Past FPRI Events (2010)

Monday, December 13, 2010

Study Group on America and the West

Decentralization, Strategy, and Security against Irregular Threats:
Examples from Western Civilization

Jakub GrygielJohns Hopkins University

Jakub Grygiel is the George H.W. Bush Associate Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University. His areas of expertise include Eastern Europe; Russia and the former Soviet Union, as well as American Foreign Policy, International Relations, and Strategic and Security Issues. He is an International Affairs columnist for Giornale del Popolo in Switzerland and Il Mondo in Italy, where he has written on the end of communism, the revival of Russian nationalism and other topics related to the history, economics and politics of Central and Eastern Europe. He was editor of the Journal of Public and International Affairs, and served as a consultant to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris and to the World Bank. Dr. Grygiel received his Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University, and speaks French, Italian, and Polish. His publications include Great Powers and Geopolitical Change (2006) and “Imperial Allies” in Orbis (2006), as well as numerous other journal articles, papers and reviews.

• Read: To Survive, Decentralize!: The Barbarian Threat And State Decentralization, Orbis Fall 2011

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Annual Rocco Martino Lecture on Innovation

BookTalk on Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It

Richard A. Clarke

Cyber War is a powerful book about technology, government, and military strategy; about criminals, spies, soldiers, and hackers. This is the first book about the war of the future -- cyber war -- and a convincing argument that we may already be in peril of losing it. Cyber War goes behind the “geek talk” of hackers and computer scientists to explain clearly and convincingly what cyber war is, how cyber weapons work, and how vulnerable we are as a nation and as individuals to the vast and looming web of cyber criminals. From the first cyber crisis meeting in the White House a decade ago to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley and the electrical tunnels under Manhattan, Clarke and coauthor Robert K. Knake trace the rise of the cyber age and profile the unlikely characters and places at the epicenter of the battlefield. They recount the foreign cyber spies who hacked into the office of the Secretary of Defense, the control systems for U.S. electric power grids, and the plans to protect America's latest fighter aircraft.

Richard Clarke is an internationally-recognized expert on security, including homeland security, national security, cyber security, and counterterrorism. He is currently an on-air consultant for ABC News and teaches at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He served the last three Presidents as a senior White House Advisor. Over the course of an unprecedented 11 consecutive years of White House service, he held the titles of Special Assistant to the President for Global Affairs, National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism, and Special Advisor to the President for Cyber Security. Prior to his White House years, Mr. Clarke served for 19 years in the Pentagon, the Intelligence Community, and State Department. During the Reagan Administration, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence. During the Bush (41) Administration, he was Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs and coordinated diplomatic efforts to support the 1990-1991 Gulf War and the subsequent security arrangements. As a Partner in Good Harbor, a global provider of strategic safety, security, and risk management consulting services, Mr. Clarke advises clients on a range of issues including corporate security risk management, information security technology, dealing with the Federal Government on security and IT issues, and counterterrorism.

Audio and video of this talk.

The Annual Rocco Martino Lectures on Innovation were founded by FPRI Senior Fellow Rocco L. Martino in 2007 to promote studies and education in innovation, are conducted in coordination with FPRI’s Program on Teaching Innovation

Texts, audio and videos of previous Martino Lectures

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Panel Discussion

Taiwan: Elections at Home,
Economic Relations with the Mainland and
U.S.- China - Taiwan Relations

What do Taiwan’s recent election and the signing of a major economic accord with mainland China mean for Taiwan’s political future and relations among Taiwan, the People’s Republic of China and the United States? The November 27, 2010 elections for the mayors of Taiwan’s five largest municipalities were widely viewed as a possible referendum on the Kuomintang administration led by President Ma Ying-jeou and a possible indicator of the prospects for the opposition Democratic Progressive Party to return to power in the 2012 presidential election. The June 29, 2010 Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) between Taiwan and the mainland has been a key accomplishment of the Ma administration, a centerpiece of its cross-Strait policy and a focus of concern and criticism from its opponents. A panel of leading experts will assess these developments and prospects for the future of Taiwanese politics and Taiwan’s external relations.

Panelists Include:

• Wang Wen-feng, Visiting Scholar, American University and Representative of China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR)
• Vincent Wang, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science at the University of Richmond
• Jacques deLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, and Director, Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Asia Program, Foreign Policy Research Institute
• Terry Cooke, 2010 Public Policy Scholar with the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington D.C and Founder, GC3 Strategy, and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute
• Frank Chang, Visiting Scholar, Foreign Policy Research Institute and University of Pennsylvania, and ssociate Research Fellow at Cross-Strait Interflow Prospect Foundation

Cosponsored by the the Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania
and Penn Taiwanese Society

Read symposium report.

Monday, December 6, 2010

FPRI-Temple University Consortium on Grand Strategy

NOTE: EXCLUSIVELY FOR FACULTY MEMBERS OF THE CONSORTIUM

War Termination, Generalship, and Vietnam

Gian Gentile Visiting Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

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

Colonel Gian Gentile is a US army officer and a history professor at the United States Military Academy. He graduated from UC-Berkeley, where he joined the ROTC, in 1986. In 2000, he completed a PhD in history at Stanford University. Col. Gentile published his book How Effective is Strategic Bombing? in 2001 (NYU Press).

