Past FPRI Events (2005)

Monday, December 19, 2005

Situation Report #14

Iraq: the Great Debate

James Kurth
Claude Smith Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College
Co-Chair, FPRI Center for the Study of America and the West, and Editor, Orbis

Edward Turzanski
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Assistant Vice President, La Salle University

Supported in part by a grant from the Department of Economic and Community Development, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, FPRI’s Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security offers a regular briefing every two months — free and open to the public.

James Kurth served as Chairman of the Strategy and Campaign Department of the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the US Naval War College and as an advisor to the Strategic Studies Group of the Chief of Naval Operations. He is the recipient of the Department of Navy Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service, awarded for contributions to maritime strategy.

Edward Turzanski served with the U.S. government in the field of intelligence throughout the Middle East, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. He is the National Security and Intelligence Analyst for Comcast's CN-8 Channel, and has appeared on numerous national and local television and radio stations.

Wednesday, December 7, 2005

Asia Study Group

Chinese Security Policy and Foreign Policy

Evan Madeiros
RAND Corporation

Monday, December 5, 2005

Foreign Policy Research Institute Conference

The Future of American Military Strategy

Keynote Address: Defense Strategy in the Post-Saddam Era

Michael O’Hanlon
Brookings Institution

This conference follows our 2004 conference on The Future of the Reserves and National Guard. For information, visit: The Future of the Reserves and the National Guard: A Conference Report. FPRI thanks our conference sponsors: W. W. Keen Butcher, The Hamilton Family Foundation, and John M. Templeton, Jr.

Thursday, December 1, 2005

Robert Strausz-Hupé Memorial Lecture

The State of Europe

Jeremy Black
Professor of History, University of Exeter (UK)
Senior Fellow, FPRI

Professor Black is the author of numerous books on European history and military history broadly. His books include: The English Seaborne Empire (Yale University Press, 2004); The World in the Twentieth Century (Longman, 2002); and Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past (Yale, 1997). His FPRI essays include “Islam and the West: A Historical Perspective” and “War and Strategy in the 21st Century.”

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Study Group on America and the West

Demographics, Islam, and the Future of Europe

Philip Jenkins
Penn State University

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Asia Study Group

A Yen for Asia? Creating an East Asian Financial System

William W. Grimes
Boston University

Monday, November 14, 2005

FPRI BookTalk

The Long War for Freedom:
The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East

Barry Rubin
Senior Fellow, FPRI
Visiting Professor, American University
Editor, Middle East Review of International Affairs

“No one with any interest in the Arab world can afford to neglect this penetrating and provocative work.” — Kenneth Pollack

Barry Rubin has written numerous books on the Middle East and international affairs. His most recent books include Hating America: A History (with Judith Colp Rubin), published by Oxford in 2004, and Yasir Arafat: A Political Biography (also with Judith Colp Rubin), published by Oxford in 2003. He has appeared on such television programs as Nightline, Face the Nation, The Lehrer News Hour, and The Larry King Show, and his articles have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. For information about the book: http://gloria.idc.ac.il/

Friday, November 11, 2005

W. W. Keen Butcher Lecture Series on Military Affairs

The Future of the U.S. Army

Sherwood (Woody) Goldberg
Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army

Cosponsored by the West Point Society of Philadelphia

Sherwood (Woody) Goldberg is the Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army for Washington, DC, and the Senior Advisor on Asia at the Center for Naval Analyses. He is the 26-year former associate of General Alexander M. Haig, Jr., including service together in Vietnam and as his Chief of Staff in the State Department and business associate in the private sector. A former Assistant Professor at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, Mr. Goldberg has lectured at the National War College, the US Army War College, Dickinson College, Temple University-Japan, among other higher institutions. He received his BA from Dickinson College, his MA from the University of Pennsylvania, and his JD from the Temple University School of Law. His wife Susan is a Trustee of the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Thursday, November 10, 2005

FPRI in the Suburbs

The Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin and the Future of Israel

Harvey Sicherman

Cosponsored with Main Line Reform Temple

Dr. Harvey Sicherman is President and Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He served as Special Assistant to Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr. (1981-82) and was a member of the Policy Planning Staff of Secretary of State James A. Baker, III, as well as a consultant to Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman, Jr. (1982-1987) and Secretary of State George Shultz (1988). His books include Palestinian Autonomy, Self-Government and Peace (Westview Press, 1993).

