Addressing Challenges Facing Spaceship Earth

Sunday, October 16
3 – 7 p.m.
Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Road, 63117

C. Dale Walton, keynote speaker

Dr. Walton has published three books to date: Grand Strategy and the Presidency: Foreign Policy, War and the American Role in the World; Geopolitics and the Great Powers in the Twenty-first Century; and The Myth of Inevitable U.S. Defeat in Vietnam. Prior to coming to Lindenwood University in summer 2012, Dr. Walton served as a Lecturer in International Relations and Strategic Studies at the University of Reading in England and Missouri State University’s Defense and Strategic Studies Department (located in Fairfax, Virginia).

His research interests include strategic relationships and security problems in Asia, geopolitics and the changing geostrategic environment, and U.S. military strategic history. In addition to his three books, he has published more than 75 book chapters, articles and review.

Presenters and discussion session leaders

Brian Arendt, on what the rest of the world should do with regard to China in the future

Cassandra Butler, on how to protect human rights as they are related to poverty and discrimination for “left out” peoples in both richer and poorer countries.

Donald Heidenreich, on international aspects of the coming U.S. presidential and Congressional elections.

Robert Reinhold, on the “Tobin tax” proposal and its potential to help deal with various global financial problems.