At The Boundary
“At the Boundary” is going to feature global and national strategy insights that we think our fans will want to know about. That could mean live interviews, engagements with distinguished thought leaders, conference highlights, and more. It will pull in a broad array of government, industry, and academic partners, ensuring we don’t produce a dull uniformity of ideas. It will also be a platform to showcase all the great things going on with GNSI, our partners, and USF.
At The Boundary
Re-Thinking the Middle East, AI, National Security and More. 2024 St. Petersburg Conference on World Affairs
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What began in 2013 as a "Wouldn't it be great if –" idea between Professor Thomas Smith, PhD of the University of South Florida and former US Ambassador Douglas McElhaney has now blossomed into one of the Tampa Bay region's must-see events.
This week's episode features a conversation with Smith, who is now the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, and Campus Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at USF St. Petersburg. Smith goes behind-the-scenes of the St. Petersburg Conference on World Affairs and even tells us about the time the event unwittingly featured an honest-to-goodness Russian spy.
This year's event is themed "Re-Thinking." It will explore new ideas and possibilities with that theme in a wide spectrum of interests and industries: national security, artificial intelligence, the Middle East, the Sahel Region in Africa, arts and music, European monarchies and many more.
SPCWA is scheduled for February 5-7 at the USF St. Petersburg campus and will feature a keynote address from retired U.S. ambassador Barbara Stevenson.
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At the Boundary from the Global and National Security Institute at the University of South Florida, features global and national security issues we’ve found to be insightful, intriguing, fascinating, maybe controversial, but overall just worth talking about.
A "boundary" is a place, either literal or figurative, where two forces exist in close proximity to each other. Sometimes that boundary is in a state of harmony. More often than not, that boundary has a bit of chaos baked in. The Global and National Security Institute will live on the boundary of security policy and technology and that's where this podcast will focus.
The mission of GNSI is to provide actionable solutions to 21st-century security challenges for decision-makers at the local, state, national and global levels. We hope you enjoy At the Boundary.
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