New England Holiday Party 2000
Daughters and Sons Event: Richard Holbrooke, Kati Marton, and Tom Brokaw
Related Project: Daughter and Sons Event Series
Presider: Tom Brokaw, Anchor and Managing Editor, NBC Nightly News, NBC News
Speaker: Richard C. Holbrooke, U.S. Representative to the United Nations, U.S. Mission to the United Nations, Kati Marton, Chair, Board of Directors, Committee to Protect Journalists
Members may bring their high school or college-age children to this event.
West Coast Holiday Party
Panelist: Hanya Marie Kim, (Host) Founding Partner, Intrepid International Partners, LP
Daughter and Son Event: America’s International Role in the 21st Century
Related Project: Daughter and Sons Event Series
Presider: Leslie H. Gelb, President, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker: Chuck Hagel, Member, U.S. Senate (R-Neb.)
Members may bring their high school and college-age children to this event.
Independent Task Force on U.S. Strategic Energy Policy: Seesion One
Panelist: Edward L. Morse, (New York Chair and Task Force Director); Executive Adviser, Hess Energy Trading Company, LLC, Edward P. Djerejian, (Houston Chair and Task Force Director); Director, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy of Rice University
Intelligence Challenges for the New Administration
Presider: John C. Gannon, Chairman, National Intelligence Council
Speaker: Keith R. Hall, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Air Force for Space; Director, National Reconnaissance Office, Michael V. Hayden, Lieutenant General, U.S. Air Force; Director, National Security Agency / Central Security Service, James C. King, Lieutenant General, U.S. Army; Director, National Imagery and Mapping Agency, John E. McLaughlin, Deputy Director, Central Intelligence, Thomas J. Pickard, Deputy Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Stapleton Roy, Former Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State, Thomas R. Wilson, Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy; Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
Problems and Prospects Facing Second-Tier Arms-Producing States in the 21st Century
Related Project: Study Group on the Arms Trade and the Transnationalization of the Defense Industry: Economic versus Security Drivers
Discussant: Phil Finnegan, The Teal Group
Panelist: Rodney W. Nichols, New York Academy of Sciences
Speaker: Richard Bitzinger, Atlantic Council of the United States
Health and Environment Concerns in India
Related Project: Roundtable on India
Presider: Frank G. Wisner
Speaker: Mirai Chatterjee, Executive Committee Member, Self-Employed Women's Association, Sunita Narain, Deputy Director, Center for Science and Environment, Marshall Bouton, Asia Society
Briefing on Current Palestinian and Israeli Security Tactics: What it Means for the Future
Related Project: U.S./Middle East Project Roundtable
Speaker: Gal Luft, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
International Crime: How It Threatens U.S. Interests (New York)
Presider: Lee S. Wolosky, Director, Transnational Threats, National Security Council
Speaker: Teresa Hayes, Director of the Crime and Narcotics Center, Central Intelligence Agency, Joseph Myers, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, National Security Council, Fred Rosa, Director of the International Crime Group, U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, James Robinson, Assistant Attorney General
Holiday Party for D.C. Members and Guests
Invitations will be sent in the mail.
State-Building and Refugee Solutions: Lessons from Haiti
Related Project: Study Group on Refugee Policy
Panelist: Ambler H. Moss Jr., Director, Dante B. Fascell North-South Center, University of Miami
Speaker: Arthur C. Helton, Senior Fellow, Refugee Studies and Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations
Democratizing U.S. Trade Policy: Session V
Related Project: Study Group on Democratizing U.S. Trade Policy
Panelist: Sherrod Brown, Representative (D-Ohio), Jim Kolbe, Representative (R-Ariz.)
The Geopolitics of Hunger
Related Project: Roundtable on Refugees and the Displaced
Presider: Robert P. DeVecchi
Speaker: Jean Francois Vidal, Action Against Hunger, Barnett R. Rubin, Center for International Cooperation, David Rieff, Journalist
Defense Options for the New Administration (San Francisco)
Related Project: Council Policy Initiative on Future Visions for U.S. Defense Policy
Panelist: Tyrus W. Cobb, President and CEO, Yosemite National Institutes
Speaker: Lawrence J. Korb, Vice President and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair and Director of Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Challenges for the Next Administration in the Middle East and South Asia
Related Project: Middle East Forum
Presider: Robert S. Strauss, Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, U.S. Department of State
Speaker: Anthony C. Zinni, Former Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Central Command Chairman
Forced Displacement and Human Security in the Former Soviet Union
Related Project: Roundtable on Refugees and the Displaced
Commentator: Marguerite Rivera Houze, U.S. Department of State
Presider: Princeton N. Lyman
Speaker: Arthur C. Helton
Challenges for the New Administration in the Middle East and South Asia
Related Project: Middle East Forum
Speaker: Anthony C. Zinni, U.S.Marine Corps and United States Central Command
Threats and Challenges in the Middle East and South Asia
Related Project: Middle East Forum
Speaker: Anthony C. Zinni, General, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.); former Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Central Command; Chairman, Middle East Forum, Council on Foreign Relations
This event is hosted by Robert S. Strauss in honor of General Zinni.
Can We Achieve a Democratic World by 2025?
Presider: Julia Chang Bloch, Starr Senior Fellow for U.S.-China Relations, Peking University
Speaker: Richard N. Haass, Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution, Mark Palmer, President and CEO, Capital Development Company, LLC
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