Please join the Fletcher International Security Studies Program (ISSP) and the Fletcher Russia and Eurasia Program for a luncheon lecture with Ariel Cohen, Senior Fellow and Managing Director of the Energy, Growth, and Security program at the International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC). He will discuss America’s strategic competition with China as the two countries develop their chipmaking, battery, and green technology sectors. The conversation will place a specific focus on critical minerals, as the mining and processing of these key technological inputs is dominated by China, endangering several important industries and necessitating a swift and effective response from the United States.

We encourage you to read in advance the following articles by Cohen and other scholars on the U.S.-China green technology competition, the nuclear energy race, China’s semiconductor industry, and China’s expanding influence across Central Asia.

The event is restricted to the Fletcher community. Business casual attire is required, and lunch will be served before the conversation.

Ariel Cohen, L.L.B., Ph.D., is an internationally renowned expert on energy policy, Russia, Eurasia, Eastern and Central Europe, and the Middle East. He is a recognized authority on political and security risk management, economic development, investment policy, the rule of law, crime and corruption, market entry strategies, and other aspects of state-business relations. Cohen is a Senior Fellow and Managing Director of the Energy, Growth, and Security program at the International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC). He also serves as a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He is a member of the prestigious Loisach Group at the George Marshall Center in Garmisch, Bavaria, Germany. Until July 2014, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. He conducts White House briefings and regularly lectures at the request of U.S. government institutions: the U.S. Department of State, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Training and Doctrine and Special Forces Commands of the U.S. Armed Services, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Cohen frequently testifies before committees of the U.S. Congress, including the Senate and House Foreign Relations Committees, the House Armed Services Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, and the Helsinki Commission.