Partner Events

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

The US and Europe in 2009

Jeremy Black Professor of History, University of Exeter
Senior Fellow, FPRI

Jeremy Black is professor of history at Exeter University. His numerous books include Rethinking Military History (Routledge, 2004), America as a Military Power 1775-1882 (Praeger, 2002), The World in the Twentieth Century (Longman, 2002), Visions of the World: A History of Maps (Mitchell Beazley, 2003), War: An Illustrated World History (Sutton, 2003).

Monday, March 16, 2009

BookTalk

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

Niall Ferguson Professor of History, Harvard University

Niall Ferguson is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and the William Ziegler Professor at the Harvard Business School. He is author of several critically acclaimed books, including Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation, 1897-1927 (Cambridge University Press, 1995); The Pity of War: Explaining World War One (Basic Books, 1998); The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild (Penguin, 1998); The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 (Basic, 2001); Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (Basic, 2003); Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (Basic, 2004); and War of the World: Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (Basic, 2006). A contributing editor of the Financial Times, Ferguson was named in 2004 by Time Magazine of one of the world's hundred most influential people.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Annual Champagne Brunch for Bronze Partners

A Look Back at the Surge in Iraq and a Look Ahead to the War in Afghanistan

Thomas E. Ricks Center for a New American Security

Thomas E. Ricks is a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. He also writes an online blog for ForeignPolicy.com, “The Best Defense,” is a contributing editor for Foreign Policy, and serves as a special military correspondent for the Washington Post; he previously covered the same beat at the Wall Street Journal. He was part of a Wall Street Journal team that won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2000 for a series on how the U.S. military might meet the demands of the 21st century and a Washington Post team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for reporting about the U.S. counterterrorism offensive. His books include Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Penguin, 2006) and The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 (Penguin, Feb. 2009), complimentary copies of which will be given out at the Brunch.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Dinner for Platinum Partners

7 Deadly Scenarios: War in the 21st Century

Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr.

Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr. is President of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a policy research institute established to promote innovative thinking about defense planning and investment strategies for the 21st century. His recent works include Strategy for a Long Peace; Transforming America’s Alliances; The Quadrennial Defense Review: Rethinking the U.S. Military Posture, and How to Win in Iraq. His work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, Issues in Science and Technology, Joint Forces Quarterly, The Naval War College Review, and Strategic Review, among other scholarly and public interest journals. He frequently contributes to media including the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal, and has appeared on each of the major networks, NPR, and The McLaughlan Group.

Dr. Krepinevich has served in the DoD’s Office of Net Assessment, on the personal staff of three secretaries of defense, and as a member of the National Defense Panel, the Defense Science Board Task Force on Joint Experimentation, and Joint Forces Command’s Transformation Advisory Board. He will speak on his book, 7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores the Changing Face of War in the 21st Century (Bantam, Jan. 2009).

Thursday, November 12, 2009

FPRI Annual Dinner

Keynote Address by Robert Kaplan

Robert D. Kaplan is a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. He continues to write on a range of foreign policy and national security issues for The Atlantic Monthly and is now writing a book on the future of the Indian Ocean region. His books, several of which were written under grants received through FPRI, include Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground (2007); Imperial Grunts (2005), Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus (2000); and Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History (1993).

Kaplan’s essays have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. He has been a consultant to the U.S. Army’s Special Forces Regiment, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Marines, and has lectured at military war colleges, the FBI, the National Security Agency, the Pentagon’s Joint Staff, major universities, the CIA, and business forums. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman calls Kaplan among the four “most widely read” authors defining the post-Cold War era (along with Francis Fukuyama, the late Samuel Huntington, and Yale Professor Paul Kennedy). He has received the U.S. State Department Distinguished Public Service Award.