Webinar // The Impact of COVID-19 on Global Politics and International Institutions

Описание: On Thursday May 21, at 11:00 am The Global Policy Institute and Bay Atlantic University held an event via Zoom titled: The Impact of COVID-19 on Global Politics and International Institutions.
Panelists
Dr. Luis Tomé is Associate Professor at Autonoma University of Lisbon-Portugal where he is currently Director of the International Relations Department and Diretor of the research unit OBSERVARE-Observatory of Foreign Affairs. Prof. Luis Tomé has also been Visiting Professor at the Portuguese Military University Institute, the National Defense Institute and the Higher Institute of Police Sciences and Homeland Security, as well abroad at La Sapienza University of Rome-Italy, Academy of Social Sciences and Technology of Angola, East Timor National Defense Institute, and Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara-Turkey.

Prof. Tomé earned a Doctorate/Ph.D in International Relations from Coimbra University, a Master in Strategy by Technical University of Lisbon, and a Graduation in International Relations by Autónoma University of Lisbon. His main areas of research work and expertise are International Relations, Geopolitics and Security Studies particularly in Euro-Atlantic, Asia-Pacific and Eurasia regions.

Dr. Robert Sutter is Professor of Practice of International Affairs at the Elliott School of George Washington University (2011-Present ). He also served as Director of the School's main undergraduate program involving over 2,000 students from 2013-2019. His earlier full-time position was Visiting Professor of Asian Studies at Georgetown University (2001-2011).

A Ph.D. graduate in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University, Sutter has published 22 books (four with multiple editions), over 300 articles and several hundred government reports dealing with contemporary East Asian and Pacific countries and their relations with the United States. His most recent book is The United States and Asia: Regional Dynamics and Twenty-first Century Relations Second Edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020).

Paolo von Schirach is the Chair of the International Relations and Affairs Program at BAU. His research and teaching focuses on world affairs, international economics, competition policies, and industrial innovation. He also serves as President of the Global Policy Institute, (GPI), an economics and international affairs think tank associated with BAU. Von Schirach is the Editor of the Schirach Report, an online publication focusing on politics, economics and international security. He is a commentator for radio and TV on US foreign and domestic politics. He holds higher degrees from Georgetown University where he was also a Fulbright Scholar and a Fellow in the Government Department; the London School of Economics; the University of Pisa, Italy; and the Scuola Universitaria Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa, Italy. He was a Research Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS. Later on he served as Director of Communications and as Senior Research Fellow, at the Atlantic Council. He worked as Deputy Director of the Global Security Project at Georgetown University where he also taught in the Graduate Program of the School of Foreign Service.

Moderator

Dr. Mark Meirowitz is a GPI Fellow and Assoc. Prof, at SUNY Maritime College. Dr. Meirowitz specializes in Turkish Foreign Policy, U.S.-Turkish relations and Turkish-Israeli relations, as well as American History, American Foreign Policy and Constitutional Law. Previously, he completed the SUNY Levin Fellowship during which he taught English conversation to Turkish Faculty while in residence at Istanbul Technical University. He teaches a wide variety of classes at Maritime, including American History, American Foreign Policy, Constitutional Law and English, and developed a graduate course on Ocean Politics and Law. Dr. Meirowitz frequently appears in the US and Turkish media as an expert on issues related to Turkish Politics and American Foreign Policy.