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"Nuclear Turning Point: Does the Quest for U.S. Nuclear Dominance Undermine Non-Proliferation?"
May 8, 2006
Additional speakers included Selig S. Harrison, director of the Center for International Policy's Asia Program; 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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"Parting Ways: The Crisis"
December 14, 2004
Other speakers included Stephen Szabo, professor of European Studies at SAIS, and Rolf Nikel, minister for political affairs at the German Embassy.
Click here to listen to the event. | "The Elections in Morocco: What Lessons and Implications?"
October 15
Other speakers included 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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"The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir"
March 29, 2006
Click here to listen to the event. | Marie-Helene Carleton, journalist and a SAIS graduate
"American Hostage: A Memoir of a Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq and the Remarkable Battle to Win His Release"
October 17, 2005
Other speakers included Micah Garen, journalist.
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Click here to listen to the Q&A. | Rajiv Chandrasekaran, assistant managing editor at The Washington Post and former SAIS International Reporting Project journalist-in-residence
"Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone"
September 20, 2006
Click here to download or listen to audio of the event. | "Covering Iraq"
April 19, 2007
Other speakers included Chris Hondros, photojournalist with Getty Images; Quil Lawrence, foreign correspondent with PRI/BBC’s “The World”; Matt O’Neill, co-director, “Baghdad ER”; and Raney Aronson (moderator), producer for PBS’s “Frontline."
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"Control Room" Film Screening and Panel Discussion
March 7, 2005
Other speakers included Josh Rushing, former Marine Corps captain and Central Command spokesman; Mohammed Alami, a Washington-based Al Jazeera reporter; and Patrick Theros, former U.S. ambassador to Qatar.
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“Islamist Political Participation and Democratic Development: The Cases of Turkey and Morocco”
September 27, 2007
Other speakers included Geneive Abdo, a Century Foundation fellow; Matthew Frumin, a National Democratic Institute senior adviser; and Shadi Hamid (moderator), research director of the Project on Middle East Democracy.
Click here to download or listen to audio from this event. | Kimball C. Chen, chairman and CEO of the Energy Transportation Group, Inc.
"Emerging Technologies in the Energy Sector"
April 24, 2006
Other speakers included David L. Goldwyn (moderator), president of Goldwyn International Strategies, LLC; Douglas L. Faulkner, acting assistant secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the Department of Energy and a SAIS graduate; and Nancie S. Johnson, vice president of DuPont Government Affairs and a SAIS graduate.
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"The Meaning of Sports"
April 4, 2004
Other speakers included Michael Mandelbaum, director of the SAIS American Foreign Policy Program and author of the new book, The Meaning of Sports: Why Americans Watch Baseball, Football, and Basketball and What They See When They Do; Jack Kemp, co-founder of Empower America and former Buffalo Bills quarterback; Peter Magowan, president and managing general partner of the San Francisco Giants; and Philip Merrill (moderator), president and chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
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| Michael Chertoff, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security
"Addressing Transnational Threats in the 21st Century"
May 3, 2007
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"Centennial Commemoration of Paul H. Nitze"
January 29, 2007
Other speakers included Max M. Kampelman, leader of the U.S. negotiating team with the Soviet Union on nuclear and space arms from 1985 to 1989; Avis Bohlen, assistant secretary of State for Arms Control from 1999 to 2002; Thomas Graham Jr., special representative of the president for arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament from 1994 to 1997; 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. Click here to download or listen to audio of the event.
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"Burma's Saffron Revolution: Next Steps"
October 11, 2007
Other speakers included 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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| Wesley Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate
"Legitimacy: First Task for America's Security"
May 16, 2007
Click here to download or listen to audio of the event. | Eliot Cohen, director of the SAIS Strategic Studies Program
"Dedication of the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies"
September 23, 2004
Other speakers included JHU President William Brody, Philip Merrill, chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States; SAIS Dean Jessica Einhorn; and former SAIS Dean Paul Wolfowitz.
