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NINA L. HACHIGIAN
Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise (Simon & Schuster, 2008). She is a Board Member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Hachigian received her B.S. from Yale University, magna cum laude, and her J.D. from Stanford Law School, with distinction. She lives in the great City of LosAngeles
HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN LOS ANGELES: A GLOBAL CRISIS The human trafficking industry is growing in the United States and around the world. Worth an estimated $150 billion each year globally, it is the world’s second most profitable criminal enterprise, alongside the trafficking of illegal weapons and just behind the trafficking of illegal drugs. Experts believe that as many as 27-30 million modern day slaves exist in the world today. PERU’S BIGGEST POLITICAL CHALLENGES TODAY Peru’s progress today is hindered not by powerful economic, social, or political interests, domestic or foreign, but rather by the relative absence of state authority and capacity as well as the weakness of political institutions more generally. The main challengein
MARIE KAGAJU LAUGHARN Marie Kagaju Laugharn. Marie brings a wealth of personal and professional experience to the Ihangane Project. She received her M.A. in English from the National University of Rwanda and studied Economics at Lycée Notre Dame de Citeaux in Kigali, Rwanda. She serves on the Santa Cruz County Women’s Commission and currentlyworks with the
DO SYRIAN REFUGEES REALLY POSE A NATIONAL SECURITY RISK In the United States, opponents of accepting Syrian refugees have cited the 2015 terrorist attack in Paris and 2016 attack in Brussels as evidence that terrorists masquerade as refugees and pose a threat to national security. Yet the claim that the refugee program could be abused and lead to terrorism belies the facts. PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICYABOUT USGET INVOLVEDPROGRAMSTOPICSINITIATIVESMEDIA Israel, Palestine, and Governance Challenges. A conversation on recent developments in the Israel and Palestine relationship featuring Professor Amy Wilentz of the Literary Journalism Program at University of California, Irvine. More. INTERNATIONAL ISSUES TO WATCH IN 2020 WATER STRESS: A TRIPLE THREAT IN NIGERIA UNDERSTANDING CHINA’S MILITARY EXPANSION A major component of the Chinese dream includes the strengthening and expansion of China’s military capabilities. Beijing has specifically tasked the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to complete military reform and modernization by 2035 and to become a world-class military by 2050. In order to achieve these ambitious goals, the Chinese DO INDIANS HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH? Article 19 of India’s constitution guarantees the right "to freedom of speech and expression." However, the constitution also allows the government to limit freedom of expression "in the interests of the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, decency ormorality, or
NINA L. HACHIGIAN
Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise (Simon & Schuster, 2008). She is a Board Member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Hachigian received her B.S. from Yale University, magna cum laude, and her J.D. from Stanford Law School, with distinction. She lives in the great City of LosAngeles
HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN LOS ANGELES: A GLOBAL CRISIS The human trafficking industry is growing in the United States and around the world. Worth an estimated $150 billion each year globally, it is the world’s second most profitable criminal enterprise, alongside the trafficking of illegal weapons and just behind the trafficking of illegal drugs. Experts believe that as many as 27-30 million modern day slaves exist in the world today. PERU’S BIGGEST POLITICAL CHALLENGES TODAY Peru’s progress today is hindered not by powerful economic, social, or political interests, domestic or foreign, but rather by the relative absence of state authority and capacity as well as the weakness of political institutions more generally. The main challengein
MARIE KAGAJU LAUGHARN Marie Kagaju Laugharn. Marie brings a wealth of personal and professional experience to the Ihangane Project. She received her M.A. in English from the National University of Rwanda and studied Economics at Lycée Notre Dame de Citeaux in Kigali, Rwanda. She serves on the Santa Cruz County Women’s Commission and currentlyworks with the
DO SYRIAN REFUGEES REALLY POSE A NATIONAL SECURITY RISK In the United States, opponents of accepting Syrian refugees have cited the 2015 terrorist attack in Paris and 2016 attack in Brussels as evidence that terrorists masquerade as refugees and pose a threat to national security. Yet the claim that the refugee program could be abused and lead to terrorism belies the facts.2020 VISION
The Pacific Council believes that living by a set of values is critical, especially in today’s policy environment. Our values define and distinguish us, and we reaffirm our commitment to global engagement, inclusivity, nonpartisanship, objectivity, civility, respect, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Screen Shot 2020-01-29 at1.54.02 PM.png.
