Calendar of Upcoming Events

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Briefing

With the Marines in Haiti: An Impromptu Briefing

Andrew Lubin

Andrew Lubin is a correspondent who has been embedded with U.S. armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, and is just back from Haiti where he was embedded with the U.S. Marines.

He has appeared on FOX, ABC, and CNN, and his work appears in newspapers nationwide, and on Military.com. He is author of the critically acclaimed Charlie Battery: A Marine Artillery Unit in Iraq.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Sorry, this event has been canceled

In Cooperation with the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Annual One Book, One Philadelphia program

Iran in Transition?

Ray Takeyh Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

This program is being held in cooperation with the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Annual One Book, One Philadelphia program honoring Marjane Satrapi’s The Complete Persepolis, a memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.

Ray Takeyh is a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). His areas of specialization are Iran, the Persian Gulf, and U.S. foreign policy. Dr. Takeyh recently held the post of senior adviser to the special adviser for the Gulf and Southwest Asia at the U.S. Department of State. He was previously professor of national security studies at the National War College; professor and director of studies at the Near East and South Asia Center, National Defense University; fellow in international security studies at Yale University; and fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. His most recent book is The Guardians of the Revolution: Iran’s Approach to the World (Oxford University Press, 2009). He is the author of a number of previous books including Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic (Henry Holt, 2006) and The Origins of the Eisenhower Doctrine: The U.S., Britain and Nasser’s Egypt, 1953–1957 (St. Martin’s Press, 2000), and is widely published in journals and newspapers. Dr. Takeyh has testified frequently at various congressional committees and has appeared on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, The Charlie Rose Show, NBC, CBS, CNN, BBC, FOX, and C-SPAN. He earned a doctorate in modern history from Oxford University.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

BookTalk

Strait Talk: U.S.-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker Professor of History, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

In 2007, Nancy Bernkopf Tucker received a National Intelligence Medal of Achievement for distinguished meritorious service as the first Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analytic Integrity and Standards and Analytic Ombudsman in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In 1986-87 she served in the Office of Chinese Affairs I the Department of State and at the US Embassy in Beijing. Previously she taught at Colgate University and NYU. She has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the US Institute of Peace, Harvard University, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her earlier book Uncertain Friendships: Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United States won the 1996 Bernath Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

FPRI-Temple University Consortium on Grand Strategy

NOTE: EXCLUSIVELY FOR MEMBERS OF THE CONSORTIUM

Rethinking the Cold War

Melvyn Leffler Edward R. Stettinius Professor of History, University of Virginia

Melvyn Leffler won the Bancroft Prize in 1993 for A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration and the Cold War (1992) and, in 2008, won the George Louis Beer Prize for his book, For the Soul of Mankind: the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War (Hill & Wang, 2007). His other books include Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917–1953 (1994); The Elusive Quest: America’s Pursuit of European Stability and French Security, 1919–1933 (1979); and most recently, To Lead the World: American Strategy After the Bush Doctrine (Oxford, 2008), co-edited with GAGE Associate Jeff Legro. Leffler served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense during the Carter administration, where he worked on arms control and contingency planning as a fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 1993.

The FPRI-Temple University Consortium is part of the Hertog Program on Grand Strategy, made possible by a grant from the Hertog Foundation.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

FPRI-Temple University Consortium on Grand Strategy

NOTE: EXCLUSIVELY FOR MEMBERS OF THE CONSORTIUM

How Grand Was Allied Grand Strategy in WWII?

Tami Biddle US Army War College

The FPRI-Temple University Consortium is part of the Hertog Program on Grand Strategy, made possible by a grant from the Hertog Foundation.

Tami Davis Biddle is Professor of National Security Studies and Military History at the US Army War College, the Army’s senior-level staff college. From 2005-2007 she held the George C. Marshall Chair of Military Studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College, and from 2001-2002 she was the Harold K. Johnson Visiting Professor of Military History at the US Army’s Military History Institute. Prior to that she taught in the Department of History at Duke University where she was a core faculty member of the Duke University/University of North Carolina Joint Program in Military History. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University, training with Paul Kennedy and Gaddis Smith.

She has held fellowships and visitorships from Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Social Science Research Council, the Brookings Institution, and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum. Her research focus has been warfare in the 20th century, especially warfighting and diplomacy during the two world wars, and the early Cold War period. In particular, she has concentrated on the history of air warfare, and the history of the Cold War. Her book, Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914–1945 (Princeton University Press, 2002), was a Choice outstanding academic book, and was recently added to the Royal Air Force Chief of Air Staff’s Reading List. She is currently working on a new book, Taking Command: The United States at War, 1944–1945.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Asia Study Group

Exaggerating China’s Economic Strength: Implications for Policy and Understanding

Daniel Lynch Associate Prof of International Relations, University of Southern California

Dan Lynch is currently researching how Chinese political and intellectual elites expect China will, or should, change in the years leading up to about 2030. He is the author of numerous books, articles, chapters, and reviews; his most recent book being Rising China and Asian Democratization: Socialization to “Global Culture” in the Political Transformations of Thailand, China, and Taiwan (Stanford University Press, 2006, Paperback edition: 2008). Dr. Lynch received his M.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University, and his Ph.D. in Political Science (IR / Comparative Politics / China) from the University of Michigan.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Sponsors Forum / BookTalk