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

Friday, December 3, 2010

Address by the former Prime Minister of Spain

Jose Maria Aznar Former Prime Minister of Spain

José María Aznar is currently Executive President of FAES (The Foundation for Social Studies and Analysis), Distinguished Scholar at the University of Georgetown, Member of the Board of Directors of News Corporation, Member of the Global Advisory Board of J.E. Robert Companies and Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Latin American division. He became Prime Minister of Spain in 1996, following the electoral victory of the Partido Popular. With the party’s subsequent electoral victory in the year 2000, this time with an absolute majority, he led the country again for a new term. His time as Prime Minister lasted up until the elections of 2004, when he chose not to run for office again.

Audio of this talk.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Asia Study Group

Internet Activism, State Legitimacy, and Foreign Policy in China

Goubin Yang
Barnard College/Columbia University

Professor Yang will explore the challenges Chinese leaders face in responding to online nationalism and internet activism related to domestic social issues. He will focus on the multiple and contradictory effects of internet activism on state legitimacy and foreign policy.

Guobin Yang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University. In fall 2010, he is a visiting scholar in the Annenberg Scholars Program at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.

Monday, November 22, 2010

Annual Templeton Lecture on Religion and World Affairs

The Religious Origins of Religious Tolerance

Eric Nelson Author of “The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought“ ((2010)

Eric Nelson is Professor of Government at Harvard University. His research focuses on the history of political thought in early-modern Europe and America. He is the author of The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought (Harvard/Belknap, 2010) and The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2004), as well as editor of Hobbes’s translations of the Iliad and Odyssey for the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes (The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2008). His essays have appeared in a wide range of scholarly journals and edited volumes. Dr. Nelson received his AB summa cum laude from Harvard University (1999) and his PhD from The University of Cambridge (2002). He has also been a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows, a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a British Marshall Scholar.

About “The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought: According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization—the exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. In this work, Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong. Instead, he contends, political thought in early-modern Europe became less, not more, secular with time, and it was the Christian encounter with Hebrew sources that provoked this radical transformation. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Christian scholars began to regard the Hebrew Bible as a political constitution designed by God for the children of Israel. Newly available rabbinic materials became authoritative guides to the institutions and practices of the perfect republic. This thinking resulted in a sweeping reorientation of political commitments. Nelson demonstrates that central features of modern political thought emerged from an attempt to emulate a constitution designed by God. This paradox, a reminder that while we may live in a secular age, we owe our politics to an age of religious fervor, in turn illuminates fault lines in contemporary political discourse.

Copies of The Hebrew Republic will be on sale at the event.

• Audio and video of this talk.
• Read: The Religious Origins of Religious Tolerance

The Templeton Lecture on Religion and World Affairs was established in 1996, with a gift from John M. Templeton, Jr., M.D., president of the John Templeton Foundation. In 1995, Dr. Templeton retired from his medical practice to serve full-time as president of the Foundation. After receiving a B.A. from Yale University, Dr. Templeton earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He trained in pediatric surgery under Dr. C. Everett Koop at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. After serving two years in the U.S. Navy, in 1977 he returned to CHOP, where he served on the staff as pediatric surgeon and trauma program director. He also served as professor of pediatric surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Templeton has published numerous papers in medical and professional journals, in addition to two books, A Searcher’s Life and Thrift and Generosity: The Joy of Giving.

Texts, audio and videos of previous Templeton Lectures

Friday, November 19, 2010

BookTalk

How We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Way of War

Dominic Tierney Assistant Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College, and Senior Fellow, FPRI

In How We Fight, Dominic Tierney takes us on a lively tour through history and the present day to show us how Americans respond to and think about war. He argues that we’re awfully predictable: we prefer to use force to destroy, rather than to build. We like fighting for regime change, but not dealing with the messy consequences. This book is often a blistering look at America’s shortcomings, but it also advances a hopeful new model for tackling the challenges of modern war.

Tierney received his Ph.D. in international politics from Oxford University, and has held fellowships at the Mershon Center at Ohio State University, the Olin Institute at Harvard University, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of Failing to Win: Perceptions of Victory and Defeat in International Politics (Harvard University Press, 2006), with Dominic Johnson, which won the International Studies Association award for the best book published in 2006, and FDR and the Spanish Civil War: Neutrality and Commitment in the Struggle that Divided America (Duke University Press, 2007). Professor Tierney’s third book, How We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Way of War, was published by Little, Brown and Co.

Audio of this talk.

Monday, November 15, 2010

FPRI Annual Dinner

Power, Money, and American National Security— Today and Tomorrow

Niall Ferguson

Named one of the world’s hundred most influential people
-- Time Magazine

Current Positions

• The Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University
• The William Ziegler Professor, Harvard Business School
• Contributing Editor, Financial Times (London)
• Regular Contributor, Newsweek Magazine

Books by Ferguson

• The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Penguin, 2008)
• War of the World: 20th Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006)
• Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (Penguin, 2004)
• Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order (Basic, 2003)

Audio and video of this address.

Welcoming Remarks by Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr.

Remarks by FPRI Vice-President Alan H. Luxenberg and presentation of Franklin Award.

