Senior Executive Seminar

The Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA) will host a ten (10) day seminar focusing on the most pressing regional and international security issues with a wide variety of nationally and internationally recognized scholars, American policy makers, advisors, and military leaders. This seminar is oriented towards senior civilian officials and senior military officers who have responsibilities related to the Ministries of Defense, Foreign Affairs, and Interior).

Who:
Thirty-six (36) senior civilian officials and senior military officers of grades equivalent to flag officer or Colonel (promotable) level for the NESA region will participate. The audience for this seminar should be drawn primary from military and national security professionals whose primary responsibility includes overseeing strategic issues of concern to their country and the NESA region.

Why:
The seminar purpose is to encourage informal and constructive dialogue among senior national security professionals of differing backgrounds and perspectives with the goal of generating ideas and suggestions for cooperative problem solving.

How:
About thirty (30) U.S. Government officials and non-government experts will speak to the participants in plenary sessions. An experienced group of facilitators, made up of NESA Center faculty, will help guide the numerous breakout discussions groups. Simultaneous interpretation in Arabic, and if necessary, French and Dari, will provide assistance at all plenary sessions and consecutive interpretation will be available in breakout discussion groups.

Content:
The SES will focus on the challenges faced by senior decision makers in the NESA region and the United States posed by the momentous changes occurring in today’s world. Key issues will include the current worldwide financial and economic crisis; the end of unipolarity marked by a resurgent Russia and a rising China and India; security challenges posed by environmental changes, health crises, and food and energy supplies; and the impact on state sovereignty, national security, and international politics of such phenomena as non-state actors and humanitarian intervention. As the United States will have inaugurated a new President, the Seminar will include sessions on U.S. governance and the U.S. political landscape.

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