Time: 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM              Location: Rockefeller Hall

Chair: Harvey Strum, Full Professor, Russell Sage College, strumh2hotmail.com

Discussant: Scott Monje, Independent Scholar, smonje@optonline.net

Papers:

US supported Radio Free Europe's Bulgarian Broadcasting around the collapse of communism and the end of the Cold War

Kristian Kafozoff, History Professor at Union County College NJ & Doctoral Candidate at St John’s University NY, k.kafozov@gmail.com

NGO influence  on the World Bank

Chibuzo Achinivu, Visiting Assistant Professor, Vassar College. cachinivu@vassar.edu

Silencing Dissent: Russia's Violation of Freedom of Expression

Zenun Hoti, MPA, Binghamton University, hoti.zenun@gmail.com

Eschewing American Hegemony; The Beginning of the 2nd Trump                   Administration and the Path to a Century of Autocracy Under the Spheres of Influence of the Great Powers

Brian Ford, Independent Scholar, NYC DOE / Retired, bpford1@gmail.com