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

FPRI BookTalk

Richard C. Bush III
Director, Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, and
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution

Untying the Knot: Making Peace in the Taiwan Strait

Richard C. Bush holds the Michael H. Armacost Chair at the Brookings Institution. He has worked on China and Taiwan issues his entire professional career: at Asia Society, on the House International Relations Committee, and on the National Intelligence Council. From 1997 to 2002, he served as chairman and managing director of the American Institute in Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Inauguration of the W. W. Keen Butcher Lecture Series on Military Affairs

Robert D. Kaplan

on his forthcoming book

Imperial Grunts

“Robert Kaplan has brilliantly captured the story of today’s U.S. military operating in far-flung places on strange missions. Imperial Grunts is the most insightful and superbly written account of soldiering in the New World Disorder to date. It is a must read for all Americans.”— General Anthony Zinni

Friday, October 7, 2005

FPRI in the City
W. W. Keen Butcher Lecture Series on Military Affairs

Private Military Companies and the Future of War

Deborah Avant
Director, Institute for Global and International Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Dr. Avant is author of Political Institutions and Military Change: Lessons from Peripheral Wars (Cornell University Press, 1994) and The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security (Cambridge University Press, 2005), along with many articles in such journals as Foreign Policy, International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, and Armed Forces and Society. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.

Friday, October 7, 2005

FPRI in the Suburbs

The Environment of Security

Lawrence Husick
Senior Fellow, FPRI

Cosponsored by World Affairs Council of Greater Valley Forge

Lawrence A. Husick, Esq., will present the Institute's research into the creation of "security impact analysis" and how this tool can help governments and private companies in their efforts to properly consider security and safety in their planning and decision-making. Drawing on a wealth of fascinating historical examples, Mr. Husick will describe the tendency of organizations to “do the right thing by doing the same thing,” and will detail why our nation may not be able to afford to continue on its present course.

Mr. Husick’s 24 years of experience as a technology consultant, computer system designer, and software author, as well as his 21 years of experience as an intellectual property lawyer give him a unique perspective on the “War on Terrorism.” As a Senior Fellow, he applies his unique background to the study of terrorist tactics and counter-terrorism strategies, with a particular focus on technology leverage as a defining characteristic of the modern terrorist. Mr. Husick holds a BS in Environmental Chemistry from Muhlenberg College, and a JD from the Washington College of Law. He is a partner in Lipton, Weinberger & Husick, an intellectual property law firm in Malvern, PA, and is an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University.

Monday, October 10, 2005

A book reception in honor of our friend and mentor

Marvin Wachman

on the occasion of the publication of his new book

The Education of a University President

Prior to serving as President of the Foreign Policy Research Institute (1983-1989), Marvin was president of Temple University and Lincoln University. He has also served as interim president of Albright College and the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, and CEO of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) and the Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Universities. He is currently Vice Chairman of FPRI. Upon his retirement from FPRI’s presidency, FPRI established the Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education, devoted to fostering civic and international literacy in the community and in the classroom.

Saturday, October 15, 2005

Keynote Address, History Institute for Teachers

The Question of Homeland Security

Stephen Gale
Co-Chairman of FPRI’s Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security

A specialist on terrorism and homeland security, Dr. Gale has testified on Capitol Hill and in Harrisburg. His research on terrorism has dealt with the creation and use of software systems for integrated security analysis, the development and analysis of security scenarios, and the application of negotiation models. Dr. Gale has undertaken assignments for Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories, the US department of Energy, and a number of defense-related agencies. In addition, he has also worked on security projects for companies in the private sector. Dr. Gale received his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Michigan. His essays for FPRI can be found at: www.fpri.org/byauthor.html#gale.

NOTE: This public lecture is the keynote address of a weekend-long History Institute for Teachers. Although the public is invited to the keynote address, space considerations prevent us from opening up the History Institute to others. We do extend, however, an invitation to be an observer at the weekend conference to FPRI Members at the $1000 level

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

The Templeton Lecture on Religion and World Affairs

Religion, Identity, & Peace in the Middle East

Rabbi David Rosen
International Director of Inter-religious Affairs, American Jewish Committee, Israel and
former Chief Rabbi of Ireland

Born and educated in Great Britain, Rabbi Rosen received his ordination in Israel. In addition to military service in the armored corps of the Israel Defense Force, he served as Chaplain to the forces in Western Sinai. From 1975 to 1985, he was the Senior Rabbi of the largest Jewish congregation in South Africa. He was also founder/chairman of the Inter-Faith Forum, the Council of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. From 1979 to 1985, Rabbi Rosen was Chief Rabbi of Ireland. He returned to Israel in 1985 to serve as Dean at the Sapir Center for Jewish Education and Culture. He is a member of the Permanent Bilateral Commission of the State of Israel and the Holy See. Since 1995 he has served as President of the World Conference on Religion and Peace (a global interfaith body incorporating fifteen religious in over fifty countries). Rabbi Rosen is also Honorary President of the International Council for Christians and Jews.

