{"id":43213,"date":"2026-09-11T12:39:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=43213"},"modified":"2026-09-11T12:41:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:41:28","slug":"finlands-president-alexander-stubb-gen-joshua-rudd-talk-america-and-the-world","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/event\/finlands-president-alexander-stubb-gen-joshua-rudd-talk-america-and-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland&#8217;s President Alexander Stubb, Gen. Joshua Rudd talk &#8216;America and the World&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than three decades ago, Alexander Stubb \u201993 H\u201917 and Gen. Joshua Rudd \u201993 were Furman students headed in very different directions.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Stubb is president of the Republic of Finland and Rudd is a four-star general, commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 18, their paths will converge again at the university where they began in a public conversation, \u201cAmerica and the World,\u201d 5:30-7 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium. The event is presented by Furman\u2019s Tocqueville Center, directed by Jane Fishburne Hipp Professor of Politics and International Affairs Brent Nelsen, in partnership with the Riley Institute and Furman ROTC. The event is free and open to the public. A no bag policy and other security screening measures will be in effect for this event. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givecampus.com\/schools\/FurmanUniversity\/events\/america-and-the-world-a-conversation-with-president-alexander-stubb-93-h-17-and-general-joshua-rudd-93?_gl=1*1jsj1af*_ga*NDUxNzU1NDkuMTc4ODk3NjI0Nw..*_ga_7M3CPF5ZYD*czE3ODkxNDI5NDckbzQkZzEkdDE3ODkxNDM3MDMkajI1JGwwJGgxNDE1OTI3Nzk0\">Registration<\/a> is required.<\/p>\n<p>See more details about the speakers in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-alumni-at-the-center-of-global-affairs-return-to-greenville-for-america-and-the-world\/\">Furman News<\/a> story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than three decades ago, Alexander Stubb \u201993 H\u201917 and Gen. Joshua Rudd \u201993 were Furman students headed in very different directions. Today, Stubb is president of the Republic of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":43216,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[165],"class_list":["post-43213","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-speaker","cat_speaker"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/43213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/43213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43219,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/43213\/revisions\/43219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43213"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=43213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}