October 28, 2009 / Philadelphia
The symposium was sponsored by the Foreign Policy Research Institute and cosponsored by the Pan American Association.
Panelists included George W. Grayson, FPRI Senior Fellow and the Class of 1938 Professor of Government at the College of William & Mary; Susan Kaufman Purcell, Director of the Center for Hemispheric Policy at the University of Miami; and David Danelo, FPRI Senior Fellow and author of The Border: Exploring the US-Mexican Dividey.
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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