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AbizaidJohn Philip Abizaid; U.S. Army, (ret.), Commander of the U.S. Central Command (2003-2007): “The Military in the Post 911 World,” 3/12/08
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ArbatovAlexey G. Arbatov; Member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation: "Making Foreign Policy in Democratic Russia," 3/4/03
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ArquillaJohn Arquilla; Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey: "International Relations in the Information Age," 3/17/03
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AthertonAlfred L. Atherton; Former U.S. Ambassador at Large, Middle East; and former Director General of the Foreign Service: "The Peace Process in the Middle East"," 2/28/86
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BacevichAndrew J. Bacevich; Professor of International Relations and Director, Center for International Relations, Boston University: "The Military and U.S. Foreign Policy," 5/9/05
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BenhabibSeyla Benhabib; Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University: "Philosophic Iterations, Cosmopolitanism, and the 'Right to Rights'," 3/18/04
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H.SmithStephen D. Biddle; Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations: "Military Victory in the Information Age," 1/27/06; and "Strategy and the Iraq War," 11/26/07
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BootMax Boot; Olin Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations: "Small Wars and U.S. Foreign Policy," 3/12/03; and, "Revolutions in Military Affairs and the War on Terror," 11/6/06
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BrahimiLakhdar Brahimi ; UN Special Envoy: "Negotiating," 4/5/05
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CastellsManuel Castells; Professor of Sociology and City & Regional Planning, UCB: "Identity and Change in the Network Society," 5/9/01
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Chanda Nayan Chanda; Director of Publications at the Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University: "How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization," 5/16/07
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Chua Amy Chua; John M. Duff, Jr., Professor of Law, Yale Law School: "The Moment of Empire," 11/16/07
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ClarkeJonathan Clarke ; Foreign Policy Scholar, The Cato Institute: "The Neo-Conservatives ," 4/4/05
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Danner Mark Danner; Professor of Journalism, UC Berkeley: "Truth, Power, and the Iraq Debacle," 7/27/07
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EizenstatStuart E. Eizenstat; former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury: "Politics, Law, and the Search for 'Imperfect Justice,'" 4/30/03
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FarerTom Farer; Dean, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver: "International Law and Human Rights," 4/19/00
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FergusonNiall Ferguson; John Herzog Professor of Financial History, New York University: "Money and Power," 11/3/03; and, as the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University: "The War of the World," 10/19/06
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Fawaz A. Gerges Fawaz A. Gerges; Christian A. Johnson Chair in Middle Eastern Studies at Sarah Lawrence College: "Inside Muslim Militancy,” 8/29/2007
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HaasErnst B. Haas; Robson Research Professor of Government, UC Berkeley: "Science and Progress in International Relations," 10/30/00
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HabibPhilip Habib; diplomat: "The Work of Diplomacy," 5/14/82
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HansonVictor Davis Hanson; Senior Felllow, Hoover Institution: "Iraq and the Lessons of the Peloponnesian War," 3/14/06
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Huntington John Hulsman: Senior Fellow, German Council on Foreign Relations (Berlin): Ethical Realism and U.S. Foreign Policy," 10/25/06 (with Anatol Lieven)
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HuntingtonSamuel P. Huntington; Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Director, Center for International Affairs, Harvard: "The Problem of Strategy," 3/29/85

