BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//WordPress - MECv7.18.0//EN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://wacabq.org/ X-WR-CALNAME:World Affairs Council X-WR-CALDESC: REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:MEC-3871bd64012152bfb53fdf04b401193f@wacabq.org DTSTART:20260417T000000Z DTEND:20260417T010000Z DTSTAMP:20260305T175000Z CREATED:20260305 LAST-MODIFIED:20260305 PRIORITY:5 SEQUENCE:2 TRANSP:OPAQUE SUMMARY:76th Program Year – Eighth Meeting DESCRIPTION:Thursday, April 16, 2026 @ 6:00 PM, Albuquerque Country Club, 601 Laguna Blvd. SW\nThe Program: US Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World\nThe United States operated in a unipolar world from about 1992 to 2017, where it was the only great power on the planet. That world went away when China and Russia became great powers and the United States entered into a much more dangerous multipolar world that will be with us for a long time to come. This talk will examine the contours of the multipolar world we now live in and explain why it is fraught with danger.\nPresenter: John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point (1970), has a PhD in political science from Cornell University (1981), and has written extensively about security issues and international politics. Among his seven books, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001, 2014) won the Joseph Lepgold Book Prize and has been translated into eleven languages; The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (with Stephen M. Walt, 2007), made the New York Timesbestseller list and has been translated into twenty-six languages; and The Great Delusion: Liberal Ideals and International Realities (2018), won the 2019 Best Book of the Year Award from the Valdai Discussion Conference, Moscow and has been translated into eleven languages. His latest book is How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy (with Sebastian Rosato, 2023), which has been translated into eleven languages. He has also written numerous articles and op-eds that have appeared in International Security, The Economist, The London Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, and The New York Times. In 2003, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2020, he won the James Madison Award, which is given once every three years by the American Political Science Association to “an American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science.”\nThursday, April 16, 2026 – 6:00 PM\nAlbuquerque Country Club, 601 Laguna SW\n\nvar gform;gform||(document.addEventListener("gform_main_scripts_loaded",function(){gform.scriptsLoaded=!0}),document.addEventListener("gform/theme/scripts_loaded",function(){gform.themeScriptsLoaded=!0}),window.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){gform.domLoaded=!0}),gform={domLoaded:!1,scriptsLoaded:!1,themeScriptsLoaded:!1,isFormEditor:()=>"function"==typeof InitializeEditor,callIfLoaded:function(o){return!(!gform.domLoaded||!gform.scriptsLoaded||!gform.themeScriptsLoaded&&!gform.isFormEditor()||(gform.isFormEditor()&&console.warn("The use of gform.initializeOnLoaded() is deprecated in the form editor context and will be removed in Gravity Forms 3.1."),o(),0))},initializeOnLoaded:function(o){gform.callIfLoaded(o)||(document.addEventListener("gform_main_scripts_loaded",()=>{gform.scriptsLoaded=!0,gform.callIfLoaded(o)}),document.addEventListener("gform/theme/scripts_loaded",()=>{gform.themeScriptsLoaded=!0,gform.callIfLoaded(o)}),window.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",()=>{gform.domLoaded=!0,gform.callIfLoaded(o)}))},hooks:{action:{},filter:{}},addAction:function(o,r,e,t){gform.addHook("action",o,r,e,t)},addFilter:function(o,r,e,t){gform.addHook("filter",o,r,e,t)},doAction:function(o){gform.doHook("action",o,arguments)},applyFilters:function(o){return gform.doHook("filter",o,arguments)},removeAction:function(o,r){gform.removeHook("action",o,r)},removeFilter:function(o,r,e){gform.removeHook("filter",o,r,e)},addHook:function(o,r,e,t,n){null==gform.hooks[o][r]&&(gform.hooks[o][r]=[]);var d=gform.hooks[o][r];null==n&&(n=r+"_"+d.length),gform.hooks[o][r].push({tag:n,callable:e,priority:t=null==t?10:t})},doHook:function(r,o,e){var t;if(e=Array.prototype.slice.call(e,1),null!=gform.hooks[r][o]&&((o=gform.hooks[r][o]).sort(function(o,r){return o.priority-r.priority}),o.forEach(function(o){"function"!=typeof(t=o.callable)&&(t=window[t]),"action"==r?t.apply(null,e):e[0]=t.apply(null,e)})),"filter"==r)return e[0]},removeHook:function(o,r,t,n){var e;null!=gform.hooks[o][r]&&(e=(e=gform.hooks[o][r]).filter(function(o,r,e){return!!(null!=n&&n!=o.tag||null!=t&&t!=o.priority)}),gform.hooks[o][r]=e)}});\n\n\n \n \n \n "*" indicates required fields\n \n CommentsThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.Name*\n \n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n Email*\n \n Phone*Who Will Be Attending?Check all that apply\n \n Members\n \n \n Students\n \n \n Guests/Non-Members\n How Many Members Are Attending?*How Many Students Are Attending?*School(s) Students Currently Attend?*How Many Guests Non-Members Are Attending?*Name(s) of Attendees, including non-members, for name badges:*The menu is chef’s choice (usually beef or chicken) but you may request a fish entree or a vegetarian entree; and/or a fresh fruit plate. 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