Speakers will include the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine. Live coverage gets underway at 12 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. About next the discussion on governance and leadership in the world from the United States to europe to asia. Part of a conscience conference from the Rand Corporation speakers include Francis Fukuyama and banking regulator sheila bair. This is about an hour. Hello welcome back. I am michael rich, president and ceo of the Rand Corporation. The focus of the last session was the middle east, Foreign Policy more generally there, also the middle east is a region several hundred Million People, hardly any democracies in that region. In fact authoritarian states, petering states, vanishing states, increasing amount of endeavoring to territories. We are going to shift our focus to places that on the surface seem stable secure, even prosperous but the question is on a they and will they be up to the challenges of the new century . It is an appropriate time to take up ques