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Mikheil Saakashvili, president of Georgia
"Georgia After the Rose Revolution: Rebuilding Democracy and Stability"
February 24, 2004
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Mohammad Sadiq, charge d'affaires of the Embassy of Pakistan
"The Future of Pakistan: The Politics and Economics of Development in Pakistan"
November 8, 2004
Other speakers included Umar Ahmad Ghuman, Pakistan's minister of State for Investment and Privatization, and Sunil Khilnani, director of the SAIS South Asia Studies Program.
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Karim Sadjadpour, a SAIS graduate and International Crisis Group Iran analyst
"Iran: The Most Dangerous Nation"
November 13, 2006
Other speakers included Ted Koppel, managing editor for the Discovery Channel; Maziar Bahari, Newsweek's Iran correspondent; and Scott Simon, host of NPR's "Weekend Edition."
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Naeem Salik, guest scholar of foreign policy studies at The Brookings Institution
"Pakistan and the Nonproliferation Regime"
February 14, 2007
Other speakers included Feroz Khan, visiting professor at the Center for Contemporary Conflict at the Naval Postgraduate School and a SAIS graduate, and Michael Krepon, co-founder and president emeritus of the Henry L. Stimson Center.
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Evandro de Sampaio Didonet, minister-counselor for economic affairs at the Brazilian Embassy
"World Trade Regimes Post-Cancun: Disparity and Disagreement"
November 21, 2003
Other speakers included Ernst Walch, foreign minister of Liechtenstein; Luzius Wasescha, chairman of the OECD Trade Committee; Everett Ehrlich, senior vice president of the Committee for Economic Development; Arvind Panagaryia, co-director of the University of Maryland Center for International Economics; and Petros Sourmelis, head of the EU Commission Delegation's trade section.
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Ivo Sanader, prime minister of Croatia
"Croatia: An Engine for Change– EU, U.S., NATO and the War on Terror"
October 18, 2006
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Sanford Saunders, attorney with Greenberg Traurig LLP and JHU graduate
"Taxes, Oil and the Russian Private Sector: Putin and the Khordorkovsky Case"
February 24, 2005
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Thomas Schelling, 2005 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
"Why Cooperate? The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods"
December 3, 2007
Other speakers include Scott Barrett, director of the SAIS International Policy Program and author of Why Cooperate? The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods, and Francis Fukuyama (moderator), director of the SAIS International Development Program.
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Bob Schieffer, CBS News’ Washington correspondent and moderator of “Face the Nation"
"Politics and Policy AFter the Midterm Elections: Looking Ahead to 2008"
November 14, 2006
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Rockwell Schnabel, U.S. ambassador to the European Union
"Mars, Venus--Or Mercury? A Larger Europe and American Interests"
May 6, 2004
Joseph Biden, U.S. senator, (D-Del.) gave the keynote address. Other speakers included Jürgen Strube, chairman of UNICEF and of BASF Corporations; Lionel Barber, managing editor of the Financial Times; and Joseph Quinlan, SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations fellow.
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Paul R. Schwartz, retired major general
"Understanding the Middle East"
November 12, 2003
Other speakers included Thomas Lippman, former Washington Post reporter; Chas. W. Freeman, former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia; and Les Janka, SAIS graduate and president and chair of the Council on American-Saudi Dialogue.
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Brent Scowcroft, former national security adviser
"The Future of the United Nations"
April 6, 2005
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Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize-winning economist and Harvard University’s Lamont University Professor
"The Foundations of Democracy"
November 15-17, 2005
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Dan Senor, former chief spokesman for the Coalition Authority in Iraq and senior adviser to Ambassador Paul Bremer
"The Future of Iraq: Beyond the United States Occupation"
September 14, 2004
Other speakers included Eliot Cohen, director of the SAIS Strategic Studies Program; Francis Fukuyama, director of the SAIS International Development Program; Michael Hirsh, Newsweek senior editor; Bruce Hoffman, RAND Corporation Washington Office director; and Richard Wolffe (moderator), Newsweek diplomatic and Washington correspondent.
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Kalev Sepp, assistant professor in the Department of Defense Analysis, Center on Terrorism and Irregular Warfare at the Naval Post-Graduate School
"U.S. Military Operations in Iraq: Leaving in Order to Win"
November 2, 2005
Other speakers included Conrad Crane, director of the U.S. Army Military History Institute; Richard Lacquement, deputy assistant secretary of Defense, Stability Operations; Nora Bensahel, senior political scientist at the Rand Corporation; and Mary Habeck (moderator), SAIS associate professor of Strategic Studies.