NEWSROOM | PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY The Pacific Council has launched a new platform for our member-written commentary and analysis. We are unveiling the Pacific Council Magazine, where you can find pieces written by our members on local-to-global topics, plus member spotlights and recaps and recordings from our events. Bookmark the new Pacific Council Magazine at pacificcouncil.online. INTERNATIONAL ISSUES TO WATCH IN 2020 Other trends and issues we are watching: Technoskepticism takes hold. The politicization of technology was a top trend in 2019. This risk will intensify in 2020 on a host of fronts, including antitrust, tax, privacy, cybersecurity, national security, data localization, electioneering, worker rights, and diversity and inclusion measures, and, ultimately, the ability to trust. OUR TEAM | PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.org U.S. STRATEGY ON THE MIDDLE EAST WITH CHUCK HAGEL AND A conversation with the Honorable Chuck Hagel, 24th Secretary of Defense, and Barbara Slavin, Washington correspondent for Al Monitor and Director, Future of Iran Initiative, the Atlantic Council, as part of the Pacific Council x World Affairs Global Leaders Series. A FREE TRADE STRATEGY TO BOOST AFRICA’S MANUFACTURING CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.orgTIMOTHY PERRY
Timothy Perry is an attorney and former federal prosecutor with more than a dozen years’ experience investigating, prosecuting, and advising in matters related to white collar crime, crisis response, risk management and internal controls. ON MEXICO-CHINA RELATIONS The question for Mexico is whether there is a viable space for interaction. Mexico is localized in a geopolitical zone distant from that of China, which has conditioned much of the historical nature of the bilateral relationship. The paradox at present is that the attitude of the United States is generating a mutual incentive toexplore common
REGULATING INTERNATIONAL SPACE MINING, AN ENORMOUS CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.org LESSONS FROM “JURASSIC PARK”: UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES The arguments for or against genetically modified crops aside, the one thing we know for certain is that an intervention of this sort will have a huge impact on our environment and social systems, for better or for worse. On a larger scale, “Jurassic Park” may serve as a lesson about unintended consequences. Foreign policy needs to be PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICYABOUT USGET INVOLVEDPROGRAMSTOPICSINITIATIVESMEDIA Israel, Palestine, and Governance Challenges. A conversation on recent developments in the Israel and Palestine relationship featuring Professor Amy Wilentz of the Literary Journalism Program at University of California, Irvine. More. INTERNATIONAL ISSUES TO WATCH IN 2020 WATER STRESS: A TRIPLE THREAT IN NIGERIA UNDERSTANDING CHINA’S MILITARY EXPANSION A major component of the Chinese dream includes the strengthening and expansion of China’s military capabilities. Beijing has specifically tasked the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to complete military reform and modernization by 2035 and to become a world-class military by 2050. In order to achieve these ambitious goals, the Chinese DO INDIANS HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH? Article 19 of India’s constitution guarantees the right "to freedom of speech and expression." However, the constitution also allows the government to limit freedom of expression "in the interests of the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, decency ormorality, or
NINA L. HACHIGIAN
Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise (Simon & Schuster, 2008). She is a Board Member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Hachigian received her B.S. from Yale University, magna cum laude, and her J.D. from Stanford Law School, with distinction. She lives in the great City of LosAngeles
HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN LOS ANGELES: A GLOBAL CRISIS The human trafficking industry is growing in the United States and around the world. Worth an estimated $150 billion each year globally, it is the world’s second most profitable criminal enterprise, alongside the trafficking of illegal weapons and just behind the trafficking of illegal drugs. Experts believe that as many as 27-30 million modern day slaves exist in the world today. PERU’S BIGGEST POLITICAL CHALLENGES TODAY Peru’s progress today is hindered not by powerful economic, social, or political interests, domestic or foreign, but rather by the relative absence of state authority and capacity as well as the weakness of political institutions more generally. The main challengein
MARIE KAGAJU LAUGHARN Marie Kagaju Laugharn. Marie brings a wealth of personal and professional experience to the Ihangane Project. She received her M.A. in English from the National University of Rwanda and studied Economics at Lycée Notre Dame de Citeaux in Kigali, Rwanda. She serves on the Santa Cruz County Women’s Commission and currentlyworks with the
DO SYRIAN REFUGEES REALLY POSE A NATIONAL SECURITY RISK In the United States, opponents of accepting Syrian refugees have cited the 2015 terrorist attack in Paris and 2016 attack in Brussels as evidence that terrorists masquerade as refugees and pose a threat to national security. Yet the claim that the refugee program could be abused and lead to terrorism belies the facts. PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICYABOUT USGET INVOLVEDPROGRAMSTOPICSINITIATIVESMEDIA Israel, Palestine, and Governance Challenges. A conversation on recent developments in the Israel and Palestine relationship featuring Professor Amy Wilentz of the Literary Journalism Program at University of California, Irvine. More. INTERNATIONAL ISSUES TO WATCH IN 2020 WATER STRESS: A TRIPLE THREAT IN NIGERIA UNDERSTANDING CHINA’S MILITARY EXPANSION A major component of the Chinese dream includes the strengthening and expansion of China’s military capabilities. Beijing has specifically tasked the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to complete military reform and modernization by 2035 and to become a world-class military by 2050. In order to achieve these ambitious goals, the Chinese DO INDIANS HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH? Article 19 of India’s constitution guarantees the right "to freedom of speech and expression." However, the constitution also allows the government to limit freedom of expression "in the interests of the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, decency ormorality, or
NINA L. HACHIGIAN
Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise (Simon & Schuster, 2008). She is a Board Member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Hachigian received her B.S. from Yale University, magna cum laude, and her J.D. from Stanford Law School, with distinction. She lives in the great City of LosAngeles
HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN LOS ANGELES: A GLOBAL CRISIS The human trafficking industry is growing in the United States and around the world. Worth an estimated $150 billion each year globally, it is the world’s second most profitable criminal enterprise, alongside the trafficking of illegal weapons and just behind the trafficking of illegal drugs. Experts believe that as many as 27-30 million modern day slaves exist in the world today. PERU’S BIGGEST POLITICAL CHALLENGES TODAY Peru’s progress today is hindered not by powerful economic, social, or political interests, domestic or foreign, but rather by the relative absence of state authority and capacity as well as the weakness of political institutions more generally. The main challengein
MARIE KAGAJU LAUGHARN Marie Kagaju Laugharn. Marie brings a wealth of personal and professional experience to the Ihangane Project. She received her M.A. in English from the National University of Rwanda and studied Economics at Lycée Notre Dame de Citeaux in Kigali, Rwanda. She serves on the Santa Cruz County Women’s Commission and currentlyworks with the
DO SYRIAN REFUGEES REALLY POSE A NATIONAL SECURITY RISK In the United States, opponents of accepting Syrian refugees have cited the 2015 terrorist attack in Paris and 2016 attack in Brussels as evidence that terrorists masquerade as refugees and pose a threat to national security. Yet the claim that the refugee program could be abused and lead to terrorism belies the facts.2020 VISION
The Pacific Council believes that living by a set of values is critical, especially in today’s policy environment. Our values define and distinguish us, and we reaffirm our commitment to global engagement, inclusivity, nonpartisanship, objectivity, civility, respect, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Screen Shot 2020-01-29 at1.54.02 PM.png.
