6:00 pm - Saturday, February 23

Annual Dinner Featuring Ambassador Nicholas Burns

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Join the San Diego World Affairs Council at its 2019 Annual Dinner, featuring a keynote address by Ambassador (ret.) R. Nicholas Burns on "American Foreign Policy in the Trump Era."

Ambassador Burns will discuss major trends challenging global peace and stability, among them a weakening U.S. leadership role, the U.S.-China competition for power in the Indo-Pacific, and the North Korea nuclear crisis. He will also examine prospects for stability in the Middle East and Europe as well as the deepening political crisis in the U.S. and its impact on foreign policy. A Q&A will follow.

Ambassador Burns is one of this country?s most distinguished diplomats. He served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and was lead negotiator on Iran nuclear issues and on the U.S.-India civil nuclear agreement. He served as U.S. Ambassador to NATO and to Greece, and was State Department Spokesman from 1995 to 1997. Prior to that, he worked on the National Security Council as Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia Affairs, was Special Assistant to President Clinton, and served as director for Soviet Affairs under President George H.W. Bush.

Currently, Ambassador Burns is the Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

The San Diego World Affairs Council is a nonprofit, nonpartisan 501(c)3 organization dedicated to educating and engaging San Diegans on international issues. Purchase a ticket to this lively discussion and help support SDWAC's important work bringing top-tier speakers to the greater San Diego community.

This event is co-sponsored by Charles W. Hostler Institute on World Affairs San Diego State University.

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Saturday, February 23 - 6:00 PM

For more information, please visit: www.sdwac.org