The Juneau World Affairs Council, in partnership with the Rotary Clubs of Juneau and the Open World Leadership Center, present: “Mongolia Today: Profile, Strengths, and Politics” with Mongolian Parliament member Tsogtbaatar Damdin. Mr. Tsogtbaatar is a former cabinet minister and newly-elected member of the Mongolian Parliament.His primary focus is the development of responsible, accountable, open and efficient government institutions at both the national and local levels. He will give us a primer on his nation, its government, and its future.
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Juneau World Affairs: Going Undercover in North Korea with Suki Kim
Suki Kim is a South Korean-born, American novelist and investigative journalist and the only writer ever to live undercover in North Korea.She is the author of the recent New York Times-bestselling novel Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea’s Elite. In her travels, she has witnessed the country during both Kim Jong-Il’s 60th Birthday Celebration and his death at age 69 in 2011. Her six months in Pyongyang living undercover as a teacher to the sons of North Korea’s elite gave her unprecedented insights into the psychology of the future leadership, and her work sheds a new light on a place that has been, for the past 70 years, almost completely shrouded from the eyes of the world.
Putin and Russia’s Evolving Image in the United States with Artem Zagorodnov
The Juneau World Affairs Council presents “Putin and Russia’s Evolving Image in the United States” with Artem Zagorodnov. Zagorodnov has worked for 10 years in various Russia-related media outlets. From 2013 to 2016, he was based in the Middle East and launched the first English-language corporate newspaper of Lukoil Overseas, a subsidiary of Russia’s largest private oil company. He has a degree in economics from Ohio State University and is a masters student in International relations at the London School of Economics.
Recorded December 16, 2016.
Current Relations with Cuba with Ambassador Charles Shapiro
The Juneau World Affairs Council presents “Current Relations with Cuba” with Charles Shapiro. Shapiro has three decades of experience in the Foreign Service, with various posts across the Caribbean and South America, including as U.S. ambassador to Venezuela.
It was recorded Sept. 28, 2016, @360 in Juneau.
Bringing Holocaust Perpetrators to Justice with Andrew Nagorski
Andrew Nagorski is an award-winning journalist and author who spent more than three decades as a foreign correspondent and editor for Newsweek. He served as the magazine’s bureau chief in Hong Kong, Moscow, Rome, Bonn, Berlin and Warsaw. Born in Scotland to Polish parents before moving to US as an infant, Nagorski now lives in St. Augustine, Florida. He travels extensively, writing for numerous publications and himself. He is the author of six books, most recently the well-reviewed The Nazi Hunters, which deals with the subject of his talk: Nazi war criminals and those who have chased them down for many decades since the end of World War II. For more information, see andrewnagorski.com.
George Lakey, author of “Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right — and How We Can Too.”
The Juneau World Affairs Council presents George Lakey, author of “Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right — and How We Can Too.” Lakey recently retired from Swarthmore College where he was a professor of Issues in Social Change. He wrote “Viking Economics” after interviewing economists and others in the Nordic countries. He’s lived and worked in Norway, Denmark and Sweden. His books have all been about change and how to achieve it.
Recorded Nov. 4, 2016, @360 in Juneau, Alaska.