Author Stanley R. Sloan, will deliver his presentation, "Liberal Democracy Challenged…Can It Survive?" at the annual League of Women Voters Civic Engagement Luncheon on Saturday, March 23, 2019 from 11:30-1:30 at Capitol Plaza Hotel, 100 State Street, Montpelier. Ticket price of $10 includes lunch. Reservations: bit.ly/LWVLunchLecture.

One of America's top experts on U.S European relations, Mr. Sloan is founding director the Atlantic Community Initiative, nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States and Visiting Scholar in Political Science at Middlebury College. He is retired, following a career of government service at the Congressional Research Service, the CIA and as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force.

Sloan has authored dozens of CRS studies, journal articles, opinion editorials, monographs and books on transatlantic relations, US foreign and security policy and Euro-Atlantic security issues. His most recent work includes Transatlantic traumas: Has illiberalism brought the West to the brink of collapse? (2018) and Defense of the West: NATO, the European Union and the Transatlantic Bargain (2016).

This event is open to the public and registration is recommended. For additional information, email lwvofvt@gmail.com. The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization encouraging the informed and active participation in government and works to increase understanding of major public policy issues.

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