Monday, November 8, 2010

FPRI-Temple University Consortium on Grand Strategy

NOTE: EXCLUSIVELY FOR FACULTY MEMBERS OF THE CONSORTIUM

Intellgence and Grand Strategy

Tom Fingar Stanford University

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

Thomas Fingar is the Oksenberg/Rohlen Distinguished Fellow. In 2009, he was the Payne Distinguished Lecturer in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. From May 2005 through December 2008, he served as the first Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis and, concurrently, as Chairman of the National Intelligence Council. Dr. Fingar served previously as Assistant Secretary of the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (2001-2003), Deputy Assistant Secretary for Analysis (1994-2000), Director of the Office of Analysis for East Asia and the Pacific (1989-1994), and Chief of the China Division (1986-1989). Between 1975 and 1986 he held a number of positions at Stanford University, including Senior Research Associate in the Center for International Security and Arms Control. Dr. Fingar is a graduate of Cornell University (A.B. in Government and History, 1968), and Stanford University (M.A., 1969 and Ph.D., 1977 both in Political Science).

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

• Read: Intelligence And Grand Strategy, Orbis Winter 2012

Monday, November 1, 2010

ROA-FPRI Conference

Regional Security in East Asia:
Sustaining Stability, Coping with Conflict, Building Cooperation?

Hosted and Cosponsored by the Reserve Officers Association in Washington, DC (to be webcast)

Except for the problem of North Korea, East Asia has been a region of comparative stability. U.S.-PRC relations have continued a long period of stability despite the frictions that have accompanied China’s rise. Cross-Strait relations have warmed rapidly. U.S.-Japan security ties have remained strong, underpinned by common regional interests and concerns.

Despite this overall stability, regional security faces challenges from old conflicts and newly emerging tensions, ranging from legacies of history that cast a shadow over Japan’s relations with its neighbors and its international security roles, the now-perennial crisis of North Korea’s weapons programs and the long-rising worries over an increasingly powerful and assertive China to the sinking of the South Korean naval ship Cheonan, the controversy over the U.S. base at Futenma, Japan, and the dispute over Japan’s detention of a Chinese ship.

Relatively recent changes in leadership or ruling parties and the prospect of more such changes in the relatively near future in almost all of the major states in the region create further uncertainty. Regional states and extraregional states with security interests in the region have turned to multilateral cooperation and engagement to sustain stability and cope with potential conflict. What are the prospects for maintaining stability and containing or avoiding conflict now and in the near future? What roles can and should regional cooperation play?

Conference Audios and Videos.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Defense Strategy And Investment: Dollars And Sense

A Complimentary Program for FPRI Partners

A Briefing by the Hon. Dov S. Zakheim

Vice Chairman of the Foreign Policy Research Institute

Former Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller)
and former Chief Financial Officer for the Defense Department

The Hon. Dov Zakheim, Vice Chairman of FPRI, recently retired as Senior Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton. From 2001 – 2004, he was Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Defense. He had earlier served in a number of key positions in government and private business. He earned his doctorate in economics and politics at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford.

PLUS A TOUR OF THE CHINOOK AND V-22 PLANTS AT BOEING

The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is the world’s only in-production heavy-lift tandem rotor helicopter. Seven NATO nations are among the more than 20 worldwide with Chinooks in their inventory.

The Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey is an American multi-mission, military, tiltrotor aircraft with both a vertical takeoff and landing, and short takeoff and landing capability. It is designed to combine the functionality of a conventional helicopter with the long-range, high-speed cruise performance of a turboprop aircraft.

Schedule

Schedule — Thursday, October 28, 2010

• 2:15 — Arrive at Boeing
• 2:30 — Shuttle to Chinook Plant for Tour
• 3:30 — Shuttle to V-22 factory for Tour
• 4:15 — Keynote Address by the Hon. Dov S. Zakheim
• 5:30 — Adjournment

Monday, October 25, 2010

Postponed

This event will be rescheduled

FPRI-Temple University Consortium on Grand Strategy

NOTE: EXCLUSIVELY FOR FACULTY MEMBERS OF THE CONSORTIUM

The Grand Strategy of Bush 41 (George H.W.)

Harvey Sicherman President, Foreign Policy Research Institute

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

Dr. Harvey Sicherman is President and Director of the FPRI. He served as Special Assistant to Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr. (1981–82) and was a member of the Policy Planning Staff of Secretary of State James A. Baker, III (1991–1992). He was also a consultant to Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman, Jr. (1982–1987) and to Secretary of State George Shultz (1988).

He is author or editor of numerous books, chapters, and articles, including America the Vulnerable: Our Military Problems and How To Fix Them, co-edited with John Lehman (2002), Is There Still A West? The Future of the Atlantic Alliance, co-edited with William Anthony Hay (2007) and The War on Terror: Collected Essays, 2001-2006, co-edited with Stephen Gale and Michael Radu (2007). He is editor of Templeton Lectures on Religion and World Affairs, 1996-2007 (FPRI, 2008). He is currently at work on Cheap Hawks, Cheap Doves, and the Pursuit of American Strategy. A graduate of the University of Scranton, Dr. Sicherman earned his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania where he received a Salvatori Fellowship.

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

Thursday, October 21, 2010

BookTalk

Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power

Robert D. Kaplan

Cosponsored by the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia

Robert D. Kaplan is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, in Washington, D.C. His latest book is Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power (Random House, 2010). Kaplan is the best-selling author of twelve previous books on international affairs and travel, translated into many languages.

