BRADLEY LECTURE SERIES FALL 2010 - SPRING 2011
Dov Zakheim, former Undersecretary of Defense and Comptroller will speak on "Mr. Gates and His Reforms". Tuesday, October 19. Iron Gate Restaurant, 1734 N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-2911. 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm.
The first fall seminar on “conservative foreign policy” will be on Thursday, September 30 at 6:30pm at the Iron Gate restaurant (1734 N St NW). Colin Dueck from George Mason University will start off with a talk on “Theodore Roosevelt and Cowboy Diplomacy.” He just published his new book, Hard Line, a history of the foreign policy of the Republican Party from Taft to George W. Bush. The subject of his talk did not make it to the final version of the book, so treat it as an incentive to purchase the tome. It’s in paperback!
BRADLEY LECTURE SERIES FALL 2009 - SPRING 2010
Gabriel Schoenfeld will speak on his upcoming book, Necessary Secrets: National Security, The Media, and the Rule of Law (Norton, 2010). A prolific writer, he is currently a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute (Washington, DC) as well as a scholar at the Witherspoon Institute (Princeton, NJ). Some of his writings can be found online at http://gabrielschoenfeld.com/. May 25, 2010. Iron Gate Restaurant, 1734 N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-2911. 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm.
Gen. (ret.) Trey Obering and Amb. Eric Edelman will speak on “Missile Defense: the Bush and the Obama versions.” Gen. Obering’s last government position was as the Director of the Missile Defense Agency (OSD). Amb. Eric Edelman, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, is currently a fellow at CSBA as well as a visiting scholar at SAIS. April 22, 2010. Iron Gate Restaurant, 1734 N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-2911. 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm.
Kori Schake, former foreign policy advisor for the McCain campaign and fellow at the Hoover Institution, will speak on “America as a Rising Power.” March 25, 2010. Room 806, Rome Building, 1619 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. A buffet lunch will be served at 12:15. Discussion begins at 12:30 and concludes no later than 2:00 pm.
"The Quadrennial Defense Review: An Initial Assessment" - Thomas Mahnken of the Naval War College and former Deputy Assistant of Defense. March 8, 2010. Iron Gate Restaurant, 1734 N Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20036-2911. 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm.
"A One-Year Assessment of Obama's Security Policy" - Mackubin Owens is an American military historian and conservative political figure. He is currently the Associate Dean of Academics for Electives and Directed Research and Professor of Strategy and Force Planning for the Naval War College, as well as a contributing editor to National Review. January 14, 2010. Iron Gate Restaurant, 1734 N Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20036-2911. 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm.
"Appeasement and Engagement: Are they the same thing?" - Eric Edelman (b. 1951) is a former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (2003-2005), former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Finland (1998-2001), and former Principal Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs (2001-2003). He is a visiting scholar at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at SAIS and Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. December 17, 2009. Rome 806. 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm.
"Human Dignity and Freedom: The Unrealism of Their Omission" - Ambassador Mark Lagon is Executive Director and CEO of the Polaris Project and former Ambassador-at-Large and Director of the U.S. Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, "The Crucial Role of Civil Society in Fighting Human Trafficking: As Much in America as the World". December 10, 2009. Rome 806. 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm.
"What George Washington has to say about the 21st Century" - Charles Doran is a professor of Andrew W. Mellon Professor of International Relations; Director of the Center for Canadian Studies. He is a past president of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States. Awarded the Donner Medal for distinguished scholarship in Canadian Studies. He was the second American to receive the Governor General’s International Award for Canadian Studies, the highest honor given to a scholar in the field. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he is also a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. November 12, 2009. Rome 806, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm.
"Obama, Reagan, and Nuclear Abolition" - Paul Lettow is an Adjunct Senior Fellow for the Council on Foreign Relations. Former senior director for strategic planning and institutional reform, National Security Council staff. Author of Ronald Reagan and His Quest to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Random House, 2005). Current work focuses on strengthening the nuclear nonproliferation regime. October 8, 2009. Rome 806, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm.
"Learning from Our Mistakes" - Eliot Cohen is the Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University and founding director of the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies there. A graduate of Harvard College, he received his Ph.D. in political science at Harvard in 1982. September 17, 2009. Rome 806, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm.
"Religion, Identity and Global Governance". Patrick James is a professor of international relations at the University of Southern California. He has written widley on the origin of foreign war and on domestic political instability. A former editor of the International Studies Quarterly, he has long been a student of international ethnic and religious strife. He is the author of a new book carrying the title of his lecture at SAIS. A light lunch will be served. RSVP to Starr Lee @ slee255@jhu.edu or(202) 663-5714. April 19, 2010. 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm in Rome 806.
Keynsian Intervention and Its Effects on the U.S. and World Economy”
October 12, 2009
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Rome Building , Room 812
Jonathan Kirshner, Professor of Political Science, Cornell University, will deliver this lecture. Mr. Kirshner is the author of "Currency and Coercion: The Political Economy of International Monetary Power; and, Appeasing Bankers: Financial Caution on the Road to War," both published at the Princeton Press. Light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to Starr Lee at 202-663-5714 or slee255@jhu.edu.
"Is America in Decline, Again?" - Aaron Friedberg, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University. February 12, 2009. Rome 806. 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm.
"Conservative Internationalism" - Henry Nau, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director, U.S. - Japan South Korea Legislative Exchange Program - The Elliott School of International Affairs. March 12, 2009. Rome 806 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm.
"A Conservative Take on U.S. Defense Policy" - Thomas Mahnken is an adjunct professor at SAIS. March 26, 2009. Rome 806 12:00 - 2:00 pm.
"Nuclear Iran: Conservatism's Abject Failure to Ignore Mortal Perils, and Liberalism's Splendid Success" - Mark Helprin, novelist; fellow at the Claremont Institute. April 16, 2009. Rome 806 12:00 - 2:00 pm.
"No more adventures, but no isolationism" - Robert Kaplan is an American journalist, currently a National Correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly. His writings have also been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic, The National Interest and The Wall Street Journal. April 27, 2009. Rome 806 12:00 - 2:00 pm.
"The Sovereignty Solution" - Anna Simons works at the Naval Postgraduate School. She is an expert on special forces (the subject of one of her books, "The Company They Keep"), low-intensity conflict, terrorism, as well as Africa. May 14, 2009. Rome 806 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm. http://faculty.nps.edu/asimons/docs/the_sovereignty_solution.pdf
Presentation by John C. Hulsman & A. Wess Mitchell on their recent book: "The Godfather Doctrine" (Princeton University Press), on Wednesday, May 6, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm. The presentation will be held in the Rome Building (1619 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.), in Room 806 and will be moderated by Professor Jakub Grygiel.