Past Programs
The Geopolitics of Oil
February 9, 2013 Molly Williamson, former Foreign Service Officer with the rank of Career Minister, is an expert on energy, economic and demographic factors affecting foreign policy formulation, US-Middle East relations, especially the Israel-Palestine conflict, Iran and nuclear challenges, and the inter-agency process How do energy, economic and demographic factors affect US
The Fallout from Libya: Al Qaeda in Africa
November 27, 2012 Vicki Huddleston, Ambassador, former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa; US Ambassador to Madagascar and to Mali; Principal Officer of the US Interests Section in Havana and Chargé d’affairs ad interim in Ethiopia
Engaging a Dangerous World Without Guns: The U.S Foreign Service Today
November 9, 2012 Nicholas Kralev, author, a journalist and a lecturer on international affairs, diplomacy and global travel Americans are still reeling from the death by suffocation of their Ambassador to Libya in the city of Benghazi, dramatic proof that the life of a diplomat today doesn’t conform to tea party stereotypes. In
Fish vs. Cattle: Conflict Mitigation in South Sudan
September 24, 2012 Patrick Murphy, was the “fisheries expert” for the USAID project in South Sudan under the direction of AECOM South Sudan gained its independence from Muslim (North) Sudan in 2011 after decades of hot and cold Civil War. The world rejoiced. The Arab North would no longer be oppressing the
Bureaucracy Does its Thing: US Performance in Afghanistan
June 15, 2012 Todd Greentree, former political/military advisor US forces in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Angola and Afghanistan Most Americans are relieved that the international intervention in Afghanistan is winding down more than a decade after 9/11. Can the absence of clear cut victory despite a considerable investment of blood and treasure be attributed to
Hungary Today: Examining Solutions to Intractable Problems
December 8, 2011 Deborah Cornelius, historian of East Central Europe Why has the popularly elected government of this small nation surrounded by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia and Croatia received so much criticism? Why has Slovakia challenged a recently enacted law allowing ethnic Hungarians living in regions formerly part of Hungary to