In the 1980s, he was the first American writer to warn in print about a future war in the Balkans. Balkan Ghosts was chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the “best books” of 1993, and by Amazon.com as one of the best travel books of all time. The Arabists, The Ends of the Earth, An Empire Wilderness, Eastward to Tartary, and Warrior Politics were all chosen by The New York Times as “notable” books of the year.

Kaplan is a provocative essayist whose more than three-decades’ worth of traveling and reporting experience, much of which he has accumulated in the world's most difficult and dangerous places, informs even his briefest contributions. His article, “The Coming Anarchy,” in the February 1994 Atlantic, about how population rises, urbanization, and resource depletion are undermining governments, was widely translated and debated. So was his December 1997 Atlantic cover story, “Was Democracy Just A Moment?”

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman calls Kaplan among the four “most widely read” authors defining the post-Cold War. In addition to his written work, Kaplan has been a consultant to the U.S. Army’s Special Forces Regiment, the U.S. Air Force, and the U. S. Marines. From 2006 to 2008, he was the Class of 1960 Distinguished Visiting Professor in National Security at the United States Naval Academy. He has also lectured at the FBI, the National Security Agency, the Pentagon’s Joint Staff, major universities, the CIA, and business forums.

Kaplan is a member of FPRI's Board of Advisors.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Asia Study Group

Corruption in China: State-Private Business Networks

David Wank
Sofia University (Tokyo), Sociology Dept and CEAS

The rise of a market economy in China has not led to the decline of corruption in China, contrary to common predictions. Instead, state-private business networks have increased in number, scope and the level of the officials involved. These networks are rooted in relations of both trust and coercion, which entrepreneurs cultivate with officials through such means as sex, proxies and reputation.

David Wank is a Professor of Sociology at Sofia University, currently on leave and visiting the University of Pennsylvania. After studying history and Chinese language and literature at Oberlin College, he received a fellowship in 1980 to teach English at a college in Shanxi province, north China for two years. Immersion in a local Chinese community at a time when the wounds of the Cultural Revolution were still very raw let him taste first-hand how people’s lives were intertwined with state governance. This experience impelled him to receive his M.A. and Ph.D. (Harvard) in studies in sociology in order to deepen his understanding of power distributions in state-society contexts. Most of his research since then has focused on the interrelated themes of state power, popular values, social networks, and institutional change that he has explored in two extensive fieldwork projects in China. Findings from one project, the reemergence of private business, have been published in Commodifying Communism (Cambridge, 1999) and other academic journals and book chapters, while those from the second are forthcoming. Prof. Wank has also been published on China and Japan in the New York Times, South China Morning Post, Wall Street Journal and other newspapers, and on NPR and NHK radio.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Platinum Partners Dinner

Confronting Al Qaeda and the New Terror Networks

Marc Sageman Author of “Understanding Terror Networks” and “Leaderless Jihad”

• Forensic psychiatrist and FPRI Senior Fellow
• Former CIA case officer who served in Afghanistan in 1987-89
• Former scholar-in-residence for the NY City Police Department
• Testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, appeared on PBS Newshour, and has been cited in the NY Times and in media all over the world.
• Regularly consulted by U.S. government agencies.

Audio of this talk.

What The Reviewers Say About Sageman’s Books

“The most sophisticated analysis of global jihadis yet published.” -- NY Review of Books

“It stands what you think you know about terrorism on its head and helps you see the topic in a different light.” – Washington Post

Monday-Tuesday, September 27–28, 2010

ROA-FPRI Conference

The Foreign Fighter Problem: Recent Trends and Case Studies

Hosted and Cosponsored by the Reserve Officers Association in Washington, DC

On the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines have confronted third-party national combatants. Known as “foreign fighters,” these individuals have gained deadly skills and connections that can be exported or exploited to devastating effect in other locations. Over the past two decades, the foreign fighters phenomenon has grown after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 to the ethnically cleansed fields of the Balkans to Chechnya and beyond. But this is not a new problem. This conference builds upon the findings of the FPRI’s first foreign fighters conference from the summer of 2009 and brings together recognized academic and analytical expertise in order examine recent trends in the foreign fighter phenomenon and also explore the particular cases of Somalia, the Maghreb, Yemen, and Afghanistan/Pakistan.

Speakers included

• Keynoter: Terrance Ford, Director of Intelligence and Knowledge Development, United States Africa Command
• AMB (ret.) David Shinn, George Washington University
• J. Peter Pham, National Committee on American Foreign Policy/James Madison University
• Christopher Boucek, Carnegie Endowment for Int’l Peace
• Brian Glyn Williams, Univ. of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

Monday, September 20, 2010

BookTalk

The Diffusion of Military Power

Michael Horowitz Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania and Senior Fellow, FPRI

The Diffusion of Military Power looks at some of the most important military innovations throughout history, including the advent of the all-big-gun steel battleship, the development of aircraft carriers and nuclear weapons, and the use of suicide terror by nonstate actors. He shows how expensive innovations can favor wealthier, more powerful countries, but also how those same states often stumble when facing organizationally complicated innovations. Innovations requiring major upheavals in doctrine and organization can disadvantage the wealthiest states due to their bureaucratic inflexibility and weight the balance of power toward smaller and more nimble actors, making conflict more likely. This book provides vital insights into military innovations and their impact on U.S. foreign policy, warfare, and the distribution of power in the international system.

