Note: Registration is free but required to view the event live.
As the war with Iran continues, it is causing economic shockwaves and raising new questions about military operations and relations with Israel. This conversation will examine evolving military and diplomatic strategies and their effects on relations with Israel and the Gulf countries, other global conflicts, energy markets, inflation, and economic growth in the U.S. and worldwide.
Some key questions we’ll discuss include:
- How is the conflict affecting the U.S. and global economies, and what are the risks if the fighting expands?
- What military strategies are shaping this conflict, and how do they differ from past wars in the Middle East?
- What role does Israel play in the trajectory of the war, and how could its actions influence regional stability?
Join fellow UW alumni and friends online for a livestream and Q & A with a panel of experts who will discuss these evolving topics. The talk will be moderated by Mike Knetter, from the Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association.
Speakers
John Hall is the Ambrose-Hesseltine Professor of U.S. Military History at UW–Madison and an expert on U.S. defense policy, “small wars,” and civil-military relations. He is a past president of the Society for Military History and a retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel with past assignments as a historian to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, U.S. European Command, U.S. Central Command, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hall received his doctorate from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill.
Dana Peterson MS’02 is the chief economist and leader of the Economy, Strategy, and Finance Center at The Conference Board, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit business organization delivering Trusted Insights for What’s Ahead™ to C-suite executives of Fortune 500 companies. Peterson’s economics portfolio includes analyzing global themes having direct financial market and business implications, including monetary policy, inflation, labor markets, fiscal and trade policy, debt, taxation, consumption, and demographics. Her work also examines myriad U.S. themes leveraging granular data and identifying risks and gray swan events that might impact firms globally. Peterson and her work have been featured by U.S. and international news outlets. Previously, Peterson worked for Citi, as a North America economist and global economist. She has also worked at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC. She is a 2023 recipient of the Luminary Award from the Wisconsin Alumni Association.
Nadav Shelef is the Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Israel Studies, a professor of political science, and chair of the Department of Political Science at UW–Madison. Shelef teaches and studies nationalism, religion and politics, Israeli politics and society, and Middle East politics. His current projects focus on understanding how homelands change and the conditions under which religious parties moderate their positions. He received his doctorate from the University of California–Berkeley in 2005.
This event is hosted by the Wisconsin Alumni Association.
