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BOISE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

Promoting Foreign Relations Dialogue in Boise since 1945
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Upcoming events

  • November 2025 Meeting

    • 10 Nov 2025
    • 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
    • The Riverside Hotel
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    Speaker: Asha Castleberry-Hernandez, Senior Fellow, Diplomatic Courier and World in 2050


    Topic: The Future of U.S.- Middle East Policy: Navigating Geopolitical Challenges and Prospects

    Bio: Asha Castleberry-Hernandez is a national security and foreign policy expert, U.S. Army veteran, author of Why National Security Matters, and former U.S. Congressional candidate. With over a decade of experience in Middle East policy, she served as a Senior Advisor in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs under the Biden-Harris Administration and held key roles in Kuwait, Iraq, and Jordan. A sought-after speaker, Asha has participated in high-level forums, including the MEDays Forum in Morocco, Erbil Security Forum in Iraq and the Foreign Policy Institute Black Sea Conference in Georgia. 

    Asha is a Senior Fellow at Diplomatic Courier and World in 2050. She is also the founder of the National Security 2050 Project. Asha recently served as a Cyrus Vance Visiting Professor at Mount Holyoke College, she has also taught at Fordham, George Washington, and Baruch College. A Major in the Army Reserves, Asha is a Council on Foreign Relations member, founder of the Diversity in National Security Network, Senior Fellow at the Diplomat Courier, and a recipient of numerous honors, including the Middle East Policy Council 40 Under 40. A graduate of Hampton University and Columbia University, with studies at Oxford and in China, she is frequently featured in both national and international outlets including CNN, MSNBC, CBS News, Fox News, BBC News, and many more. The 14th World Leaders Summit in Oxford recognized her global leadership in National Security. 

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  • January 2026 Meeting

    • 27 Jan 2026
    • 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM

    Speaker: Ambassador Michael McFaul


    Topic: Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder

    Bio: Michael McFaul is the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor of International Studies in Political Science, Director and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, all at Stanford University. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1995. He is also an international affairs analyst for NBC News.

    McFaul served for five years in the Obama administration, first as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House (2009-2012), and then as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2012-2014). He was also the Distinguished Mingde Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Center at Peking University in the summer of 2015.

    McFaul authored and co-authored several books, including, most recently, the New York Times bestseller, “From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia.” His current research interests include great power relations between China, Russia, and the United States, the relationship between democracy and development, and American foreign policy.

    Prof. McFaul was born and raised in Montana. He received his B.A. in International Relations and Slavic Languages and his M.A. in Soviet and East European Studies from Stanford University in 1986. As a Rhodes Scholar, he completed his D. Phil. in International Relations at Oxford University in 1991.

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  • February 2026 Meeting

    • 10 Feb 2026
    • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
    • Barber Park Education and Event Center, 4909 S. Eckert Road
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    Speaker: Dr. Fabiana Perera


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  • April 2026 Meeting

    • 14 Apr 2026
    • 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
    • The Riverside Hotel
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    Speaker: Dr. E. William Colglazier, Former Science & Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State; Former Editor-in-Chief of Science & Diplomacy and Senior Scholar at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Former Executive Officer of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council





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