The Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination will host a public roundtable discussion on "The Arctic and the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative - The LISD 3+1 Silk Road Project" on Thursday, October 18, 2018, at 4:30 p.m. in 019 Bendheim Hall. The roundtable will be led by Wolfgang Danspeckgruber, founding Director of the Liechtenstein Institute. To attend the event, please RSVP to Angella Sandford.

The roundtable is co-sponsored by the Center for International Security Studies, Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society, the Woodrow Wilson School, the EU Program and the Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. 

The roundtable will feature:

An introduction of the LISD 3+1 Silk Roads Project by Prof. Wolfgang Danspeckgruber, Founding Director, LISD

Dr. Lawson Brigham, CPT, USCG (ret.) Distinguished Professor of Geography & Arctic Policy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Senior Fellow at the Institute of the North in Anchorage

Mr. Knut Hammarskjöld, ‘93, President, Ellipsis Human Identity Technologies, S.C.; LISD Non-Resident Fellow

Mr. Emery T. Real Bird, Princeton University ’17, Schwarzman Scholar ‘18

The roundtable is a feature of the second module of the LISD Fall 2018 Seminar Series: Emerging Foreign and Security Dimensions. The seminar is divided into three modules. To attend the second or third module, please RSVP to Angella Sandford.

(Module i.) The OSCE, The EU, ASEAN - The Institutions and Relevant Dimensions; Thursday to Saturday, September 27-29, 2018, Public Roundtable, Thursday, September 27.

(Module ii.) Challenges and Crises in the OSCE Realm: from Vancouver to Vladivostok; Thursday to Saturday, October 18-20, 2018, Public Roundtable, Thursday, October 18.

(Module iii.) The Emerging Quadripartite Relationship: USA - EU/Europe – Russia - China; Thursday to Saturday, November 15-17, 2018, Public Roundtable, Thursday, November 15.