PARTIAL LIST OF SPEAKERS, 2006-2007
This list is a compilation by ACFR's Washington staff of speakers used in the Committees and at the Annual Conference during the 2006-2007 season. It appears on this web site to give interested parties an idea of the sorts of speakers ACFR employs and should not be taken as a permanent roster of expert talent.
This list is a compilation by ACFR's Washington staff of speakers used in the Committees and at the Annual Conference during the 2006-2007 season. It appears on this web site to give interested parties an idea of the sorts of speakers ACFR employs and should not be taken as a permanent roster of expert talent.
Taner Akcam, Visiting Associated Professor, History Department, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota
The Armenian Genocide and The Question of Turkish Responsibility
Mohamed Ahmad Al Thani, Former Minister of Commerce and Commerce of State of Qatar
U.S. Middle-East Policies: Successes, Failures, and the Way Forward
Zainab al-Suwaij, Executive Director, American Islamic Congress; Co-founder of the Iraqi Women's Higher Council
The Continuing Crisis of Islam
Arthur Alexander, Consultant; Former President of the Japanes Economic Institute (JEI)
Japan's Economic Rebirth: Prospects and Lessons Learnt
Martin E. Andersen, Chief of Strategic Communications and Adjunct Professor, Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies (CHDS), National Defense University (NDU); Former Legislative Assistant for Foreign Policy and Defense for Senate Majority Whip Cranston
Latin America's Shift to the Left: Pantomime, Magical Realism* or Something More?
Walter Andersen, Associate Director, South Asia studies, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University
India, Kashmir, and Pakistan
Edward E. Atkeson,
Iraq from a Vietnam veteran's perspecttive
Andrew Bacevich, Professor of International Relations, Boston University
The Limits of American Military Power
Mongi Bahloul, Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Sfax
Political and Social Islam: An Insider's View
Pauline Baker, President, Fund for Peace
Weak and Failing States: What are they? How do we recognize them? What do they signify? How should we respond?
Peter Baker, Staff Writer, Washington Post
Kremlin Rising, Putin's Russia
Zeyno Baran, Director and Senior Fellow, Center for Eurasian Policy, Hudson Institute
Dilemmas of Modernization among Islamic Women
Scott Bates, Vice-president and Senior Fellow for National Security, Center for National Policy
Inside the War on Terror
Rand Beers, President, National Security Network, Former Counter Terrorism Advisor at the NSC; Former National Security Advisor to Kerry-Edwards Presidentail Campaign 2005
Iraq and the War on Terror
Raul Benitez, School of International Service, American University
US and Mexico Relations
Barbara Bodine, Visiting Scholar and Wilhelm Felllow, Center for International Studies (CIS) Persian Gulf Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
The Middle East - Where is It Going and How Will We know When It gets There?
Max Boot, Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today
Steven Bosworth, Dean, Fletcher School, Tufts University; Former US Ambassador to South Korea
North Korea- Next Steps and Final Desination?
Barbara Bowie-Whitman, Trade Policy Coordinator, Department of State
Century of the Americas - Possible Dream or Doomed to Disillusion
Najmeh Bozorgmehr, Journalist, Financial Times; Former Visiting Fellow at Brookings Institution
View from Tehran
John J. Brandon, Director of International Relations Programs and Associate Director of the Washington, DC office, The Asia Foundation
US Policy Towards Southeast Asia in a Post September 11th Era
Janet E. Breslin-Smith, Former staffer for Senator Lloyd Benson and Patrick Leahy; Former Professor of National Security Strategy at the National war College
War & Transformation: The Limits of Technology
William J. Cabaniss, Jr, Former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic
My Challenges & Experiences as U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic and U.S.Foreign Policy and Europe
Brian E. Carlson, Senior Liaison for the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Department of State; Former US Ambassador to Latvia
Does the world Hate America and What Can We Do about it? or Combatting Anti-Americanism
James Carroll, Columnist, Boston Globe
America At War
Carey Cavanaugh, Director, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, University of Kentucky, Former Ambassador/Special Negotiator on Conflicts in Eurasia; Co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group; Acting Special Cyprus Coordinator
American Diplomacy: Whatever Happened to Walking Softly?
