SAIS Office of Public Affairs Multimedia Archive

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Multimedia Archive

Spring 2007

May 17, 2007
SAIS Commencement
View or listen to the Welcome Address.
View or listen to the Presentation of the Founder's Award to David Bernstein and Patricia Bernstein.
View or listen to the Commencement Address by David Manning, British ambassador to the United States and a 1972 SAIS Bologna Center graduate.
View or listen to the Presentation of the Class of 2007.
View or listen to the Presentation of Awards.
View or listen to Presentations by the Student Government Association.
View or listen to the Student Address.

May 16, 2007
"Legitimacy: First Task for America's Security"
Wesley Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate
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May 4, 2007
"The United States and the Republic of Korea: Dialogues on the Relationship"
Christopher Hill, assistant secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Wendy Cutler, assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan, Korea and APEC Affairs; and Richard Lawless, deputy under secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs
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May 3, 2007
"Addressing Transnational Threats in the 21st Century"
Michael Chertoff, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security
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May 2, 2007
W.P. Carey Global Leader Lecture: "Emerging Markets and the Global Financial System: The View of the International Financial Industry"
Josef Ackerman, chief executive officer of Deutsche Bank
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April 25, 2007
"Foreign Policy: The Imperative for Human Unity"
Dennis Kucinich, U.S. congressman (D-Ohio)
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April 24, 2007
"Seoul-Washington: Where Do We Stand?"
Alexander Vershbow, ambassador of the United States to South Korea
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April 20, 2007
"Present and Future Technologies and the Urgency of Controlling Carbon Emissions"
Robert Socolow, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and co-director of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative at Princeton University
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April 19, 2007
"The Future of International News in the U.S. Media"
Kevin Klose, president of National Public Radio
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April 19, 2007
"Covering Iraq"
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, assistant managing editor of The Washington Post; Chris Hondros, photojournalist with Getty Images; Quil Lawrence, foreign correspondent with PRI/BBC’s “The World”; Matt O’Neill, co-director of “Baghdad ER”; and Raney Aronson (moderator), producer for PBS’s “Frontline”
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April 18, 2007
"Middle East Agenda for Reform: Challenges and Opportunities"
Naser Al Belooshi, ambassador of Bahrain to the United States, and Samir Shakir Sumaida'ie, ambassador of Iraq to the Unites States
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April 16, 2007
"Lebanon's Economic Landscape and Government Medium-Term Reform Program"
Jihad Azour, Lebanon's minister of finance
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April 12, 2007
W.P. Carey Global Leader Lecture: "Fourteen Years on the Inside: A Perspective on India"
Scott Bayman, president and CEO of GE India
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April 6, 2007
"The Global War on Terror and the Impact on Human Rights"
Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International
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April 6, 2007
"China's Engagement With Africa: Opportunity and Challenge"
Harry Broadman, economic adviser for the Africa Region of the World Bank; Denis Tull, researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs; Adama Gaye, group corporate affairs manager at Ecobank, and Pang Zhongying (moderator), professor of international studies at Nankai University
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April 3, 2007
"Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower"
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Carter and SAIS professor of American foreign policy
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March 28, 2007
"U.S.-China Relations in the Context of Peaceful Development"
Zhou Wenzhong, Chinese ambassador to the United States
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March 28, 2007
"Preventing a Nuclear 9-11"
Bill Richardson, Democratic governor of New Mexico and 2008 presidential candidate
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March 22, 2007
"Kenya's Reform Agenda and Its Vision 2030"
Amos Kimunya, minister of finance for the Republic of Kenya
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March 21, 2007
"Azerbaijan's Regional and International Role"
Elmar Mammadyarov, foreign minister of Azerbaijan
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March 12, 2007
"Russia and Central Asia: The Growing Policy Challenges for the International Community"
Alcee Hastings, U.S. congressman (D-Fla.) and chairman of the Helsinki Commission, and Douglas Menarchik, assistant administrator for Policy and Program Coordination and acting assistant administrator for Europe and Eurasia at USAID
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February 28, 2007
"Fighting Corruption in Nigeria: Progress and Challenges"
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, distinguished fellow of the Brookings Institution and Nigeria's former minister of finance and economy and of foreign affairs
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February 21, 2007
"The Escalating Crisis in Darfur"
Susan Rice, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and former assistant secretary of State for African Affairs
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February 14, 2007
"Pakistan and the Nonproliferation Regime"
Feroz Khan, visiting professor at the Center for Contemporary Conflict at the Naval Postgraduate School and a SAIS graduate; Michael Krepon, co-founder and president emeritus of the Henry L. Stimson Center; and Naeem Salik, guest scholar of foreign policy studies at The Brookings Institution
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February 14, 2007
"North Korea's Nuclear Future"
Joel Wit, a member of the State Department's negotiating team on the 1994 Agreed Framework, and David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security
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February 13, 2007
"Reconciliation in the Sunni-Shi'a Communities: Healing the Wounds of Yesterday and Today in Iraq, the Gulf and the Fertile Crescent"
Jamal Barzinji, vice president of the International Institute of Islamic Thought; Muhammed H. Faghforry, professor of Islamic studies at The George Washington University; and Abolfazl B. Nahidian, founder and imam of the Manassas Mosque
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February 6, 2007
"The Quad Deficits: Why They Matter and What We Can Do About Them"
Peter Peterson, senior chairman and co-founder of the Blackstone Group and chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Peterson Institute for International Economics
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February 6, 2007
"Prospects in Afghanistan"
Pamela Constable, deputy foreign editor of The Washington Post
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February 1, 2007
"The Emerging Markets Century"
Antoine van Agtmael, founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Emerging Markets Management, L.L.C.
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January 30, 2007
"Iraq Displacement 2006 Year in Review"
Dana Graber, Iraq displacement specialist at the International Organization for Migration (IOM)
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January 29, 2007
"Centennial Commemoration of Paul H. Nitze"
Max M. Kampelman, leader of the U.S. negotiating team with the Soviet Union on nuclear and space arms from 1985 to 1989 gave the keynote address. Other speakers included Thomas Graham Jr., special representative of the president for arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament from 1994 to 1997; Avis Bohlen, assistant secretary of State for Arms Control from 1999 to 2002; Christopher F. Chyba, professor of astrophysical sciences and international affairs at Princeton University; and Strobe Talbott (moderator), president of The Brookings Institution, deputy secretary of State from 1994 to 2001 and author of The Master of the Game: Paul Nitze and the Nuclear Peace.
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