Listen to remarks by Einhorn, Brody, Merrill, Wolfowitz or Cohen. | Eliot Cohen, director of the SAIS Strategic Studies Program
"The Future of Iraq: Beyond the United States Occupation"
September 14, 2004
Other speakers included Francis Fukuyama, director of the SAIS International Development Program; Michael Hirsh, Newsweek senior editor; Bruce Hoffman, RAND Corporation Washington Office director; Dan Senor, former chief spokesman for the Coalition Authority in Iraq and senior adviser to Ambassador Paul Bremer; and Richard Wolffe (moderator), Newsweek diplomatic and Washington correspondent.
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"Foreign Intelligence Surveillance: Without a Warrant--Is It Legally Justified?"
January 31, 2006
Other speakers include Ruth Wedgwood, director of the SAIS International Law and Organizations Program; 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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Click here to listen to the Q&A. | "Ministers of Finance and Civil Society: Friends or Foes?”
October 18, 2007
Other speakers included Charlie Griffin, Brookings Institution senior fellow; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, distinguished fellow of the Brookings Institution and Nigeria's former minister of finance and economy and of foreign affairs; Shamsudden Usman, finance minster of Nigeria; Goodall E. Gondwe, finance minister of Malawi; 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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"The Turkish Elections: A New Momentum Towards the EU?"
October 16, 2007
Other speakers included Omer Taspinar, SAIS adjunct professor of European Studies and Brookings Institution fellow, and Mark Parris, former U.S. ambassador to Turkey and Brookings senior fellow
Click here to download or listen to audio from this event. | Heather A. Conley, deputy assistant secretary of State
"The Enhanced Partnership in Northern Europe (e-Pine)"
October 15, 2003
Other speakers included John Shimkus, U.S. congressman (R-Ill.), and Aivis Ronis, Latvian ambassador to the United States.
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Click here to listen to the Q&A. | Pamela Constable, deputy foreign editor of The Washington Post
"Prospects in Afghanistan"
February 6, 2007
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"Afghanistan's Heroin Industry: Regional and International Implications"
December 15, 2004
Other speakers included Tamara Makarenko, CACI research fellow, and Niklas Swanstrom, CACI research fellow and executive director of the Silk Road Studies Program at Sweden's Uppsala University.
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"The Global War on Terror and the Impact on Human Rights"
April 6, 2007
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"U.S. Military Operations in Iraq: Planning, Combat and Occupation"
November 2, 2005
Other speakers included Richard Lacquement, deputy assistant secretary of Defense, Stability Operations; Nora Bensahel, senior political scientist at the Rand Corporation; Kalev Sepp, assistant professor in the Department of Defense Analysis, Center on Terrorism and Irregular Warfare at the Naval Post-Graduate School; and Mary Habeck (moderator), associate professor of Strategic Studies, SAIS.
Click here to listen to Session II: "Reconstructing Iraq."
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Click here to listen to "Leaving in Order to Win," remarks by Kalev Sepp.
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"Biography of a Bomb: Portrait of the North Korea Nuclear Program"
October 24, 2006
Other speakers included Kathryn Weathersby, historian and scholar; David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security; 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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"The Return of Diplomacy: Choices and Questions for the Next Administration" (2007 SAIS Alumni College)
October 11, 2007
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"Memo to the Next President: Some Thoughts From Friends and Allies"
October 27, 2004
Other speakers included Jacques Andreani, former French ambassador to the United States; Edouard Brunner, former Swiss ambassador to the United States; Brian Crowe, former director-general for External and Politico-Military Affairs in the EU Council of Ministers; and Dieter Dettke, Friedrich Ebert Foundation executive director.
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"The European Union: Still Part of America’s World?"
October 25, 2007
Other speakers included John Bruton, ambassador of the European Union to the United States; Scott Bittle, executive editor of Public Agenda; and Daniel Hamilton (moderator), director of the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations.
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"Memo to the Next President: Some Thoughts From Friends and Allies"
October 27, 2004
Other speakers included Jacques Andreani, former French ambassador to the United States, Edouard Brunner, former Swiss ambassador to the United States; Chester Crocker, James R. Schlesinger Professor of Strategic Studies at Georgetown University and a SAIS graduate; and Dieter Dettke, Friedrich Ebert Foundation executive director
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"The United States and the Republic of Korea: Dialogues on the Relationship"
May 4, 2007
Other speakers included Christopher Hill, assistant secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; and Richard Lawless, deputy under secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs.
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