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"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. Click here to listen to the event. |
October 1, 2007 Click here to download or listen to audio from this event. |
"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. Click here to listen to the introduction. Click here to listen to the remarks. Click here to listen to the Q&A. |
"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. Click here to listen to the event.
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"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. Click here to download or listen to audio of this event. |
"Azerbaijan's Regional and International Role" March 21, 2007 Click here to download or listen to audio of the event.
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"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. Click here to download or listen to audio from this event. |
"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. Click here to listen to the introduction. Click here to listen to the remarks. Click here to listen to the Q&A.
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"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. Click here to listen to the remarks. Click here to listen to the Q&A. |
W.P. Carey Global Leader Lecture: "Energy and the Challenge of Global Sustainability" March 6, 2006 Click here to listen to the remarks. Click here to listen to the Q&A.
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"Changes in Europe and America: A British View" October 19, 2004 Click here to listen to the event. |
May 17, 2007 SAIS Commencement View or listen to the Commencement Address. Click here to view or listen to SAIS Commencement 2007. |
"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. Click here to download or listen to audio from this event. |
"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. Click here to listen to the remarks. Click here to listen to the Q&A. |
"America's Iraq Handicap: Politics and News as Usual" October 27, 2003 Click here to listen to the event. |
"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. Click here to listen to the remarks. Click here to listen to the Q&A. |
"Lessons I Have Learned From 25 Years of Public Service" November 22, 2005 Click here to listen to the remarks. Click here to listen to the Q&A. |
"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. Click here to listen to the remarks. Click here to listen to the Q&A. |
"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. Click here to download or listen to audio of the event. |
"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 Click here to listen to Part 1. Click here to listen to Part 2. Click here to listen to the Q&A. |
"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. Listen to remarks by Einhorn, Brody, Merrill, Wolfowitz, or Cohen.
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"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. Click here to download or listen to audio of the Sudan discussion. Click here for a complete conference agenda. |
"'Ideals' Should Have Been 'Self Interest' in U.S. International Energy Policy: Is It Too Late?" (2007 SAIS Alumni College) October 11, 2007 Click here to download or listen to audio from this event. |
"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. Click here to listen to the event. |