Friday, September 16, 2005

FPRI BookTalk

Rising to the Challenge:
China’s Grand Strategy and International Security

Avery Goldstein
Senior Fellow, FPRI

China’s increasing economic and military capabilities have attracted much attention in recent years. How should the United States respond to this emerging great power? A sensible response requires an answer to this question: What is China's grand strategy? In Rising to the Challenge (Stanford University Press, 2005), Avery Goldstein explains the grand strategy that China’s leaders have adopted for the 21st century. Goldstein is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His earlier books include Deterrence and Security in the 21st Century (Stanford, 2000) and From Bandwagon to Balance-of-Power Politics: Structural Constraints and Politics in China, 1949-1978 (Stanford). Essays by Avery Goldstein can be found FPRI’s website.

Monday, September 12, 2005

The Philadelphia Eric M. Warburg Chapter of the American Council on Germany
and the Foreign Policy Research Institute
cordially invite you to a discussion and luncheon

Daniel Weygandt
Director of Austrian, German, and Swiss Affairs
Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State

on

Germany at a Crossroads

Introduced and moderated by

Harry Carl Schaub
Director of the Philadelphia Warburg Chapter of the American Council on Germany

Professor James Kurth
Editor of Orbis, FPRI’s quarterly journal of world affairs, and
Chair of FPRI’s Study Group on America and the West

Daniel Weygandt has been director of the Office of Austrian, German and Swiss Affairs in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs since September. Mr. Weygandt joined the Foreign Service in 1979, serving first as Vice Consul in Istanbul. He has also served in Rome, at the U.S. Mission to the UN Food and Agricultural Organizations; in Bonn, as Civil Air Attaché and Economics Officer, from 1988-92; in Hamburg, as Principal Officer from 1994-97; in Moscow, from 1998-2001 as head of the Economic Section; and in Vienna, as Deputy Chief of Mission, from 2001-04.

In his Washington assignments, Mr. Weygandt has worked on international environmental and nuclear issues in the Bureau of International Organizations Affairs and on Central European issues in the Bureau of European Affairs. Mr. Weygandt graduated from the University of Chicago and has a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the University of Minnesota. He also studied at the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.

Summer 2005 Wachman Fund Events

2005 Summer School at FPRI
Exclusively for Members of FPRI

Membership at the “Friends” level ($75, or, for students, $40) includes free admission to most of our public lectures, discounts on others, and an exclusive invitation to the FPRI Summer School, not to mention some 50 email bulletins a year. Higher levels of membership naturally bring additional benefits, and help to underwrite the research and educational programs of the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Hooper Lecture Series

The Thornton D. Hooper Lecture Series On American Strategy

The Thornton D. Hooper Lecture Series On American Strategy was established by Mr. & Mrs. Bruce H. Hooper In celebration of FPRI’s 50th Anniversary in 2005. [more information and archives]

• March 1, 2005
  Eliot Cohen on Strategy and the Historical Mind
  
  
• April 5, 2005
  Walter Russell Mead on American Grand Strategy in a World at Risk
  
  
• May 10, 2005
  Adam Posen on An Economic Toolkit for National Security
  
  
• June 9, 2005
  Harvey Sicherman, Toward A New American Strategy

Monday, January 24, 2005

Luncheon Seminar with Cameron Brown

Nukes in Iran: The Day After

Mr. Brown is Deputy Director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center, Herzilya, Israel. He lectures regularly at the NATO School in Germany and has spoken at research centers and universities in Sweden, Italy, Turkey, and Azerbaijan. His academic publications include: “Israel’s Counterproliferation Policy: Lessons for Europe,” Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal (September 2004); “Middle Eastern Anti-Americanism, September 11th and After,” in Barry Rubin and Judy Colp Rubin (eds.), Loathing America and “Al-Jazira” in Avraham Sela (ed.) Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East (Continuum Pub. Group, 2002).

Born in the United States, Mr. Brown is fluent in English and Hebrew, literate in Turkish, and conversant in the Palestinian dialect of Arabic.