New York Times national security correspondent David Sanger returns to Hartford with CTWAC’s Art House for a special keynote on the State of the World, examining the forces reshaping global security — and where they may lead next.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with a front-row seat to U.S. foreign policy and global affairs, Sanger will take us inside the defining challenges facing the world today: China and Russia, Iran, nuclear threats, rapidly advancing technology, shifting alliances, and the changing role of American power.
Drawing on decades of reporting from inside Washington and around the world, Sanger will cut through the headlines to examine where the greatest risks are emerging, the decisions that matter most, and what we should be watching next.
The details:
Wednesday, November 11 | 5:30pm – 7pm
Mark Twain House, Hartford CT
Tickets: $30 Members | $40 General Admission
Global Security Forum 2026 Series: Fault Lines.
The international system is under pressure. Alliances are fracturing and new rivalries emerging, creating new fault lines in the world.
Join us for GSF2026, where leaders, policymakers, strategists, and experts reveal the pressures reshaping global security – and the choices that will define what comes next.
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Featuring
David Sanger
Chief White House and National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
David E. Sanger is the White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times and the bestselling author of New Cold Wars, The Inheritance, Confront and Conceal, and The Perfect Weapon. He has been a member of three teams that won the Pulitzer Prize, including in 2017 for international reporting about Russia’s effort to manipulate the presidential election. A contributor to CNN, he also teaches national security policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Moderated By
Arthur House
Adjunct Professor, University of Connecticut
Arthur House became Chief Cybersecurity Risk Officer for the State of Connecticut in October 2016 after four years as Chairman of Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. House has a background in national security, having served as Director of Strategic Communications and Congressional Affairs in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and as Chief of the Communications Group for the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.
He worked in Asia and Africa as an economist and loan officer for the World Bank and was a Congressional Adviser to the United States Mission to the United Nations. In the private sector, House was Senior Vice President of Public Affairs at Webster Bank and also held senior executive positions at Cigna, Aetna, and Tenneco. House serves on the Board of the World Affairs Council of Connecticut.
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