Webinar

Virtual Roundtable: Life Lessons Learned With Eliot Cohen

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

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Speaker

Eliot A. Cohen

Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Presider

Gideon Rose

Mary and David Boies Distinguished Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

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