A History of Diplomacy

Jeremy Black Professor of History, University of Exeter (UK), and Senior Fellow, FPRI

Jeremy Black is an FPRI Senior Fellow and Professor of history at Exeter University. He studied at Queens’ College Cambridge, St John’s College Oxford, and Merton College Oxford before joining the University of Durham as a lecturer in 1980. There he gained his Ph.D. and ultimately his professorship in 1994. Recent books include Modern British History (Palgrave, 2000), The Politics of James Bond (Praeger, 2001), America as a Military Power 1775-1882 (Praeger, 2002), The World in the Twentieth Century (Longman, 2002), World War Two: A Military History (Routledge, 2003), Parliament and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge, 2004), The English Seaborne Empire (Yale, 2004), and Great Military Leaders and their Campaigns (Oct. 2008). The Society of Military History recognized Jeremy Black’s work in April 2008, presenting him with the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime achievement.

Saturday-Sunday, April 10-11, 2010

A History Institute for Teachers

The Military in America’s Domestic History

Held at the First Division Museum, Wheaton, Illinois, and cosponsored by the Cantigny First Division Foundation of the McCormick Foundation.

Speakers: Todd Shallat, Boise State University, on “Building Infrastructure:”; Christopher Parker, University of Washington, Seattle, on “Promoting Civil Rights”; Dominic Tierney, Swarthmore College/FPRI on “Nation Building”; and others to be announced.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Annual Champagne Brunch for Bronze Partners

The 21^st Century: What to Expect

George Friedman President of STRATFOR

Dr. Friedman is the Chief Executive Officer of STRATFOR, a company he founded in 1996 that is now a leader in the field of global intelligence. He is also the author of numerous articles and books on international affairs, warfare and intelligence. His most recent book, The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century, is a New York Times Best Seller. In this book Dr. Friedman draws on an exploration of history and geopolitical patterns dating back hundreds of years to explain where and why future wars will erupt and how they will be fought, which nations will gain and lose economic and political power, and how new technologies and cultural trends will alter the way we will live in the new century. Included among his previous books are The Future of War, The Intelligence Edge, and America’s Secret War. Major television and radio networks such as CNN, Fox News, and NPR frequently invite Dr. Friedman to appear as an international affairs intelligence expert. Barron’s has cited STRATFOR’s analysis on numerous occasions and Barron’s cover article featured an interview with Friedman in October 2001. He has also been featured in Time magazine, The New York Times Magazine and The Wall Street Journal and is frequently quoted in USA Today, The New York Times, Fortune, Newsweek, International Herald Tribune and many other domestic and international publications.

Monday, April 26, 2010

FPRI-Temple University Consortium on Grand Strategy

NOTE: EXCLUSIVELY FOR MEMBERS OF THE CONSORTIUM AND FPRI PLATINUM PARTNERS

Woodrow Wilson and the Paradoxes of Wilsonian Internationalism

Robert Kagan Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Robert Kagan is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His most recent book is The Return of History and the End of Dreams (Knopf 2008). His previous book, Dangerous Nation: America’s Place in the World from its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the 20th Century (Knopf 2006), was the winner of the 2008 Lepgold Prize and a 2007 Finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize. His acclaimed book Of Paradise and Power (Knopf, 2003), was on the New York Times bestseller list for ten weeks and the Washington Post bestseller list for fourteen weeks. It was also a bestseller in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, and Canada and has been translated into more than 25 languages.

Dr. Kagan writes a monthly column on world affairs for the Washington Post, and is a contributing editor at both the Weekly Standard and the New Republic. He is listed as one of the world’s “Top 100 Public Intellectuals” by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines. He served in the State Department from 1984 to 1988 as a member of the Policy Planning Staff, as principal speechwriter for Secretary of State George P. Shultz, and as deputy for policy in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs. He is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and holds a Ph.D. in American History from American University.

The FPRI-Temple University Consortium is part of the Hertog Program on Grand Strategy, made possible by a grant from the Hertog Foundation.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

BookTalk

How Enemies Become Friends: Sources of Stable Peace

Charles Kupchan Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

Is the world destined to suffer endless cycles of conflict and war? Can rival nations become partners and establish a lasting and stable peace? How Enemies Become Friends provides an account of how nations escape geopolitical competition and replace hostility with friendship. Drawing on historical examples that span the globe and range from the thirteenth century through the present, Kupchan explores how adversaries can transform enmity into amity—and he exposes prevalent myths about the causes of peace.

Dr. Kupchan is senior fellow for Europe studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), as well as professor of international affairs at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He was previously director for European affairs at the National Security Council (NSC) during the first Clinton administration. Before joining the NSC, he worked in the U.S. Department of State on the policy planning staff. Prior to government service, he was an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University. He is the author of multiple books and articles, including The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century (2002), Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order (2001), Civic Engagement in the Atlantic Community (1999), and Atlantic Security: Contending Visions (1998). Dr. Kupchan received his Bachelor’s from Harvard University and M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees from Oxford University. He has served as a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs, Columbia University’s Institute for War and Peace Studies, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, the Centre d’Étude et de Recherches Internationales in Paris, and the Institute for International Policy Studies in Tokyo.