Monterey Security Dialogue: A MIIS-NPS Partnership

MIIS Campus - Irvine Auditorium

1:45PM – 2:00PM: Welcome Remarks to Student Program    

“Emerging Leaders, Looming Threats: Inhibiting the Spread and Use of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons”

2:00PM – 3:15PM: Seminar 1: “The New Toolbox for Monitoring and Managing Proliferation Threats”

Chair: Tristan Volpe, Assistant Professor of Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School

Cyrus Jabbari, Middlebury Institute of International Studies, NPTS ’20

“Answering Threats with Threats”: Are Iranian Biological Weapons Fears Driving Offensive Development?

Jake Hulina, Middlebury College, ’20

“Burkan 3: An Open Source Analysis of a Houthi Missile System”

Major Joshua Nolan, U.S. Army, Naval Postgraduate School

“Weaponized Fentanyl: Rethinking Chemical Weapons Proliferation”

3:15PM – 3:30PM: Break

3:30PM – 5:00PM: Seminar 2: “The Future of Deterrence, Arms Control, and Nonproliferation”

Chair: Jeff Knopf, Professor and Chair of Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies Program, Middlebury Institute of International Studies

Jaewon Oh, Middlebury Institute of International Studies, NPTS ’20

“A New Front for Cold War? Authoritarianism vs. Liberal Democracy in the Development of Technology”

Nomsa Ndongwe, Middlebury Institute of International Studies, NPTS ’20

“Identifying the Pathogen: Reinvigorating the Biological Weapons Convention”

Major Whitney Cissell, U.S. Army, Naval Postgraduate School

“U.S. and NATO Deterrence Strategy: Countering Russian Aggression”

Naval Postgraduate School – King Hall

7:00PM – 8:30PM: Evening Lecture Featuring the Honorable Richard V. Spencer, Secretary of the Navy

Welcome and introduction by Ann Rondeau, closing remarks by Laurie Patton

KEYNOTE: “Pioneering Public-Private Solutions for International Security Challenges”

For more details and to register: go.miis.edu/miisnps