Kori Schake is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and an associate professor of international security studies at the U.S. Military Academy. From 2007 to 2008 she was the deputy director for policy planning in the state department. During President Bush's first term, she was the director for Defense Strategy and Requirements on the National Security Council. She has held the Distinguished Chair of International Security Studies at West Point, and also served in the faculties of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs, and the National Defense University. She is on the boards of the journal Orbis and the Centre for European Reform and blogs for Foreign Policy's Shadow Government. Her publications include Managing American Hegemony: Essays on Power in a Time of Dominance (Hoover Institution Press, 2009), "Choices for the Quadrennial Defense Review" (Orbis, 2009), "Dealing with a Nuclear Iran" (Policy Review, 2007), "Jurassic Pork" (New York Times, 2006). She coauthored "How America Should Lead" (Policy Review, 2002), and coedited The Berlin Wall Crisis: Perspectives on Cold War Alliances (2002), and "Building a European Defense Capability" (Survival, 1999). From 1990 to 1996, she worked in Pentagon staff jobs, first in the Joint Staff's Strategy and Policy Directorate (J-5) and then in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
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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