NEWSROOM | PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY The Pacific Council has launched a new platform for our member-written commentary and analysis. We are unveiling the Pacific Council Magazine, where you can find pieces written by our members on local-to-global topics, plus member spotlights and recaps and recordings from our events. Bookmark the new Pacific Council Magazine at pacificcouncil.online. INTERNATIONAL ISSUES TO WATCH IN 2020 Other trends and issues we are watching: Technoskepticism takes hold. The politicization of technology was a top trend in 2019. This risk will intensify in 2020 on a host of fronts, including antitrust, tax, privacy, cybersecurity, national security, data localization, electioneering, worker rights, and diversity and inclusion measures, and, ultimately, the ability to trust. OUR TEAM | PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.org U.S. STRATEGY ON THE MIDDLE EAST WITH CHUCK HAGEL AND A conversation with the Honorable Chuck Hagel, 24th Secretary of Defense, and Barbara Slavin, Washington correspondent for Al Monitor and Director, Future of Iran Initiative, the Atlantic Council, as part of the Pacific Council x World Affairs Global Leaders Series. A FREE TRADE STRATEGY TO BOOST AFRICA’S MANUFACTURING CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.orgTIMOTHY PERRY
Timothy Perry is an attorney and former federal prosecutor with more than a dozen years’ experience investigating, prosecuting, and advising in matters related to white collar crime, crisis response, risk management and internal controls. ON MEXICO-CHINA RELATIONS The question for Mexico is whether there is a viable space for interaction. Mexico is localized in a geopolitical zone distant from that of China, which has conditioned much of the historical nature of the bilateral relationship. The paradox at present is that the attitude of the United States is generating a mutual incentive toexplore common
REGULATING INTERNATIONAL SPACE MINING, AN ENORMOUS CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.org LESSONS FROM “JURASSIC PARK”: UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES The arguments for or against genetically modified crops aside, the one thing we know for certain is that an intervention of this sort will have a huge impact on our environment and social systems, for better or for worse. On a larger scale, “Jurassic Park” may serve as a lesson about unintended consequences. Foreign policy needs to be PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICYABOUT USGET INVOLVEDPROGRAMSTOPICSINITIATIVESMEDIA A conversation on recent developments in the Israel and Palestine relationship featuring Professor Amy Wilentz of the Literary Journalism Program at University of California, Irvine. WATER STRESS: A TRIPLE THREAT IN NIGERIA DO INDIANS HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH? CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.orgNINA L. HACHIGIAN
Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise (Simon & Schuster, 2008). She is a Board Member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Hachigian received her B.S. from Yale University, magna cum laude, and her J.D. from Stanford Law School, with distinction. She lives in the great City of LosAngeles
A FREE TRADE STRATEGY TO BOOST AFRICA’S MANUFACTURING CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.orgMARIA CAMACHO
CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.org MARIE KAGAJU LAUGHARN Marie Kagaju Laugharn. Marie brings a wealth of personal and professional experience to the Ihangane Project. She received her M.A. in English from the National University of Rwanda and studied Economics at Lycée Notre Dame de Citeaux in Kigali, Rwanda. She serves on the Santa Cruz County Women’s Commission and currentlyworks with the
SAUDI ARABIA’S MODERNIZATION Editor’s note: Some names and identifying characteristics have been changed for security purposes. For a leader who has “more money than God,” as USC professor and Middle Eastern scholar Laurie Brand said, Mohammed Bin Salman’s (MBS) foundation-shaking rise to power in 2017 as the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia has raised eyebrows and questions from the international community DO SYRIAN REFUGEES REALLY POSE A NATIONAL SECURITY RISK In the United States, opponents of accepting Syrian refugees have cited the 2015 terrorist attack in Paris and 2016 attack in Brussels as evidence that terrorists masquerade as refugees and pose a threat to national security. Yet the claim that the refugee program could be abused and lead to terrorism belies the facts. MARISA HERNÁNDEZ-STERN Marisa Hernández-Stern is a Deputy Attorney General in the California Department of Justice’s Worker Rights & Fair Labor Bureau, Civil Rights Enforcement Section. She graduated from Brown University and the UCLA School of Law with concentrations in Critical Race Studies and Public Interest Law and Policy. Ms. Hernández-Stern currently serves as the chair of the Mexican American Bar PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICYABOUT USGET INVOLVEDPROGRAMSTOPICSINITIATIVESMEDIA A conversation on recent developments in the Israel and Palestine relationship featuring Professor Amy Wilentz of the Literary Journalism Program at University of California, Irvine. WATER STRESS: A TRIPLE THREAT IN NIGERIA DO INDIANS HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH? CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.orgNINA L. HACHIGIAN
Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise (Simon & Schuster, 2008). She is a Board Member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Hachigian received her B.S. from Yale University, magna cum laude, and her J.D. from Stanford Law School, with distinction. She lives in the great City of LosAngeles
A FREE TRADE STRATEGY TO BOOST AFRICA’S MANUFACTURING CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.orgMARIA CAMACHO
CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.org MARIE KAGAJU LAUGHARN Marie Kagaju Laugharn. Marie brings a wealth of personal and professional experience to the Ihangane Project. She received her M.A. in English from the National University of Rwanda and studied Economics at Lycée Notre Dame de Citeaux in Kigali, Rwanda. She serves on the Santa Cruz County Women’s Commission and currentlyworks with the
SAUDI ARABIA’S MODERNIZATION Editor’s note: Some names and identifying characteristics have been changed for security purposes. For a leader who has “more money than God,” as USC professor and Middle Eastern scholar Laurie Brand said, Mohammed Bin Salman’s (MBS) foundation-shaking rise to power in 2017 as the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia has raised eyebrows and questions from the international community DO SYRIAN REFUGEES REALLY POSE A NATIONAL SECURITY RISK In the United States, opponents of accepting Syrian refugees have cited the 2015 terrorist attack in Paris and 2016 attack in Brussels as evidence that terrorists masquerade as refugees and pose a threat to national security. Yet the claim that the refugee program could be abused and lead to terrorism belies the facts. MARISA HERNÁNDEZ-STERN Marisa Hernández-Stern is a Deputy Attorney General in the California Department of Justice’s Worker Rights & Fair Labor Bureau, Civil Rights Enforcement Section. She graduated from Brown University and the UCLA School of Law with concentrations in Critical Race Studies and Public Interest Law and Policy. Ms. Hernández-Stern currently serves as the chair of the Mexican American Bar2020 VISION
The Pacific Council believes that living by a set of values is critical, especially in today’s policy environment. Our values define and distinguish us, and we reaffirm our commitment to global engagement, inclusivity, nonpartisanship, objectivity, civility, respect, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Screen Shot 2020-01-29 at1.54.02 PM.png.
OUR TEAM | PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.org U.S. STRATEGY ON THE MIDDLE EAST WITH CHUCK HAGEL AND A conversation with the Honorable Chuck Hagel, 24th Secretary of Defense, and Barbara Slavin, Washington correspondent for Al Monitor and Director, Future of Iran Initiative, the Atlantic Council, as part of the Pacific Council x World Affairs Global Leaders Series. IMPLICATIONS OF COVID-19 FOR MEXICO The global developments regarding the COVID-19 pandemic have had a marked impact on Mexico, which is just barely at the beginning of the proverbial COVID-19 curve, write Pamela Starr, Geoffrey Jones, and Michael Camuñez in this special report from Monarch GlobalStrategies.
NAVIGATING ISSUES OF SECRECY AND NATIONAL SECURITY AT GTMO CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.org HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN LOS ANGELES: A GLOBAL CRISIS The human trafficking industry is growing in the United States and around the world. Worth an estimated $150 billion each year globally, it is the world’s second most profitable criminal enterprise, alongside the trafficking of illegal weapons and just behind the trafficking of illegal drugs. Experts believe that as many as 27-30 million modern day slaves exist in the world today.INA THIGITH
ithigith@pacificcouncil.org. 213-221-2027. Los Angeles, CA. United States. Ina Thigith is the Membership Associate at the Pacific Council on International Policy where her primary roles include leading membership billing and supporting member engagement and election outreach efforts. Ina also serves as co-leader of the Junior FellowsProgram.
