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Breakfast Series
Tuesday, December 02, 2014 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Breakfast Series: Asia-Pacific Security Panel
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Registration/Breakfast - 7:15 a.m. | Presentation - 7:45 to 8:45 a.m.
$18++ per person (full buffet breakfast, coffee, tea and juice)
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Forum Description
This panel of experts will discuss the current international security environment and economic landscape within the Asia-Pacific region. Topics will include the rise of China, maritime and economic security initiatives, and how Beijing views the U.S. rebalance to Asia. The recent events and implications coming from a renewed U.S.-Australia partnership will also be addressed. While headlines proclaim that China will soon pass the U.S. as the world's largest economy, such statements misunderstand the nature of economic power and prosperity. A better insight shows that the U.S. far in front and that India and Russia are doing very poorly economically.
Panelists include Dr. Thomas Mahnken, Dr. Derek Scissors, and Daniel M. Harnett.
Panelists
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Thomas G. Mahnken, Ph.D.
Professor of Strategy
Jerome Levy Chair of Economic Geography and National Security, Strategy & Policy
Thomas G. Mahnken is currently Jerome E. Levy Chair of Economic Geography and National Security at the U.S. Naval War College and a Visiting Scholar at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at The Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Dr. Mahnken served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning from 2006-2009. In that capacity, he was responsible for the Department’s major strategic planning functions, including the preparation of guidance for war plans and the development of the defense planning scenarios. He was the primary author of the 2008 National Defense Strategy and contributing author of the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review. He spearheaded the Secretary of Defense’s Minerva Research Initiative, which will provide $100 million in grants to universities to conduct basic research in the social sciences, and led an interagency effort to establish, for the first time in five decades, a National Security Council-run interagency policy planning body
Prior to joining the Defense Department, he served as a Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College. From 2004 to 2006 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Merrill Center at SAIS. During the 2003-04 academic year he served as the Acting Director of the SAIS Strategic Studies Program. His areas of primary expertise are strategy, intelligence, and special operations forces.
Dr. Mahnken has held positions in both the government and the private sector. He served as Staff Director of the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel’s Force Structure and Personnel Sub-Panel. He served on the staff of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. He served in the Defense Department’s Office of Net Assessment, where he conducted research into the emerging revolution in military affairs. He also served as a member of the Gulf War Air Power Survey, commissioned by the Secretary of the Air Force to examine the performance of U.S. forces during the war with Iraq. Prior to that, he served as an analyst in the Non-Proliferation Directorate of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), where he was responsible for enforcing U.S. missile proliferation policy.
Dr. Mahnken is the author of Technology and the American Way of War Since 1945 (Columbia University Press, 2008), Uncovering Ways of War: U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918-1941 (Cornell University Press, 2002), and (with James R. FitzSimonds) of The Limits of Transformation: Officer Attitudes toward the Revolution in Military Affairs (Naval War College Press, 2003). He is editor (with Thomas A. Keaney) of U.S. Military Operations In Iraq: Planning, Combat, and Occupation (Routledge, 2007), (with Joseph A. Maiolo) of Strategic Studies: A Reader (Routledge, 2007), (with Emily O. Goldman) of The Information Revolution in Military Affairs in Asia (Palgrave McMillan, 2004) and (with Richard K. Betts) of Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel (Frank Cass, 2003). He is the editor of The Journal of Strategic Studies. He has appeared on Fox News, CNN, BBC, and CBC, among other networks.
An Intelligence Officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve, he served as the Intelligence Plans Officer for Naval Special Warfare Task Group CENTRAL in Kuwait and Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. He served with British forces in Kosovo during Operation JOINT GUARDIAN/Operation AGRICOLA and in Bahrain during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. He is currently Deputy Chief Staff Officer of Navy Intelligence Reserve Region Washington, D.C.
Dr. Mahnken earned his master’s degree and doctorate in international affairs from SAIS and was a National Security Fellow at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. He was a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Southern California with bachelor’s degrees in history and international relations (with highest honors) and a certificate in defense and strategic studies.
In 2009, Dr. Mahnken received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. |
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Derek M. Scissors
Resident Scholar
Derek M. Scissors is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies Asian economic issues and trends. In particular, he focuses on the Chinese and Indian economies and US economic relations with China and India. Scissors is also an adjunct professor at George Washington University, where he teaches a course on the Chinese economy.
Before joining AEI, Scissors was a senior research fellow in the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation. He has also worked in London for Intelligence Research Ltd., taught economics at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, and served as an action officer in international economics and energy for the US Department of Defense.
Scissors has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Michigan, a master’s degree in economics from the University of Chicago, and a doctorate in international political economy from Stanford University.
Experience
Adjunct Professor in Chinese Economy, Department of Economics, Columbian College of Arts & Sciences, George Washington University, 2000–present
Senior Research Fellow in Economics, Asian Studies Center, Heritage Foundation, 2008–13
Economist Specializing in Chinese Economy, Intelligence Research Ltd., Courcy’s Intelligence Service, London, 1998–2008
Lecturer, Department of Economics, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 1994–97
Action Officer in International Economics and Energy, International Security Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense, US Department of Defense, 1989–90
Education
Ph.D., international political economy, Stanford University
M.A., economics, University of Chicago
A.B., economics, University of Michigan
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Daniel M. Hartnett is a research scientist at the CNA Corporation, a non-profit research and analysis organization in Arlington, VA. At CNA, Dan researches China's military and security affairs, as well as U.S.-China relations. Prior to joining CNA, he was the Senior Policy Analyst for Security Affairs at the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC), where he worked on policy issues related to the security aspects of the U.S.-China bilateral relationship. At the USCC, Dan advised and provided analytical and legislative support to the U.S. Congress on China’s military and security developments. He also previously worked in the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration, where he participated in nuclear nonproliferation negotiations with China. Dan began his career as a Russian and Serbo-Croatian linguist in the U.S. Army, where he supported U.S. military operations during the civil war in the former Yugoslavia. He has published several book chapters and articles on Chinese military issues. An accomplished linguist, Dan has attended several language schools, including the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, the Sprachen und Dolmetscher Institute in Munich, Germany; and the Beijing Language and Culture University in Beijing, China. He has an M.A. in Asian studies from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University and a B.A. in Chinese from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is currently finishing his Ph.D. in political science at George Mason University, where he focuses on the evolution of China's military doctrine. Dan is also a member of the Truman National Security Project’s Defense Council. He can be followed at @dmhartnett.
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Special Event Cancellation Policy
Due to the popularity of our paid special events, any cancellation made the week before the event will result in the member's account being charged 50% of the event price. If the cancellation is made within 72 hours of the event or the member does not show up to the event, the member's account will be charged full price. The Club will confirm all reservations via phone and/or e-mail one week before the event. |
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