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Meeting

Home Field Advantage: Sports Diplomacy and North American Cooperation

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Speakers

  • Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff
    Clinical Assistant Professor, New York University Preston Robert Tisch Institute for Global Sport

Presider

  • Irina A. Faskianos
    Vice President for National Program and Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations

From State And Local Webinars.

Edward Alden, senior fellow at CFR, discusses U.S.-Canada-Mexico relations and regional cooperation, including how cross-border coordination on infrastructure, security, and immigration may affect states and cities. Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, clinical assistant professor at the NYU Preston Robert Tisch Institute for Global Sport, speaks on the history and strategic role of sports diplomacy, particularly as a tool of international engagement and soft power.

Transcript

FASKIANOS: Thank you. Welcome to the Council on Foreign Relations State and Local Officials Webinar. I am Irina Faskianos, vice president for the National Program and Outreach here at CFR.

CFR is an independent, nonpartisan, national membership organization, think tank, educator, and publisher focused on U.S. foreign policy. CFR generates policy-relevant ideas and analysis, convenes experts and policymakers, and is the publisher of Foreign Affairs magazine. As always, CFR takes no institutional positions on matters of policy.

Through our State and Local Officials Initiative, CFR serves as a resource on international issues affecting the priorities and agendas of state and local official governments by providing background and analysis on a wide range of policy topics. So we appreciate your taking the time to be with us for today’s discussion. We’re delighted to have over 400 participants confirmed from forty-five U.S. states and territories for this conversation, which is on the record. We will share the video and transcript after the fact and post it on our website at CFR.org.

I also want to remind you that CFR’s State and Local Officials Initiative can be a valuable resource for you and your communities, especially now as your towns and district prepare...