Deaths of despair, morbidity and emotional distress continue to rise in the US. The increases are largely borne by those without a four-year college degree—the majority of American adults. For many less-educated Americans, the economy and society are no longer providing the basis for a good life. Concurrently, all-cause…
Marc Knapper is a top American diplomat and expert in Asian affairs currently serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Korea and Japan. He has served in South Korea as Chargé d’Affaires, the embassy's top post, from 2017-2018 and previously as deputy chief of mission in Seoul. Prior posts include Tokyo, Hanoi, and Baghdad. Mr…
Hispanics in the United States are a highly heterogeneous population encompassing long established citizens; newly arrived immigrants; and people boasting a multiplicity of national ancestries. As a whole, they comprise 18.5 percent of the U.S. population. Like African Americans, they are overrepresented among those who have…
To celebrate this year's Veteran's Day, CISS invites you to a conversation with Professor Michael Hunzeker, Assistant Professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, where he is also the associate director of the Center for Security Policy Studies.
20 Years After Tora Bora - Afghanistan & the West: A Critical Retrospective
This international seminar will bring together eminent experts who have lived and shaped events in and around Afghanistan post 9/11 and in the time of the bombings of Tora Bora – a mountain range in North East Afghanistan. They will address critical perspectives of Afghanistan’s history, society, politics, economy, and the…
