Markos Kounalakis on WHY IS THE FORTHCOMING US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SO CRITICAL?

Markos Kounalakis, visiting fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, at the 28th Annual Economist Government Roundtable #econroundtablegr

WHY IS THE FORTHCOMING US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SO CRITICAL?

• In which ways can the outcome affect Greece and the broader region? • Washington and the world: the new geopolitics of great power competition

Wess Mitchell

Former US assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs; principal, The Marathon Initiative

Markos Kounalakis

Visiting fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

John Sitilides

Geopolitical strategist, Trilogy Advisors; Senior fellow for national security, Foreign Policy Research Institute; Fmr diplomacy consultant, U.S. Department of State (2006-23)

Dora Bakoyannis

MP, President of the standing committee on national defence and external affairs, Former minister of foreign affairs, Greece

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