Just as a quick disclaimer is a nonpartisan educational organization. The institute takes no position on any issues. The views expressed in this report are mine and mine alone. Im going to make some brief comments on the report. And we will invite our two distinguished discussants up to the stage. Then i will sit with them and will ask a few questions and we chat about this topic of dismantling the corruption nexus until about 4 pm. Then we will take questions from the audience. And we were dismissed promptly at 430. What is this all about . I am a political scientist. This means our study and explain how the political world works. Not my job to offer my opinion. It is my job to explain how things work. My work stems from actual personal frustration. Letting you know my opinion. I have been frustrated with being able to predict terrible outcomes in the worlds authoritative regime. Looking around and seeing terrible things that are going to happen. Then being frustrated by the fact that
Corruption. Live coverage now on cspan3. I bear the distinct honor of introducing myself on the aai stage as the gene kirkpatrick fellow in foreign defense policy studies here. I hold four degrees in Political Science, one of them a ph. D. From the university of south carolina. This event is a discussion of my latest report called dismantling the authoritarian corruption nexus, which is now available for download on the aei website. Read it, share it, let me know what you think. For followup see my aei scholar page or find me on twitter at clay r fuller. The American Enterprise institute is a nonpartisan nonprofit educational organization. The institute takes no institutional positions on any issues and the views expressed in this report are mine and mine alone. Im going to make some brief comments on the report. Then we are going to invite our distinguished guests to the stage. I will give them an introduction and i will sit with them and we will chat about this topic until about 4 00
[inaudible conversations] good morning ladies and gentlemen. Good morning and welcome to the 2017 Arms Control Association annual meeting. I aim the executive director of the Arms Control Association, and as most of you know we are an independent nonpartisan Membership Organization established in 1971 and dedicated to reducing and eliminating the threat posed by the worlds most dangerous weapons which would of course be Nuclear Chemical biological weapons as well as certain conventional weapons that pose particular harm and risks to civilians. You can find out more about the association, its history, its ongoing work coming in to get more information and analysis about these issues to the website armscontrol. Org and you can follow us at arms control now. The latest issue of the journal arms control today just went online so you can check that out there and also the resources on the armscontrol lap which is simply armscontrol on all of the stores. We are grateful to see so many of you
Communication workers of america discusses the companys recent 45day strike against verizon and discusses the antipartnership position on trade, as well as highspeed internet and broadband expansion. Hes joined by david shepardson. You need broadband and people more and more want broadband capability and the fcc is backing up giving Companies Money to build out broadband in rural communities. My members do broadbrand and its a big, big part what we do and i think its going to become an even bigger part what we do. Watch the communicators tonight. British defense secretary Michael Fallon recently updated a Parliamentary Committee on efforts to combat isis in sear yap. Syria. This is just under two hours. Some of the distrust was publicprivate stations by people who were pretty aware of what was going on. And, again, the underlying issue would the members introduce themselves. Im now the director of the ministry of defense, im mark carltonsmith. And im dominic wilson, member of ministry
We meet regularly, the defense ministers of the coalition, and we are urging other countries in the coalition to do the same. We have seen some welcome announcements from other European Countries that they are prepared to do more. General martin may want to add something about syria. I think there is a clear distinction between the coalitions contribution in support of the Iraqi Government and that that it is able to manage in syria. Arerly in iraq, we supporting the sovereign entity, and a military command. Those relative advantages do not exist in syria where we are marginally engaged in the air across a much less homogenous battlefield, where the identification of the parties, and tribes is much more difficult to determine. With respect to harnessing the significant grant component, which might maximize the Tactical Advantage the coalition were to provide, makes it that much more difficult. In terms of the decision made by parliament to move with airstrikes, any idea on the cost tod