Past FPRI Events (2007)

Friday, December 7

FPRI Asia Program Luncheon

A Luncheon with Lee Tae-sik
South Korea’s Ambassador to the U.S.

Lee Tae-sik is a career diplomat who has served his country for more than four decades and across four continents. He has served as the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the United States since November 2005. Ambassador Lee will discuss free trade issues and the North Korea issue.

Monday, December 3, 2007

Energy Security in Pennsylvania and the Nation

Governor Edward G. Rendell

Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell will give the keynote talk at a one-day conference on “Energy Security in Pennsylvania and the Nation” being held by FPRI’s Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

Thursday, November 29

FPRI BookTalk

A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev

Vladislav M. Zubok
Associate Professor of History, Temple University, and Associate Scholar, FPRI

Vladimir Zubok will discuss his new book, A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (University of North Carolina Press, 2007). Zubok argues Western interpretations of the Cold War—both realist and neoconservative—have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin’s pragmatism or its aggressiveness. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, he offers a Soviet perspective on the greatest standoff of the twentieth century.

Tuesday, November 27

Luncheon with American Council on Germany

Russia: Where Is It Headed?

Klaus Segbers
Professor of Political Science and East European Politics, Osteuropa Institut, and Professor of Political Science, Free University of Berlin

Klaus Segbers has been director of the Summer School on Global Politics, Fudan University, Shanghai, and director of a masters program on international relations in Dubai. From 2000 to 2003, he was Dean and Director of the Institute for East European Studies at the Free University. From 2002 to 2004, he directed a research project on Global City Regions' Governance, funded by Volkswagen Foundation. Dr. Segbers has been a guest scholar at numerous institutions, including Stanford, George Washington, Columbia, Harvard,and Oxford Universities, MGIMO (Moscow), HSE (Moscow), and IP Institutes in Beijing and Shanghai.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

2007 Annual Dinner

Featuring an Address by

Philip Zelikow
Former Director of the 9/11 Commission

on America’s Role in the World

Philip Zelikow is the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia and serves on the advisory panel for global development of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. From 2005-07 he was Counselor of the State Department, and in 2003-04 he was executive director of the 9/11 Commission, the most wide-ranging government investigation in U.S. history. In 2001 he directed the Carter-Ford commission on federal election reform, which successfully guided legislation and spending to revamp America's election systems. From 2001-03 he was also a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.

When not in government, Zelikow has taught and directed research programs at Harvard University and at University of Virginia, where he directed the Miller Center of Public Affairs from 1998-2005. His books include The Kennedy Tapes (with Ernest May, Norton); Essence of Decision (revised edition with Graham Allison, Longman); and Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (with Condoleezza Rice, Harvard University Press).

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West

Lawrence Husick

This event, sponsored by the Friends of the Huntingdon Valley Library, features a viewing of the 2005 film Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West, followed by commentary by FPRI Senior Fellow Lawrence Husick.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Temple University Event

Terrorism on the Home Front: A Panel Discussion

Marc Sageman

FPRI Fellow Marc Sageman will be part of a panel discussion sponsored by Temple University's College of Liberal Arts on the ways people in Britain, Spain, Germany, Pakistan, and elsewhere have turned to violence and terror as a way to achieve political aims. Other panelists are Tom Ridge, former secretary of Homeland Security, Ian Lustick of the University of Pennsylvania, and Jessica Stern of Harvard Law School and University. See event details at Temple University’s website for registration information and further details.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Sponsor Forum Luncheon

Michael Radu Trip Report

Spain, Belgium, Romania and Morocco

Michael Radu is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia and Co-Chairman of FPRI’s Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

Dr. Radu will address a variety of issues, including Islam in Europe, Immigration, the possible break-up of each of Belgium and the UK, integration of Eastern Europe into Europe, and terrorism in the Maghreb.

Monday, October 29, 2007

12th Annual Templeton Lecture on Religion and World Affairs

Americanism vs. Islamism: A Personal Perspective

Zuhdi Jasser
Board Chairman, American Islamic Forum for Democracy

Dr. Jasser is a former U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander and served in the U.S. Navy as a medical officer from 1988–99. He finished his military service as a Lieutenant Commander with an Honorable Discharge in 1999 and is now in the private practice of internal medicine and nuclear cardiology in Phoenix, Arizona.