Michael Horowitz, a Senior Fellow in FPRI’s National Security Program, is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He spent the 2006-07 academic year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Government at Harvard University, where his dissertation examined the diffusion of military power and the consequences for international politics. Prof. Horowitz was the Sidney R. Knafel Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in 2005–06. During the 2004–05 academic year, he was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard. He has previously worked at Science Applications International Corporation and at the Center for Strategic and International Studies as a Research Assistant in the International Security Program. He has also served as a consultant for the Defense Department on a range of international security issues.

Audio of this talk.

Wed.–Thurs., September 15–16, 2010

Summer Institute for Teachers

U.S. Foreign Policy and the Modern Middle East

Sponsored by FPRI’s Wachman Center and the American Institute for History Education

Monday, September 13, 2010

Study Group on America and the West

A Tale of Four Crises: The Politics of Great Depressions and Recessions

James Kurth Senior Fellow, FPRI, and Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College

James Kurth is Professor of Political Science and Senior Research Scholar at Swarthmore College, where he teaches defense policy, foreign policy, and international politics; as well as a Senior Fellow at FPRI. He has been a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ), visiting professor of political science at the University of California at San Diego, and visiting professor of strategy at the U.S. Naval War College. He is the recipient of the Naval Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service, for his contributions to U.S. maritime strategy. He is the author of over 100 professional articles and editor of three volumes in the fields of defense policy, foreign policy, international politics, and European politics. His recent publications have focused upon the interrelations between the global economy, cultural conflicts, foreign policy, and military strategy. Professor Kurth is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York) and of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London). He received his Bachelor’s in History from Stanford University and his Master’s and Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University, where he also taught as an assistant and associate professor of government.

FPRI Briefing: Thursday, August 12, 2010

Free for Members of FPRI, $20 for Non-Members

The Debt, The Deficit, And America’S Role In The World

David Walker, President, The Peter G. Peterson Foundation

David Walker is President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. Prior to assuming his position with the Foundation in March of 2008, Dave served as the seventh Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) for almost ten years. This was one of Walker’s three presidential appointments each by different Presidents during his 15 years of total federal service. He also has over 20 years of private sector experience, including approximately 10 years as a Partner and Global Managing Director of Human Capital Services for Arthur Andersen LLP.

In addition to his leadership responsibilities at the Foundation, Walker serves on various boards and advisory groups, including as Chairman of the United Nations Independent Audit Advisory Committee, as a member of The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's Advisory Committee, and as a member of the Trilateral Commission. Dave has authored three books. The most recent, Comeback America, shows how we can return to our founding principles of fiscal responsibility and stewardship for future generations. He is a frequent writer and commentator, and is a subject of the critically acclaimed documentary I.O.U.S.A

Audio of this talk.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Sponsor Forum at Pepper LLP

Understanding Northern Mexico and the Future of US-Mexican Cooperation

David Danelo Senior Fellow, FPRI

Drawing on his extensive field research on the U.S.-Mexican border, David Danelo will provide an in-depth briefing on northern Mexico, the site of half of Mexico’s drug-related killings and 85 percent of all US-Mexico trade, with a view to understanding how the United States should concentrate its resources to build security cooperation with Mexico.

David Danelo, a Senior Fellow in FPRI’s Program on National Security, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and served seven years as an infantry officer in the Marine Corps. In 2004, then-Captain Danelo served near Fallujah with the First Marine Expeditionary Force as a convoy commander, intelligence officer and provisional executive officer for a rifle company. His first book, Blood Stripes: The Grunt’s View of the War in Iraq (Stackpole: 2006), was awarded the 2006 Silver Medal (Military History) by the Military Writers Society of America. His book, The Border: Exploring the US-Mexican Divide (2008), was endorsed by The Economist, former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, and Texas Books in Review, which called it “an unequivocally compelling read.”

Summer School at FPRI: Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Exclusively for Members of FPRI

North Africa: Lessons in Counterterrorism

Ilan Berman Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council

In the “long war” against radical Islam, North Africa is among the most important — and volatile — future fronts. Yet the political dynamics among the countries of the Maghreb are still poorly understood by policymakers in Washington. This is a critical failing, since the region's moderate Muslim states can serve as potent antidotes to the Islamic radicalism prevalent in other parts of the greater Middle East — and as important force-multipliers for American policy in the years ahead. On July 21st, Ilan Berman of the American Foreign Policy Council will outline the counterterrorism lessons gleaned from his recent fact-finding trip to the region.

Ilan Berman is Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC. An expert on regional security in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Russian Federation, he has consulted for both the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Department of Defense, and provided assistance on foreign policy and national security issues to a range of governmental agencies and congressional offices. Mr. Berman is Adjunct Professor for International Law and Global Security at the National Defense University, and a member of the Associated Faculty at Missouri State University’s Department of Defense and Strategic Studies. He also serves as a member of the reconstituted Committee on the Present Danger, a columnist for Forbes.com, and as Editor of The Journal of International Security Affairs. Mr. Berman is the author of Tehran Rising: Iran’s Challenge to the United States (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), co-editor, with J. Michael Waller, of Dismantling Tyranny: Transitioning Beyond Totalitarian Regimes (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), and editor of Taking on Tehran: Strategies for Confronting the Islamic Republic (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). His latest book, Winning the Long War: Retaking the Offensive Against Radical Islam, was published by Rowman & Littlefield in July 2009.  Like Felix Chang (above), he was once an intern at FPRI! 

