9/11, the U.S. and the World

John Lehman

On behalf of La Salle College High School and the Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education (division of the Foreign Policy Research Institute), we extend to you and your students an invitation to join us for a special program featuring John Lehman, former member of the 9/11 Commission.

On Monday, November 8, 2004 at 7:30, John Lehman will offer a presentation on “9/11, the U.S. and the World.” Immediately following, a select panel of high school students will offer questions and comments.

In addition to his Commission work, Dr. Lehman is former Secretary of the Navy and the author of four major works on national security and naval history.

The event will be held at La Salle College High School, 8605 Cheltenham Avenue, Wyndmoor, PA 19038.

(The next day, incidentally, Dr. Lehman will give the keynote address at FPRI's Annual Dinner at the Four Seasons, which is sold out; so we are especially fortunate to be able to host him for this student-oriented presentation.)

The event at La Salle is free and open to students and faculty from selected schools. If you plan to attend, let us know, and let us know how many students you will bring by Monday, November 1, 2004.

Thank you. We look forward to greeting representatives from your school on the 8th of November.

The Middle East and the War on Terrorism

A Lecture/Luncheon Series

Sponsored by the Union League of Philadelphia
and the Foreign Policy Research Institute

The 2004 Templeton Lecture on Religion and World Affairs

Why Public Theology Is Necessary for a Democratic Future

Max L. Stackhouse
Rimmer and Ruth de Vries Professor of Reformed Theology and Public Life,
Princeton Theological Seminary

The 2004 Robert Strausz-Hupé Lecture

What Makes Alliances Tick?

Dov S. Zakheim
Former Undersecretary of Defense

Hating America: A History

Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin

Barry Rubin is the director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center (Herzliya), and editor of the online journal Middle East Review of International Affairs. He has appeared on Nightline, Face the Nation, and The Larry King Show.

Judith Colp Rubin is an independent journalist who has covered the Middle East extensively.

Previous books by the Rubins include Yasir Arafat: A Political Biography (Oxford University Press, 2003) and Anti-American Terrorism and the Middle East: A Documentary Reader (Oxford, 2002).

Exclusively for FPRI members

Moderated by David Eisenhower, Senior Fellow, FPRI

FPRI Patrons (members @$500 level) are invited to lunch immediately following.

Raz Rasool and Surood Ahmad Fali

Iraq: During Saddam and Now

Two Iraqi women activists will discuss their experiences in Iraq— under Saddam and after Saddam.

Anvar Saidenov
Governor, National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan

will speak on

Economic Reform in Kazakhstan: Implications for Regional Stability in Central Asia

This session is the fifth of a series of “situation reports” on the war on terrorism, made possible by a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in support of FPRI’s Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security. The Center focuses on identifying and analyzing potential terrorist threats and managing the risks for the benefit of the Commonweath and the Nation. Drs. Gale and Radu appear regularly in the national, international, and local media.

War on Terrorism: Situation Report #5

featuring presentations by

Stephen Gale and Michael Radu
Co-Chairmen, FPRI Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security

This session is the fifth of a series of “situation reports” on the war on terrorism, made possible by a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in support of FPRI’s Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security. The Center focuses on identifying and analyzing potential terrorist threats and managing the risks for the benefit of the Commonweath and the Nation. Drs. Gale and Radu appear regularly in the national, international, and local media.

The Origins of American Constitutionalism

Gordon Wood
Alva O. Way University Professor of History, Brown University

One of the most renowned scholars of early American history, Gordon Wood is author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution, which won a Pulitzer Prize, and The Creation of the American Republic, which garnered a Bancroft Prize. He is currently at work on a book on the Americanization of Benjamin Franklin.

This lecture is the public portion of a weekend-long History Institute for Teachers on “Teaching Colonial and Early American History.” The History Institute is supported by grants from the Annenberg Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. To help sponsor the History Institute or other student/teacher activities, contact FPRI’s Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education at (215) 732-3774, ext. 105.

D-Day Remembered

Co-sponsored by the West Point Society of Philadelphia

David Eisenhower
Senior Fellow, FPRI
Director, Institute of Public Service, University of Pennsylvania

To commemorate the 60th anniversary of D-Day, we are pleased to feature an address by David Eisenhower, author of the New York Times bestseller Eisenhower at War, 1943-1945. He is currently a Public Policy Fellow at the Annenberg School of Communications and the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches communications and the presidency.

Main Line Reform Temple - Beth Elohim and
the Foreign Policy Research Institute

invite you to a public lecture on

The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Where Is It Headed?

Harvey Sicherman
President, Foreign Policy Research Institute

A former aide to three U.S. secretaries of state, Dr. Harvey Sicherman has written and lectured extensively on the Middle East, American foreign policy, and national security. His books include America the Vulnerable, co-edited with John Lehman, and Palestinian Autonomy, Self-Government, and Peace. His essays on the Middle East and terrorism appear on FPRI’s website (www.fpri.org), including “Observations on the War” (March 2004), “The Road to Palestine” (June 2003), “Bush’s Palestine,” (July 2002), and “Bleak New World,” (September 2001). He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, where he is now an adjunct lecturer.

Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History 1585-1828

Walter A. McDougall
Chairman, FPRI History Institute
Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations, University of Pennsylvania

The first installment of a trilogy, Freedom Just Around the Corner offers a powerful reinterpretation of the founding of America. Prof. McDougall won a a Pulitzer Prize for his book The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age. His other books have all won critical acclaim, including Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776 and Let the Sea Make a Noise: A History of the North Pacific from Magellan to MacArthur.

The Chinese Way of War

Andrew Scobell
Associate Research Professor, Strategic Studies Institute
U.S. Army War College

Dr. Scobell will speak on his new book China’s Use of Military Force: Beyond the Great Wall and the Long March (Cambridge University Press). Drawing on a series of case studies of China’s use of force — both abroad and at home — Scobell analyzes the evolution of Chinese strategic culture and its implications for China’s prospective use of force in the 21st century.

Global Security in 2010: How the U.S. Military Must Deal with It

Robert D. Kaplan

Widely recognized as one of the leading writers on foreign affairs today, Robert Kaplan is author of such critically acclaimed works as Warrior Politics, Balkan Ghosts, The Ends of the Earth, and The Coming Anarchy. He is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and a long-time Associate Scholar of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. His latest book is Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and Greece (Random House, 2004).

War on Terrorism: Situation Report #4

featuring presentations by

Stephen Gale and Michael Radu
Co-Chairmen, FPRI Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security

This session is the fourth of a series of “situation reports” on the war on terrorism, made possible by a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in support of FPRI’s Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security. The Center focuses on identifying and analyzing potential terrorist threats and managing the risks for the benefit of the Commonweath and the Nation. Drs. Gale and Radu appear regularly in the national, international, and local media.

Taiwan’s Presidential Election and Referendum: Implications for Democracy and Cross-Strait Relations

On March 20, voters in Taiwan will decide two critical issues: Will they give Chen Shui-bian, the first president from the former opposition party a second four-year term, or will the coalition led by the former ruling party return to power? Will they provide a strong vote of support for referenda on upgrading Taiwan’s capabilities against PRC missiles and on cross-strait negotiations despite strident complaints from China, and concern of the Bush Administration that the referenda represent efforts to change the status quo in cross-strait relations? FPRI’s panel will examine the implications of the votes for the development of democracy in Taiwan and for cross-strait relations, and the U.S. role in the region.

Our panelists include:

June Teufel Dreyer
Professor of Political Science, University of Miami/Coral Gables
Senior Fellow, FPRI

Shelley Rigger
Professor of East Asian Studies, Davidson College
Senior Fellow, FPRI

Jacques deLisle
Director, Asia Program, FPRI
Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania

Seminar on Immigration in International Perspective

Immigration and its Impact: A Comparative International Perspective

Exclusively for members of FPRI’s Study Group on America and the West
and for FPRI Members at the $1,000 level.

Steven Sailer
National Correspondent for United Press International

Sailer’s articles have appeared in The National Interest, Canada’s National Post, and The American Enterprise magazine.

FPRI Sponsor Forum on Korea

Exclusively for FPRI Sponsors (members at the $250 level)

FPRI Sponsors are invited to be our guests for an FPRI Sponsor Forum on Korea, featuring presentations by Congressman Curt Weldon and FPRI Senior Fellow Roy Kim (Professor of Government at Drexel University).

Comments will also be offered by special guests Han Song Ryol, Deputy Permanent Reperesentative of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) to the UN, and Ok-Hyun Jun, Minister, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) to the UN.