In 2002, as a result of what he felt to be a paucity of Muslim scholarship demonstrating the synergy of American democracy and its founding principles with the religion of Islam, he set out to form AIFD. He felt that many Muslims came to America in fact somewhat similarly to our founding fathers and so many others—seeking freedom, liberty, and the American dream in order to escape religious persecution from “Islamic” lands. He felt that AIFD could articulate in commentary and scholarship the fact that many Muslims believe they are able to practice their faith more freely and more Islamically (in a personal and secular fashion which is most suited to preserve one’s faith) in America than in any other place in the world. AIFD promotes Dr. Jasser’s view that it is the responsibility of Muslims in America and worldwide to lead the effort to combat Islamism and the ideologies which feed the terrorism committed by Muslims in the name of Islam.

Monday, October 15, 2007

Program on National Security Conference

“Mind the Gap”: Post-Iraq Civil-Military Relations in America

A Conference Sponsored by the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Reserve Officers Association

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Sarkozy: A New Era in French-American Relations?

Co-sponsored by the French-American Chamber of Commerce

Host-Sponsored by Duane Morris

• 6:00 PM Networking & Refreshments
• 6:30 PM Welcome - Presentations - Q&A
• 7:30 PM Networking & Refreshments

David Appia, Minister Counselor for Economic Affairs, Embassy of France, Washington, DC

David Appia was named Minister Counselor for Economic Affairs in July 2006. In this position, he is responsible for the economic offices in the U.S. and head of the Economic Mission at the French Embassy in Washington D.C. Immediately prior to his posting in Washington, he was Minister Counselor for Economic Affairs in Italy, where he coordinated the economic offices of Italy, Greece, the Balkans, Cyprus and Malta.

From 1997 to 2002, he served as Deputy Director of Multilateral Affairs at the Office of Economic and Commercial Affairs (DREE) at the Ministry of Economy and Finance in Paris.He has also been posted in Egypt as Economic and Commercial Counselor at the French Embassy, as well as again in Paris, where he was head of the Trade Policy Office at the DREE. Mr. Appia’s career includes a previous posting from 1988 to 1991 at the French Embassy in Washington, where he served as Deputy to the Minister Counselor of Economic and Commercial Affairs.

Mr. Appia holds degrees from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (1979), Paris X (1979), the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (1982) and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (1985).

Jean-Loup Archawski, retired CEO and founding member of FACC-Philadelphia

Jean-Loup Archawski is a French citizen born in Neuilly-sur-Seine who has lived thirty-nine years in the United States. He acquired his primary education in Connecticut and his secondary and college education in France, where he earned a master’s degree as an economist from Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique in Paris.

After retiring as a commander from the French Navy, he occupied various positions in strategic planning in the shipping industry. He returned to the U.S. in 1978 to establish and head the U.S. subsidiary of Societe Industrielle Lesaffre, Lille, France, which grew to become the world's largest producer of baker’s yeast. He was a part time faculty member at the University of Villanova’s College of Commerce and Finance and is retired from Henkels & McCoy, a Pennsylvania-based engineering firm and telecommunications contractor.

Mr. Archawski acts as liaison officer for French officials visiting Philadelphia. He served in that capacity during the call of the French Navy’s cadets’ Training Ship, Jeanne d’Arc. He also escorted a French regional government delegation visiting Philadelphia, calling on the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and on the Pan American Center in New York City.

Harvey Sicherman, President, Foreign Policy Research Institute

Dr. Harvey Sicherman is President of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He has extensive experience in writing, research, and analysis of U.S. foreign and national security policy, both in government and out. He served as Special Assistant to Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr. (1981-82) and was a member of the Policy Planning Staff of Secretary of State James A. Baker, III (1991-92). Dr. Sicherman was also a consultant to Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman, Jr. (1982-87) and to Secretary of State George Shultz (1988).

