Space is limited. Contact Christine Clay at Christine@mackinderforum.org for attendance information
Monday, June 16
10:45am - Check in
11:30am - Welcome Address
12:00pm - Lunch and "Greenland and the North American Artic" by Rodger Baker
1pm - 1:15pm - Break
1:15 - 2:15pm - Title TBA on the Geostrategic Importance of Panama by Ryan Berg, Ph.D.
2:15 - 3:15pm - "Canada's Strategic Value to North American Security: Overcoming the Three-Ocean Challenge Amidst an Era of Great Power Competition" by Jonathan Berkshire Miller
3:15 - 3:30pm - Break
3:30 - 4:30pm - Fireside Chat on Tariffs - Moderated by Michael Hochberg
4:30 - 5:00pm - Concluding Remarks
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Abstract
The Mackinder Forum Presents "The New Monroe Doctrine" - Gather for a half-day event where our experts will give talks about the geostrategic significance of Canada, Greenland and Panama, and the United States' new agenda in the Americas.
Will the United States dominate the Western Hemisphere in the years to come? Are the threats posed by Chinese ship-building and Arctic ports in Russia best met with a new Monroe-esque foreign policy?
What are the other plausible options?
Biography
Rodger Baker is the executive director of the Stratfor Center for Applied Geopolitics at RANE, a global center of excellence for geopolitical intelligence and analysis.
Baker’s core emphasis is the multidisciplinary approach to geopolitics and the evolution of international relations to develop mid- and long-term forecasts to assist companies, governments and other globally engaged organizations make informed decisions.
Baker holds a master's degree in military history from Norwich University, the oldest private military university in the United States. He has studied and worked in South Korea and graduated with honors from Southampton College, Long Island University. Baker regularly holds exchanges with academic institutes and research groups around the world and frequently travels to brief executives and corporate boards as well as deliver keynote addresses to a wide range of industry groups.
Ryan C. Berg is director of the Americas Program and head of the Future of Venezuela Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also an adjunct professor at the Catholic University of America and a course coordinator at the United States Foreign Service Institute. His research focuses on U.S.-Latin America relations, strategic competition and defense policy, authoritarian regimes, armed conflict and transnational organized crime, and trade and development issues. Previously, Dr. Berg was a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he helped lead its Latin America Studies Program, as well as visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford’s Changing Character of War Programme. Dr. Berg was a Fulbright scholar in Brazil and is a Council on Foreign Relations Term Member. He has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed academic and policy-oriented journals, including The Lancet, Migration and Development, the SAIS Review of International Affairs, and the Georgetown Security Studies Review. His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, CNN.com, Los Angeles Times, and World Politics Review, among other outlets. He routinely testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Dr. Berg obtained a PhD and an MPhil in political science and an MSc in global governance and diplomacy from the University of Oxford, where he was a Senior Hulme Fellow. Earlier, he obtained a BA in government and theology from Georgetown University. He is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and is conversational in Slovenian.
Jonathan Berkshire Miller is an internationally recognized expert in security, defense, and geo-economics, advising governments, multinational corporations, and international organizations on geopolitical risk and strategic decision-making. For nearly two decades, he has held senior roles across the private and public sectors, shaping policy and strategy on global economic and security challenges.
Currently, he is co-founder and Principal of Pendulum Geopolitical advisory, a global consultancy based in Ottawa. He is also a senior fellow at the Ottawa- based Macdonald Laurier Institute. He is also concurrently a senior fellow with the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) and senior fellow on East Asia for the Tokyo based Asian Forum Japan. Miller also is the Director and co-founder of the Council on International Policy. He also holds appointments as Canada’s ASEAN Regional Forum Expert and Eminent Person (EEP) and as a Responsible Leader for the BMW Foundation.
Previously, he was an international affairs fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations, based in Tokyo. Other former appointments and roles include terms as a Distinguished Fellow with the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada, and Senior Fellow on East Asia for the New York-based EastWest Institute. Miller has held several other visiting fellowships on Asian security matters, including at the Pacific Forum CSIS, JIIA and the National Institute of Defense Studies (Ministry of Defense - Japan).
In addition, Miller previously spent nearly a decade working on economic and security issues related to Asia with the Canadian federal government and worked both with the foreign ministry and the security community. He regularly attends track 1.5 and track 2 dialogues in the region and lectures to universities, think-tanks, corporations and others on geopolitical issues. He regularly consults, provides advice and presents to the private sector, multilateral organizations and governments on regional geopolitics.
Jonathan is a regular contributor to several journals, magazines and newspapers on geopolitical issues including The Economist Intelligence Unit, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and Nikkei Asian Review. He has also published widely in other outlets including Forbes, Newsweek Japan, the Globe and Mail, the World Affairs Journal, the Japan Times, the Mainichi Shimbun, the ASAN Forum, Jane’s Intelligence Review and Global Asia. Miller has been interviewed and quoted on regional security issues across a wide range of media including the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, Le Monde, Nikkei, the Japan Times, Asahi Shimbun, the Voice of America, the Globe and Mail, CBC, CTV and ABC news.
Space is limited. Contact Christine Clay at Christine@mackinderforum.org for attendance information