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Spring 2006

May 25, 2006
SAIS Commencement
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View or listen to the commencement address, "Globalizing Security: A Challenge for Your Generation," by Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
View or listen to the Presentation of the Class of 2006.
View the Presentation of the 2006 Ph.D. Candidates. 
View or listen to the Presentation of Awards, Student Government Association Presentations and the Student Address.

May 18, 2006
"Islamic Fundamentalism in Europe: Transatlantic Perspectives"
Francis Fukuyama, director of the SAIS International Development Program; Lorenzo Vidino, a European expert at the Investigative Project on Terrorism and author of Al Qaeda in Europe: The New Battleground for International Jihad; and Daniel Benjamin, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and co-author of The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right
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May 8, 2006
"Nuclear Turning Point: Does the Quest for U.S. Nuclear Dominance Undermine Non-Proliferation?"
Selig S. Harrison, director of the Center for International Policy's Asia Program; Helen Caldicott, president of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute; Jack Mendelsohn, senior representative for the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in the START I negotiations with the Soviet Union; and Thomas Hughes (moderator), president emeritus of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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April 26, 2006
"Global Oil and Gas Markets"
Edgard Habib, chief economist for Chevron Corporation
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April 25, 2006
"The New Assault on Democracy Assistance"
Carl Gershman, National Endowment for Democracy president; Barry Lowenkron, assistant secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor and a SAIS graduate; and Michael McFaul, associate professor of political science at Stanford University
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April 24, 2006
"Emerging Technologies in the Energy Sector"
Kimball C. Chen, chairman and CEO of the Energy Transportation Group, Inc.; Douglas L. Faulkner, acting assistant secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the Department of Energy and a SAIS graduate; Nancie S. Johnson, vice president of DuPont Government Affairs and a SAIS graduate; and David L. Goldwyn (moderator), president of Goldwyn International Strategies, LLC
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April 18, 2006
"American Competitiveness in the Global Marketplace"
Hank Greenberg, C.V. Starr and Company CEO and former chairman and CEO of American International Group, Inc. (AIG)
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April 12, 2006
"Challenges Facing Pakistan's Journey Toward a More Open and Democratic Future"
Hameed Haroon, CEO of the Dawn Group
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April 10, 2006
"Global War on Terror"
George W. Bush, president of the United States
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April 3, 2006
"The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World’s Government in the 21st Century"
Michael Mandelbaum, director of the SAIS American Foreign Policy Program; Fritz W. Ermarth, former chairman of the National Intelligence Council' Georgetown University Professor Robert Lieber; and Robert Guest, The Economist's Washington correspondent
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March 29, 2006
"The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir"
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former president of Brazil
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March 28-30, 2006
"Fixing Global Finance"
Martin Wolf, associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times

March 28, 2006
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March 29, 2006
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March 30, 2006
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March 14, 2006
"Foreign Policy: A View From Congress"
George Allen, U.S. senator (R-Va.)
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March 9, 2006
"President Bush's Visit to India and Pakistan"
Richard Boucher, assistant secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs
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March 6, 2006
W.P. Carey Global Leader Lecture: "Energy and the Challenge of Global Sustainability"
Claude Mandill, executive director of the International Energy Agency
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February 28, 2006
"U.S.-Japan Alliance in Asia"
Ryozo Kato, Japanese ambassador to the United States
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February 27, 2006
"The United Nations and the United States: A View From Afar"
José Ramos-Horta, senior minister for foreign affairs and cooperation of Timor-Leste and 1996 Nobel Peace Prize winner
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February 23, 2006
"China and the Iraq War: Perspectives and Implications"
Melinda Liu, Beijing bureau chief for Newsweek and one of the magazine's first embedded reporters in Iraq
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February 22, 2006
"The Current State of U.S.-Latin American Relations"
José Miguel Insulza, secretary general of the Organization of American States
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February 8, 2006
"U.S. Congress: An Update on U.S.-China Relations"
U.S. congressmen Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Rick Larsen (D-Wash.), co-chairs of the U.S.-China Working Group in Congress
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January 31, 2006
"Foreign Intelligence Surveillance: Without a Warrant--Is It Legally Justified?"
Ruth Wedgwood, director of the SAIS International Law and Organizations Program; Georgetown Law Professor David Cole; University of Virginia Law Professor Robert F. Turner; Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies; and Eugene R. Fidell, (moderator) National Institute of Military Justice president
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January 30, 2006
"The Long War of the 21st Century: How We Must Fight It"
James Woolsey, former director of Central Intelligence and a Booz Allen Hamilton vice president
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January 24, 2006
"American Vertigo"
William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard and one of the nation's leading political analysts and commentators, and Bernard-Henri Lévy, a renowned French philosopher and best-selling author. Francis Fukuyama, director of the SAIS International Development Program, moderated the discussion.
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