SHIRIN LOTFI
Shirin Lotfi is the former executive assistant at the Center for Israel Studies in Amman, Jordan and a former media and communications assistant to Israel parliament member Sharren Haskel (Likud), where she advised on issues of foreign policy and the EU. Shirin has been politically active since she was fourteen, when she co-founded an NGO in Iran with her mother. WATER STRESS, INSTABILITY, AND VIOLENT EXTREMISM This article is an advance reading for our inaugural Water Conference on December 1, 2017, a special program exploring global water scarcity challenges and solutions, presented in partnership with O'Melveny & Myers LLP.Learn more about the conference here.. Pathways of influence linking water stress and conflict in a number of fragile states in the Middle East and Africa, namely Syria, Iraq SAUDI ARABIA’S MODERNIZATION Editor’s note: Some names and identifying characteristics have been changed for security purposes. For a leader who has “more money than God,” as USC professor and Middle Eastern scholar Laurie Brand said, Mohammed Bin Salman’s (MBS) foundation-shaking rise to power in 2017 as the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia has raised eyebrows and questions from the international community PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICYABOUT USGET INVOLVEDPROGRAMSTOPICSINITIATIVESMEDIA A conversation on recent developments in the Israel and Palestine relationship featuring Professor Amy Wilentz of the Literary Journalism Program at University of California, Irvine. WATER STRESS: A TRIPLE THREAT IN NIGERIA DO INDIANS HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH? CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.orgNINA L. HACHIGIAN
Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise (Simon & Schuster, 2008). She is a Board Member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Hachigian received her B.S. from Yale University, magna cum laude, and her J.D. from Stanford Law School, with distinction. She lives in the great City of LosAngeles
A FREE TRADE STRATEGY TO BOOST AFRICA’S MANUFACTURING CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.orgMARIA CAMACHO
CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.org MARIE KAGAJU LAUGHARN Marie Kagaju Laugharn. Marie brings a wealth of personal and professional experience to the Ihangane Project. She received her M.A. in English from the National University of Rwanda and studied Economics at Lycée Notre Dame de Citeaux in Kigali, Rwanda. She serves on the Santa Cruz County Women’s Commission and currentlyworks with the
SAUDI ARABIA’S MODERNIZATION Editor’s note: Some names and identifying characteristics have been changed for security purposes. For a leader who has “more money than God,” as USC professor and Middle Eastern scholar Laurie Brand said, Mohammed Bin Salman’s (MBS) foundation-shaking rise to power in 2017 as the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia has raised eyebrows and questions from the international community DO SYRIAN REFUGEES REALLY POSE A NATIONAL SECURITY RISK In the United States, opponents of accepting Syrian refugees have cited the 2015 terrorist attack in Paris and 2016 attack in Brussels as evidence that terrorists masquerade as refugees and pose a threat to national security. Yet the claim that the refugee program could be abused and lead to terrorism belies the facts. MARISA HERNÁNDEZ-STERN Marisa Hernández-Stern is a Deputy Attorney General in the California Department of Justice’s Worker Rights & Fair Labor Bureau, Civil Rights Enforcement Section. She graduated from Brown University and the UCLA School of Law with concentrations in Critical Race Studies and Public Interest Law and Policy. Ms. Hernández-Stern currently serves as the chair of the Mexican American Bar PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICYABOUT USGET INVOLVEDPROGRAMSTOPICSINITIATIVESMEDIA A conversation on recent developments in the Israel and Palestine relationship featuring Professor Amy Wilentz of the Literary Journalism Program at University of California, Irvine. WATER STRESS: A TRIPLE THREAT IN NIGERIA DO INDIANS HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH? CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.orgNINA L. HACHIGIAN
Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise (Simon & Schuster, 2008). She is a Board Member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Hachigian received her B.S. from Yale University, magna cum laude, and her J.D. from Stanford Law School, with distinction. She lives in the great City of LosAngeles
A FREE TRADE STRATEGY TO BOOST AFRICA’S MANUFACTURING CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.orgMARIA CAMACHO
CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.org MARIE KAGAJU LAUGHARN Marie Kagaju Laugharn. Marie brings a wealth of personal and professional experience to the Ihangane Project. She received her M.A. in English from the National University of Rwanda and studied Economics at Lycée Notre Dame de Citeaux in Kigali, Rwanda. She serves on the Santa Cruz County Women’s Commission and currentlyworks with the
SAUDI ARABIA’S MODERNIZATION Editor’s note: Some names and identifying characteristics have been changed for security purposes. For a leader who has “more money than God,” as USC professor and Middle Eastern scholar Laurie Brand said, Mohammed Bin Salman’s (MBS) foundation-shaking rise to power in 2017 as the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia has raised eyebrows and questions from the international community DO SYRIAN REFUGEES REALLY POSE A NATIONAL SECURITY RISK In the United States, opponents of accepting Syrian refugees have cited the 2015 terrorist attack in Paris and 2016 attack in Brussels as evidence that terrorists masquerade as refugees and pose a threat to national security. Yet the claim that the refugee program could be abused and lead to terrorism belies the facts. MARISA HERNÁNDEZ-STERN Marisa Hernández-Stern is a Deputy Attorney General in the California Department of Justice’s Worker Rights & Fair Labor Bureau, Civil Rights Enforcement Section. She graduated from Brown University and the UCLA School of Law with concentrations in Critical Race Studies and Public Interest Law and Policy. Ms. Hernández-Stern currently serves as the chair of the Mexican American Bar2020 VISION
The Pacific Council believes that living by a set of values is critical, especially in today’s policy environment. Our values define and distinguish us, and we reaffirm our commitment to global engagement, inclusivity, nonpartisanship, objectivity, civility, respect, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Screen Shot 2020-01-29 at1.54.02 PM.png.
OUR TEAM | PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.org U.S. STRATEGY ON THE MIDDLE EAST WITH CHUCK HAGEL AND A conversation with the Honorable Chuck Hagel, 24th Secretary of Defense, and Barbara Slavin, Washington correspondent for Al Monitor and Director, Future of Iran Initiative, the Atlantic Council, as part of the Pacific Council x World Affairs Global Leaders Series. IMPLICATIONS OF COVID-19 FOR MEXICO The global developments regarding the COVID-19 pandemic have had a marked impact on Mexico, which is just barely at the beginning of the proverbial COVID-19 curve, write Pamela Starr, Geoffrey Jones, and Michael Camuñez in this special report from Monarch GlobalStrategies.
