Written Work:
Americans Want A Tough Approach To Nuclear Talks
May 19, 2021
President Biden has made it clear that the U.S. will re-join the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (the JCPOA) if Iran returns to compliance. An agreement could be reached within weeks, according to the New York Times. NBC News reported that the administration is considering rolling back sanctions significantly to come to an agreement.
The administration’s goal to re-enter the deal, and the offer of lifting sanctions on Iran to do so, does not have broad support among the American people.
To Understand How Russia Interferes in Elections, Just Look at What Russians are Doing in Ukraine
April 06, 2018
Hardly a day passes without some new, jaw-dropping revelation about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
With a special counsel and five congressional committees competing vigorously for a break-though, the 24-hour media coverage is ample material for several mini-series, mounting legal bills for those ensnarled and multiple indictments.
China Is Using the Russia-America Standoff to Win Big in Europe
September 24, 2017
Beijing is gaining energy-leverage in the region that is comparable only to that which Moscow enjoyed during the Cold War.
While the nation has been laser focused on the president’s tweets and the first lady’s footwear, a geopolitical shift has been taking place in Europe that ought to scare us to our marrow. Without anybody paying much attention, China has vastly expanded its military and economic power in Eastern Europe.
Ukraine’s corruption is leaving investors wary and the country weak
September 20, 2017
Ukraine is under constant threat, both from the looming specter of further Russian incursions and from its inability — or refusal — to make meaningful reforms to establish the rule of law and root out its infamous corruption.
Both the Obama and Trump administrations have incessantly interceded with President Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko to crack down on graft and ensure independence of the courts.
Ukraine Is Going to Be a Big Problem for the Next U.S. President
OCTOBER 7, 2016
Between the country’s corrupt and foundering government, and an aggressive Russia immune to U.S. attempts to rein in its encroaching behavior, the next administration needs to take Ukraine off the back policy burner. Of the many neglected foreign-policy pots and pans that will be waiting on the next U.S. president’s stove, the one marked “Ukraine” may be ready to boil over.
The Peculiar Uses of a Taxpayer Bank
APRIL 26, 2015
Only in Washington can a prominent example of corporate welfare be described as a “critical element” of America’s national security. That’s exactly what former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of Defense William Cohen and 10 other former federal officials claimed in a recent letter to Congress, in which they pleaded with lawmakers to renew the Export-Import Bank’s charter before it expires in June.
Web’s identity crisis: Tool of freedom or repression?
March 11, 2011
From Twitter to WikiLeaks, we must balance openness and safety.
The same Internet that has empowered freedom-starved people across the to unseat despots is the same one that enabled Julian Assange, with just a keystroke on his site, to put countless lives at risk through the dissemination of thousands of stolen, classified diplomatic cables.Speeches and Appearances:
Commencement address, Winter 2023 University of North Dakota graduation ceremonies, Grand Forks, ND, December 14-15, 2023 Story , Text, Video
Ukrainian Talk Series draws US security expert panel, Durham University, United Kingdom, Panel appearance by Mark Pfeifle, June 8, 2023
Disinformation, artificial intelligence and the media, Panel Discussion and Presentation, Faktisk.no, May 5, 2023
Win Your Surge, Public Talk by Mark Pfeifle, America House Kyiv, October 23, 2018
The New Global Challenges in Cyber Security – #certcon8, panelist, Bucharest, Romania, October 16, 2018
Increasing Capacity of Civil Society Organisations, Bratislava, Slovakia and Skopje, Macedonia, Training Symposium, GLOBSEC, September 17-21, 2018
New Challenges for Transatlantic Relations: Directions for Future Cooperation on Economics and Security, panel discussion, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Washington, DC, July 17, 2018
Crisis Strategy and Communication, symposium presentation, I Marine Expeditionary Force Communication Strategy and Operations Symposium, Camp Pendleton, Cali., June 12, 2018
Wars, Disasters and Political Intrigue: Communicating During Crisis, Seminar, University of Melbourne, Australia, May 2018
“‘Tension’ to ‘Dialogue’ ~ Changing Direction in East Asia,” symposium, Tokyo University, hosted by Asahi Shimbun, May 2018
“From War Zones to the White House: Lessons in crisis communications” talk attended by communications & public affairs officials from Embassies and Singapore Government, American Club, 10 Claymore Hill, Singapore, May 2018
Cybersecurity Challenges for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, panel discussion, American Center Japan, Tokyo, Japan, May 14, 2018
Lessons From a Recovering Politico on Impacting the Media, Battling for Truth and Fighting the System, speech, University of Essex, United Kingdom, February 2018
Win Your Surge: Coordinating Activities, Strategies and Messaging to attain (short-term) foreign policy successes, speech, Henry Jackson Society, House of Lords, Palace of Westminster, London, January 2018
Win Your Surge, Coordinating Activities, Strategies and Messaging for Foreign Policy Success, speech, Daniel Morgan College, Washington, DC, October 2017
Conference on Strategic Health Diplomacy, moderator, Newseum, Washington, DC, November 2015
Strategic Global Health Diplomacy, panelist, University of California-San Francisco, June 2015
Social Media and Strategic Communications, co-presenter, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, May 2015
Commentary and observations, speech, Grand Forks Herald, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, October 2012
Social media and social activism, debater, Oxford Union Society, Oxford, UK, May 2012
Second International Conference on Integrated Disaster Risk Management Reframing Disasters and Reflecting on Risk Governance Deficits, presenter, University of Southern California Los Angeles, California July 14 -16, 2011
Emerging Technologies and Social Media, panelist, Kellogg School of Management Technology Conference, at Northwestern University, 2011
Public Perceptions of Emerging Security Technology, presenter, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2011
InfoWarCon Conference, panelist, Washington, DC, 2010