PAST PROGRAMS

Past Dinner Meeting Speakers

Democracy Building: Why Is It So Hard? A look at Venezuela by Ambassador Marilyn McAfee (highest ranking woman in Foreign Service)

Darfur and the Sudan Crisis by Professor Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Leading Scholar on Sudan, Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island College

The New Great Game in the Asian Heartland by Ambassador Michael Cotter, currently teaching International Relations at Duke University

Seven Decades of World Events, WAC's 70th Anniversary Celebration by Dr. Thomas J. Biersteker, Director Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University

The Empire Has No Clothes: US Foreign Policy Exposed by Dr. Ivan Eland, Director, The Independent institute Oakland, CA

Media Coverage of World Events by Ralph Begleiter former CNN International Correspondent, Distinguished Journalist in Residence, University of Delaware

Does U.S. Energy Policy Make Sense? by Robert E. Ebel, Director, Energy and National Security Project at Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington

Why Countries Sometimes go Crazy in Foreign Policy by Moses Naim, Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Policy

Immigration Issues in the European Union with Special Focus on Moslem Immigration and with some Comparative Reference to the Equivalent Situation in the U.S. by Pamela Jackson, Professor of Sociology, Rhode Island College

From Crisis to Opportunity: The Case for Assertive Nation-Building in Post-War Iraq by Michael Soussan, Program Coordinator, UN Oil-for-Food Program, New York

Pro-Democracy Politics and Human Rights in Contemporary China by XU Wenli, Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies

Re-bordering North America: Integration and Exclusion in a New Security Context by Peter Andreas Ph.D., Dept of Political Science and Watson Institute Brown University

Assessing the Present and Future of Iraq: A Kurdi Perspective by Dr. Edmund Ghareeb, Professor of Middle East History and Politics, American University

How Europe Sees the United States by David C. Acheson, Expert on Transnational Relations, Washington

Is Iraq Bush's Quagmire? by andrew J. Bacevish, Professor Inter-National Relations, Boston University

Hope and History by Jack Reed, US Senator

Fading Partnership? September 11, Iraq and Transatlantic Relations by Dr. Simon Serfaty, Senior Assoc. Center for Strategic & International Studies CSIS , Washington

China and the Future US - China Relations by John L. Holden, President National Committee on US - China Relations

Europe Integration: Searching for Unity by David M. Olson, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina

The Costs of Primacy: Evaluating the U.S. Role in the World by Prof. P. Terrence Hopmann, Ph.D., Dir. of the Program on Global Security, Watson Institute, Brown University

Conditions in Russia - Putin's Second Term by Dr. Sergei N. Khrushchev, Senior Research Fellow Watson Institute for International Studies