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Strobe Talbott, former deputy secretary of State and current president of The Brookings Institution
"A Consequential India-U.S. Engagement"
November 1, 2006
Other speakers included Jaswant Singh, former Indian external affairs minister and current member of parliament.
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Omer Taspinar, SAIS adjunct professor of European Studies and Brookings Institution fellow
"The Turkish Elections: A New Momentum Towards the EU?"
October 16, 2007
Other speakers included Mark Parris, former U.S. ambassador to Turkey and Brookings senior fellow, and Yasmin Congar, correspondent for CNN Turk.
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Patrick Theros, former U.S. ambassador to Qatar
"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; Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former Washington Post Baghdad bureau chief and journalist-in-residence for the SAIS International Reporting Project.
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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
"Burma's Saffron Revolution: Next Steps"
October 11, 2007
Other speakers included Priscilla Clapp, former U.S. charge d'affaires in Burma; Carla Freeman, associate director of the SAIS China Studies Program; Keith Luse, Senate Foreign Relations Committee senior professional staff member; 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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Aloysius Toe, Foundation for Human Rights executive director
"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 Gilbert Maoundonodji, the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Project's Group for Alternative Research and Monitoring coordinator.
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Kassymzhomart Tokaev, foreign minister of Kazakhstan
"Q&A with Kassymzhomart Tokaev"
July 6, 2006
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Denis Tull, researcher at German Institute for International and Security Affairs
"China's Engagement With Africa: Opportunity and Challenge"
April 6, 2007
Other speakers included Harry Broadman, economic adviser for the Africa Region at the World Bank;
Adama Gaye, group corporate affairs manager at Ecobank; and Pang Zhongying (moderator), professor of international studies at Nankai University.
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Robert F. Turner, University of Virginia Law professor
"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; 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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