Calendar of Upcoming Events

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Dinner for Platinum Partners ($10,000)

How to Maintain the Strategic Advantage

Bruce Berkowitz Research Fellow, Hoover Institution

Bruce Berkowitz is the author of Strategic Advantage (forthcoming), which assesses the current strategic environment and lays out recommendations for how the United States may best maintain the strategic advantage. Berkowitz is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He began his career at the CIA and since served throughout the U.S. intelligence community. Most recently, he was the Director, Forecasting and Evaluation at the Department of Defense (2004–5). His books include The New Face of War (Free Press, 2003); Calculated Risks (1987); and American Security (1986).

His articles have appeared in such journals as Foreign Affairs, The American Interest, Foreign Policy, and Issues in Science and Technology. He also publishes frequently in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post, and is a contributing editor of Orbis.

Thu., September 11, 2008

What Students Should Know About 9/11 and the War on Terrorism

45-minute webcast

Secondary schools/classes may sign up to view the webcast live online and participate in the Q&A periods. All questions not answered during the session will be answered by email shortly thereafter. The webcast will feature panelists drawn from FPRI’s Center on Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Homeland Security.

• Resources from last year’s 9/11 webcast

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Robert A. Fox Lectures on the Middle East

The Future of Iran

Kenneth Pollack Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution

Ken Pollack is an expert on national security, military affairs and the Persian Gulf. He was Director for Persian Gulf affairs at the National Security Council. He also spent seven years in the CIA as a Persian Gulf military analyst.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Asia Study Group

Perspectives from China, Japan, and the U.S.

This session is the public portion of a four-day conference (Sept. 21-24) sponsored by the Shanghai Institute of International Relations, the Japan Institute of International Affairs, the New World Institute (VA), and FPRI. The fifith in a series of annual conferences, the program offers an opportunity to explore on an unofficial basis key security and economic issues affecting the three countries.

Friday, October 3, 2008

BookTalk

The Border: Exploring the US-Mexican Divide

David Danelo

For the past two years, David Danelo (www.danelo.com) traveled expensively along the entire length of the US- Mexico border, exploring both sides of the international line from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. He interviewed Border Patrol agents, local politicians, immigration activists, deported migrants, religious officials, and ordinary citizens, discovering in the process many things worth sharing. Danelo served for seven years in the US Marine Corps, serving in 2004 near Fallujah in Iraq with the First Marine Expeditionary Force. His articles have appeared in Parade Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, and the Marine Corps Gazette; his first book, Blood Stripes: The Grunt’s View of the War in Iraq, was published in 2006.

Monday, Octobet 6, 2008

West Study Group

Future Warfare and US Defense Policy

Michael Horowitz University of Pennsylvania

Michael Horowitz is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Horowitz spent the 2006-07 academic year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, where he completed his Ph.D. He was the Sidney R. Knafel Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in 2005–06. He has also served as a consultant for the Department of Defense on a range of international security issues. His work has been published in The Journal of Conflict Resolution, The Journal of Strategic Studies, Orbis, and The Washington Quarterly. He teaches courses on warfare, religion, the international security environment, and the use of statistics to study international conflict.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Robert A. Fox Lectures on the Middle East

Will Saudi Arabia Survive?

Rachel Bronson Vice President, Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Saturday-Sunday, October 18-19, 2008

Teaching the History of Innovation: A History Institute for Teachers

Friday, October 24, 2008

Sponsor Forum at Pepper LLP

Algeria: A Trip Report

John Calvert Fr. Henry W. Casper SJ Associate Professor of History, Creighton University

A noted expert on Islamism, John Calvert is co-translator and co-editor of “A Child from the Village” by one of the most significant philosophers of the Muslim Brotherhood, Sayyid Qutb (Syracuse Univerity Press, 2004). Calvert´s books also include Islamisms: A Documentary and Reference Guide (Greenwood, 2007) and The Arabian Peninsula in the Age of Oil (Mason Crest, 2007), the latter a volume in a series on for high school students on The Making of the Modern Middle East (FPRI, Editorial Consultant). His essay “Mythic Foundations of Radical Islam,” appeared in Orbis, Winter 2004.

Monday, October 27, 2008

Robert Carr Lecture on Western Civilization

What are We Fightin’ For? Western Civilization in the 21st Century

James Kurth Claude Smith Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College

James Kurth is the Claude Smith Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College, where he teaches defense policy, foreign policy, and international politics. Professor Kurth is the author of numerous articles and editor of two 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. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York) and of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London).

Thursday, October 30, 2008

BookTalk

The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe

William I. Hitchcock Professor of History, Temple University

In The Bitter Road to Freedom (Free Press, 2008), Prof. Hitchcock tells a part of the story of World War II that is missing from traditional accounts. Told from the point of view of those who were liberated, the book helps explain why even liberated people, grateful for their freedom, generally do not like their liberators, and why liberation achieved even in the most righteous of wars comes at a dire price.

William I. Hitchcock earned his Ph.D. in history from Yale University, where he taught for six years. He is author of France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe (University of North Carolina Press, 1998) and The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent, 1945–Present (Doubleday, 2005).

Thursday, November 13, 2008

2008 Annual Dinner

Featuring an Address by

John R. Bolton
Former U.S. Representative to the United Nations

Ambassador Bolton served as the Permanent U.S. Representative to the UN from August 2005 until December 2006. He had previously served as Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Securityand in several positions within the State Department, the Justice Department and USAID. Before entering government service Bolton was Senior Vice President for Public Policy Research at the American Enterprise Institute.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Webcast for Students on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, FPRI will present a 45-minute webcast on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Secondary schools/classes may sign up to view the webcast live online and participate in the Q&A periods.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Robert A. Fox Lectures on the Middle East

Where is Egypt Headed?

Hon. Daniel C. Kurtzer S. Daniel Abraham Chair in Middle East Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Robert A. Fox Lectures on the Middle East

U.S. Policy Toward the Middle East

Harvey Sicherman President, FPRI