The Rockland Public Library will host its next Camden Conference Community Event of the season on Thursday, October 1, at 6 p.m. Despite numerous assurances early on that the conflict with Iran would be a short one, it has now stretched on for nearly seven months with few signs that there will be a clear […]
The Rockport Public Library will host its next Camden Conference Community Event of the season on Wednesday, October 21, at 6 p.m. Stephen Harder, Vice-President of the Camden Conference, will discuss the special history and status of Taiwan, its importance in US China relations, and the possible shape of a crisis with global implications. Stephen […]
Image by Vic Goldsmith Beyond the American Century: A New World Order? considers a possible end and a new beginning. Poetry has a great deal to say about ends and beginnings and what it means, both intellectually and emotionally, to be On the Brink. We look back and forward as the ten selected poems do, […]
NPR foreign affairs correspondent Jackie Northam's career path has led her through areas of open conflict and geopolitical upheaval across Europe, Asia, and Africa. The World Affairs Council of Maine and the Camden Conference will present An Evening with Jackie Northam on Wednesday, November 18 at the Lunt Auditorium, hosted by OceanView at Falmouth, 74 […]
For most of history, the oceans were treated as a lawless frontier. Over the last century that changed. A series of treaties, culminating in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, produced one of the most ambitious experiments in global cooperation ever attempted: shared rules for navigation, fishing, resource extraction, and […]