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Fall 2005

December 5, 2005
"The Future of Iraq"
Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. secretary of Defense
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November 30, 2005
"U.S. Policy Toward Iran"
R. Nicholas Burns, under secretary of State for Political Affairs and a SAIS graduate  
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November 22, 2005
"Lessons I Have Learned From 25 Years of Public Service"
William J.  McDonough, chairman and CEO of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and former New York Federal Reserve Bank president
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November 17, 2005
"A Shared Vision for Change: Women and Legislative Reform in Muslim-Majority Societies"
Azar Nafisi, director of the SAIS Dialogue Project; Mahnaz Afkhami, Women's Learning Partnership president and Iran's former minister of State for Women’s Affairs; Zainah Anwar, executive director of Sisters of Islam in Malaysia; Asma Khader, general coordinator of Sisterhood Is Global Institute/Jordan and former Jordanian minister of culture; and Rebea Naciri, former president of Collectif 95 Mahreb-Egalité in Morocco
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November 15-17, 2005
"The Foundations of Democracy"
Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize-winning economist and Harvard University’s Lamont University Professor

Part I - November 15, 2005
"The Foundations of Democracy — Ideas: Past and Present"
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Part II - November 16, 2005
"The Foundations of Democracy — Practice: Functions and Assessment"
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Part III - November 17, 2005
"The Foundations of Democracy — From the Local to the Global"
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November 2, 2005
"U.S. Military Operations in Iraq: Planning, Combat and Occupation"
Conrad Crane, director of the U.S. Army Military History Institute; Richard Lacquement, deputy assistant secretary of Defense, Stability Operations; Nora Bensahel, senior political scientist at the Rand Corporation; Kalev Sepp, assistant professor in the Department of Defense Analysis, Center on Terrorism and Irregular Warfare at the Naval Post-Graduate School; Mary Habeck (moderator), SAIS associate professor of Strategic Studies
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Click here to listen to "Leaving in Order to Win," remarks by Kalev Sepp.

October 27-28, 2005
"Do We Still Share Values Across the Atlantic: Changing Societies and Transatlantic Relations"
Jean Francois-Poncet, former French foreign minister, and Tom Petri, U.S. congressman (R-Wis.) and co-chair of the Congressional French Caucus
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October 26, 2005
"Managing an Investigation: The U.N. Oil for Food Program"
Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve System
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October 25, 2005
"Importance of Reading"
SAIS scholar Azar Nafisi, author of the best-selling Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, and Jacki Lyden, National Public Radio correspondent 
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October 20, 2005
"Foreign Policy: A View From Congress"
Sam Brownback, U.S. senator (R-Kan.) and chairman of the Helsinki Commission
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October 18, 2005
"U.S.-European Relations"
José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission and former prime minister of Portugal
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October 17, 2005
"American Hostage: A Memoir of a Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq and the Remarkable Battle to Win His Release"
Marie-Helene Carleton, a SAIS graduate, and journalist Micah Garen
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October 11, 2005
"The Hunt for Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda"
Peter Bergen, author of Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden, SAIS adjunct professor of South Asia Studies, CNN correspondent and New America Foundation fellow
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October 5, 2005
"The Future of Europe and Transatlantic Relations: Reflections on the ‘No Votes’, Islam in Europe and Turkish Accession"
Atzo Nicolai, minister for European affairs of the Netherlands
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September 26, 2005
"Afghanistan’s Political Future: Challenges That Lie Ahead"
Abdullah Abdullah, foreign minister of Afghanistan
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September 19, 2005
W.P. Carey Global Leader Lecture: "Energy and International Relations: The Changing Agenda"
Nick Butler, group vice president of strategy and policy development of BP p.l.c.
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September 13, 2005
"Foreign Policy: A View From Congress"
Richard Lugar, U.S. senator (R-Ind.)
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