Conflict and Chaos: Geopolitics in 2025, featuring Ben Rhodes
Thursday, January 30, 2025 6pm to 7:30pm
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1515 Agate Street, Eugene, OR 97403
A conversation featuring Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama and co-host of Pod Save the World, with Story Arney and Charles Petrik, Wayne Morse Scholars; Aneesh Aneesh, Executive Director, School of Global Studies and Languages;
and Yvonne Braun, Professor, Global Studies.
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Ben Rhodes is a writer, political commentator, and national security analyst. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made, and The World As It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House. He is currently co-host of Pod Save the World; a contributor for MSNBC; a senior advisor to former President Barack Obama; and chair of National Security Action.
From 2009-2017, Rhodes served as a speechwriter and Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama. In that capacity, he participated in all of President Obama’s key decisions, oversaw the President’s national security communications and public diplomacy, and led the secret negotiations with the Cuban government that resulted in the effort to normalize relations between the United States and Cuba.
Sponsored by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, the United Nations Association at the UO, and the School of Journalism and Communication.
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