Audio of this talk.

Summer School at FPRI: Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Exclusively for Members of FPRI

Energy Security: Perceptions and Policies

Felix Chang Partner at Avenir Venture Group and Senior Fellow, FPRI

Energy security remains a perpetually important concern for countries worldwide. Since the beginning of the industrial age, political leaders have used energy security to justify their actions across a wide spectrum—from creating national forests to supporting state-owned enterprises. Today, the policy discussion about energy security continues. However, it is too often conducted without a fundamental appreciation of how energy is produced and consumed or, even more importantly, the national prisms through which the issue is seen. These varying perspectives often manifest themselves in profoundly different ways when they are converted into actions. This seminar is designed both to offer a new approach to energy security, while offering attendees a greater understanding of how national perceptions and policies have created the current state of energy security – or insecurity — around the world.

Felix K. Chang is a co-founder of Avenir Venture Group, venture incubator focused on the healthcare, renewable energy, and digital technology sectors. He is also a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He was previously a partner at CVP Ventures and a consultant in Booz Allen Hamilton's Strategy and Organization practice; among his clients were the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of the Treasury, and other agencies. Earlier, he served as a senior planner and an intelligence officer in the U.S. Department of Defense and a business advisor at Mobil Oil Corporation, where he dealt with strategic planning for upstream and midstream investments throughout Asia and Africa. is publications include articles in American Interest, Orbis, and Parameters. is ongoing research concentrates on military, economic, and energy security issues in Asia as well as the financial industry around the world. He received his M.B.A. from Duke University and M.A. and B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Summer School at FPRI: Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Exclusively for Members of FPRI

The Foreign Policy Implications of Information and Communications Technologies

Lawrence Husick Senior Fellow, FPRI

Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) allow people in many nations to participate in a rapidly changing world in which economic, political, and social activities are increasingly transformed. ICT tools are used to find, explore, analyze, exchange and present information and give users instant access to knowledge, information, ideas and experiences from a wide range of people, communities and cultures. As a tool for development, diplomacy, human rights, and education, efforts to spread ICT have been very successful. The dark-side of ICT, which has seen these technologies used for repression, propaganda, crime and terrorism is less-well explored.

Lawrence Husick, FPRI’s Senior Fellow in the Center on Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism, and Wachman Center Co-Director of the History of Innovation Program will provide an overview of Information and Communications Technologies, and explore the foreign policy implications for the rapid dissemination of ICT across the globe, with special attention to non-governmental agency programs in ICT and their impact and prospects for bringing about social and political change.

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

BookTalk

Cosponsored by UPenn’s Center for East Asian Studies

Edwin O. Reischauer and the American Discovery of Japan

George R. Packard President, US-Japan Foundation

In this biography of scholar and diplomat Edwin O. Reischauer, Packard explores Reischauer’s critical role in the history of U.S.-Japanese relations, a role that began during World War II in analyzing intelligence on Japan and training American code- breakers in Japanese; then, after the war, he helped steer Japan toward democracy, and as Ambassador to Japan in the early 1960s helped “reset” U.S.-Japanese relations. He was also one of the nation’s foremost scholars of Japan and East Asia, and, in that capacity, helped explain Japan to Americans.

Dr. George R. Packard is president of the United States-Japan Foundation and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, where he is chairman of the Advisory Board of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. He was dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (1979-1993), where he founded John Hopkins’s Foreign Policy Institute, the SAIS Review, the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, and the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in China. Earlier in his career, Dr. Packard was an intelligence officer and later a special assistant to US Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer in Tokyo. He has also worked extensively in journalism, first as a diplomatic correspondent for Newsweek, and then as White House correspondent and then executive editor of the Philadelphia Evening and Sunday Bulletin. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs and elsewhere. His latest essay, “The United States-Japan Security Treaty at 50: Still a Grand Bargain?” appeared in the March/April 2010 issue of Foreign Affairs. For information about the book, visit http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14354-7/edwin-o-reischauer-and-the- american-discovery-of-japan. /p>

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Monday, May 24, 2010

Study Group on America and the West

Obama, Geopolitics, and the Future of the West

Mackubin T. Owens Professor of Strategy, US Naval War College; Editor, Orbis; and FPRI Senior Fellow

Mackubin “Mac” Owens is Editor of Orbis, FPRI’s quarterly journal of international affairs, and Senior Fellow at its Program on National Security. In addition, he is Associate Dean of Academics for Electives and Directed Research and Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He served as a Marine infantry platoon commander in Vietnam (1968-69) where he was twice wounded and awarded the Silver Star medal. He retired from the Marine Corps Reserve as a Colonel in 1994. Dr. Owens earned his Ph.D. from the University of Dallas and his M.A. in economics from Oklahoma University. Dr. Owens is a contributing editor to National Review Online. His articles on national security issues have appeared in publications including International Security, Orbis, Armed Forces Journal, Joint Force Quarterly, The Weekly Standard, US Naval Institute Proceedings, Marine Corps Gazette, National Review, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He is co-editor of the textbook “Strategy and Force Planning,” now in its fourth edition, and author of the FPRI monograph, “Abraham Lincoln: Leadership and Democratic Statesmanship in Wartime” (2009). He is currently at work writing two books on American civil-military relations.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Conference on US-China Maritime Security Relations

Sea Change? Conflicting Claims, Disparate Agendas and
U.S.-China Maritime Security Relations

Sponsored by the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Reserve Officers Association

FPRI and ROA will convene a symposium to address issues in U.S.-China and Northeast Asian regional security relations that arise from China’s growing maritime power , conflicting claims of maritime and territorial sovereignty in the ocean areas adjacent to China and the rights of foreign military craft to operate in the region, including China’s claimed exclusive economic zone. The session will address the prospects for conflict and accommodation, the merits of the principal parties’ claims, and the significance of these issues for broader U.S.-China relations. Implications for Japan’s role and Sino-Japanese relations will be addressed as well.

