Webinar

Virtual Roundtable: Reimagining U.S. Foreign Policy to Meet the Challenges of Strategic Competition

Wednesday, April 20, 2022
(Photo by Jason DeCrow / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JASON DECROW/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Speakers
Earl A. Carr Jr.

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, CJPA Global Advisors

Carolyn Kissane

Academic Director and Clinical Professor, NYU Center for Global Affairs

Presider
James P. Dougherty

Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

from Roundtable Series on Technology, Innovation, and American Primacy and Renewing America

The Council on Foreign Relations Roundtable Series on Technology, Innovation, and American Primacy sponsored, “Reimagining U.S. Foreign Policy to Meet the Challenges of Strategic Competition.” The event was organized and moderated by James Dougherty, Adjunct Senior Fellow and the panel included Mr. Earl Carr, founder and CEO of CJPA Global Advisors and editor of the new book "From Trump to Biden and Beyond: Reimagining US-China Relations” and Dr. Carolyn Kissane, NYU Academic Director, Center of Global Affairs, & Director of SPS Energy, Climate Justice and Sustainability Lab. 

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