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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November 29, 2006 - Eliot Cohen, director of the Strategic Studies Program, was quoted in a Washington Post article entitled, "Bush to Press Iraqi Premier on Security." Read it here

November 28, 2006 - Riordan Roett, director of Western Hemisphere Studies, was quoted in a BusinessWeek.com article entitled, "A Leftist at the Helm in Ecuador." Read it here

November 27, 2006 - David Satter, visiting scholar at the Foreign Policy Institute, wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal entitled, "Who Killed Litvinenko?" Read it here

November 26, 2006 - Fouad Ajami, director of the Middle East Studies Program, wrote an op-ed for U.S. News & World Report entitled, "Back to the Future." Read it here

November 26, 2006 - Daniel S. Hamilton, director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations, wrote an op-ed for The International Herald Tribune entitled, "NATO Summit I: In Area Or in Trouble?" Read it here

November 25, 2006 - Azar Nafisi, visiting scholar at the Foreign Policy Institute, wrote an op-ed for The Guardian entitled, "Don't Ban Dan Brown." Read it here

November 24, 2006 - Peter Lewis, director of the African Studies Program, was quoted in a New York Times article entitled, "Money and Violence Hobble Democracy in Nigeria." Read it here

November 21, 2006 - Michael Mandelbaum, professor and director of the American Foreign Policy Program, wrote an op-ed for Newsday entitled, "Korean Nukes Could Mean War." Read it here

November 18, 2006 - Scott Barrett, director of the International Policy Program, was quoted in a Boston Globe article entitled, "Talk of Manipulating Earth's Climate." Read it here

November 13, 2006 - Eliot Cohen, director of the Strategic Studies Program, appeared on the NPR program All Things Considered in a segment entitled, "Weighing Options for the Best Exit from Iraq." Read it here

November 13, 2006 - Fred Brown, adjunct professor of Southeast Asia Studies, was quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer in an article entitled, "Bush Hopes to Reassert U.S. Leadership During Asia Trip." Read it here

November 10, 2006 - James Mann, SAIS author-in-residence, wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post entitled, "Understanding Gates: It's Not as Simple as Father's Team vs. Son's." Read it here

November 10, 2006 - Bridget Welsh, assistant professor of Southeast Asia Studies, was quoted in a Christian Science Montior article entitled, "Malaysia's Ex-Leader Stays in the Game." Read it here

November 9, 2006 - Fouad Ajami, director of the Middle East Studies Program, was mentioned in The Washington Post in an article entitled, "White House Honors Performers, Scholars." Read it here

November 9, 2006 - Eliot Cohen, director of the Strategic Studies Program, was quoted in The New York Times in an article entitled, "Rumsfeld, a Force for Change, Did Not Change With the Times Amid Iraq Tumult." Read it here

November 9, 2006 - Eliot Cohen, director of the Strategic Studies Program, was quoted in The Washington Post in an article entitled, "A Meek Departure From the War Cabinet: Rumsfeld Ends His Stormy Tenure at Defense Dept." Read it here

November 7, 2006 - Ruth Wedgwood, director of the International Law & Organization Program, was mentioned in a New York Post op-ed entitled, "The U.N.'s Last Chance." Read it here

November 7, 2006 - Riordan Roett, director of Western Hemisphere Studies, was quoted in a Newsday article entitled, "Nicaragua of Today Different Than Prior Era." Read it here

November 7, 2006 - An obituary for Enzo Grilli, professor of International Economics, ran in The Washington Post. Read it here

November 6, 2006 - Riordan Roett, director of Western Hemisphere Studies, was quoted in The Latin Business Chronicle in an article entitled, "Ten Reforms for Lula." Read it here

November 5, 2006 - Tong Kim, a visiting scholar in Korea Studies at SAIS, wrote an op-ed for The Korea Times entitled, "Kim Jong-il's Strategy." Read it here

November 2, 2006 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, professor of American Foreign Policy, was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article entitled, "Democrats' Foreign Policy Pickle: As Iraq and Terror Top Agenda, Party Is Eager to Shed 'Soft' Image." Read it here