Lincoln Chafee, Former senator from Rhode Island
American Credibility in the Middle East
Gordon G. Chang, Author
The emerging Partnership of China and Russia
Joseph Cirincione, Senior Vice President for National Security and Internnational Policy, Center for American Progress
Nuclear Proliferation
John Clark, Senior Research Fellow, Sagamore Institute
Duane R. Clarridge, Director, The Honorable Company Freedom Fighters; Former Chief of the Counter Terrorism Center, CIA
Espionage - the human factor and why agents count
Patrick Clawson, Deputy Director, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Getting Ready for a Nuclear Ready Iran
Steven C. Clemons, Senior Fellow and Director, American Strategy Program, The New America Foundation
American Foreign Policy and the War on Terror
Herman J. Cohen, President, Cohen and Woods International, Former Ambassador to Senegal, Gambia; Former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
Africa: Is There a Light at the End of the Tunnel"
Isaac Cohen, President, CEO, Inverway LLC
Inter-American Relations After Del Plata
Dean Collinwood, Professor of Asian Politics, University of Utah
Whither the New Japan?
Patrick Colloton, Department of Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School, U.S. Army Special Forces officer
Technical Military issues of key concern in the War in Iraq
Gustavo Coronel, International energy Consultant; Former Head of the Hydrocarbons Division of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC
A Petrostate under Populist Rule: the Case of Venezuela
Ed Corr, Senior Research Fellow, International Program Center, University of Oklahoma; Former Ambassador to Peru, Bolivia and El Salvador
Latin America and Energy
Frederick William Crook, President, The China Group
China Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections
Barbara Crossette, Author, Former foreign correspondent for The New York Times
Failing the Public: Foreign Policy and the Media
Lee Cullum, Journalist and Commentator,
American Power and the Rise of China
Walter L. Cutler, Former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Zaire; Former President of the Meridien International Center
Saudi Arabia and the Balance of Power in the Gulf
Sunil Dasgupta, Visiting Assistant Professor, Security Studies Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
US and India
Charles Davidson, Editor and CEO, The America Interest
Jay C. Davis, Former National Security Fellow, Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore National Lab; Founding Director, Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Non-Proliferation: Iran and North Korea
Francis Deng, Center for Displaced Persons, Johns Hopkins; Former Sudanese Ambassador to the US
Darfur in the Context of Sudan's Wars
Joseph Derdzinksi, U.S. Airforce Academy
Global Democratization: The Moroccan Experience
Robert Donaldson, Trustees Professor of Political Science, University of Tulsa, Director, Tulsa Committee on Foreign Relations
Putin's Russia: Does It Deserve to be Kicked Out of the G-8 Club?
Thomas A. Donnelly, Resident Fellow, Defense and Security Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy and Research (AEI)
Iraq and the Long War
Justin Doyle, USAID, Former Counsel for Legal & Treaty Affairs with the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai
Perspectives of an American Couple Working in the Middle East
Debbie Doyle, Educator, Perspectives of an American Couple Working in the Middle East
Perspectives of an American Couple Working in the Middle East
William Drozdiak, American Council on Germany
Germany in Search of a Merkel Miracle
Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
US- China Relations: Progress and Prospects
Drew Erdmann, Former Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Higher Education in Iraq; State Department Policy Planning Staff
Options for Iraq
Kishwer Falkner, Baroness Falkner of Margravine, Member of British House of Lords
Europe's Experience with Home Grown Terrorism
William J. Fallon, Commander, US Central command
US Central CommandND: A Briefing on Our Mission
Roxanne Farmafarmian, Donner Scolar, Cambridge University, Board member Qatar Stdies Assoc.; Editorial board Cambridge Review of International Studies
Iran: Rogue on the sideline or Lynchpin to Middle East Peace
Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University
The War of the World
Dexter Filkins, 2006 - 2007 Niemen Fellow, Harvard University; Former Baghdad Correspondent for The New York Times
Experiences of Foreign Correspondent
Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Nonproliferation, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
Nuclear Proliferation in Iran and North Korea -- and the black market network that helped them both
Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Port Security is Still a House of Cards
Jason Forrester, Research Director, Nuclear Threat Reduction Campaign (NTRC)
Options for Iraq
Hillel Fradkin, Director, Center for Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World, Hudson Institute
The Continuing Crisis in Islam
Erich Frankland, Director, International Studies Program, Casper College, Wyoming
A Status Report on Al Qaeda
Claudia Fritsche, Ambassador of the Principality of Liechtenstein to the United States
The US and the UN
Francis Fukuyama, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the International Development Program, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University
Is There a Post-Bush Foreign Policy?