China at the Crossroads: Political, Economic, and Constitutional Reform in the PRC Today

Open Exclusively to Members of FPRI’s Asia Study Group
and to FPRI Members at the $500 level or above

Cao Siyuan
President, Beijing Siyuan Research Center for WTO and Social Sciences
Director, Beijing Siyuan Merger and Bankruptcy Consultancy

Cao Siyuan is President of the Beijing Siyuan Research Center for WTO and Social Sciences and Director of the Beijing Siyuan Merger and Bankruptcy Consultancy. Born in Jigdezhen, Jiangxi Province, he did graduate work in economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in the early 1980s. He has worked in the Central Party School, the Research Center of the State Council, the General Office of the State Council and the State Committee for Economic System Reform. In 1988, after playing a leading role in the drafting and passage of a new bankruptcy code, Cao left government to set up a private political research center and bankruptcy consultancy.

In 1999, he was chosen by Asiaweek as one of the 50 famous people who will influence China in the new century. In 2001, he was selected as a “Magnate of Asia” by the Far East Economic Review in 2001. Mr. Cao’s most recent book sets forth a plan for constitutional revision to strengthen human rights, transparency, and checks and balances in China.

A Preview of the Taiwan Election

Open Exclusively to Members of the Asia Study Group
and to FPRI Members at the $250 level and up

Thomas B. Lee
Director, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Lee is Professor of American Studies Tamkang University, and Associate Scholar, FPRI. The author of many books on international affairs in English and Chinese, he received his Ph.D. in history from St. Johns University, New York.

Tensions on the Korean Peninsula

Open Exclusively to Members of the Asia Study Group
and to FPRI Members at the $1,000 level

G. Cameron Hurst III
Director, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania

The War on Terrorism: An Assessment

Cosponsored by the Princeton Committee on Foreign Relations and the Foreign Policy Research Institute

Edward Turzanski
Senior Fellow, FPRI

Edward A. Turzanski, a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security, is a national security, intelligence, and political analyst at La Salle University. Mr. Turzanski served with the U.S. Government in the field of intelligence throughout the Middle East, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.

Mr. Turzanski is also the National Security and Intelligence Analyst for Comcast’s CN-8 Channel; and he has appeared on numerous national television and radio stations including Fox News Network, CNN, MSNBC, National Public Radio in Wisconsin and New Hampshire, Canadian Broadcast Corporation news, Turkish National Television from Istanbul, South African National radio, Australian National Radio, WLS in Chicago, KAIRO in Seattle, KERN in Bakersfield (California); and on numerous local television and radio news programs, to discuss foreign policy, national security, and intelligence issues, and the aftermath of the September 11.

Is There Still a West?

A Foreign Policy Research Institute Conference

Events since 9/11 have forced governments on both sides of the Atlantic into agonizing reappraisals of key relationships. Is it still useful for policymakers to rely on an underlying unity of “the West” while managing differences over issues such as Iraq? Or have divisions reached the point where the U.S. and various European states should make separate approaches to their security? What policy initiatives flow from the answers to these questions? To evaluate these issues, the Foreign Policy Research Institute will assemble leading scholars from the U.S. and Europe at a two-conference in Philadelphia, featuring a keynote address by former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

How Secure Are We, Really?

Cosponsored by Chester County Economic Development Council and FPRI

Exclusively for FPRI Sponsors ($250-level members)

Lawrence Husick
Senior Fellow, FPRI Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security

US Challenges in East Asia: Asian Values, Great Power Interests, and Rising Regionalism

Gilbert Rozman
Musgrave Professor of Sociology, Princeton University, and Senior Fellow, FPRI

Member Schools of FPRI’s Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education are invited to send faculty and up to 10 students to a special briefing on “US Challenges in East Asia: Asian Values, Great Power Interests, and Rising Regionalism,” by Gilbert Rozman, Musgrave Professor of Sociology, Princeton University, and Senior Fellow, FPRI.

This series of briefings, moderated by Wachman Fund Senior Fellow Paul Dickler, is exclusively for Member Schools of FPRI. For information about school membership, see www.fpri.org/education/schoolmembershipform.txt.

The War on Terrorism: Situation Report

Exclusively for FPRI Sponsors ($250-level members)

Stephen Gale and Michael Radu
Co-Chairs, FPRI Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security

The Strategic Balance in the Mideast

Exclusively for FPRI Sponsors ($250-level members)

Efraim Inbar
Director, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University

The Future of Saudi Arabia

Thomas Lippman
Former Correspondent, Washington Post
Author of Inside the Mirage

The Making of the Constitution

Gordon Wood
Brown University

(This is the public portion of a weekend-long History Institute for Teachers on “Teaching Colonial and Early American History.”

Free and open to the public.

Congregation Adath Jeshurun

In Cooperation With

The Foreign Policy Research Institute

Invites You to Three Lectures …