Dr. Sicherman earned his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author or editor of numerous books and articles, including America the Vulnerable: Our Military Problems and How To Fix Them, co-edited with John Lehman (2002); “Uncertain Steps: American Jews in the Public Square,” in Jews and the American Public Square: Debating Religion and Republic by Alan Mittleman, Robert Licht, and Jonathan D. Sarna (2002); ’A Cautionary Tale: The U.S. and the Arab-Israeli Conflict” in Eagle Rules, ed. by Robert J. Lieber; “Blurred Focus: U.S. Policy Toward Russia in the Yeltsin Era,” in The Lost Equilibrium: International Relations in the Post-Soviet Era, ed. by Oles and Bettie Smolansky (2000); “History of Israel Since 1948,” Encyclopedia Britannica (2000).

His books also include Palestinian Autonomy, Self-Government and Peace (1993), and The Three Percent Solution and the Future of NATO (1982). Dr. Sicherman’s special areas of interest are Western Europe, the Middle East, and International Economics.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

2nd Annual Platinum Dinner

Exclusively for Platinum-Level Partners

A Private Dinner With John Hillen

Former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs John Hillen left the Bureau for Political-Military Affairs in early 2007, having previously served as Director of FPRI’s Program on National Security and as an FPRI Trustee. He is an accomplished business leader, author, soldier, and policy expert. A former Army paratrooper and special operations officer, he was decorated several times for actions in combat. He was also a consultant to ABC news; editor of Future Visions for U.S. Defense Policy, a Council on Foreign Relations study; and author of Blue Helmets: The Strategy of UN Military Operations. He holds a doctorate from Oxford.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007
6:00 reception 6:30 dinner and talk

Exclusively for Platnum-Level Partners.

The Prime Rib Restaurant
1701 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103 [display map]

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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

The State of Europe

Jeremy Black Professor of History, Exeter College (UK); Senior Fellow, FPRI

Thursday, September 20, 2007

FPRI Study Group on America and the West

Cicero and Tacitus on Empire: The Roman Tradition and Amercian Conceptions of Foreign Policy

E. Christian Kopff

Ancient Rome and contemporary America share traditions of consensual institutions and citizenship. In the course of a few generations both achieved hegemonic status in their world systems. Two important Roman statesmen, Cicero in his speech “On the Manilian Law” and Tacitus in his “Agricola,” reflected on the situation thus created for their government and society and for the people they dominated. What do their reflections and conclusions have to say to contemporary Americans in our parallel situation?

Dr. Kopff has taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder since 1973, where he has been Associate Director of the Honors Program since 1990. For about five of the last thirty years he has lived in Rome, Italy, teaching and studying. He currently works with the Classics Department of the University of Urbino, Italy on ancient Greek lyric poetry. His book, The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition (ISIBooks, 1999; third [paperback] edition 2001) is widely cited in the new Classical Education movement.

In recent years he has become increasingly interested in the reasons why some of the most creative societies in history, e.g. Renaissance Italy, Reformation Germany and the America of the Founding, were fascinated by the Greek and Latin cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. Why did Greece and Rome appeal to men as different as Dante and Machiavelli, Thomas More and Martin Luther, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson? He studies and teaches texts and traditions, from science to Sophocles, that arose in the ancient world and remain important and influential today, including the tradition of consensual self-rule, which the Greeks called democracy, and the religion of the Bible.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

The American Council on Germany and The Foreign Policy Research Institute cordially invite you to a

Discussion and Luncheon with Dr. John K. Glenn Director of Foreign Policy, The German Marshall Fund of the United States

on

New Leaders, New Opportunities? American and European Public Opinion in 2007

This event comes on the heels of the release of the 2007 Transatlantic Trends study — a major international public opinion survey examining American and European attitudes toward the U.S.-European relationship. The key European leaders who presided over the transatlantic rift that erupted over the War in Iraq have left office. In their place is a triumvirate of leaders who are forging closer ties with the United States. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicholas Sarkozy have a made a renewed Atlanticism a high priority, and Britain’s Gordon Brown can approach relations with the United States unencumbered by his predecessor's ties to the scandals of the Iraq war. At the official level, these efforts at rapprochement are shifting the transatlantic policy agenda toward the challenges of emerging global threats and concerns. This year’s Transatlantic Trends, the sixth annual survey, analyzes whether and how this spirit of working together at the official level is reflected in American and European public opinion on a range of global threats and policy issues. Transatlantic Trends is a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Compagnia di San Paolo, with additional support from Fundaçao Luso-Americana, Fundación BBVA, and The Tipping Point Foundation.

