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November 10, 2014
Experts on US/China Relations, Net Neutrality, Ferguson, ISIS and Veterans Day
This week we feature experts on US/China Relations while Obama visits Asia, Obama's statement on Net Neutrality, Ferguson and Darren Wilson's ruling, ISIS after top leaders were wounded, and Veterans Day
Expert Spotlight
Susan Shirk
Research Professor; Founding Chair, 21st Century China Center
University of California San Diego
For interviews on China.
During the economic summit in Beijing, Obama announced an agreement with China that extends tourist and business visas to 10 years. For commentary, we SPOTLIGHT Susan Shirk, Ho Miu Lam Professor of China and Pacific Relations and Director of the 21st China Program at the University of California, San Diego School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. In 1993, she founded, and continues to lead, the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Koreas. Media includes: The Washington Post, Lehrer News Hour, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and the San Diego Union Tribune.
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Featured Expert
Christina Gagnier
Partner, Internet, Intellectual Property and Technology
Gagnier Margossian LLP
For interviews on Net Neutrality.
For commentary on Obama's statement encouraging the FCC to strictly enforce net neutrality, we FEATURE Christina Gagnier. Gagnier leads the Intellectual Property, Internet & Technology practice at Gagnier Margossian LLP, with a specialization in copyright, information privacy and social media. She consults technology companies on policy issues ranging from patent law reform to communications issues, such as Network Neutrality. Gagnier’s primary research concerns issues of cyber rights and the intersection of on and offline action. Media includes: The New York Times, Inc.com, Politico, NBC, TechCrunch, MSNBC and the Atlantic.
Featured Expert
Barbara Slavin
Distinguished Fellow
The Stimson Center
For interviews on Middle East and Security.
After an airstrike leaves ISIS leader Abu Bark al-Baghdadi possibly dead, we FEATURE Barbara Slavin. Slavin is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center and Washington correspondent for Al-Monitor.com, a website devoted to news from and about the Middle East. She is also the author of Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the US and the Twisted Path to Confrontation (2007) and is a regular commentator on US foreign policy on NPR, PBS, and C-SPAN. Slavin has covered such key foreign policy issues as the US-led war on terrorism, policy toward "rogue" states, the Iran-Iraq war, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Media includes: The Washington Post, NPR, C-SPAN, BBC and Al-Jazeera.
Featured Expert
Stacy Bannerman
Author, Screenwriter, Activist
YELLOW RIBBON CASUALTY CAMPAIGN
For interviews on Troops and Families.
As America honors its troops during Veterans Day, we FEATURE Stacy Bannerman. Bannerman is the author of WHEN THE WAR CAME HOME: The Inside Story of Reservists and the Families They Leave Behind (March, 2006, Continuum Publishing) and a charter Board member of Military Families Speak Out, the first and largest organization of military families to actively protest a war that their loved ones are fighting. In 2006, she testified before the House Appropriations Sub-Committee on Military Quality of Life and Veterans Affairs (the only anti-war activist to do so), and has met with over 60 Senators and Congressmen, calling for an end to the war in Iraq, improved veteran and family benefits, and comprehensive post-combat mental health care. Media includes: Hardball with Chris Matthews, NBC Nightly News, Jim Lehrer News Hour, PBS, MSNBC and BBC.
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