February 12, 2009
This panel featured Janine Davidson, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University; Ralph Peters, author; and the Hon. Thomas A. Schweich, Visiting Professor of Law and Ambassador in Residence, Washington University in St. Louis. Frank Hoffman, Research Fellow at the Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities, Marine Corps Combat Development Command, and Senior Fellow of FPRI, moderated.
This panel was part of the “Defense Showstoppers” conference sponsored by FPRI’s Program on National Security and the Reserve Officers Association. FPRI thanks its trustees W. W. Keen Butcher, Bruce H. Hooper, John M. Templeton, Jr. for funding the Program on National Security.
On November 15th at the FPRI annual dinner Fouad Ajami was presented with the Seventh Annual Benjamin Franklin Public Service Award. The event was attended by over 360 people.
Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr. was dinner chairman.

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