Dr. John K. Glenn joined the German Marshall Fund in 2004 as Director of Foreign Policy, responsible for management of the foreign policy Key Institutions and the Transatlantic Fellows and Research Fellowship programs. He is the primary author of the 2005 Transatlantic Trends report. Dr. Glenn is also a visiting scholar at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of The Johns Hopkins University. Before coming to the GMF, Dr. Glenn was Executive Director of the Council for European Studies, the leading American professional association for the study of Europe in the social sciences and humanities, based at Columbia University. In this post, he oversaw all of the Council's programs, including the 2002 and 2004 Conference of Europeanists and newly created thematic networks on immigration, welfare and social policy, and globalization. Dr. Glenn also held an appointment as visiting scholar and adjunct professor in European Union studies at New York University from 2000 to 2004. Previously, he served as a project manager at the Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. Dr. Glenn holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. from Harvard University and a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

What Students Should Know About 9/11 and the War on Terrorism

45-minute webcast

Secondary schools/classes may sign up to view the webcast live online and participate in the Q&A periods. All questions not answered during the session will be answered by email shortly thereafter. The webcast will feature panelists drawn from FPRI’s Center on Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Homeland Security, including Stephen Gale, Michael Radu, Lawrence Husick and Harvey Sicherman.

• Download materials for the 9/11 webcast

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

FPRI BookTalk

Robert D. Kaplan

on his new book

Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground

Tuesday, September 11
5:00 reception, 5:30 lecture

Free for Members of FPRI, $20 for Non-Members.
Bonus for FPRI Partners ($2,500 and above): Private Dinner Following

Union League of Philadelphia
140 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102 [display map]

• Reservations are required. RSVP 215 732 3774, ext 303 or lux@fpri.org.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Summer School at FPRI

The Battle for Muslim “Hearts and Minds”: A Situation Report from the Media Front Lines

Lawrence Husick, Senior Fellow, FPRI

It is often said that in addition to military campaigns, the conflict with radical Islam must be waged in the “hearts and minds” of Muslim societies.Lawrence Husick, FPRI Senior Fellow with the Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security, will report from the “front lines” of this media battlefield — the Internet. How are al Qaeda and other groups using media and the Internet to propagandize, recruit, and train, and how is the West counter-attacking in this important battle?Using the actual media, Husick will trace the techniques and technologies that make this war of ideas unlike any previous one.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Summer School at FPRI: BookTalk

Charm Offensive: How Chinas Soft Power is Transforming the World

Joshua Kurlantzick, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Joshua Kurlantzick is special correspondent for The New Republic and a visiting scholar in the Carnegie Endowment.He has covered Southeast Asia and China as a correspondent for US News and World Report and The Economist, and his writings on Asia have appered in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times Magazine, and many other publications.Kurlantzick’s new book, Charm Offensive (Yale University Press), focuses on China’s effort to influence politics and business in Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Summer School at FPRI

An Eyewitness Briefing on Iraq

Michael Noonan, Deputy Director, FPRI Program on National Security Studies

Michael Noonan is the managing director of FPRI's Program on National Security. His current research focuses on civil-military relations, defense transformation, and the military's role in the war on terrorism. A Captain in the U.S. Army Reserve, in June 2007 he returned from a 14-month deployment to Texas, Kuwait, and Iraq, where he served on a Military Transition Team (MiTT) with an Iraqi light infantry battalion in and around the northern city of Tal Afar. Among other professional affiliations, he is a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, a fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, and has consulted for the Institute for Defense Analyses. Mr. Noonan is a doctoral candidate in political science from Loyola University Chicago; his dissertation deals with civil-military relations and military effectiveness. His writings have appeared in Orbis, Parameters, National Security Studies Quarterly, FPRI Wire, and FPRI E-Notes.

