Webinar

Virtual Roundtable: Life Lessons Learned With Eliot Cohen

Tuesday, December 7, 2021
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Speaker
Eliot A. Cohen

Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Presider
Gideon Rose

Mary and David Boies Distinguished Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

from U.S. Foreign Policy Program and How I Got Here: Lives in Public Service

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