Join us on this special evening as we welcome back distinguished speaker, Dr. Sharyl Cross. Dr. Cross will provide details about the contemporary transitional global order. Attendees will leave with a stronger understanding of the “Strategic Partnership” between Russia and China. Dr. Cross will explore the major themes and U.S. considerations to address this “Strategic Partnership” as well as recent multi-national foreign policy responses. The current stalemate in Ukraine and the future of collaborative arms control efforts will be among the challenges and priorities considered during this discussion on the shifting security landscape influences of major geopolitical powers.
About our guest speaker, Sharyl Cross, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of International Politics and former Director of the Kozmetsky Center of Excellence (2013-2023) at St. Edward’s University (Austin, USA). Dr. Cross is serving as Co-Chair (elected position) of the Research Committee on Geopolitics of the International Political Science Association and has been a Global Policy Scholar at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars since 2013. Dr. Cross was Professor at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany (2005-2013) where she was Director of Academics for both the Program in Advanced Security Studies and Senior Executive Seminar, and previously had been appointed Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the United States Air Force Academy and Associate Professor of Transregional Studies at the U.S. Air War College at Maxwell AFB. She earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and was a resident fellowship scholar and consultant at the RAND Corporation completing programs in Russian area and policy studies. Professor Cross has published widely in leading academic and policy sources on US/NATO-Russia security Issues, Russian foreign policy and Sino-Russian relations. In 2018, she published China, Russia, and Twenty First Century Global Geopolitics, co-authored with Dr. Paul Bolt, Oxford University Press.