Thursday, June 14, 2007

FPRI Study Group on America and the West

Reconstructing Western Principles in an Anti-Western Age

James Kurth

James Kurth, is the Claude Smith Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College, where he teaches defense policy, foreign policy, and international politics. Professor Kurth serves as the chair of the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and as Editor of its journal, Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs. He also served as past Co-Chair of FPRI’s History Institute for Teachers.

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

In honor of the Franklin Institute’s exhibit, “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs” (Feb. 3 – Sept. 30, 2007), FPRI presents

The Cynthia Robinson Memorial Lecture

From Before King Tut to Hosni Mubarak: Egypt’s Past, Present, and Future in a Novel by Naguib Mahfouz

Raymond Stock

Raymond Stock is writing a biography of Egyptian Nobel Laureate in Literature Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006), for Farrar, Straus & Giroux in New York, for which he has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship; Mahfouz cooperated with the project. Stock’s articles, poems and translations from the Arabic have appeared in publications including Bookforum, Davar ha-Shavua, Harper’s Magazine, Journal of Arabic Literature, The International Herald Tribune, London Magazine, The Middle East Quarterly, nest: a quarterly of interiors, Southwest Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, along with many others. His collected translations of Mahfouz’s works include Voices from the Other World ( 2002); Khufu’s Wisdom (2003); The Dreams (2004); The Seventh Heaven (2005); and Dreams of Departure (2007).

Thursday, May 31, 2007

FPRI BookTalk

The Truth About Syria

Barry Rubin

Syria has long presented a serious problem for the Middle East region and Western policy. With its mix of competing religious and ethnic groups, radical ideologies, and political repression, it is a 72,000-square-mile time bomb waiting to go off. Yet little is known about this country. In The Truth about Syria, (Palgrave MacMillan, 2007) Middle East expert Barry Rubin looks at the critical issues that have made the country the powderkeg of the Middle East and offers an insightful analysis of the effects of recent developments.

Saturday, May 5, 2007

Wei Jingsheng

China: The Cultural Revolution and Beyond

Cosponsored by the National Constitution Center and National Liberty Museum

Wei Jingsheng is China’s best-known activist for democracy and human rights. The most prominent participant in the Democracy Wall movement of 1979, Wei was imprisoned for more than a decade because of his writings. After a brief period of freedom during which he resumed his writings and prodemocracy activities, he was again imprisoned and later exiled in 1997. Mr. Wei has received the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Human Rights Award, the National Endowment for Democracy Award and many other awards. He is the author of The Courage to Stand Alone Letters from Prison and Other Writings, which includes a collection of essays he wrote on toilet paper while in jail. His writings from the Democracy Wall have been widely published, including in The Fifth Modernization a collection that takes its title from Mr. Wei's most famous essay, an eloquent call for human rights in China.

Note: This lecture is the public portion of a weekend-long History Institute for Teachers on “Living Without Freedom,” jointly sponsored by FPRI’s Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education, the National Constitution Center, and the National Liberty Museum. Forty teachers from all over the country have been selected to participate in the weekend-long conference.

Saturday-Sunday, May 5–6, 2007

History Institute for Teachers

Living Without Freedom

Cosponsored by the National Constitution Center and National Liberty Museum

High School Teachers invited to apply by March 22, 2007

Saturday, May 5, 2007

History Institute Keynote Dinner - Exclusively for Silver-Level Partners

Freedom: The History of an Idea

J. Rufus Fears

This program will feature the keynote speaker at our History Institute for Teachers on Living without Freedom. One of the most exciting college professors in the country, Fears’ lectures are commercially available through The Teaching Company. Fears is the David Ross Boyd Professor of Classics at the University of Oklahoma and is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. We will be joined at dinner by 40 teachers from 15 states around the country who will be participating in FPRI’s weekend-long conference, hosted and cosponsored by the National Constitution Center and the National Liberty Museum.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

A member of the UIUC’s College of Law faculty visiting at Penn, Prof. Ginsburg previously served as a Legal Advisor for the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal at The Hague, Netherlands, and was on the law faculty of Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan. He had previously staffed the Mekong Region Law Center in Bangkok, an international NGO for legal training and exchange in Southeast Asia. Ginsburg also served The Asia Foundation, focusing on issues related to the role of law in economic development and democratization. His Judicial Review in New Democracies (Cambridge, 2003) won the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the American Political Science Association for best book on Law and Courts. Prof. Ginsburg is currently co-directing “The Comparative Constitutions Project,” the goal of which is to collect data on the formal characteristics of written constitutions, both current and historical, for most independent states since 1789.

