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DSP Schedule - 2008 PDF

 

The 2008-2009 PROGRAM will continue to be comprehensive with respect to regions and critical issues, deal with the great powers, and focus on the pressing issues of the day including both the redistribution of global economic wealth and hence political power and the phenomenon of Islamic extremism.

Last year’s 2007-2008 guests were:

RICHARD W. MURPHY
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
“Listening to Iraquis on Iraq's Crisis”


OLEG DANILOVICH KALUGIN
Major General, KGB, 1958-1990; Chief of Foreign Counterintelligence 1973-1980 “Russia: Today and Tomorrow”


AMBASSADOR CHRISTOPHER R. HILL
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
“United States Relations in Asia: The Six-Party Talks and Other Essential Regional Issues”


DR. DAVID M. LAMPTON
Director of the China Studies Program, JHU School of Advanced International Studies
“Chinese Power and What It Means for the World”


THE HONORABLE DR. MEGHAN L. O’SULLIVAN
Special Assistant to the President, Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan
“The Way Forward in Iraq”


HIS EXCELLENCY SAMIR SHAKIR MAHMOOD SUMAIDA’IE
Ambassador of Iraq to the United States
“Update on Iraq”


MR. DANIEL PIPES
Director, Middle East Forum
“Vanquishing the Islamist Enemy”


AMBASSADOR RAMINDER SINGH JASSAL
Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of India to the United States
“India’s Foreign Policy and Relations with the United States”


MR. DAVID KRAMER
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, United States Department of  State
“Where is Russia Headed? Implications for Russian Relations”


DR. FREDERICK KAGAN

Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
 “Today’s Most Urgent Question: Will the ‘Surge’ Work”


PROFESSOR JEFFREY LEGRO
The University of Virginia
 “The Past and Future of the American Worldview”


MR. GORDON ENGLAND
Deputy Secretary, United States Department of Defense
“A Perspectiver on the Current Situation in Iraq and Security Challenges to the United States”


AMBASSADOR DAVID M. SATTERFIELD
Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State on Iraq, State Department, Coordinator for Iraq
“The Way Ahead in Iraq"


DR. JOHN DUKE ANTHONY
President and CEO, National Council on U.S-Arab Relations
“America and the GCC, Iraq and Iran: Analyses and Assessments”


MR. MARK MATTHEWS
Former Diplomatic Correspondent, The Baltimore Sun
“Missed Opportunities in the Middle East”


MR. DANIEL SULLIVAN
Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Economic, Energy and Business Affairs
“American Economic Leadership and Strategies in an Era of Changing Dynamics in the Global Economy”