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SUMMARY:In Conversation with Ambassador Pjer Šimunović
DESCRIPTION:This Dole Forum will focus on Croatia’s experience in public diplomacy in the United States and examine key aspects of U.S.–Croatia bilateral cooperation. The discussion will also offer perspectives on current U.S. foreign policy and Croatia’s priorities. \n  \n\n  \nH.E. Pjer Šimunović is Croatia’s Ambassador to the United States since September 2017. Together with a career in journalism and academic research he served in various high-level positions in the Croatian Government\, in the fields of national security\, defense and diplomacy\, as Director of the Office of the National Security Council\, Ambassador to Israel\, Defense State Secretary in charge of defense policy\, National Coordinator for NATO and Assistant Foreign Minister in charge of international organizations and security\, Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy in Paris and Deputy Head of Department for Analysis at the Foreign Ministry. He worked as a journalist with the BBC World Service Radio in London\, with the magazine Europ in Paris\, and with the Croatian daily ‘Večernji list’ in Zagreb\, covering international affairs. A regular speaker on political and security issues at many conferences and seminars\, he is the author of a range of security studies and articles published in the leading international journals. Ambassador Šimunović holds an M.A. degree from the Department of War Studies\, King’s College London. He is decorated with the title of Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur de la République française. \nDr. Qëndrim R. Gashi is a mathematician and diplomat\, currently serving as a visiting professor at the University of Maryland\, College Park. From 2016 to 2021\, he was Kosovo’s Ambassador to France\, also covering Portugal\, Andorra\, and Monaco. Dr. Gashi has served in supervisory boards of various private and state institutions\, and think tanks\, and has received numerous  scholarships\, awards and honors – including the insignia of Commander of the French Legion of Honor in 2022. He holds a Ph.D. (2008) from the University of Chicago\, and M.A. St (2003) from the University of Cambridge\, and a Diploma (2002) from the University of Prishtina. He was the Spring 2023 Dole Fellow\, leading the series Building Democracy in the 21st Century.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/in-conversation-with-ambassador-pjer-simunovic/
LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Counselors: Should the Electoral College Be Abolished?
DESCRIPTION:In this edition of The Counselors\, attorneys and Dole Institute Visiting Fellows Ed Duckers and Pedro Irigonegaray will debate whether the Electoral College—the means in which the United States elects a president—should be abolished. They’ll be joined a panel of expert witnesses to debate both sides of the issue. \nThis program will be moderated by Ava Levin\, SAB member and Discussion Group Coordinator\, who studies Political Science\, English\, and Spanish. \n  \n\n  \nFor the negative: \nEd Duckers is partner at Stoel Rives LLP and the head of the firm’s Litigation Practice in California and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. He is a past chair of Stoel Rives’ Food and Agribusiness Industry Team. Ed will be leading the argument for the negative. \nTara Ross is nationally recognized for her expertise on the Electoral College. She is the author of Why We Need the Electoral College (2019)\, along with multiple other books about the Electoral College. Her children’s books include We Elect A President: The Story of our Electoral College (2016)\, She Fought Too: Stories of Revolutionary War Heroines (2019)\, and We Fought for Freedom: The Story of Our American Revolution. Her Prager University video\, Do You Understand the Electoral College?\, is Prager’s most-viewed video ever\, with more than 66 million views. \nTrent England is the executive director and founder of Save Our States and has also served as the executive vice president at think tanks in Washington state and Oklahoma and as a legal policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation in Washington\, D.C. He is the author of Why We Must Defend the Electoral College and a producer of the feature-length documentary\, Safeguard: An Electoral College Story. Trent earned a J.D. from George Mason University School of Law and a B.A. in government from Claremont McKenna College. \n  \nFor the affirmative:  \nPedro Irigonegaray is an attorney and partner at Irigonegaray\, Turney\, & Revenaugh. A trial lawyer since 1973\, Pedro is a former President of The Kansas Trial Lawyers Association\, a Fellow in The American College of Trial Lawyers and a Fellow in The International Academy of Trial Lawyers. Pedro will be leading the argument for the affirmative. \nJeffrey D. Jackson is the James M. Concannon Dean and Professor of Law at Washburn University School of Law. Jackson received his B.B.A. in economics from Washburn University in 1989\, his J.D. from Washburn Law in 1992\, and his L.L.M. in Constitutional Law at Georgetown University Law Center in 2003. He teaches Constitutional Law I & II as well as Constitutional History. \nLinsey Moddelmog is a Professor of Political Science at Washburn University\, where she has taught since 2009. She has done research in the area of electoral systems and representation in the U.S. and around the world. She is excited to return to the Dole Institute where she worked for several years while in graduate school at the University of Kansas.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/the-counselors-should-the-electoral-college-be-abolished/
LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States
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