Sunday, April 22, 2007

3rd Annual Champagne Brunch

For all 2007 Partners (bronze level and up)

Three Perspectives on Terrorism and Homeland Security

Edward Turzanski

Stephen Gale

Michael Radu

Messrs. Turzanski, Gale, and Radu are all affiliated with FPRI’s Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security; all appear regularly on television and radio—locally, nationally, and internationally. Turzanski has extensive experience with the US Government in the field of intelligence in the Middle East and Central Asia. Gale has testified on Capitol Hill and in Harrisburg on homeland security issues, and in his work offers a methodology for evaluating threats to critical national infrastructure in hopes of enlisting business in the effort to protect vital installations beyond current standards. Radu is completing a book manuscript on Islamism in Europe and its implications for the U.S.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

BookTalk/Alvin Z. Rubinstein Memorial Lecture

Breeding Bin Ladens: America, Islam, and the Future of Europe

Zachary Shore Naval Postgraduate School

Zachary Shore is associate professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and a research scholar at the IIS and IES at UC-Berkeley. He previously served on the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State through an International Affairs Fellowship from the CFR. He has also worked as a National Security Fellow at Harvard’s Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington, DC.

Shore earned his doctorate in modern European history from St. Antony's College, Oxford, and lived for more than six years in Europe. He has been a guest on NPR's Diane Rehm Show, is the author of What Hitler Knew (2003), and is the author of numerous articles that have appeared in the International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, Haaretz, and Newsday.

Saturday-Sunday, March 24–25, 2007

History Institute for Teachers

Teaching about the Military in American History

Cosponsored by the Cantigny First Division Foundation

High School Teachers invited to apply by February 1, 2007

Monday, March 19, 2007

FPRI Briefing

Hamas, Fatah, and Israel

Matthew Levitt Director, Stein Program on Terrorism, Intelligence and Policy
Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Dr. Levitt has written extensively on terrorism, the Middle East, and Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, with articles appearing in publications including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Weekly Standard, Daily Star (Beirut), and Jerusalem Post. He is also a frequent guest on national and international media. Dr. Levitt has served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Intelligence and Analysis. He is the author of Hamas: Politics, Charity and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad (Yale University Press, 2006) and Negotiating Under Fire: Preserving Peace Talks in the Face of Terror Attacks (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming 2007).

Monday, March 12, 2007

FPRI Asia Program Conference

China Rising: Assessing China’s Economic and Military Power

8:15 a.m. Registration and Refreshments

8:40 a.m. Welcoming Remarks, Harvey Sicherman, President, FPRI

8:45 a.m. Assessing the Foundation of China’s Rise: Strengths, Weaknesses and Prospects for China’s Economy

Paper: Albert Keidel, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Commentator: Thomas G. Rawski, Professor of Economics and History, University of Pittsburgh, and Xiaobo Hu, Director, China Program, Clemson University

Moderator: Jacques deLisle, Director, FPRI Asia Program, and Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania

10:30 a.m. China’s Energy Needs and Policies: International Economic and Security Issues

Paper: Erica S. Downs, China Energy Fellow, The Brookings Institution

Commentators: Felix Chang, Management Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Jacques deLisle, Director, FPRI Asia Program

Moderator: Harvey Sicherman, President, FPRI

12:00 p.m. Luncheon and Keynote
John Pomfret, author of Chinese Lessons

Raised in New York City and educated at Stanford and Nanjing universities, John Pomfret is an award-winning journalist with The Washington Post. He has been a foreign correspondent for 15 years, covering big wars and small in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Congo, Sri Lanka, Iraq, southwestern Turkey and northeastern Iran. Pomfret has spent seven years covering China - one in the late 1980s during the Tiananmen Square protests and then from 1998 until the end of 2003 as the bureau chief for The Washington Post in Beijing. Pomfret speaks, reads and writes Mandarin, having spent two years at Nanjing University in the early 1980s as part of one of the first groups of American students to study in China. In 2003, Pomfret was awarded the Osborne Elliot Award for the best coverage of Asia by the Asia Society.

