Past Programs
Rebuilding Iraq: What worked? What Didn’t? What Next?
November 17, 2011 Richard S.D. Hawkins, led an embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team of 40 subject matter experts in the rural and conflict laden eastern and southern zones of Baghdad Province from February 2008-April 2009 Central to the U.S. effort to help Iraq rebuild were the Provincial Reconstruction Teams, civilian-led groups of experts
Crisis in the Eurozone: Germany and the PIGS
September 30, 2011 Christine Sauer, Professor of Economics and Director of the International Studies Institute at the University of New Mexico. A native of Germany, she received her undergraduate training at the University of Kiel Fear of contagion from the 18-month old Greek debt crisis grips other Eurozone countries with high fiscal
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
June 9, 2011 Cheryl Rofer, CEO NuclearDiner blog Exactly what happened and why? What were the sources of confusion during the first days after the disaster? What were and are the dangers to people in Japan and across the Pacific in the U.S.? All in all, a presentation designed to separate fact
Inside the Council on Foreign Relations
March 5, 2011 Michael Peters, President, St. John’s College in Santa Fe; former Executive Vice President, Council on Foreign Relations
Thailand: Prosperous but Divided
December 6, 2010 William Itoh, U.S. Ambassador to Thailand (1995-1999) and currently currently Director of Washington International Programs for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill In May 2010, Bangkok erupted in flames. Some 91 Thai were killed, over 2,000 were injured and 400 were arrested in a military crackdown resulting
India, Pakistan and Democracy: A Puzzle Solved?
November 1, 2010 Dr Phillip Oldenburg, currently adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science and Research Scholar, South Asian Institute, Columbia University, has also taught at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Texas, Austin India and Pakistan emerged at independence in 1947 with similar political systems: a British colonial state apparatus and
