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Welcome
Throughout the 2009-2010 academic year, IIS and IGS will co-sponsor a
series of lectures and seminars on the foreign policy challenges facing
the Obama administration. This series has been made possible by a
contribution from the Charles and Louise Travers Endowment.
Lectures | Speakers
11/12: Ambassador Jeremy Kinsman
"Democracy Development as a Foreign Policy Goal"
7:30 p.m., I-House Auditorium
Co-sponsored by I-House, the Department of Political Science, the Canadian Studies Program, and the Goldman School of Public Policy
11/16: Niall Ferguson
"TThe Longterm Impact of the Financial Crisis and the Future of Chimerica"
4 p.m., Toll Room, Alumni House
Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Haas School of Business
11/18: Josef Joffe
"False Prophecies of America's Decline"
4 p.m., 223 Moses Hall, IIS Seminar Room
*Check back for updated information on future talks
10/20 : T.V. Paul: "The Non Use of Nuclear Weapons"
10/1 : Karim Sadjadpour: "Iran After the Election"
9/21 : Robert Baer: "Dealing with Iran"
The Lectures
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"The Longterm Impact of the Financial Crisis and The Future of Chimerica"
WHEN/WHERE: Monday, November 16th | 4 p.m., Alumni House, Toll Room
Speaker: Niall Ferguson is a Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor at Harvard Business School, and author of "The Ascent of Money."
Niall Ferguson will discuss the state of the global economy after the last year's collapse, the factors that led up to it, and the ways that World leaders can avoid another collapse in the future.
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Past Lectures
"The Non Use of Nuclear Weapons"
WHEN/WHERE: Tuesday, October 20th | 12 p.m., 223 Moses Hall
Speaker: T.V. Paul, James McGill Professor of International Relations in
the Department of Political Science at McGill University, Montreal
T.V. Paul will analyze the factors accounting for the non-use of nuclear
weapons since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He will also discuss the future of
this tradition.
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"Iran After the Election"
WHEN/WHERE: Thursday, October 1st | 4 p.m., Lipman Room, 8th Floor,
Barrows Hall
Speaker: Karim Sadjadpour, Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace
Karim Sadjadpour will discuss the impact of Iran's elections on the
balance of power within Iran and on its foreign policy. Sadjadpour will
also assess the implications of recent events on US policy options.
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"Dealing with Iran"
WHEN/WHERE: Monday, September 21st| 12 p.m., 109 Moses Hall, IGS Library
Speaker: Robert Baer, Author of The Devil We Know
Drawing on the history of Iran's emergence as a regional hegemon, Baer
will analyze Iran's strategy and tactics and discuss U.S. policy options
in the region in the wake of new regional realities.
The Speakers
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Robert Baer is an ex-CIA operative and author with extensive experience in the Middle East and South Asia. He is the author of several books, including See No Evil and Sleeping With the Devil, both of which formed the basis of the film "Syriana." His most recent book is The Devil We Know on the rise of Iran as a world power.
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Karim Sadjadpour is an Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Mr. Sadjadpour has lectured and researched extensively and is an expert in Iranian politics, foreign policy, military, economy, and society.Official Biography
Recent Publication:
"Reading Khamenei: The World View of Iran's Most Powerful Leader"
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T.V. Paul is a James McGill Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at McGill University, Montreal. He is a specialist in International Relations & Security.
Official Biography
Recent Publication: "The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons"
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Niall Ferguson is a Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor at Harvard Business School, and author of "The Ascent of Money."
Mr. Ferguson is a specialist in economic and Empirical history.
Official Biography
Recent Publication: The Ascent of Money
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Steve Coll is the President of New America Foundation, a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine, and author of The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, for his reporting on the SEC, and for his book Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA.
Official Biography
New York Times Review of The Bin Ladens
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Ahmed Rashid is the author of Descent Into Chaos and the No. 1 NY Times bestseller, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. He is a specialist in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia.
Official Website
Recent Publications: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia
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Josef Joffe is the publisher-editor of Die Zeit, a weekly German newspaper, as well as a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies. He is an expert in U.S. Foreign Policy, European-American relations, International Security, Europe and Germany, and the Middle East.
Official Biography
Recent Publication: The Default Superpower
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