2:00 p.m. China’s Power and Will: Two Views of the PRC’s Military Strength and Grand Strategy

Paper: Jonathan Pollack, Professor of Asian and Pacific Studies, and Chair of Strategic Research Department, U.S. Naval War College

Paper: June Teufel Dreyer, Professor of Political Science, University of Miami, and Senior Fellow,FPRI

Commentator: Avery Goldstein, Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, and Senior Fellow,FPRI

Moderator: James Kurth, Editor, Orbis and Claude Smith Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College

3:45 p.m. China’s Rise and the Cross-Strait Issue: Taiwan and U.S.-PRC Relations

Paper: John J. Tkacik Jr., Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation

Commentators: Harvey Feldman, Heritage Foundation, and RADM Michael McDevitt (USN, Ret.), Director, Center for Strategic Studies, CNA Corporation

Moderator: Jacques deLisle, University of Pennsylvania/FPRI

5:00 p.m. Adjournment

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Cosponsored with the Union League of Philadelphia

Homeland Security from the Perspective of the US Secret Service

Robert Sica
U.S. Secret Service

Thursday, March 1, 2007

BookTalk

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900

Andrew Roberts

Cosponsored by the British American Business Council

Andrew Roberts is an honorary senior scholar at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. His books include The Holy Fox, a biography of the Earl of Halifax; Napoleon and Wellington, an investigation into the relationship between the two great generals; and Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership. He appears regularly on British television and radio, and writes for The Sunday Telegraph. He is perhaps best known to transatlantic audiences for his seven-hour NBC broadcast with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric of the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. His new book, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900, covers the four great world-historical struggles in which the English-speaking peoples have been engaged — against German Nationalism, Axis Fascism, Soviet Communism, and now Islamicist Terrorism.

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Cosponsored by the Mid-Atlantic - Russia Business Council

Russia under Putin: Toward Democracy or Dictatorship?

Stephen Kotkin Princeton University

Prof. Kotkin is a professor of history and the director of the Program in Russian Studies at Princeton University. His books include Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization and Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000; he is currently writing a book entitled Lost in Siberia: Dreamworlds of Eurasia, a study of the Ob River valley over seven centuries. He is chair of the editorial board of Princeton University Press and a consultant to the Open Society Institute as well as other foundations active in Eurasia. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Washington Post, Financial Times, and The New Republic.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Symposium on Terrorism and Diplomacy

Cosponsored by the American Academy of Diplomacy

Panelists

• Hon. Barbara Bodine, Wilhelm Fellow/Visiting Scholar, MIT Center for International Studies’ Persian Gulf Initiative; and former US Ambassador to Yemen, 1997-2001
• Hon. James Dobbins, director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND Corporation; and former Special Envoy to Afghanistan, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Haiti
• Hon. Chas. W. Freeman, Jr., President, Middle East Policy Council; and former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and former Assistant Secretary of Defense
• Dr. Harvey Sicherman, President, FPRI, and former aide to three U.S. secretaries of state
• Moderator: Hon. Ambassador Anthony Quainton, Distinguished Diplomat in Residence, American University; and former Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security

Keynote Address by Rand Beers
former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Combating Terrorism, National Security Council

Rand Beers spent 35 years as a senior civil servant in the White House and the Department of State after serving as a Marine officer and rifle company commander in Vietnam. His posts at the National Security Council at the White House from 1988 to 1998, under Presidents George H. W. Bush and William Clinton, included Director for Counter-terrorism and Counter-narcotics, Director for Peacekeeping, and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs. From 1998 to 2003, he was Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, and subsequently served again at the National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Combating Terrorism.

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Impromptu Briefing on Iraq: The Next Phase

Panelists

• Harvey Sicherman, Ph.D., President, FPRI and former aide to three U.S. secretaries of state
• Edward Turzanski, Senior Fellow, FPRI Center on Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Homeland Security, with extensive experience with the U.S. government in the field of intelligence in the Middle East and Central Asia

Also see FPRI articles and media on Iraq