Past Programs
March 2026
76th Program Year – Seventh Meeting
Thursday, March 26, 2026 @ 6:00 PM, Albuquerque Country Club, 601 Laguna Blvd. SW The Program: Venezuela -The New Monroe Doctrine for Latin America? Ambassador Brownfield will talk about the recent events in Venezuela and it’s neighbors and how these events may impact on the traditional American foreign policy as expressed in the Monroe Doctrine. Are we entering a new ... Read More
February 2026
76th Program Year – Sixth Meeting
The Program: What Price Defense: Does America Need a $1 Trillion Pentagon Budget?
William D. Hartung will address the question of how much is enough to provide an effective defense for the United States. He will question whether our "cover the globe" strategy, which calls for America to be able to intervene virtually anywhere in the world on short notice, makes sense.
William D. Hartung will address the question of how much is enough to provide an effective defense for the United States. He will question whether our "cover the globe" strategy, which calls for America to be able to intervene virtually anywhere in the world on short notice, makes sense.
January 2026
76th Program Year – Fifth Meeting
The Program: Life as a Foreign Correspondent.
I'll talk about my time as a foreign correspondent, how I selected topics to cover, how correspondents can influence decision makers, how I got my work heard by the public and constraints put upon foreign correspondents by publications.
I'll talk about my time as a foreign correspondent, how I selected topics to cover, how correspondents can influence decision makers, how I got my work heard by the public and constraints put upon foreign correspondents by publications.
December 2025
Lecture Series
Tariffs imposed by the new administration in Washington have dominated the news in the nations of the East and Southeast Asia in the past year. After decades of stressing the importance of Asia to the U.S., our policies are increasingly seen as isolationist and protectionist in the region.
November 2025
Lecture Series
An analysis of current political realities in the Middle East that goes beyond the headlines to address the underlying religious and secular ideologies that have underpinned the creation of the modern nation-state systemic the region.
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