potential futures of U.S. leadership and participation in the international domain.
Jorge A. Ramírez, the Walter and Anne Huffman Professor of Law in the School of Law at Texas Tech, will moderate.
Featured speakers include:
Colonel David Lewis, USAF, Director of the Strategic Studies graduate program and faculty within the Department of Political Science at Texas Tech.
Dr. Jamie Bologna Pavlik, Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics and Research Fellow in the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech.
Mark Tokola, Vice President of the Korea Economic Institute of American in Washington, D.C and serves on the Board of Governors of DACOR: An Organization of Foreign Affairs Professionals and on the Board of Trustees of the Bacon House Foundation.
Dr. Robert Murphy, Research Assistant Professor in the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech, a Senior Economist in the Institute for Energy Research, a Senior Fellow in the Fraser Institute and Mises Institute, and a Research Fellow in the Independent Institute.
This effect is free and open to the public.
