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Our Moderator
Our Panel
| Sandra Babcock B'85, JHU'86
Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
Human Rights in an Age of Populism
At their national conventions, the rhetoric and platforms of Republicans and Democrats offered different glimpses of policy choices that will have profound implications for the country’s human rights practices at home and abroad. Will the winner of the November elections imperil or strengthen the United States’ human rights record?
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Alan Kuperman '96
Associate Professor of Public Affairs, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
Nuclear Weapons Modernization: Spending Billions to Make Us Less Secure?
President Obama has embraced modernizing U.S. nuclear weapons to make them more usable, by increasing their precision and reducing their yield. Will the next president continue down this road that makes nuclear war more likely?
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Michael Plummer B'82
Director, SAIS Europe, and Eni Professor of International Economics
What Happens When Rhetoric Meets Economic Reality after November?
Candidates for both parties have presented economic programs that will require extensive elaboration once in office. Which known unknowns will be of greatest concern?
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