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Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) spoke at a foreign policy forum hosted by the SAIS Center on Politics and Foreign Relations and the Financial Times on "A View From Capitol Hill," on Wednesday, May 7. Click here for more information.
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 The U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS and The Hwaejeong Peace Foundation of the Dong-A-Ilbo hosted a conference, "Forging a 21st Century U.S.-Korea Aliance: Identifying Obstacles and Opportunities," on Tuesday, May 6. This day-long conference featured three keynote speakers: Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.), who spoke on "A Congressional Perspective on U.S.-Korea Relations;" Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), who spoke on "Gauging the Six-Party Talks;" and Jay Lefkowitz, special envoy for human rights in North Korea for the U.S. State Department, who spoke on "Human Rights in the U.S. Policy Toward North Korea."
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| SAIS and the Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard’s Kennedy School held a forum, “The 2008 Elections: Tracking the Youth Vote,” on Thursday, April 24. Panelists included former Iowa Congressman James A. Leach, IOP director and SAIS graduate; John Della Volpe, IOP polling director; Jon Gould, IOP survey co-chair and Harvard student; and David M. Lampton (moderator), SAIS dean of faculty and director of the China Studies Program. Click here for more information.
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| David Bakradze, minister of foreign affairs of Georgia; Matthew J. Bryza, deputy assistant secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs; Vladimir Socor, senior fellow and senior analyst at the Jamestown Foundation; and Svante Cornell, research director at the SAIS Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, spoke at SAIS on Tuesday, April 22 about "Recent Russian Politics in Georgia: How Should the West Respond?"
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| SAIS hosted a daylong conference on Tuesday, April 22 about "Integrating Energy Policy and Climate Policy," featuring a keynote address about "The U.S. Policy Challenge" by Phil Sharp, president of Resources for the Future. Click here for more information on the event and the SAIS International Energy and Environment Program.
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The SAIS Bologna Center and the U.S. Embassy in Rome hosted a mock U.S. presidential debate on Friday, April 18, at the embassy. Erik Jones, professor of European studies at the Bologna Center, played the part of the Democratic candidates and Bart Drakulich, the center's director of finance and administration, played the role of the Republican candidate for an audience of Italian university students. Steven Anderson from the embassy's political section moderated the debate, and Ambassador Ronald Spogli gave welcoming remarks (in Italian).
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John McLaughlin, SAIS Merrill Center for Strategic Studies senior fellow, former CIA acting director and SAIS graduate; Ron Kessler, journalist and best-selling author of The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack; and Burton Gerber, retired CIA officer, spoke at SAIS about "Spies: Future Challenges for U.S. Intelligence" on Tuesday, April 15.
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| Donald Kaberuka, president of the African Development Bank, spoke SAIS on Tuesday, April 15 about the continent's development challenges and the role of multilateral development institutions in Africa.
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Michael Armacost, Shorenstein Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University and former U.S. ambassador to Japan and the Philippines; Robert Carlin, visiting scholar at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation; Don Oberdorfer, chairman of the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS; Charles "Jack" Pritchard, president of the Korea Economic Institute, former ambassador to Korea and special envoy for negotiations with North Korea; Evans J.R. Revere, president of the Korea Society; and Gi-Wook Shin, director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and director of the Stanford Korean Studies Program, spoke at SAIS on Monday, April 14 about "New Beginnings: Toward a New Era of U.S.-South Korean Partnership."
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| Steven Kull, director of WorldPublicOpinion.org; Barbara Slavin, senior diplomatic reporter for USA Today and senior fellow at the Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program at the U.S. Institute of Peace; and William G. Miller, former U.S. ambassador to the Ukraine and senior adviser to Search for Common Ground, spoke at SAIS about "Iranian Public Opinion: Findings From an In-Depth Poll and Focus Groups" on Wednesday, April 9.
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The SAIS Dialogue Project and Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) hosted a forum entitled,"The Politics of Participation: Women and Transformative Leadership," on Thursday, April 3. Panelists included Masuma Hasan (Pakistan); Tolekan Ismailova (Kyrgyzstan); Aminetou Mint El Mokhtar (Mauritania); Malena de Montis (Nicaragua); Chibogu Obinwa (Nigeria); Rose Shomali (Palestine); Mahnaz Afkhami (moderator); Zainah Anwar (introducer); and Azar Nafisi (introducer), author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and director of the SAIS Dialogue Project.
