Robert C. McFarlane

Member FPRI Board of Advisors

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Robert McFarlane has had a distinguished record of public service including ten years in the White House and State Department serving variously as Military Advisor to Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft, Counselor to the Secretary of State and rising ultimately to the Reagan Cabinet as his National Security Advisor.

He is perhaps best remembered as the architect of the comprehensive set of U.S. policies - including most notably the Strategic Defense Initiative (or Star Wars) - which so stressed the Soviet economy as to bring it down and in the process accelerated the collapse of Marxism in the former Soviet Union. He is a graduate of the US Naval Academy, served in the US Marine Corps, and holds a Master of Science in Strategic Studies from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

In recent years Mr. McFarlane has focused on organizing investment into developing countries. He has also helped lead a particularly successful effort at fostering reconciliation between Sunni and Shia clerics in Iraq.Over the past two years, Mr. McFarlane has coached the rebel leaders of Darfur as they seek to negotiate a new Darfur Peace Agreement with the Government of Sudan.

FPRI Wishes to Thank its 2011 Partners
Who help make all our programs possible.

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.

FPRI 2011 Annual Dinner

Video of keynote address
Reflections on the Arab Spring
Fouad Ajami

Special Partner Event
Al Qaeda and Jihadi Movements After Bin Laden
Christopher Swift

Special Partner Event
The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al Qaeda
Peter Bergen

FPRI Dinner Booklet and Annual report