NAVIGATING ISSUES OF SECRECY AND NATIONAL SECURITY AT GTMO CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.org HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN LOS ANGELES: A GLOBAL CRISIS The human trafficking industry is growing in the United States and around the world. Worth an estimated $150 billion each year globally, it is the world’s second most profitable criminal enterprise, alongside the trafficking of illegal weapons and just behind the trafficking of illegal drugs. Experts believe that as many as 27-30 million modern day slaves exist in the world today.INA THIGITH
ithigith@pacificcouncil.org. 213-221-2027. Los Angeles, CA. United States. Ina Thigith is the Membership Associate at the Pacific Council on International Policy where her primary roles include leading membership billing and supporting member engagement and election outreach efforts. Ina also serves as co-leader of the Junior FellowsProgram.
SHIRIN LOTFI
Shirin Lotfi is the former executive assistant at the Center for Israel Studies in Amman, Jordan and a former media and communications assistant to Israel parliament member Sharren Haskel (Likud), where she advised on issues of foreign policy and the EU. Shirin has been politically active since she was fourteen, when she co-founded an NGO in Iran with her mother. WATER STRESS, INSTABILITY, AND VIOLENT EXTREMISM This article is an advance reading for our inaugural Water Conference on December 1, 2017, a special program exploring global water scarcity challenges and solutions, presented in partnership with O'Melveny & Myers LLP.Learn more about the conference here.. Pathways of influence linking water stress and conflict in a number of fragile states in the Middle East and Africa, namely Syria, Iraq SAUDI ARABIA’S MODERNIZATION Editor’s note: Some names and identifying characteristics have been changed for security purposes. For a leader who has “more money than God,” as USC professor and Middle Eastern scholar Laurie Brand said, Mohammed Bin Salman’s (MBS) foundation-shaking rise to power in 2017 as the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia has raised eyebrows and questions from the international community PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICYABOUT USGET INVOLVEDPROGRAMSTOPICSINITIATIVESMEDIA A conversation on recent developments in the Israel and Palestine relationship featuring Professor Amy Wilentz of the Literary Journalism Program at University of California, Irvine. WATER STRESS: A TRIPLE THREAT IN NIGERIA DO INDIANS HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH? CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.orgNINA L. HACHIGIAN
Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise (Simon & Schuster, 2008). She is a Board Member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Hachigian received her B.S. from Yale University, magna cum laude, and her J.D. from Stanford Law School, with distinction. She lives in the great City of LosAngeles
A FREE TRADE STRATEGY TO BOOST AFRICA’S MANUFACTURING CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.orgMARIA CAMACHO
CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.org MARIE KAGAJU LAUGHARN Marie Kagaju Laugharn. Marie brings a wealth of personal and professional experience to the Ihangane Project. She received her M.A. in English from the National University of Rwanda and studied Economics at Lycée Notre Dame de Citeaux in Kigali, Rwanda. She serves on the Santa Cruz County Women’s Commission and currentlyworks with the
SAUDI ARABIA’S MODERNIZATION Editor’s note: Some names and identifying characteristics have been changed for security purposes. For a leader who has “more money than God,” as USC professor and Middle Eastern scholar Laurie Brand said, Mohammed Bin Salman’s (MBS) foundation-shaking rise to power in 2017 as the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia has raised eyebrows and questions from the international community DO SYRIAN REFUGEES REALLY POSE A NATIONAL SECURITY RISK In the United States, opponents of accepting Syrian refugees have cited the 2015 terrorist attack in Paris and 2016 attack in Brussels as evidence that terrorists masquerade as refugees and pose a threat to national security. Yet the claim that the refugee program could be abused and lead to terrorism belies the facts. MARISA HERNÁNDEZ-STERN Marisa Hernández-Stern is a Deputy Attorney General in the California Department of Justice’s Worker Rights & Fair Labor Bureau, Civil Rights Enforcement Section. She graduated from Brown University and the UCLA School of Law with concentrations in Critical Race Studies and Public Interest Law and Policy. Ms. Hernández-Stern currently serves as the chair of the Mexican American Bar PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICYABOUT USGET INVOLVEDPROGRAMSTOPICSINITIATIVESMEDIA A conversation on recent developments in the Israel and Palestine relationship featuring Professor Amy Wilentz of the Literary Journalism Program at University of California, Irvine. WATER STRESS: A TRIPLE THREAT IN NIGERIA DO INDIANS HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH? CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.orgNINA L. HACHIGIAN
Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise (Simon & Schuster, 2008). She is a Board Member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Hachigian received her B.S. from Yale University, magna cum laude, and her J.D. from Stanford Law School, with distinction. She lives in the great City of LosAngeles
A FREE TRADE STRATEGY TO BOOST AFRICA’S MANUFACTURING CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.orgMARIA CAMACHO
CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.org MARIE KAGAJU LAUGHARN Marie Kagaju Laugharn. Marie brings a wealth of personal and professional experience to the Ihangane Project. She received her M.A. in English from the National University of Rwanda and studied Economics at Lycée Notre Dame de Citeaux in Kigali, Rwanda. She serves on the Santa Cruz County Women’s Commission and currentlyworks with the
SAUDI ARABIA’S MODERNIZATION Editor’s note: Some names and identifying characteristics have been changed for security purposes. For a leader who has “more money than God,” as USC professor and Middle Eastern scholar Laurie Brand said, Mohammed Bin Salman’s (MBS) foundation-shaking rise to power in 2017 as the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia has raised eyebrows and questions from the international community DO SYRIAN REFUGEES REALLY POSE A NATIONAL SECURITY RISK In the United States, opponents of accepting Syrian refugees have cited the 2015 terrorist attack in Paris and 2016 attack in Brussels as evidence that terrorists masquerade as refugees and pose a threat to national security. Yet the claim that the refugee program could be abused and lead to terrorism belies the facts. MARISA HERNÁNDEZ-STERN Marisa Hernández-Stern is a Deputy Attorney General in the California Department of Justice’s Worker Rights & Fair Labor Bureau, Civil Rights Enforcement Section. She graduated from Brown University and the UCLA School of Law with concentrations in Critical Race Studies and Public Interest Law and Policy. Ms. Hernández-Stern currently serves as the chair of the Mexican American Bar2020 VISION
The Pacific Council believes that living by a set of values is critical, especially in today’s policy environment. Our values define and distinguish us, and we reaffirm our commitment to global engagement, inclusivity, nonpartisanship, objectivity, civility, respect, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Screen Shot 2020-01-29 at1.54.02 PM.png.
