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The seventh annual symposium hosted by the Center for Security for Policy Studies (CSPS) at the Schar School of Policy and Government is set against a backdrop of significant and violent global challenges.
“War in Ukraine and Gaza: Strategic Consequences for the United States” brings to George Mason University’s Mason Square stage two panels of policy and conflict experts on Thursday, October 31, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., at Van Metre Hall in Arlington, Virginia.
The event is free and open to the public but registration is required by emailing csps@gmu.edu.
The first panel tackles “Strategic Considerations for the United States” and features Schar School professor Colin Dueck, Director of the Washington Institute’s Military and Security Studies Program Michael Eisenstadt, and Vice President of Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Andrew Weiss. Laipson will moderate.
The second panel, beginning at 1:15 p.m., addresses “War Termination and Postwar Issues.” Alpaslan Özerdem, dean of George Mason’s Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, will moderate. Joining him are Professor Emeritus at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University William Zartman, Director of the Conflict Resolution and Track II Dialogues Program at the Middle East Institute Randa Slim, and Schar School Ukrainian “Scholar in Exile” Tetiana Khutor, founder of the Kiev-based policy think tank, Institute of Legislative Ideas.
“It's a timely discussion,” Laipson said of the topics, “given some early signs of change in Ukraine, with President [Volodymyr] Zelensky presenting his victory plan, and with the U.S. pushing for a draw down in Israel's campaign after the death of Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 7 attack on Israel.”