Hosted by the American Academy of political and social science. She is the recipient of the academies 2019 Daniel Patrick moynihan prize. Good afternoon. Can you hear me okay, everybody . Im tom kecskemethy, executive director the American Academy of political and social science. It my pleasure to welcome all of you to our seventh annual Daniel Patrick moynihan lecture on social science and Public Policy. Very briefly before you move into todays proceedings, i know we all want to hear from ambassador power, were pleased to such if the last as always, happy to be joined by folks who work with senator moynihan and to be joined by members of the family who have been so supportive of this enterprise from the start. I havent seen morena yet but she may be. She will be with us at some point today. Maura is his daughter and shes been a tremendous supporter of our organization and this initiative from the beginning. I also would like to thank Sage Publications your sage in the publishing world
Dynamics on the middle east and its important to recognize that everything here is on the record. Before we begin id like to highlight the Atlantic Councils collaboration with ifpi, which is the Italian Institute for International Political studies. This is the second year that our two organizations have partners produced an outstanding work on the changing landscape in the middle east. Today we are pleased to release our new collected volume, the mino region, and its now available for download online. A special thanks goes out to the president of ifpi, ambassador monsolo for his continuous collaboration in our joint ventures and indebted to the Italian Foreign ministry, in particular to the italian ambassador for his unwavering drive to see our two institutions partnering for not only the two countries they represent, but for the entire community. Ambassador monsolo couldnt be here at the last minute, but asked me to read this note. Its great regret i address you all in writing when i
Russia, china, iran and turkey. And first of all at the outset we will say that we are very proud with the cooperation of the Italian Ministry of the Foreign Affairs and the Atlantic Council that is our partner into the med dialogue. I am happy to be here for the second time, the second year with all of the distinguished guests, and these distinguished speakers. As the italian ambassador already said, this meeting is a part of a series of meetings, and regional, and we called regional meeting around the world. We have already hosted two regional immediatings in dohdoh brussels, rome, moscow, and abu dhabi and in new york tomorrow at the end of the month in riyadh. So coming to the panel, why old actor, because these International Players have always been present and active in the region, but new policies, because the International Context has changed and these actors have achieved a new rein on the rule in the region, so the order has come to question in recent years. Such a phenomenon
A separate development that Union President has said he has been taken to hospital and what his office says as a Severe Health crisis the 92 year old was taken to a military Heart Hospital and shyness but as reported to be in a stable condition. He announced he would not contest novembers president ial election. Now the weather is next and then we report from ethiopia where hundreds of people have been arrested in the wake of a failed rebellion. And its time for round 2 and now that 10 democrats prepared to explain why each of them should be u. S. President opponent next year. The west sponsored by qatar and ways. Hello its a little dry than it has been recently across southern parts of china but still a fair amount of cloud about at present we will still see some showers some longer spells of rainfall over time but i think the hong kong generates life so i was never to fall by the wetter weather is further North Central areas will see some large downpours due to the temperatures shang
It is 2 30 in the morning. Now on bbc news the week in parliament. Hello there and welcome to the week in parliament, where Boris Johnson and jeremy hunt emerge as the conservative leadership contenders. Not only is the member racist he is stocking division and has a record of dishonesty. Order, questions to the Prime Minister. We take a look atjohn bercows decade as commons speaker. Ina great in a great many respects, john bercow is different to his predecessor, certainly of the past two centuries. And is it time to relabel veggie burgers and sausages because their names are misleading . So instead of saying mock bacon, youd be saying a wheat gluten shaped smoky paprika flavoured lump thats sliced thinly . But first the final phase of the fight to be our next Prime Minister is under way. Conservative mps have put forward borisjohnson and jeremy hunt as the candidates to face party members. Theyll now take part in a series of hustings with the winner announced in mid july. Borisjohnson