OUR TEAM | PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.org U.S. STRATEGY ON THE MIDDLE EAST WITH CHUCK HAGEL AND A conversation with the Honorable Chuck Hagel, 24th Secretary of Defense, and Barbara Slavin, Washington correspondent for Al Monitor and Director, Future of Iran Initiative, the Atlantic Council, as part of the Pacific Council x World Affairs Global Leaders Series. IMPLICATIONS OF COVID-19 FOR MEXICO The global developments regarding the COVID-19 pandemic have had a marked impact on Mexico, which is just barely at the beginning of the proverbial COVID-19 curve, write Pamela Starr, Geoffrey Jones, and Michael Camuñez in this special report from Monarch GlobalStrategies.
NAVIGATING ISSUES OF SECRECY AND NATIONAL SECURITY AT GTMO CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.org HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN LOS ANGELES: A GLOBAL CRISIS The human trafficking industry is growing in the United States and around the world. Worth an estimated $150 billion each year globally, it is the world’s second most profitable criminal enterprise, alongside the trafficking of illegal weapons and just behind the trafficking of illegal drugs. Experts believe that as many as 27-30 million modern day slaves exist in the world today.INA THIGITH
ithigith@pacificcouncil.org. 213-221-2027. Los Angeles, CA. United States. Ina Thigith is the Membership Associate at the Pacific Council on International Policy where her primary roles include leading membership billing and supporting member engagement and election outreach efforts. Ina also serves as co-leader of the Junior FellowsProgram.
SHIRIN LOTFI
Shirin Lotfi is the former executive assistant at the Center for Israel Studies in Amman, Jordan and a former media and communications assistant to Israel parliament member Sharren Haskel (Likud), where she advised on issues of foreign policy and the EU. Shirin has been politically active since she was fourteen, when she co-founded an NGO in Iran with her mother. WATER STRESS, INSTABILITY, AND VIOLENT EXTREMISM This article is an advance reading for our inaugural Water Conference on December 1, 2017, a special program exploring global water scarcity challenges and solutions, presented in partnership with O'Melveny & Myers LLP.Learn more about the conference here.. Pathways of influence linking water stress and conflict in a number of fragile states in the Middle East and Africa, namely Syria, Iraq SAUDI ARABIA’S MODERNIZATION Editor’s note: Some names and identifying characteristics have been changed for security purposes. For a leader who has “more money than God,” as USC professor and Middle Eastern scholar Laurie Brand said, Mohammed Bin Salman’s (MBS) foundation-shaking rise to power in 2017 as the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia has raised eyebrows and questions from the international community PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICYABOUT USGET INVOLVEDPROGRAMSTOPICSINITIATIVESMEDIA A conversation on recent developments in the Israel and Palestine relationship featuring Professor Amy Wilentz of the Literary Journalism Program at University of California, Irvine.2020 VISION
The Pacific Council believes that living by a set of values is critical, especially in today’s policy environment. Our values define and distinguish us, and we reaffirm our commitment to global engagement, inclusivity, nonpartisanship, objectivity, civility, respect, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Screen Shot 2020-01-29 at1.54.02 PM.png.
OUR TEAM | PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.org WATER STRESS: A TRIPLE THREAT IN NIGERIANINA L. HACHIGIAN
Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise (Simon & Schuster, 2008). She is a Board Member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Hachigian received her B.S. from Yale University, magna cum laude, and her J.D. from Stanford Law School, with distinction. She lives in the great City of LosAngeles
MARIE KAGAJU LAUGHARN Marie Kagaju Laugharn. Marie brings a wealth of personal and professional experience to the Ihangane Project. She received her M.A. in English from the National University of Rwanda and studied Economics at Lycée Notre Dame de Citeaux in Kigali, Rwanda. She serves on the Santa Cruz County Women’s Commission and currentlyworks with the
MARIA CAMACHO
CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.orgJEAN JEAN ADELSMAN
Jean is a former board president of the California Society of Newspaper Editors and the Society of Professional Journalists' Los Angeles chapter. While no longer an active journalist, she still occasionally contributes articles. Jean now spends her discretionary time on civic affairs. She serves as a Torrance Civil Service commissioner, as well DO SYRIAN REFUGEES REALLY POSE A NATIONAL SECURITY RISK In the United States, opponents of accepting Syrian refugees have cited the 2015 terrorist attack in Paris and 2016 attack in Brussels as evidence that terrorists masquerade as refugees and pose a threat to national security. Yet the claim that the refugee program could be abused and lead to terrorism belies the facts. MEXICAN INVESTORS ARE POURING BILLIONS INTO THE U.S In a recent op-ed published by the Washington Post, Pacific Council member Andrew Selee confirms that money is indeed flowing over the U.S.-Mexico border, but it is actually going north, not south. "As illegal immigration from Mexico has dropped to historic lows," Selee wrote, "Mexican investors have started pouring billions of dollars into the U.S. economy." PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICYABOUT USGET INVOLVEDPROGRAMSTOPICSINITIATIVESMEDIA A conversation on recent developments in the Israel and Palestine relationship featuring Professor Amy Wilentz of the Literary Journalism Program at University of California, Irvine.2020 VISION
The Pacific Council believes that living by a set of values is critical, especially in today’s policy environment. Our values define and distinguish us, and we reaffirm our commitment to global engagement, inclusivity, nonpartisanship, objectivity, civility, respect, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Screen Shot 2020-01-29 at1.54.02 PM.png.