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On Wednesday, April 2, David Lampton, director of the China Studies Program and dean of faculty at SAIS, discussed his latest book, The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money and Mind.
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Naser M. Y. Al Belooshi, ambassador of Bahrain, Aziz Mekouar, ambassador of Morocco, and Mohamed Mattar, executive director of the Protection Project spoke at SAIS on Monday, March 31 about "Trafficking Persons in the Arab World: Successful Government Responses."
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William Easterly, best-selling author and professor of economics at New York University, spoke at SAIS about "If Foreign Aid Doesn't Achieve Economic Development, Then What Does?" on Friday, March 7.
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Senator John E. Sununu (R-N.H.) gave the keynote address of a Thursday, March 6 conference entitled "Toward a Safer World: Lessons From the Past, New Approaches for the Future-Official and Unofficial Diplomacy in Complex Armed Conflict."
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| SAIS Hosted Discussion on NATO Summit on February 29
 Kurt Volker, principal deputy assistant secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, and Michael Haltzel, senior fellow at the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations, spoke at SAIS about "A Preview of the Bucharest NATO Summit: Afghanistan, Enlargement and the Future of the Alliance" on Friday, February 29.
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Congressman Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) spoke at SAIS about “International Trade Policy” on Wednesday, February 27. Click here for more information.
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Hasan-Askari Rizvi, visiting professor in the SAIS South Asia Studies Program and author of several authoritative books on Pakistan’s domestic and international policy, spoke about “Elections in Pakistan: What Next?” at SAIS on Friday, February 22.
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Al Hunt, executive editor for Washington at Bloomberg News, and Judy Woodruff, senior correspondent for PBS's "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer," gave the keynote address on U.S. presidential election politics on Thursday, February 14 at SAIS's Valentine's Day Reunion.
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As part of SAIS’s “Year of Elections and Foreign Policy,” faculty members Francis Fukuyama, Sunil Khilnani, David M. Lampton and Ruth Wedgwood discussed the power of elections during a forum on Thursday, February 14.
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 R. James Woolsey, former director of Central Intelligence, on Tuesday, February 12 gave the keynote address at a two-day conference entitled "Power Politics: Energy Security, Human Rights and Transatlantic Relations," hosted by the SAISCenter for Transatlantic Relations and Freie Universität Berlin.
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Daniel Markey, senior fellow for India, Pakistan and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations; Robin Raphel, senior vice president at Cassidy and Associates; and Hasan-Askari Rizvi, visiting scholar of South Asia Studies at SAIS, spoke about "Is Pakistan Ready for Elections?" on Tuesday, January 29.
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|  David Throup, SAIS professorial lecturer in African Studies and senior associate in the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); Joel Barkan, research fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy and senior associate at CSIS; Stephen N. Ndegwa, visiting scholar at the UCLA Globalization Research Center (Africa); and Shari Bryan, vice president for administration at the National Democratic Institute, spoke at SAIS about "Kenya's Crisis: Origins and Prospects" on Friday, January 25.
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Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center, spoke about “Public Opinion and Foreign Policy in the 2008 Presidential Elections" on Wednesday, January 23.
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George David, chairman and chief executive officer of United Technologies Corporation (UTC), spoke at SAIS on January 24 as part of the W. P. Carey Global Leader Lecture Series. He spoke about a range of issues, including innovative technology, productivity and performance, and social responsibility.
| 2007 Issue of SAISPHERE Is Now Available
 SAIS recently published the 2007 issue of its annual magazine, SAISPHERE. In this issue we asked several members of the faculty, scholar and alumni community to explore the theme, "The Power of Elections?" to coincide with our "Year of Elections and Foreign Policy." Click here for the online version or send an email to saispubaffairs@jhu.edu to request a printed copy.
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SAIS Hosted Discussion on Human Trafficking on March 31
SAIS Hosted Discussion on Pakistan's Upcoming Presidential Elections on January 29
Pollster Andrew Kohut Spoke at SAIS on January 23