JervisRobert Jervis; Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics, Columbia University: "American Foreign Policy in a New Era," 11/17/05
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JoffeJosef Joffe; Editor and Publisher, Die Zeit: "Power and Culture in International Affairs," 1/20/00 and 3/23/00; and "Alliance Lost: the U.S. and Europe in a Unipolar World," 4/4/03; "The Imperial Temptation of America," 10/22/07
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JonesA. Elizabeth Jones; Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia: "U.S. Foreign Policy: Continuity and Change after 9/11," 10/22/02
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JohnsonChalmers Johnson; President, Japan Policy Research Institute: "Militarism and the American Empire," 1/29/04
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KeohaneRobert O. Keohane; James B. Duke Professor of Political Science, Duke University: "Theory and International Institutions," 3/9/04
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Khanna Parag Khanna; Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation: ”Global Competition and the Rise of the Second World,” 03/21/08
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KohHarold Hongju Koh; Professor of International Law, Yale University: "Transnational Legal Process and World Order," 10/3/03
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Krasner Stephen D.Krasner; Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations, Stanford University: "Sovereignty*," 3/31/03; "System Change or More of the Same", 10/29/2007;
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LewisSamuel Lewis; Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and President of the U.S. Peace Institute: "Reflections on the Work of Diplomacy and the Peace Process," 11/15/88
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Huntington Anatol Lieven: Senior Fellow, New America Foundation: Ethical Realism and U.S. Foreign Policy," 10/25/06 (with John Hulsman)
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LiftonRobert Jay Lifton, M.D.; Psychiatrist and author: "Evil, the Self, and Survival," 11/2/99
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LundestadGeir Lundestad; Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Commission: "The Nobel Peace Prize and International Relations," 9/20/05
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LuttwakEdward Luttwak; Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University: "Strategy," 3/10/87"The Logic of Strategy and U.S. Foreign Policy,"11/05/07
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LymanPrinceton Lyman; Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations: "U.S. Foreign Policy and Globalization," 2/28/02; and "A Strategic U.S. Approach to Africa," 2/16/06
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MahbubaniKishore Mahbubani; Dean, Lee Kuan Yee School of Public Policy, Singapore: "America and the World," 3/12/05; "The Rise of Asia and the Decline of the West,” 2/22/08
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MatlockJack Matlock; former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union: "Collapse of Soviet Union and End of the Cold War," 2/13/97
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Mead Walter Russell Mead; Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations "U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Political Tradition," 2/25/03; "American Grand Strategy in a World at Risk," 5/10/04; and "Britain and America and the Making of the Modern World," 10/23/07
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MearsheimerJohn Mearsheimer; R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago: "Through the Realist Lens," 4/8/02 video (2002); and "Domestic Policy and International Relations" 9/19/07; webcast of video (2007)

NachtMichael Nacht; Dean and Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley: "Changing Paradigms in National Security Policy," 1/9/03
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NewsomAmbassador David D. Newsom; former Undersecretary of State: "Reflections of a Diplomat," 6/11/02
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NyeJoseph S. Nye, Jr.; Professor and Dean of JFK School of Government, Harvard: "Theory and Practice in International Relations," 4/8/98
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OrenMichael B. Oren; Historian and Writer; Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center, Jerusalem: "War in History and in Fiction," 11/8/05
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PapeRobert A. Pape; Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago: "The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism," 2/16/06
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ParsiTrita Parsi; Adjunct Professor of International Relations at School for Advanced International Studies,Johns Hopkins University.:“Iran, Israel, and the United States,” 11/30/07
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PowerSamantha Power; author, "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide: "Genocide and U.S. Foreign Policy," 4/29/02; "Chasing the Flame," 2/26/08
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SchwenningerSherle R. Schwenninger; New America Foundation: "Grand Strategy and American Triumphalism," 2/9/04
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Scott Peter Dale Scott; Professor Emeritus of English, UC Berkeley: "Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America," 8/8/07
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ShattuckJohn Shattuck; Chief Executive Officer, Kennedy Library Foundation: "Inching Forward: Human Rights Policy in the Clinton Administration," 1/13/04
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Slezkine Yuri Slezkine; Professor of History, UCB: "The Jewish Century," 07/18/07
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H.SmithHarold Palmer Smith, Jr., Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley: "Thinking about the 'Unthinkables' in the Post-9/11 World," 1/26/06
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SteelRonald Steel; Professor of International Relations, USC : "The Wilsonian Agenda of U.S. Foreign Policy," 3/1/004
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TarnoffPeter Tarnoff; former Undersecretary of State; former President, Council on Foreign Relations: "Foreign Policy in a Democracy," 10/13/99
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TelhamiShibley Telhami; Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, U of Maryland, College Park: "U.S. Foreign Policy and the Search for Peace in the Middle East," 11/8/01
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UrquhartSir Brian Urquhart; former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations: "A Life in Peace and War," 3/19/96
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WaltStephen M. Walt; Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Kennedy School, Harvard University: "Balancing American Power in the Post-9/11 World," 11/15/05 video (2005); and"Domestic Policy and International Relations"9/19/07 webcast of video (2007)

WaltzKenneth Waltz; Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Columbia University "Theory and International Politics," 2/10/03
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WeberSteven Weber; Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley: "Power in the Information Age," 4/28/03
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YooJohn Yoo; Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley: "The Shaping of a Legal Response to 911,” 1/24/08
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ZinniGeneral Anthony Zinni; U.S. Marine Corps (ret.) and former Commander in Chief of the Central Command: "The Military's Role in a Changing World," 3/6/01
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ZumwaltElmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.; Admiral, USN (Ret.), Chief of Naval Operations (1970-74): "Recollections from a Military Career," 3/14/89
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