OUR TEAM | PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.org WATER STRESS: A TRIPLE THREAT IN NIGERIANINA L. HACHIGIAN
Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise (Simon & Schuster, 2008). She is a Board Member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Hachigian received her B.S. from Yale University, magna cum laude, and her J.D. from Stanford Law School, with distinction. She lives in the great City of LosAngeles
MARIE KAGAJU LAUGHARN Marie Kagaju Laugharn. Marie brings a wealth of personal and professional experience to the Ihangane Project. She received her M.A. in English from the National University of Rwanda and studied Economics at Lycée Notre Dame de Citeaux in Kigali, Rwanda. She serves on the Santa Cruz County Women’s Commission and currentlyworks with the
MARIA CAMACHO
CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.orgJEAN JEAN ADELSMAN
Jean is a former board president of the California Society of Newspaper Editors and the Society of Professional Journalists' Los Angeles chapter. While no longer an active journalist, she still occasionally contributes articles. Jean now spends her discretionary time on civic affairs. She serves as a Torrance Civil Service commissioner, as well DO SYRIAN REFUGEES REALLY POSE A NATIONAL SECURITY RISK In the United States, opponents of accepting Syrian refugees have cited the 2015 terrorist attack in Paris and 2016 attack in Brussels as evidence that terrorists masquerade as refugees and pose a threat to national security. Yet the claim that the refugee program could be abused and lead to terrorism belies the facts. MEXICAN INVESTORS ARE POURING BILLIONS INTO THE U.S In a recent op-ed published by the Washington Post, Pacific Council member Andrew Selee confirms that money is indeed flowing over the U.S.-Mexico border, but it is actually going north, not south. "As illegal immigration from Mexico has dropped to historic lows," Selee wrote, "Mexican investors have started pouring billions of dollars into the U.S. economy." WHO WE ARE | PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY Who We Are. The Pacific Council is an organization of people. We are business and civic leaders, big thinkers, policy wonks, and aspiring leaders with a commitment to international affairs. Members are at the heart of what we do. We bring together leaders from different industries and sectors to share ideas, keep up on foreign affairs, and GLOBAL WATER SCARCITY PROJECT The mission of the Global Water Scarcity Project is to build the capacity of policymakers to anticipate, prevent, and resolve transboundary water disputes. We do this through collaborating with key partners, such as Isla Urbana, a water harvesting social enterprise in Mexico City. USMCA A WIN-WIN-WIN FOR NORTH AMERICA The new USMCA trade deal is a "win-win-win," Los Angeles' Consul General of Mexico, Ambassador Carlos García de Alba told Pacific Council members in a teleconference on Oct. 17. HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN LOS ANGELES: A GLOBAL CRISIS The human trafficking industry is growing in the United States and around the world. Worth an estimated $150 billion each year globally, it is the world’s second most profitable criminal enterprise, alongside the trafficking of illegal weapons and just behind the trafficking of illegal drugs. Experts believe that as many as 27-30 million modern day slaves exist in the world today. A FREE TRADE STRATEGY TO BOOST AFRICA’S MANUFACTURING CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.org DO INDIANS HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH? CONTACT US. 725 S. Figueroa St., Suite 450 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Phone: +1 213 221 2000 / Fax: +1 213 221 2050 info@pacificcouncil.org ON MEXICO-CHINA RELATIONS The question for Mexico is whether there is a viable space for interaction. Mexico is localized in a geopolitical zone distant from that of China, which has conditioned much of the historical nature of the bilateral relationship. The paradox at present is that the attitude of the United States is generating a mutual incentive toexplore common
UNDERSTANDING THE CAUSES OF MIGRATION FROM CENTRAL AMERICA According to analysis published by Brookings and recent reports from Doctors Without Borders and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, violence is the most significant factor motivating migration from Central America. This concerning trend of growing homicide rates in El Salvador supports analysis attributing the proliferation of gangviolence
SHIRIN LOTFI
Shirin Lotfi is the former executive assistant at the Center for Israel Studies in Amman, Jordan and a former media and communications assistant to Israel parliament member Sharren Haskel (Likud), where she advised on issues of foreign policy and the EU. Shirin has been politically active since she was fourteen, when she co-founded an NGO in Iran with her mother.BANAFSHEH KEYNOUSH
Banafsheh Keynoush is a foreign affairs scholar and an advisor to American private sector companies and policy centers in the Middle East. She has three decades of work experience in high-stake international diplomacy, and in policy and communications roles with the US private sector.* About Us
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