Monday, May 10, 2010

BookTalk

Combating Jihadism

Barak Mendelsohn FPRI Senior Fellow and Assistant Professor of Political Science, Haverford College

Although terrorism is an age-old phenomenon, argues Barak Mendelsohn, jihadist ideology is distinctive in its ambition to overthrow the modern state system and destroy the foundations of world order. How should the U.S. and its allies act to defeat jihadism?  This is the subject of Mendelsohn’s new book “Combating Jihadism.” Mendelsohn is an assistant professor of political science at Haverford College, where he teaches courses on Jihadi movements and on the Middle East. He served in the Israeli army for five years and received his Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University. His essays have appeared in Survival, the journal of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London) and the Journal of Strategic Studies. His “Global Terrorism Resource Database” can be found at http://people.haverford.edu/bmendels/. For information about his book, visit: www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=1248619

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Monday, May 3, 2010

Briefing

“Information Operations” and Deception in Modern Warfare

Brigadier General Thomas V. Draude, USMC (Ret.) President, Marine Corps University Foundation

General Draude, an experienced practitioner of “military deception operations,” will examine how “information operations” and military deception were used in Operation Desert Storm and how they are being used today in Afghanistan. General Draude served in the U.S. Marine Corps for 30½ years, retiring on 1 January 1993. His career included serving three times in Vietnam as an infantry platoon and company commander, and as an advisor to the Vietnamese Marines. He served as the Assistant Division Commander of the First Marine Division during Desert Shield and Desert Storm; he also was responsible for the Marine deception operations in the combat theatre. He retired as the Director of Public Affairs for the Marine Corps and served on the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces. He received two Distinguished Service Medals and ten personal awards for combat, including two Silver Star Medals and the Purple Heart Medal. Today, General Draude serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Marine Corps University Foundation and the General Robert H. Barrow Distinguished Chair of Military Studies at the Marine Corps University.

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.

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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.

Friday, April 23, 2010

FPRI joins the Pan American Association of Philadelphia for a celebration of Pan American Day

United States and Latin America: Confrontation or Cooperation?

Featuring a panel discussion with

• Frank Mora Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Western Hemisphere
• Isaac Cohen News Analyst, CNN
• Christopher Sabatini Editor in Chief, The Americas Journal

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Annual Champagne Brunch for Bronze Partners

U.S. Foreign Policy: Finding the Balance

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.

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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.

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.

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Friday, March 26, 2010

BookTalk

China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom

Richard Baum Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles

Professor Richard Baum is past director of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. He has written and edited nine books, including Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping (Princeton U., 1996), Prelude to Revolution: Mao, the Party, and the Peasant Question, 1962-66 (Columbia U., 1975), and most recently, China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom (U. Washington, 2010). He is the founder and list manager of Chinapol, the world's largest dedicated listserv for professional China scholars, journalists, and policy analysts. His current research focuses on (1) the impact of China's post-Mao reforms on local governance in the PRC; (2) the impact of globalization on political development in post-reform China; and (3) US-China relations and the prospects for war and peace in the Taiwan Strait.

Dr. Baum has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Contemporary China, The China Quarterly, China Information, Asian Survey, and Communist and Post-Communist Studies. As a media commentator, Professor Baum shares his expert knowledge of Chinese politics with CNN International, the BBC, NPR, the Asian Wall Street Journal, South China Morning Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Voice of America (VOA).

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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, 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.

• Read: Leveraging Strength: The Pillars of U.S. Grand Strategy in World War II, Orbis Winter 2011

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. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University.

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

Monday, March 1, 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.

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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, 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.

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

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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.

Monday, February 8, 2010

Study Group on America and the West

Intellectuals and American Foreign Policy

Bruce Kuklick Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

Bruce Kuklick was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving a BA with a major in philosophy and a PhD in American Civilization, and also spent a year studying at Oxford University and another at the University of London on a Penfield Traveling Fellowship in Diplomacy. He taught at Yale from l968 to l972 and then at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is now Professor of History. He instructed at the Open University in London in 1968; in l992 he visited the Netherlands as the Walt Whitman Professor of American Studies; in 1996 was Guest Professor in Leuven, Belgium; and in 2005 as an Exchange Professor at University College, London. He also held the Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair at the Roosevelt Studies Center in the Netherlands. He has received the Penn History Department’s teaching prize and all of the University’s major awards— the Lindback and Abrams Prizes, the Senior Class Award, and the Richard Dunn Prize. The Teaching Company of Washington, D. C., has taped his lectures in its Superstar Teachers series.

The recipient of grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Prof. Kuklick has also been a member of the Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is also the author of a number of books, the most popular and successful of which is a book on baseball history, To Every Thing a Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia (1991), which won the Casey Award and the SABR-Macmillan Baseball Prize. It continues to be a small press best seller. His most recent books are Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger (2006); a biography of African American philosopher William Fontaine, Black Philosopher; White Academy (2008); and a political history of the United States, One Nation Under God (2009).

