| | | | SAIS is examining the interplay between elections and foreign policy as a special substantive theme for this academic year. The “Year of Elections and Foreign Policy” coincides with the upcoming U.S. presidential elections as well as dozens of significant presidential and parliamentary elections recently completed or soon to be held around the world. Read more here about planned initiatives and events. |
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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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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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U.S. Embassy Hosts SAIS Bologna Center for Mock U.S. Presidential Debate on April 18  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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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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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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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 CSIS senior associate; 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 at SAIS about “Public Opinion and Foreign Policy in the 2008 Presidential Elections" on Wednesday, January 23 at 12:30 p.m. Click here for more information.
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 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.
Riordan Roett, director of the SAIS Latin America Studies Program, and Francisco Gonzalez, SAIS assistant professor of Latin American Studies, spoke at SAIS about "The Argentine Elections" on Wednesday, October 31.
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Newt Gingrich to Launch Environmental Book at SAIS on October 29
 SAIS and JHU Press hosted the Washington, D.C., book launch of A Contract With the Earth by Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, on Monday, October 29. Click here for more information.
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SAIS Hosted Event on U.S.-European Union Relations on October 25
 John Bruton, ambassador of the European Union to the United States; Scott Bittle, executive editor of Public Agenda; Andrew Crockett, president of J.P. Morgan Chase International; and Daniel Hamilton (moderator), director of the SAIS Center or Transatlantic Relations, spoke at SAIS about “The European Union: Still Part of America’s World?” on Thursday, October 25.
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SAIS Hosted Book Event on Democracy's Role in the World on October 24
 On Wednesday, October 24, Michael Mandlebaum, director of the SAIS American Foreign Policy Program, spoke about his new book, Democracy’s Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World’s Most Popular Form of Government. Sunil Khilnani, director of the SAIS South Asia Studies Program; and Robert Guest and Edward Lucas, both of The Economist, provided commentary about the book.
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 Pawel Zalewski, chairman of the committee on foreign relations of the Polish Sejm; Charles Gati, SAIS senior adjunct professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies; Michael Wyganowski, executive director of the Center for European Policy Analysis; and Mitchell Orenstein (moderator), S. Richard Hirsch Associate Professor of European Studies at SAIS, spoke at SAIS about “The Aftermath of the Elections in Poland” on Wednesday, October 24.
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Justin Vaisse, SAIS adjunct professor of European Studies and Brookings Institution fellow; Corine Lesnes, Le Monde correspondent; and Jeremy Shapiro, director of research at the Brookings Center on the United States and Europe, spoke at SAIS about “The French Election and the Consequences for U.S.-European Relations” on Tuesday, October 23.
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SAIS Hosted Forum on the Turkish Elections on October 16
On Wednesday, October 16, Omer Taspinar, SAIS adjunct professor of European Studies and Brookings Institution fellow; Mark Parris, former U.S. ambassador to Turkey and Brookings senior fellow; and Yasmin Congar, correspondent for CNN Turk, participated in a discussion at SAIS on "The Turkish Elections: A New Momentum Towards the EU?"
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SAIS Held Discussion on Elections in Morocco on October 15
 On Tuesday, October 15 William Zartman, director of the SAIS Conflict Management Program, moderated a discussion with Leslie Campbell, senior associate and regional director of the Middle East and North Africa Programs at the National Democratic Institute; Marina Ottaway, director of the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Tamara Cofman Wittes, senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy of the Brookings Institution; and Catherine Sweet, Morocco desk officer for the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, about "The Elections in Morocc What Lessons and Implications?"
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SAIS Hosted Forum on Achieving Peaceful Elections in Africa on October 9
 On Tuesday, October 9, Christopher Fomunyoh, senior associate for Africa and regional director for Central and West Africa at the National Democratic Institute, and Christian Hennemeyer, director of programs for Africa at the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES), participated in a discussion hosted at SAIS about "Achieving Peaceful Elections: Lessons Learned From Sierra Leone and Nigeria."
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SAIS Hosted Forum on Islamist Political Participation in Turkey and Morocco on September 27
 On Thursday, September 27, Geneive Abdo, a Century Foundation fellow; Anthony Chang, deputy director for the International Republican Institute’s Europe Division; Matthew Frumin, a National Democratic Institute senior adviser; and Shadi Hamid (moderator), research director of the Project on Middle East Democracy, participated in a discussion at SAIS about “Islamist Political Participation and Democratic Development: The Cases of Turkey and Morocco.”
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Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher Spoke at SAIS About South Asia on September 20
 Richard Boucher, assistant secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, spoke at SAIS on Thursday, September 20 about "U.S. Foreign Policy Toward South Asia," including comments about the upcoming elections in Pakistan and Nepal.
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SAIS Center on Politics and Foreign Relations Hosted Forum with Congressman Ron Paul on September 11
Ron Paul, Republican congressman from Texas and a 2008 presidential candidate, spoke at SAIS on Tuesday, September 11 about "A Traditional Non-Intervention Foreign Policy." CPFR director Robert Guttman and Andrew Ward, the Financial Times White House correspondent, moderated the Q&A session following Paul's remarks.
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| Professor Michael Mandelbaum Quoted in Financial Times
Michael Mandelbaum, director of the American Foreign Policy Program, was quoted in a September 7 Financial Times article entitled, “After the Neocons: People Will Still Vote for Democracy.” Read it here. |
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SAIS Center on Politics and Foreign Relations, The Johns Hopkins University Center for the Study of American Government and the Financial Times:
"A View From Capitol Hill"
8:30 to 9:30 a.m. - Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Robert Guttman, director of the Center on Politics and Foreign Relations, and Chrystia Freeland, U.S. managing editor of the Financial Times, will discuss this topic. For more information and to RSVP, contact 202.587.3237 or cpfr@jhu.edu. Click here for upcoming and past events. |
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SAIS Hosted Discussion on Pakistan's Upcoming Presidential Elections on January 29
SAIS Professors Discuss the Results of Argentina's Presidential Elections on October 31