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Fall 2006

December 13, 2006
"Three Years After the Rose Revolution: Democratic Reform and Regional Challenges"
 Zurab Nogaideli, prime minister of Georgia
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December 7, 2006
2006 Rostov Lecture on International Affairs: "The Role of the Senate in U.S. Foreign Policy"
Chuck Hagel, U.S. senator (R-Neb.)
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November 27, 2006
"The Role of Intelligence in Counterterrorism"
Richard Posner, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
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November 16, 2006
"Soldiering and the Schoolhouse"
David Petraeus, commanding general of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center
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November 14, 2006
"Politics and Policy After the Midterm Elections: Looking Ahead to 2008"
Bob Schieffer, CBS News’ Washington correspondent and moderator of “Face the Nation" 
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November 13, 2006
"Iran: The Most Dangerous Nation"
Ted Koppel, managing editor for the Discovery Channel; Karim Sadjadpour, a SAIS graduate and International Crisis Group Iran analyst; Maziar Bahari, Newsweek's Iran correspondent; and Scott Simon, host of NPR's "Weekend Edition"
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November 8, 2006
"Making China Policy: Views From the White House"
Kenneth Lieberthal and SAIS graduate Michael Green, who each served as director for Asia Affairs at the National Security Council from 1998 to 2000 and 2004 to 2005, respectively
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November 1, 2006
"A Consequential India-U.S. Engagement"
Jaswant Singh, former Indian external affairs minister and current member of parliament, and Strobe Talbott, former deputy secretary of State and current president of The Brookings Institution
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October 24, 2006
"Biography of a Bomb: Portrait of the North Korea Nuclear Program"
Kathryn Weathersby, historian and scholar; David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security; Marion Creekmore, author of A Moment in Crisis; David Straub, former State Department Korea country director and SAIS adjunct professor; and Don Oberdorfer (moderator), chairman of the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS
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October 23, 2006
"The U.N. Peacekeeping Mission in Lebanon"
Jean-Marie Guéhenno, French diplomat and United Nations under-secretary-general for Peacekeeping Operations
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October 23, 2006
"Darfur: What Do We Do Now?"
John Prendergast, special adviser to the president of the International Crisis Group
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October 18, 2006
"Croatia: An Engine for Change–EU, U.S., NATO and the War on Terror"
Ivo Sanader, prime minister of Croatia
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October 11, 2006
"Iceland-U.S. Relations and Future Defense Arrangements"
Geir Haarde, prime minister of Iceland and a SAIS graduate
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October 11, 2006
"From Mao to Now"
Chas. W. Freeman Jr., co-chairman of the U.S.-China Policy Foundation who also served as the principal American interpreter for President Nixon’s 1972 historic visit to China, and David M. Lampton, director of the SAIS China Studies Program
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October 5, 2006
"Pakistan's Contributions to Counterterrorism"
Mahmud Ali Durrani, Pakistan's ambassador to the United States and former SAIS visiting scholar
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October 4, 2006
W.P. Carey Global Leader Lecture: "Progress Toward Financial Stability in Emerging Market Economies"
Timothy Geithner, N.Y. Federal Reserve Bank president and a SAIS graduate
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October 4, 2006
"The Future of the Korean Peninsula"
Christopher R. Hill, assistant secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; SAIS graduate and South Korean Ambassador Lee Tae-Sik; and former U.S. ambassadors to South Korea Stephen W. Bosworth, Donald Gregg, Thomas C. Hubbard, James T. Laney and James R. Lilly
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October 3, 2006
"Challenges and Opportunities in the Middle East"
Terje Rød Larsen, Norwegian diplomat and United Nations special envoy for the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1559
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September 28, 2006
"National Security: A View From the Senate"
John Kerry, U.S. senator (D-Mass.)
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September 20, 2006
"Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone"
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, assistant managing editor at The Washington Post and former SAIS International Reporting Project journalist-in-residence
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September 14, 2006
"U.S. Foreign Policy Toward South Asia"
Richard Boucher, assistant secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs
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September 11, 2006
"Where Are We in the War on Terror?"
Brian Jenkins, leading authority on terrorism and a senior adviser to RAND
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