Senator Chuck Hagel Spoke at SAIS on September 18 Chuck Hagel, Republican U.S. senator from Nebraska and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, gave the keynote address at a conference at SAIS on Thursday, September 18, entitled “Challenges and Choices in Asia.” Click here for more information. Click here for audio of this event.   SAIS Hosted Forum on Islam and the West on September 15 SAIS hosted a forum entitled “Existential Threat or Historical Footnote? What Our Obsession With Islam Is Costing Us,” on Monday, September 15, featuring Bernard-Henri Lévy, French philosopher and author of Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism; Francis Fukuyama, director of the SAIS International Development Program; John Mueller, the Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies at Ohio State University; and Adam Garfinkle (moderator), editor of The American Interest. Click here for more information. Click here for audio of this event.

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May 31, 2005 - Thomas Mahnken, visiting fellow at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, was interviewed on WBUR Boston's program On Point for a segment entitled, "U.S. Strategy in War on Terror." Read it here 

May 31, 2005 - Riordan Roett, director of Western Hemisphere Studies, was quoted in an Associated Press article entitled, "Paving of Brazilian Jungle Highway to Spur Massive Amazon Development." Read it here

May 25, 2005 - Afghan President Hamid Karzai's speech at SAIS was the subject of a Voice of America News article entitled, "Karzai Urges U.S. Not to Forget About Afghanistan." Read it here

May 25, 2005 - Afghan President Hamid Karzai's speech at SAIS was the subject of an Agence France-Presse article entitled, "Karzai Calls for Regional Non-Interference, Cooperation Pact." Read it here

May 25, 2005 - Francis Fukuyama, Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy, wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal entitled, "Asia's Democratic Values." Read it here

May 24, 2005 - Afghan President Hamid Karzai's speech at SAIS was mentioned in The New York Times in an article entitled, "Afghan President Implores U.S. to Help." Read it here

May 22, 2005 - Sunil Khilnani, professor and director of the South Asia Studies Program, was quoted in a Daily Times Pakistan article entitled, "Bus a Good Foundation for Peace." Read it here

May 16, 2005 -  S. Frederick Starr, chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, was interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition in a segment entitled, "Islamic Protests in Uzbekistan Leave More than 500 Dead." Read it here

May 16, 2005 - Fouad Ajami, director of the Middle East Studies Program, wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal entitled, "Bush Country." Read it here

May 16, 2005 - The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute is mentioned in a Washington Post article entitled, "Capital Brain Trust Puts Stamp on the World." Read it here

May 15, 2005 - Aimee Breslow, senior administrator for the International Development Program, was quoted in The Washington Post in an article entitled, "Securing a Last-Minute Internship." Read it here

May 15, 2005 - John McLaughlin, senior fellow at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, was interviewed on CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. Read it here 

May 15, 2005 - John McLaughlin, senior fellow at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, wrote an op-ed for USA Today entitled, "Intelligence Community: Not Perfect, but Not Bad." Read it here

May 15, 2005 - Kent Calder, director of the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, was quoted in a Daily Yomiuri (Japan) article entitled, "Planning National Strategy." Read it here

May 14, 2005 - Marisa Lino, director of the Bologna Center, was mentioned in an Agenzia Giornalistica Italia article entitled, "Quirinale: Ciampi's Message to Johns Hopkins University." Read it here

May 13, 2005 - Eliot Cohen, director of the Strategic Studies Program, wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal entitled, "Neither Fools Nor Cowards." Read it here

May 11, 2005 - Michael Mandelbaum, director and professor of the American Foreign Policy Program, was quoted in The New York Times in an op-ed entitled, "Brussels Sprouts." Read it here 

May 10, 2005 - Dan Hamilton, director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations, was interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition in a segment entitled, "President Bush on World War II and Yalta." Read it here 

May 8, 2005 - Dan Hamilton, director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations, was quoted in the Washington Post in an article entitled, "New Mexico Plays Home to Terror Town, U.S.A. Simulated Attacks Prepare for Worst."  Read it here

May 8, 2005 - Azar Nafisi, a visiting scholar at the Foreign Policy Institute at SAIS, was featured in the Washington Post Magazine in an article entitled, "Go Ask Your Mother." Read it here

May 3, 2005 - David M. Lampton, director of the China Studies Program, was quoted in an MSNBC.com article entitled, "U.S.-China Summits' High Stakes." Read it here

May 2, 2005 - Don Oberdorfer, SAIS journalist-in-residence, was quoted in a Voice of America News article entitled, "South Korea-U.S. Alliance in Difficult Transition." Read it here

May 1, 2005 - Stephen Morris, visiting fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute, wrote an op-ed for The New York Times entitled, "The War We Could Have Won." Read it here