Manouchehr Ganji, Founder and Secretary General, Flag of Freedom Organization of Iran (FFO)
Defying the Iranian Revolution: From a Minister to the Shah to a Leader of Resistance
Adam Garfinkle, Editor, The American Interest
Iraq and Mideast Realities
Jean Garrison, University of Wyoming
U.S.Strategies for Relations With China
Melvin Goodman, Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy
The Decline and Fall of the CIA
Tim Greeff, Deputy Legislative Director, League of Conservation Voters
Global Warming: International Impacts and Key Solutions in a Changing Climate
Donald P. Gregg, Executive Director, The Korea Society; Former US Ambassador to Korea
U.S.-Korean Relations: An Alliance Under Stress
David Gries, Executive Director, China Vitae; President, Asian Strategies Group
China - The Next Ten years
Julius A. Gylys, Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Toledo
Emerging China: Potential Conflicts Internally and Externally
Carol A. Haave, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Counter Intelligence and Security, Department of Defense; Former Counterintelligence for the State Department
Counter Intelligence and Security
Thomas X. Hammes, Senior Military Fellow, Institute for National Security studies, National Defense University
Modern Warfare
Husain Haqqani, Associate Professor of International Relations, Boston University; Former Ambassador for Pakistan to Sri Lanka and advisor to Pakistani Prime Ministers
Pakistan: Nuclear but Dysfunctional
Ahmed Hashim, Associate Professor of Strategic Studies, US Naval War College
Future of Warfare: Insurgency in Iraq and Beyond
Henry L. Henderson, Director of the Chicago Office, Natural Resource Defense Council
The International Politics of Global Warming
Mikkal Herberg, Research Director, Asian Energy Security Program, National Bureau of Asian Research
Summer Extravaganza - China's search for Energy Security: Implications for U.S. Policy
Nigel S. Hey, Author, Former senior administrator at Sandia National Laboratories
How 'Star Wars' Ended the Cold War Early
Wayland Holyfield, Legislative Assistant, U.S. Congressman Bart Gordon
South Asia: Experiences of a Health worker in Pakistan and a Humanitarian Affairs worker in Sri Lanka after the Tsunami
Wang Hongying, Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Public Policy, Syracuse University
China in the World
Thomas Hubbard, Former U.S. Ambassador to ROK
Twin Challenges on the Korean Peninsula
Vicki Huddleston, Non-resident Felllow, Brookings Institution; Former U.S. Ambassador to Mali and Madagascar; deputy assistant secretary of state for Africa and Director of Cuban Affairs, State Dept
Memories of Fidel - U.S-Policy in Post-Fidel Cuba
Robert E. Hunter, Senior Advisor, Rand Corporation; Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO
Iraq, Iran, Israel and the Middle East: What do we really need and want?
Lawrence Husick, Senior Fellow, Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security, Foreign Policy Research Institute,
Network Terror: Terrorism, Disruption and the Need for Continuity Planning
Fred C. Ikle, Distinguished Scholar, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy
Annihilation from Within: The Ultimate Threat to Nations
Barry Jacobs, Director of Strategic Studies, Office of Government and International Affairs, American Jewish Committee
Israel - What Now?
Tamar Jacoby, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Insitute for Policy Research
The Great Immigration Policy Debate
Doug Johnson, Executive Director, Center for the Victims of Torture
Torture and the War on Terror
James L. Jones, Former Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
Public Opinion and Foreign Policy
Charles Kartman, Former Executive Director of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organisation (KEDO)
The Quiet Crises: North Korea
Farooq Kathwari, Chairman, President, CEO, Ethan Allen, Inc.
Globalization and Islam
Nibras Kazimi, Visiting Scholar, Hudson Institute
What do the Jihadists Want?
William Kirby, Geisinger Professor of History and Director, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University
China's Future (In Light of its Past)
Elie D. Krakowski, Senior Fellow, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Former Special Assistant to the US Assistant Secretary of Defense
Afghanistan: Where to Next in the War on Terror?
