McCain Institute

We talked about this last week, this Maria Yovanovitch, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, then U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, that testified during Trump's first impeachment.

This is another little tidbit of information that this I was not privy to, and this does involve Blue Star, but i was not aware of this and this is concerning to me it says in september of 2017 a senior director at the mccain institute for international leadership at arizona state university yes that mccain emailed then u.s ambassador to ukraine maria yovanovitch for her views on a proposal from burisma and its Washington lobbyist, Blue Star Strategies, to help train Ukraine's prosecutors.

What? A Blue Star representative and Burisma executive asked the Institute to host a two-week leadership development and professional capacity building program for Ukrainian public prosecutors.

Ukraine's chief prosecutor proposed the program and that Burisma would pay for it.

And I hope that Congress and the American people will speak because we know that they don't agree based on legislation and polling with the president's seemingly new approach to Russia.

Evelyn Farkas, head of the McCain Institute, thank you so much indeed for joining us.

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Well, Cindy McCain is returning to ASU's McCain Institute Board of Trustees.

As Jill Ryan tells us, the board unanimously voted her back in as board co-chair of the leadership program that was inspired by her husband and the late Senator John McCain.

Cindy McCain left the board in 2021 following her ambassador appointment to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture.

McCain served as the executive director of the UN World Food Program for about three years.

She stepped down earlier this year while recovering from a stroke.

Now, back at the McCain Institute at Arizona State University, she will co-chair alongside current board chair Rick Davis.

In a statement, she said she hopes to further the institute's mission to inspire the next generation of principled leaders and protect the dignity and freedom of the world's most vulnerable people.

The feature is specific to the United States.

The more revealing finding came from pressure testing by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and the McCain Institute.

Claude usually refused a single overtly harmful request, but could miss a malicious campaign broken into steps that looked benign on their own.

One prompt might ask for plausible content, another for targeting ideas, and another for distribution.

Jacob Ware is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and at DeSales University.

He's a recipient of the 2026 National Security and Counterterrorism Fellowship from the McCain Institute and also currently serves as a survivor fellow at Everytown for Gun Safety.

Jacob serves on the editorial boards for the academic journal, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, and the Irregular Warfare Initiative, and he holds an MA in Security Studies from Georgetown and an MA Honors in International Relations and Modern History from the University of St. Andrews.

Together with Bruce Hoffman, he is the author of God, Guns and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America, published in 2024 by Columbia University Press, and this book was the recipient of the Airey Neave Book Prize, and that's the book that we're going to be talking about today.