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Jeremy Shapiro, director of research at the Brookings Center on the United States and Europe
“The French Election and the Consequences for U.S.-European Relations”
October 23, 2007
Other speakers include Justin Vaisse, SAIS adjunct professor of European Studies and Brookings Institution fellow, and Corine Lesnes, Le Monde correspondent.
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Mark Shields, syndicated political columnist
"Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman"
October 14, 2003
Other speakers included Donald Oberdorfer, SAIS journalist-in-residence, and former U.S. senator John Glenn (D-Ohio).
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John Shimkus, U.S. congressman (R-Ill.)
"The Enhanced Partnership in Northern Europe (e-Pine)"
October 15, 2003
Other speakers included Heather A. Conley, deputy assistant secretary of State, and Aivis Ronis, Latvian ambassador to the United States.
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Haris Silajdžić, president of Bosnia and Herzegovina
“Bosnia-Herzegovina: The Roadmap to Civic Democracy"
November 9, 2007
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Scott Simon, host of NPR's "Weekend Edition"
"Iran: The Most Dangerous Nation"
November 13, 2006
Other speakers included Ted Koppel, managing editor for the Discovery Channel; Karim Sadjadpour, a SAIS graduate and International Crisis Group Iran analyst; and Maziar Bahari, Newsweek's Iran correspondent.
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Jaswant Singh, former Indian external affairs minister and current member of parliament
"A Consequential India-U.S. Engagement"
November 1, 2006
Other speakers included Strobe Talbott, former deputy secretary of State and current president of The Brookings Institution.
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Stephen Smith, a professor at Duke University's Department of African and African American Studies
"SAIS Conflict Managment Program 25th Anniversary Conference: Sudan Panel"
November 30, 2007
Other speakers included Steven Morrison, chair of the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Andrew S. Natsios, the president’s special envoy for Sudan.
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Robert Socolow, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and co-director of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative at Princeton University
"Present and Future Technologies and the Urgency of Controlling Carbon Emissions"
April 20, 2007
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Petros Sourmelis, head of the EU Commission Delegation's trade section
"World Trade Regimes Post-Cancun: Disparity and Disagreement"
November 21, 2003
Other speakers included Ernst Walch, foreign minister of Liechtenstein; Luzius Wasescha, chairman of the OECD Trade Committee; Everett Ehrlich, senior vice president of the Committee for Economic Development; Arvind Panagaryia, co-director of the University of Maryland Center for International Economics; and Evandro de Sampaio Didonet, minister-counselor for economic affairs at the Brazilian Embassy.
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S. Frederick Starr, chairman of the SAIS Central Asia-Caucasus Institute.
"The New Silk Roads: Transport and Trade in the Greater Central Asia"
July 18, 2007
Other speakers included Masood Aziz, political counselor at the Afghanistan Embassy in Washington; 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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David Straub, former State Department Korea country director and SAIS adjunct professor
"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; Marion Creekmore, author of A Moment in Crisis; and Don Oberdorfer (moderator), chairman of the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS.
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Jürgen Strube, chairman of UNICEF and of BASF Corporations
"Mars, Venus--Or Mercury? A Larger Europe and American Interests"
May 6, 2004
Joseph Biden, U.S. senator, (D-Del.) gave the keynote address. Other speakers included Rockwell Schnabel, U.S. ambassador to the European Union; Lionel Barber, managing editor of the Financial Times; and Joseph Quinlan, a SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations fellow.
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Samir Shakir Sumaida'ie, ambassador of Iraq to the United States
"Middle East Agenda for Reform: Challenges and Opportunities"
April 18, 2007
Other speakers included Naser Al Belooshi, ambassador of Bahrain to the United States.
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Niklas Swanstrom, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute (CACI) research fellow and executive director of the Silk Road Studies Program at Sweden's Uppsala University
"Afghanistan’s Heroin Industry: Regional and International Implications"
December 15, 2004
Other speakers included Svante Cornell, CACI deputy director, and Tamara Makarenko, CACI research fellow.
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Catherine Sweet, Morocco desk officer for the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research
"The Elections in Morocco: What Lessons and Implications?"
October 15
Other speakers included Leslie Campbell, senior associate and regional director of the Middle East and North Africa Programs at the National Democratic Institute; 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; and William Zartman (moderator), director of the SAIS Conflict Management Program.
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The Swiss Foundation
"The Geneva Initiative: A Possible Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict"
February 10, 2004
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Stephen Szabo, SAIS professor of European Studies
"Parting Ways: The Crisis"
December 14, 2004
Other speakers included David Calleo, director of the SAIS European Studies Program, and Rolf Nikel, minister for political affairs at the German Embassy.
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