Michael Krepon, Founding President, Henry L. Stimson Center
Nuclear Deals and Nuclear Dangers in South Asia
Manjeet N. Kripalani, Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
First Annual Globalization Outllook Series: The Emergence of the New India
David M. Lampton, Dean of Faculty and Director of China Studies, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University
China's Growing Power and What it Means for the World
Jim Landers, Dalllas Morning News
Lessons from Dubai: Balancing the Foreign Investment and National Security Priorities of the United States
Robert D. Langenkamp, Director, National Energy-Environment Law and Policy Institute, University of Tulsa; Former U.S. Department of Energy Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oil, Natural Gas and Shale Resources
The Politics of Oil
Leslie S. Lebl, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council of the US; Former Minister-Counselor for Political Affairs, U.S. Mission to the European Union in Brussels
The U.S., the European Union and the Greater Middle East: Security Beyond Borders
Satu P. Limaye, Director, East-West Center Washington
The Rise of India?
Julian Lindley-French, Senior Scholar, Center for Applied Policy, University of Munich
Why America Needs Europe?
Thomas W. Lippman, Adjunct Scholar, Middle East Institute; Former Middle East bureau chief and diplomatic correspondent, Washington Post
What's Next in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East?
Nancy Lubin, President, JNA Associates, Inc.
Central Asia on the Brink: U.S. Policy Assistance and Challenges Ahead
Richard G. Lugar, Senator, Indiana, U.S. Senate
Barry C. Lynn, Senior Fellow, The New America Foundation
End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation
Amir Maimon, Minister/Counsellor, Embassy of Israel to the united States of America
Israel and its Security Challenges
Alexandros P. Mallias, Ambassador of Greece to the United States of America
US/Greece Relations
Talbot Manvel, Adjunct Professor of Naval Architecture, U.S. Naval Academy
The Aircraft Carrier: America’s Premier Instrument of the Strategy of Forward Deployment
Jeremy Martin, Director, Energy Program, Institute of the Americas
Latin America's Lean Left
Edward Masters, Co-Chairman, U.S. Indonesia Society, Former President. U.S. - Indonesia Society; U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia; Former President of the National Policy Association
Can Indonesia's New Democracy Defeat Radical Islam?
Eric S. Mathewson, Commander, 57th Operations Group, Nellis AFB, Nevada, U.S. Airforce; Former ACC Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System Management Organization chief, Langley AFB
The Futures of Warfare?
Gale Mattox, Professor, Political Science, U.S. Naval Academy
Transformation of NATO: A Challenge for the Transatlantic Relationship
Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika, Ambassador, Embassy of Zambia to the United States
Human Rights in Africa
John McCormick, Chairman, Political Science department, IUPUI
The European Superpower
Valerie J. McNevin, Executive Vice-President, Strategy, Risk and R&D for Cybrinth, LLCC; Former e-finance, e-security specialist for the World Bank and global advisor to US Treasury
Rethinking Intelligence: How the New Methods of Financing Terrorism are Changing and Challenging Us
Patrick Mendis, Author
The Future of Sudan and the Impact of Global Forces
E. Wayne Merry, Senior Associate, American Foreign Policy Council, Former State Department and Pentagon Official
Europe's Role in a Post-Eurocentric World
Miloš Mili?, Journallist, RTV B92, Belgrade, SCG
Transparency of War Crimes Tribunals in the Former Yugoslavia
Richard Millett, Senior Research Associate, North-South Center, University of Miami
The New Leftist Trend in Latin America
Walter Mondale, Senior Counsel, Dorsey & Whitney, LLP, Former Senator from Minnesota and Vice President of the US.
The 2006 Elections and Their Potential Impact on American Foreign Policy
William D. Montgomery, Author; Former career diplomat and U.S. Ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro and Bulgaria
Conflict Over Kosovo
Ronald W. Mortensen, USAID Office of Foreign disaster Assistance
Humanitarian Assistance and US Foreign Policy
Imad Moustapha, Ambassador of Syria to the United States
Syria: Challenges and Crisis
Joshua Muravchik, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy and Research (AEI)
Can the Middle East Become Democratic?
Vali R. Nasr, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
The Shia Revival
Susan Nathan, Author
Perception of US Foreign Policy in Israel from Palestinian -Israelis
Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science and Chair, Department of Political Science , Columbia University
Will China Democratize and Does It Matter?
Polly Nayak, Consultant, Former CIA senior executive
Is Pakistan 'Going Radical?
