Lectures and Trainings
Public Lecture "How to elect an American President"
On November 19, 2016 the Georgian Security Analysis Center (GSAC) at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (GFSIS) hosted a public lecture: How to elect an American President - 2 parties, 18 candidates, debates, primaries and caucuses.
Ambassador David Smith, Director of GSAC and Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC, delivered a presentation, giving a full-scale pre-election preview, delegate selection process and the party priorities during the pre-election campaigns.
Fundraising figures and the national poll results were featured as one of the performance indicators of the nominees’ campaign efforts to win votes. Amb. David Smith presented the feasible impacts of the Presidential elections 2016 on the U.S. foreign policy and implications for Georgia’s future cooperation with the U.S.