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David Mack, vice president of the Middle East Institute and former deputy assistant secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
"U.S.-Libya Relations"
March 24, 2005
Other speakers included Ali Aujali, chief of mission for the Libyan Liaison Office in Washington, and M. Trish Katyoka, Amnesty International’s advocacy director for Africa.
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Ojo Maduekwe, foreign minister of Nigeria
“Policy Framework for Nigeria’s Foreign Policy”

October 1, 2007
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Peter Magowan, president and managing general partner of the San Francisco Giants
"The Meaning of Sports"
May 4, 2004
Other speakers included Michael Mandelbaum, director of the SAIS American Foreign Policy Program and author of The Meaning of Sports: Why Americans Watch Baseball, Football, and Basketball and What They See When They Do; Phil Chenier, Comcast SportsNet commentator for the Washington Wizards and former Washington Bullets guard; Jack Kemp, co-founder of Empower america and former Buffalo Bills quarterback; and Philip Merrill (moderator), president and chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
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Tamara Makarenko, SAIS Central Asia-Caucasus Institute (CACI) research fellow
"Afghanistan's Heroin Industry: Regional and International Implications"
December 15, 2004
Other speakers included Svante Cornell, CACI deputy director, and Niklas Swanstrom, CACI research fellow and executive director of the Silk Road Studies Program at Sweden's Uppsala University.
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Abbas Maleki, director general of the Institute for Caspian Studies in Tehran
"The New Silk Roads: Transport and Trade in the Greater Central Asia"
July 18, 2007
Other speakers included S. Frederick Starr, chairman of the SAIS Central Asia-Caucasus Institute; Masood Aziz, political councilor at the Afghanistan Embassy in Washington, D.C.; Aftab Kazi, professor of international and comparative politics at the American University in Bishkek; 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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Elmar Mammadyarov, foreign minister of Azerbaijan
"Azerbaijan's Regional and International Role"
March 21, 2007
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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
"Democracy’s Good Name"
October 24, 2007
Other speakers included 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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Michael Mandelbaum, director of the SAIS American Foreign Policy Program and author of The Meaning of Sports: Why Americans Watch Baseball, Football, and Basketball and What They See When They Do
"The Meaning of Sports"
May 4, 2004
Other speakers included Phil Chenier, Comcast SportsNet commentator for the Washington Wizards and former Washington Bullets guard; 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 Mandelbaum, directo of the SAIS American Foreign Policy Program
"The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World’s Government in the 21st Century"
April 3, 2006
Other speakers included panelists 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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Claude Mandill, executive director of the International Energy Agency
W.P. Carey Global Leader Lecture: "Energy and the Challenge of Global Sustainability"
March 6, 2006
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David Manning, British ambassador to the United States and a SAIS graduate 
"Changes in Europe and America: A British View"
October 19, 2004
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David Manning, British ambassador to the United States and SAIS graduate
May 17, 2007
SAIS Commencement
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Gilbert Maoundonodji, the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Project's Group for Alternative Research and Monitoring coordinator
"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; Jean-Baptiste Compaore, finance minister of Burkina Faso; Anthony Akoto Osei, minister of state at Ghana’s Ministry of Finance; and Aloysius Toe, Foundation for Human Rights executive director.
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Moshe Ma’oz, senior fellow in the Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program at the U.S. Institute of Peace and a professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"Changes in Syria"
July 12, 2005
Other speakers included Marc Gopin, the James Laue Professor of World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University’s Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution; and Murhaf Jouejati, visiting assistant professor of political science and international affairs and director of Middle East Studies at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.
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Jim Marshall, U.S. congressman (D-Ga.), member of the House Armed Services Committee and a Vietnam veteran
"America's Iraq Handicap: Politics and News as Usual"
October 27, 2003
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Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies
"Foreign Intelligence Surveillance: Without a Warrant--Is It Legally Justified?"
January 31, 2006
Other speakers included Ruth Wedgwood, director of the SAIS International Law and Organizations Program; Georgetown Law Professor David Cole; University of Virginia Law Professor Robert F. Turner; and Eugene R. Fidell (moderator), National Institute of Military Justice president.
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William J.  McDonough, chairman and CEO of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and former New York Federal Reserve Bank president
"Lessons I Have Learned From 25 Years of Public Service"
November 22, 2005
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Michael McFaul, associate professor of political science at Stanford University
"The New Assault on Democracy Assistance"
April 25, 2006
Other speakers included Carl Gershman, National Endowment for Democracy president, and Barry Lowenkron, assistant secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor and a SAIS graduate.
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Douglas Menarchik, assistant administrator for Policy and Program Coordination and acting assistant administrator for Europe and Eurasia at USAID
"Russia and Central Asia: The Growing Policy Challenges for the International Community"
March 12, 2007
Opening remarks were made by Rep. Alcee Hastings, U.S. congressman (D-Fla.) and chairman of the Helsinki Commission.

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Jack Mendelsohn, senior representative for the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in the START I negotiations with the Soviet Union
"Nuclear Turning Point: Does the Quest for U.S. Nuclear Dominance Undermine Non-Proliferation?"
Other speakers included Selig S. Harrison, director of Center for International Policy's Asia Program; Helen Caldicott, president of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute; and Thomas Hughes (moderator), president emeritus of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
May 8, 2006
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Philip Merrill, chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States
"Dedication of the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies"
October 23, 2004
Other speakers included JHU President William Brody; SAIS Dean Jessica Einhorn; former SAIS Dean Paul Wolfowitz; and Professor Eliot Cohen, director of the new center.
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Steven Morrison, chair of the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
"SAIS Conflict Managment Program 25th Anniversary Conference: Sudan Panel"
November 30, 2007
Other speakers included 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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Edward Morse, managing director and chief energy economist at Lehman Brothers and a SAIS graduate
"'Ideals' Should Have Been 'Self Interest' in U.S. International Energy Policy:  Is It Too Late?" (2007 SAIS Alumni College)
October 11, 2007
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Carl E. Mundy III, U.S. Marine Corps Federal Executive Fellow at The Brookings Institution
"Nation Building: The Political and Military Factors"
February 11, 2004
Other speakers included Francis Fukuyama, director of the SAIS International Development Program, and David R. Gray, U.S. Army Federal Executive Fellow at The Brookings Institution.
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