Paula Newberg, International consultant; Former special advisor to the United Nations in Afghanistan
Whither Afghanistan? The search for Peace in the Heart of Asia
Michael Newton, Acting Associate Clinical Professor at Law, Law School, Vanderbilt University
Post-conflict Justice: Critiques and Contributions as Seen Through the Trial of Saddam Hussein
Roger Noriega, Visiting Fellow (Western Hemisphere issues), American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy and Research (AEI); Former assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs (Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean) and United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States
The Future of Latin America: Can Democracy Deliver for the Region's Poor?
Donald E. Nuechterlein, Author; Served in the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Information Agency, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense
Defiant Superpower: The Price of American Hegemony
Michael O'Hanlon, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution
Hard Power: The New Politics of National Security
John O'Sullivan, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute; Editor-at-large of National Review
Europe, America and the Permanent Crisis
Robert B. Oakley, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies; Former Ambassador to Pakistan, Somalia, Zaire
Somalia: One More Time
George A. Obiozor, Ambassador of Nigeria to the United States
US - Nigerian Relations: An Overview
James Olson, CIA Officer-in-Residence, George Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A & M University; Former CIA operative
The Moral Dilemmas of the War on Terror
Eric T. Olson, Deputy Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), U.S. Navy
America's Role in the Global War on Terrorism
Kimberley Olson, Former Air Force fighter pilot who served under the first two Iraq administrators (Garner and Bremmer)
One Thousand Days On: Reflections of the first 100 days after the fall of Baghdad
Michael B. Oren, Senior Fellow, Shalem Center in Jerusalem
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present
Burak Özügergin, Counselor Political, Turkish Embassy, Washington
United States and Turkey: Traditional Alliance and Robust Partnership
Roland Paris, Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa
At War's End: Building Peace After Conflict
Ralph Peters, Author; Retired United states Army Lieutenant Colonel assigned to the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence
A World Of Trouble: The Twin Failures of ME Islam & Globalization, & what the Coming Crises Means for Us
Thomas A. Petrie, Principle, Petrie & Parkman
The Oil Peak
Robert Pfaltzgraff, Davis Professor of International Security Studies, Fletcher School, Tufts University
Weapons in Space
Juliana Geran Pilon, Research Professor of Politics and Culture and Earhart Fellow, Institute of World Politics (IWP)
Why America is Such a Hard Sell: Beyond Pride and Prejudice
Nidra Poller, Paris Editor, Pajamas Media; Journalist and French/US political affairs commentator
French Presidential Elections: All Is Not Won
Pierre-Richard Prosper, Counsel, Government Relations/International, Arent Fox; Former Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues
War Crimes in the 21st Century - Promoting the Rule of Law
Sonja Prostran, Judge , Second Municipal Court’s Criminal Department, Belgrade, Serbia
Transparency of War Crimes Tribunals in the Former Yugoslavia
Mark Lunsford Pryor, Senator of Arkansas, US Senate
Arkansas and Washington
Louise Richardson, Executive Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
What Terrorists Want: Understanding The Enemy, Containing the Threat
Dennis J. Richardson, Ambassador of Australia to the United States of America
Australia and the US: A Close and Enduring Relationship
Martin Rickerd, British Consulate General
Tackling the Big Issues - Priorities for British Global Policy
John A. Ritchie, Former Coordinator, U.S.-Mexico Border Affairs and US Consul General, Monterrey, Mexico
What is the Real Significance of the Growing Number of Left-of-Center Presidents in Latin America?
Gerald Robbins, Associate scholar, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Shifting Geopolitics/Geoeconomics of the Near East
Philippe Roger, Ecole des Hautes études
The EU from anti-American to Team Player
Abbas William Samii, Research Analyst, IAG/Center for Strategic studies, Center for Naval Analyses
The Democratic Process in Ahmadinejad's Iran: A Darkening Sky?
Martin Sampson,
Turkey: A Troubled Ally Spanning Europe and the Middle East
Phillip C. Saunders, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic studies , National Defense University (NDU)
China's Global Activism: Strategy, Drivers, and Tools
Kaleem Sayyed, World Health Organization
Sergey Sevastyanov, Director and Professor, International Studies Center, Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service, Senior Fulbright Scholar, University of Louisville
Putin to 2008 and After: What Can We Expect in Russian- American Relations?
Shihab Shamma, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland
Prognosis for Iraq (is still hopeful)
David Shorr, Program Officer, Policy Analysis and Dialogue, The Stanley Foundation
End Politics Aside - what Kind of Superpower Do We Want To Be?
