Monday, September 29, 2010 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. - Rome Auditorium Book Panel: The New Brazil by Riordan Roett Moderator: Michael Mandelbaum, Christian A. Herter Professor and Director of American Foreign Policy, SAIS. Discussants: Francisco E. González, Associate Professor, Riordan Roett Chair in Latin American Studies, SAIS; Margaret Daly Hayes, Principal, EBR Associates; Kellie Meiman, Managing Director, McLarty Associates.
Monday, September 20, 2010 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Rome Auditorium Book Panel: The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era by Michael Mandelbaum Moderator: Michael Mandelbaum, Christian A. Herter Professor and Director of American Foreign Policy, SAIS. Discussants: Eliot Cohen, Robert E. Osgood Professor and Director of Strategic Studies Program at SAIS; Ambassador Eric Edelman, Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments; and Walter Shapiro, author and political columnist, Politics Daily.
Spring 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Rome Auditorium "The First Fifteen Months of the Obama Administration: A Discussion" Moderator: Michael Mandelbaum, Christian A. Herter Professor and Director of American Foreign Policy, SAIS. Discussants: Walter Shapiro, author and political columnist, Politics Daily, and Robert Guest, Washington correspondent, The Economist.
Monday, March 1, 2010 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. - Rome Auditorium "Is U.S. Promotion of Religious Freedom Imperialistic? Religious Freedom Through the Lens of Security, Human Rights, and Sovereignty"
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Rome Auditorium Book Panel: China's International Petroleum Policy by Bo Kong
Monday, February 1, 2010 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building Book Panel: The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War by Nicholas Thompson
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Nicholas Thompson, author of The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War; Michael Mandelbaum, director of the SAIS American Foreign Policy Program; Eliot Cohen, director of the SAIS Strategic Studies Program; and Richard Perle, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, will discuss Thompson’s book.
Fall 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009 “Winning Hearts and Minds: American Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century” 7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. 1717 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. Room, LL7
Monday, November 2, 2009 Book Panel: Follies of Power: America’s Unipolar Fantasy by David P. Calleo 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Rome Auditorium (1619 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.)
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 Book Panel: The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War by James Mann 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Kenney Auditorium (1740 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.)
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 Book Panel: Pacific Alliance: Reviving U.S.-Japan Relations by Kent E. Calder 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Rome Auditorium (1619 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.)
Spring 2009
The American Foreign Policy program hosted "A Conversation with George Walden on America, Russia, China and Europe" on April 17, 2009.
Professor Michael Mandelbaum discussed these and other topics with George Walden, the distinguished British author and commentator and former diplomat and cabinet minister.
George Walden began his career as a Soviet specialist in the British Foreign Office after studying Russian at Cambridge and spending a year as an exchange student in Moscow, which is described in his acclaimed memoir Lucky George. He learned Chinese in Hong Kong and served in the British embassy in Beijing at the height of the Cultural Revolution, an experience he records in his recent book China: A Wolf in the World? "He served as Private Secretary (chief deputy) to Lord Carrington, the Foreign Secretary in Margaret Thatcher's first government, then entered parliament himself and served as Minister of Education. Since leaving public life he has written widely on politics, foreign policy, and culture. He serves as Chair of the Moscow-based Russia Booker Prize Committee that selects the best novel of the year in Russian.
2007 A panel discussion on the new book Democracy’s Good Name The Rise and Risks of the World’s Most Popular Form of Government by Professor Michael Mandelbaum Christian A. Herter Professor and Director of the American Foreign Policy Program. Professor Mandelbaum made brief opening remarks and chaired the discussion The Panelists included: Sunil Khilnani Starr Foundation Professor and Director, South Asia Studies Program, SAIS, Robert Guest Washington Correspondent The Economist, Edward Lucas Deputy Editor, International Section Central and Eastern Europe Correspondent The Economist.
2005 SAIS Professor Gleijeses Receives Guggenheim Fellowship Piero Gleijeses, SAIS professor of American foreign policy, has been named a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow to pursue his research on Cuban and U.S. policy toward Southern Africa in the Carter and Reagan years. The 186 fellows, chosen from more than 3,000 applicants of artists, scholars and scientists, are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment. This year, Gleijeses is one of six Johns Hopkins faculty members awarded Guggenheim Fellows.
SAIS Professor Fred Holborn Passes Away at Age 76 SAIS mourns the loss of longtime American Foreign Policy Professor Frederick L. Holborn, who passed away at his home in Washington, D.C., on June 3. He was 76. For more than 30 years, Holborn served as a symbol of academic excellence at SAIS, where some of his most noteworthy accomplishments included teaching and advising hundreds of students, directing the annual Crisis Simulation seminar, hosting the Election Night party and advising the American Political Science Association’s Congressional Fellowship Program. At SAIS’s commencement ceremony on May 26, Holborn received the Johns Hopkins Founder’s Award for his outstanding service. Click here for more information.
