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Fall 2007

December 5, 2007
“The Right War in the Right Place: Time to Get It Right in Afghanistan”
John Kerry, U.S. senator (D-Mass.)
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December 3, 2007
Why Cooperate? The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods
Scott Barrett, director of the SAIS International Policy Program and author of Why Cooperate? The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods; Thomas Schelling, 2005 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics; and Francis Fukuyama (moderator), director of the SAIS International Development Program
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November 30, 2007
"SAIS Conflict Managment Program 25th Anniversary Conference: Sudan Panel"
Steven Morrison, chair of the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Andrew S. Natsios, the president’s special envoy for Sudan; and Stephen Smith, a professor at Duke University's Department of African and African American Studies
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November 30, 2007
"France: Refashioning Its Future”
Pierre Vimont, ambassador of France to the United States
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November 28, 2007
2007 Rostov Lecture on International Affairs: “The Middle East and the Freedom Agenda”
Stephen J. Hadley, assistant to the president for National Security Affairs
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November 9, 2007
“Bosnia-Herzegovina: The Roadmap to Civic Democracy"
Haris Silajdžić, president of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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November 8, 2007
“Globalization and Free Trade Policy Today: Why Is the United States in Retreat?”
Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Columbia University professor of economics and author of In Defense of Globalization
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November 8, 2007
“The Politics of National Security"
Joseph Lieberman, U.S. senator (ID-Conn.)
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November 6, 2007
W.P. Carey Global Leader Lecture: “Peace and Justice: Is There Hope for a Happy Marriage?”
Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein, ambassador of Jordan to the United States
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October 31, 2007
"The Argentine Elections"
Riordan Roett, director of the SAIS Latin America Studies Program, and Francisco González, SAIS assistant professor of Latin American Studies
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October 29, 2007
"A Contract With the Earth"
Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and author of A Contract With the Earth
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October 25, 2007
“The European Union: Still Part of America’s World?”
John Bruton, ambassador of the European Union to the United States; Scott Bittle, executive editor of Public Agenda; Andrew Crockett, president of J.P. Morgan Chase International; and Daniel Hamilton (moderator), director of the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations
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October 24, 2007
"Democracy’s Good Name"
Michael Mandlebaum, director of the SAIS American Foreign Policy Program and author of Democracy's Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World’s Most Popular Form of Government; Sunil Khilnani, director of the SAIS South Asia Studies Program; Robert Guest, Washington correspondent for The Economist; and Edward Lucas, Central and Eastern Europe correspondent for The Economist
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October 24, 2007
“The Aftermath of the Elections in Poland”
Pawel Zalewski, chairman of the committee on foreign relations of the Polish Sejm; Charles Gati, SAIS senior adjunct professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies; Michael Wyganowski, executive director of the Center for European Policy Analysis; and Mitchell Orenstein (moderator), S. Richard Hirsch Associate Professor of European Studies at SAIS
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October 23, 2007
“The French Election and the Consequences for U.S.-European Relations”
Justin Vaisse, SAIS adjunct professor of European Studies and Brookings Institution fellow; Corine Lesnes, Le Monde correspondent; and Jeremy Shapiro, director of research at the Brookings Center on the United States and Europe
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October 18, 2007
"Ministers of Finance and Civil Society: Friends or Foes?”
Charlie Griffin, Brookings Institution senior fellow; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Nigerian finance minister and Brookings Institution distinguished fellow; Shamsudden Usman, finance minster of Nigeria; Goodall E. Gondwe, finance minister of Malawi; Jean-Baptiste Compaore, finance minister of Burkina Faso; Anthony Akoto Osei, minister of state at Ghana’s Ministry of Finance; Aloysius Toe, Foundation for Human Rights executive director; and Gilbert Maoundonodji, the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Project's Group for Alternative Research and Monitoring coordinator
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October 16, 2007
"The Turkish Elections: A New Momentum Towards the EU?"
Omer Taspinar, SAIS adjunct professor of European Studies and Brookings Institution fellow; Mark Parris, former U.S. ambassador to Turkey and Brookings senior fellow; and Yasmin Congar, correspondent for CNN Turk
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October 15
"The Elections in Morocco: What Lessons and Implications?"
