Event Hosted By the Alexander Hamilton Society of Berkeley Featuring U.S Naval War College Associate Professor Ian Easton and UC Berkeley School of Law Professor Chris Hoofnagle.
Join the Alexander Hamilton Society of Berkeley for their first speaker event of the year: a conversation on cross-strait relations and U.S. foreign policy toward China! This conversation will be moderated by Professor Chris Hoofnagle, and there will be free pizza.
A book talk by Samantha Iyer Associate Professor of history, Fordham University The IIS Global History Seminar welcomes Dr. Samantha Iyer to discuss her newly published book Agrarian Superpower: Food, Development, and the Global Ascendancy of the United States. The talk discusses how the United States's status as a superpower in the mid-twentieth century was not only built on its industrial, financial, and military might but also something often seen as backward—agriculture. It focuses...
Public Talk with Brad Potter, Senior Analyst for the Center of Global Security Research Speaker Bio
A. Bradley Potter is a Senior Analyst at the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is also a Visiting Scholar in the Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). His scholarship examines wartime decision-making, war termination, nuclear strategy, and U.S. foreign policy.
Public talk by Professor Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco
What is the most effective means by which the United States can support popular struggles for freedom around the world? Does Washington have the credibility to support such movements in light of its ongoing backing of allied authoritarian regimes and occupation armies? Can the U.S. take credit (or blame) for some of these pro-democracy struggles? What kinds of policies have proven effective and which have ended up strengthening the regime or risking civil war? Professor Stephen Zunes examines the...
On Wednesday, August 26th 2026, Ambassador Jovita Neliupšienė, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United States, joined leading UC Berkeley scholars for a discussion on the future of the transatlantic partnership. This is part of the EU Ambassadors Book Collection initiative “Words That Unite, Stories That Connect.”
How may global governance and multilateral cooperation evolve in a world without US leadership?
Thursday, April 30, 2026 223 Philosophy Hall 12 - 2:30 PM *Lunchtime talk*
Panelists:
Philip Yun - IIS Senior Fellow and President, Commonwealth Club of California Steve Vogel - UC Berkeley Professor of Political Economy Amy Hawthorne - Expert...
Join IIS and Ethan Chorin, Founder and Director Red Sea Futures, for a lunchtime talk to discuss the intense competition between regional and global powers in the Red Sea. Over one fifth of the world’s trade passes through this critically important waterway.
Mary Saunders in conversation with Debra Miller Glass, PhD
As artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum technologies, and other innovations rapidly advance, global standards - rather than binding regulations - are increasingly shaping how these tools are developed, governed, and deployed.
