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Summer 2007

July 18, 2007
"The New Silk Roads: Transport and Trade in the Greater Central Asia"
S. Frederick Starr, chairman of the SAIS Central Asia-Caucasus Institute; Masood Aziz, political counselor at the Afghanistan Embassy in Washington, D.C.; Aftab Kazi, professor of international and comparative politics at the American University in Bishkek; Abbas Maleki, director general of the Institute for Caspian Studies in Tehran; Niklas Norling, project director at the Silk Road Studies Program; and Taleh Ziyadov, deputy executive director of the U.S.-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce
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July 17, 2007
"Failed Diplomacy: The Tragic Story of How North Korea Got the Bomb"
Jack Pritchard, president of the Korea Economic Institute and former U.S. special envoy for negotiations with North Korea; Richard Bush, senior fellow and director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at The Brookings Institution; and Don Oberdorfer, chairman of the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS.
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July 16, 2007
"A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq and the Gassing of Halabja"
Joost Hiltermann, deputy Middle East and North Africa Program director at the International Crisis Group and a SAIS graduate
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July 5, 2007
"The Case for Soft Partition in Iraq"
Edward Joseph, SAIS Foreign Policy Institute visiting scholar and a SAIS graduate, and Michael O'Hanlon, Brookings Institution senior fellow
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June 22-23, 2007
Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies 20th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion
Henry Kissinger, former U.S. secretary of State
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June 20, 2007
"2007 Trafficking in Persons Report"
Mark Lagon, the newly appointed director of the U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
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June 14-15, 2007
"Shaping a Sensible Strategy to Ensure America's National Security: A Conversation About Values, Issues and Solutions"
John Kerry, U.S. senator (D-Mass.), and Gary Hart, former U.S. senator (D-Colo.)
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June 14, 2007
"A Renewed Transatlantic Partnership for Global Security"
Adrian Cioroianu, Romania's minister of foreign affairs
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June 12, 2007
"The Global Peace Index: Its Value and Implications and the Next Steps"
Charles Dambach, president and CEO of the Alliance and Peacebuilding; Harriet Mayor Fullbright, president of the J. William and Harriet Fullbright Center; Michael Lund, specialist for conflict and peacebuilding at Management Systems International, Inc.; and John McDonald, chairman and CEO of the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy and former U.S. ambassador
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June 6, 2007
"Democratic Forum on Iraq: Presidential Candidates Present Their Views"
2008 candidates for the Democratic Presidential nomination: Joseph Biden, U.S. senator (D-Del.); Mike Gravel, former U.S. senator (D-Alaska); and Dennis Kucinich, U.S. congressman (D-Ohio)
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May 21, 2007
"U.S.-Korea Relations: Celebrating 125 Years of Friendship"
Don Oberdorfer, chairman of the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS; Tae-sik Lee, South Korean ambassador to the United States and a SAIS graduate; Carl Gershman, president of the National Endowment for Democracy; and John Endicott, a Korea scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Festivities also included Yang Seung Hee performing songs of friendship on the stringed kayageum.
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Click here to download or listen to audio of Yang Seung Hee's performance.