Leon V. Sigal, Director, Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project, Social Science Research Council
The Regional Risks of Misplaying North Korea
James B. Smith, Former deputy commander of the Joint Warfighting Center, U.S. Joint Forces Command and Professor at the National War College
War & Transformation: The Limits of Technology
Christopher N. Smith, Honorary Consul Kingdom of Denmark
Export Now!
Henry Sokolski, Executive Director, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
Plan "B" for Iran
Elizabeth Spiro-Clark, Former career Foreign service Officer and former Special Assistant for Africa and Europe to the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs
Should we write off promoting democracy? Or is promoting democracy in our national interest?
James B. Steinberg, Dean, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public affairs, University of Texas
The East Asian Century? Opportunities and Challenges for the United States
Edward Steinfeld, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
China’s energy sector and their implications for the local, national, and global environments, and the private sector
Roger Stern, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Energy Economics and Nuclear Developments in Iran
Rachel Stohl, Senior Analyst, Center for Defense Information (CDI)
Weapons of Individual Destruction: Understanding the small arms trade.
Antony Sullivan, Associate, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies , University of Michigan
The Riddle of Palestine: Arab Politics, U.S. Policy, and the Dialectic of Civilizations
William H. Taft, Counsel Resident, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, Former Legal Adviser to the U.S. Department of State.
Law and the Lone Superpower: The Future of the International Legal System
Henry Tang, Financial Secretary, Hong Kong
Hong Kong's Economic Promise in the 21st Century
Christiaan W.A. Timmermans, President of the Chamber, Court of Justice of the European Communities, Luxembourg
Four Freedoms of the European Union
James Traub, The New York Times
Does the UN Matter?
Garrick Utley, Chairman of the Board, American Council on Germany, International Network Journalist
Developing Relations with Europe
Sanam Vakil, Assistant Professor, Middle East Studies, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
Iran's Role in Middle East Conflicts: Consequences to the U.S. and the Future of the Region
David G. Victor, Adjunct senior Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations
CFR Taskforce on Energy and U.S. Foreign Policy
Milton Viorst, Journalist and author
Storm from the East: The Struggle Between the Arab World and the Christian West
Adam Ward, Executive Directive, International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS)- US
Europe, America and International Security Challenges
Mark Ward, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, USAID
Managing US Aid in a Post-9/11 world: What Difference does it Make?
Jacqueline Lang Weaver, A.A. White Professor of Law, Law Center, University of Houston
The Future of the Traditional Petroleum-Based Economy: of Big Oil, Peak Oil,Chinese Oil, Flags and Open Doors.
Manfred Weber, Member of Parliament, European Union, Head of the CSU's "Young Union"
EU/US Relations: Challenges and Opportunities for Transatlantic Relations
George Weigel, Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center, William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies at EPPC
The Civilizational Crisis In Europe
Kenneth R. Weinstein, Chief Executive Officer, Hudson Institute
The Continuing Crisis in Islam
David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
US Policy Toward the Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities
Gary Wheeler, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UAMS College of Medicine
Pandemic flu: Managing the Risk
Philip C. Wilcox, President, Foundation for Middle East Peace, retired State Dept
Is 2006 the Year for Peace or Renewed Conflict between Israel and Palestine?
Edward J. Williams, Professor Emeritus, Political Science and Latin American Studies, University of Arizona
Mexican Elections and Their Implications
Richard Wolfson, Benjamin F. Wissler Professor of Physics, Middlebury College
Climate Change: Update 2007
Makoto Yamanaka, Consul General of Japan, Consulate of Japan, San Francisco
Japan
Asher Yarden, Consul General of Israel to the Southwest
Israel in the US SouthWest
Albert C. Zapanta, President and CEO, United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce, Washington
Understanding Mexico's 2006 elections: A Political and Social Milestone
Robert Zarate, Research Fellow, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
Fighting the War on Terror: What Should We Have Learned from the Cold War?
Karl Zavitkovsky, Director, Office of Economic Development, City of Dallas
Policy Roundtable: The International Business Strategy for the City of Dallas
Alan Zelicoff, Medical-Legal Review
Recognizing Global Pandemics - a collaborative challenge for the international Community
James G. Zumwalt, Marine veteran of the Persian Gulf and Vietnam wars
Wars Past, Present and Potential Conflicts of the Future--Knowing The Enemy
