Events 2012-2013 > European Studies
Fall semester Distinguished Speaker Series organized in collaboration with the International Institute for Security Studies (IISS)
Hosted by Professor Dana H. Allin
11 September 2012
Dana Allin, Senior Fellow for US Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Affairs, IISS (London); Editor, Survival; and Professorial Lecturer in European Studies, SAIS
Erik Jones, Director of SAIS European Studies Program; Director of the Bologna Institute for Policy Research, Johns Hopkins University SAIS; Head of Europe, Oxford Analytica discuss their new book:
“Weary Policeman: American Power in an Age of Austerity”
2 October 2012
Mark Fitzpatrick, Director, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Program at IISS and author of The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Avoiding Worst-Case Outcomes
“Cooperation between the US and the European Union on the Iran nuclear problem”
20 October 2012
Jeffrey Mazo, Research Fellow for Environmental Security and Science Policy at IISS
“Avoiding Catastrophic Climate Change: A Transatlantic Project”
30 October 2012
Henri Barkey, Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University; Former member of the US State Department Policy Planning Staff and Omer Taspinar, Professor at the National War College; Adjunct Professor at SAIS DC; Former Co-Director of the US-Turkey Project at the Brookings Institute
“Turkey, Iran, and the Arab Spring”
27 November 2012
Christopher Chivvis, Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation; Adjunct Professor of European Studies, SAIS
“Libya and the Future of Liberal Intervention”
4 December 2012
David Kanin, Adjunct Professor of European Studies SAIS, DC; Former Senior Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency
“Comparative instability in the Balkans and the Middle East”
Spring semester Distinguished Speaker Series on Europe and the Arab Spring
Hosted by Professor Christopher Chivvis
12 Februrary 2013
Andrew Weiss, Director of the RAND Center for Russia and Eurasia; former member of the National Security Council Staff during the Clinton Administration
“Russia and the Crisis in Syria”
28 February 2013
Sir Peter Westmacott, British Ambassador to the United States;Former British Ambassador to France and Turkey
“Britain’s perspective on recent developments in the Middle East”
25 March 2013
Ambassador Namik Tan, Turkish Ambassador to the United States and Ambassador Ross Wilson, Former US Ambassador to Turkey (2005-2008)
“The Turkish Perspective on Europe And The Middle East”
2 April 2013
Julianne Smith, Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President
“A Conversation with Julianne Smith”
9 April 2013
Ambassador Charles P. Ries, Vice President, International at the RAND Corporation; Coordinator for Economic Transitions in Iraq (2007-2008); US Ambassador to Greece (2004-2007); Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs (2000-2004)
Erik Jones, Director of SAIS European Studies Program; Director of the Bologna Institute for Policy Research, Johns Hopkins University SAIS; Head of Europe, Oxford Analytica
“How the United States and Europe Can Cooperate in the Middle East"