Leslie Campbell, senior associate and regional director of the Middle East and North Africa Programs at the National Democratic Institute; Marina Ottaway, director of the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Tamara Cofman Wittes, senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy of the Brookings Institution; Catherine Sweet, Morocco desk officer for the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research; and William Zartman (moderator), director of the SAIS Conflict Management Program
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October 12, 2007
"America's Current Global Priorities" (2007 Alumni College)
R. Nicholas Burns, under secretary of State for Political Affairs and a SAIS graduate
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October 11, 2007
"The American Leadership Dilemma" (2007 Alumni College)
Jim Leach, former U.S. congressman (R-Iowa), director of Harvard University's Institute of Politics and a SAIS graduate
October 11, 2007
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October 11, 2007
"'Ideals' Should Have Been 'Self Interest' in U.S. International Energy Policy:  Is It Too Late?" (2007 Alumni College)
Edward Morse, managing director and chief energy economist at Lehman Brothers and a SAIS graduate
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October 11, 2007
"The Return of Diplomacy: Choices and Questions for the Next Administration" (2007 Alumni College)
Chester Crocker, Georgetown University professor of Strategic Studies, former assistant secretary of State for African Affairs and a SAIS graduate
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October 11, 2007
"Burma's Saffron Revolution: Next Steps"
Priscilla Clapp, former U.S. charge d'affaires in Burma; Carla Freeman, associate director of the SAIS China Studies Program; Keith Luse, Senate Foreign Relations Committee senior professional staff member; U Bo Hla Tint, the U.S.-based minister of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma's Office of the Prime Minister; Bridget Welsh, SAIS assistant professor of Southeast Asia Studies; and G. Eugene Martin (moderator), executive director of the USIP Philippines Facilitation Project
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October 9, 2007
"Achieving Peaceful Elections: Lessons Learned From Sierra Leone and Nigeria"
Christopher Fomunyoh, senior associate for Africa and regional director for Central and West Africa at the National Democratic Institute, and Christian Hennemeyer, director of programs for Africa at the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES)
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October 4, 2007
“Sri Lanka Looking Beyond Terrorism: A Road Map to Peace”
Rohitha Bogollagama, foreign minister of Sri Lanka
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October 1, 2007
“Policy Framework for Nigeria’s Foreign Policy”
Ojo Maduekwe, foreign minister of Nigeria
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October 1, 2007
“Southeast Asia and Political Development”
Fidel Ramos, former president of the Philippines
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September 27, 2007
“Islamist Political Participation and Democratic Development: The Cases of Turkey and Morocco”
Geneive Abdo, a Century Foundation fellow; Anthony Chang, deputy director for the International Republican Institute’s Europe Division; Matthew Frumin, a National Democratic Institute senior adviser; and Shadi Hamid (moderator), research director of the Project on Middle East Democracy
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September 27, 2007
“Does Soft Power Apply to All? The Role of Small States in Multilateral Organizations”
Rita Kieber-Beck, minister of foreign affairs of the Principality of Liechtenstein
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September 24, 2007
"Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States"
Trita Parsi, SAIS graduate and author of new book, Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States; M.J. Rosenberg, director of policy analysis for the Israel Policy Forum; and Michael Hirsh, senior editor of Newsweek
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September 20, 2007
"U.S. Foreign Policy Toward South Asia"
Richard Boucher, assistant secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs
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September 12, 2007
"Can the Kremlin Control the Election Cycle? The Politics of the Upcoming Elections for the Duma and the Presidency"
Peter Reddaway, professor emeritus of political science and international affairs at The George Washington University
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September 11, 2007
"A Traditional Non-Intervention Foreign Policy"
Ron Paul, U.S. congressman (R-Texas) and a 2008 presidential candidate
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September 6, 2007
"The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy"
Glenn Kessler, Washington Post diplomatic correspondent and author of the new book, The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy; James Mann, SAIS Foreign Policy Institute author-in-residence; and Don Oberdorfer, chairman of the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS
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