• Read: The Rise Of Policy Institutes In The United States, 1943-1971, Orbis Fall 2011

Thu. Feb. 4, 2010

FPRI Members Briefing

The Foreign Policy of Abraham Lincoln

Harvey Sicherman President, FPRI

A former aide to three U.S. secretaries of state, Harvey Sicherman has written numerous essays and books on U.S. foreign and defense policy. He received his Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania.

He is author or editor of numerous books, chapters, and articles, including America the Vulnerable: Our Military Problems and How To Fix Them, co-edited with John Lehman (2002), Is There Still A West? The Future of the Atlantic Alliance, co-edited with William Anthony Hay (2007); The War on Terror: 21st Century Perspectives, co-edited with Stephen Gale and Michael Radu (Transaction, 2008); Templeton Lectures on Religion and World Affairs, 1996–2007 (FPRI, 2008); Cheap Hawks, Cheap Doves, and the Pursuit of American Strategy (forthcoming).

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Of related interest:

• Harvey Sicherman on Benjamin Franklin and the Traditions of American Diplomacy
• Mackubin Owens on Abraham Lincoln: Leadership in Wartime

Monday, January 25, 2010

ROA-FPRI Conference

Power in East Asia: What Is It and Who Has It?

Hosted and Cosponsored by the Reserve Officers Association in Washington, DC (to be webcast)

What types of power matter, and who has how much of it, in East Asia today and in the future? Has U.S. hard and soft power declined at least relatively and what are the consequences of the U.S.’s continued focus on other issues and the agenda of the Obama administration? What are the implications of China’s rising power and influence and its “charm offensive”? What do such developments portend for China’s cooperation and conflict with the U.S., Japan and others? Where do Japan’s long-term economic troubles, long-debated constraints on its security role, a new government and a changing environment leave this major regional power? What are the consequences for smaller powers, including Taiwan and Korea, of changes in their external environments? What do domestic developments in these lesser powers and in their foreign relations mean for greater powers and relations among them? This conference will examine these questions through presentations and discussion.

Speakers include

• Keynoter: The Hon. Kurt Campbell, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
• Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College
• Alan Wachman, Associate Professor of International Politics, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and was a Fellow (2008-09) of the Program on Peace, Governance, and Development in East Asia, serving as a guest lecturer at the East Asia Institute (Seoul), Keio University (Tokyo), and Peking University (Beijing)
• David Kang, Professor of International Relations and Business, University of Southern California, and Director, Korean Studies Institute, USC
• Thomas Berger, Associate Professor of International Relations, Boston University

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Special Event Exclusively for FPRI Partners Who Make Their 2010 Partnership Contribution Before January 21, 2010

Paul Bracken on Managing the Second Nuclear Age

Paul Bracken, Professor of Management and Political Science at Yale University, will discuss his just-completed book manuscript that defines and clarifies the major issues of what he calls “the second nuclear age” – an age of multiple nuclear powers. “Nuclear weapons,” he says, “are returning as a source of conflict and influence in international affairs,” and we must re-think fundamental issues of strategy and deterrence.

Few people are as qualified to frame this discussion as Paul Bracken. His 1983 book The Command and Control of Nuclear Forces (Yale University Press) is a classic work on the risks of accidental nuclear war. He is a member of the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel; the Joint Forces Command Transformation Advisory Group; and the Strategic Advisory Group to Review the U.S. National Warning System for the Director of National Intelligence. He designed the core course for all entering MBAs at Yale’s School of Management on “Problem Framing” and is a founding member of Yale’s Grand Strategy Program. Prof. Bracken is a member of FPRI’s Board of Advisors. In 2008, he delivered FPRI’s First Annual Rocco Martino Lecture on Innovation and World Affairs, addressing the issue of “Technological Innovation and National Security.”

For his previous FPRI essays, visit

• Intelligence and Risk Management, 12/2008
• Technological Innovation and National Security, 6/2008
• Financial Warfare, 9/2007

Partners are also invited to special partnership events throughout the year, including:

• Annual Champagne Brunch at the Four Seasons Hotel, April 18, with George Friedman, head of STRATFOR, speaking on “The 21st Century: What to Expect”
• Private Lunch for Bronze Partners following Harvey Sicherman’s public lecture, February 4, on “The Foreign Policy of Abraham Lincoln”
• The 2010 Annual Dinner

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Middle East Lecture Series

The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel?

Harvey Sicherman President, FPRI

In cooperation with the Kehillah of Old York Road

One of the nation's leading experts on the Arab-Israeli conflict, Harvey Sicherman is a former aide to three U.S. secretaries of state. He has written numerous essays and books on U.S. foreign and defense policy, including America the Vulnerable: Our Military Problems and How To Fix Them, co-edited with John Lehman (2002), Is There Still A West? The Future of the Atlantic Alliance, co-edited with William Anthony Hay (2007); The War on Terror: 21st Century Perspectives, co-edited with Stephen Gale and Michael Radu (Transaction, 2008); Templeton Lectures on Religion and World Affairs, 1996-2007 (FPRI, 2008); and Cheap Hawks, Cheap Doves, and the Pursuit of American Strategy (forthcoming). He received his Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania.