On February 24, 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine resulting in major population displacement, thousands of civilian and military casualties, jeopardizing global energy and food supplies and threatening potential escalation of clashes involving a major world nuclear power. Please join our partners at the Kozmetsky Center on Monday September 26, 2022 at 12:00 noon for the forum entitled “World Order, […]
*****EVENT CANCELLED *** We are pleased to feature Diana Villiers Negroponte as our special guest speaker. Author and professor, Diana Negroponte has focused on the Cold War and how it ended. In between teaching at Fordham, George Washington and Georgetown Universities, she researches and writes. In 2015 the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies offered […]
In collaboration with the German-Texan Heritage Society and the American Council on Germany, the World Affairs Council of Austin invites you to meet Ambassador (ret.) Stefan Schlüter and learn more […]
Recently, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken toured Latin America to reaffirm its commitment to the allies amid concerns that neglect of the hemisphere has let China make economic inroads. He hopes that Latin America's new leaders will continue to maintain a free-enterprise-friendly approach to nurture U.S. ties. Meanwhile, many counties have their own challenges to consider. […]
As we enter a season of “culinary extravagance” we should perhaps think about the food crisis that is impacting people throughout the world. In 2021 acute food security affected 193 […]
The World Affairs Council of Austin and the Kozmetsky Center of Excellence in Global Finance at St. Edward’s University host a series of Forums on Global Investment, Finance, Emerging Markets […]
The World Affairs Council of Austin and the Kozmetsky Center of Excellence in Global Finance at St. Edward’s University host a series of Forums on Global Investment, Finance, Emerging Markets […]
#Connexions will create an international space for discourse on modern media and technology in state affairs to help address the critical need for informed and expert leadership in the information […]
The World Affairs Council of Austin invites you to join us for the final Kozmetsky Center program with featured speaker Nury Turkel, Chair of the U.S. Commission on Religious Freedom […]
The World Affairs Council of Austin in collaboration with the World Affairs Council of Orange County invite you to join this webinar featuring Joshua Kurlantzick, senior fellow for Southeast Asia […]
The World Affairs Council of Austin invites you to attend a presentation by LTG Ross Coffman, Deputy Commanding General of the Army Futures Command, on the future of warfare in […]
The World Affairs Council of Austin in collaboration with the World Affairs Council of Orange County invite you to join this webinar featuring Shannon K. O’Neil, vice president, deputy director […]
The already deeply strained relationship between the United States and China has been particularly rocky in 2023. Bilateral controversies over the Chinese balloon, Taiwan, TikTok, and Xi Jinping’s visit to […]
We will be meeting in person at the 5820 Burger and Taphouse. This month's topic is: China: What's next? What will be China’s role in the global economy and geopolitics in general, over the next decades? There is the South China Sea and the potential for conflict over Taiwan. But there is also “soft power” […]
The Global Security Forum (GSF) convenes the nation's top leadership and experts to discuss security and strategy in the decisive decade to come. Panelists will explore areas in which acting now will be vital to advancing our national and global security interests. Agenda: 7:30 am CT Welcome and Opening Remarks 2:00 pm CT […]