Iraq: The Day After
Speaker: Rachel Bronson, Senior Fellow and Director, Middle East Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
If Washington does not clearly define its goals for a post-Saddam Iraq and build support for them at home and with our allies, the resulting problems are certain to overshadow any initial military success. Rachel Bronson is Co-Director of an independent working group co-sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, whose report, Guiding Principles for U.S. Post-Conflict Policy in Iraq, will be released this Wednesday, December 18. In this call, Dr. Bronson will address the working group’s outline of the policy priorities for promoting reconstruction and reconciliation in Iraq after military action, and for building a more secure Middle East.
Rachel Bronson is Senior Fellow and Director of Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She runs the Roundtable on the Middle East and Islam, part of a major Council undertaking that has responded to events after September 11. Dr. Bronson has served as a consultant to the Center for Naval Analyses, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., and a Fellow at Harvard University's Center for Science and International Affairs. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Foreign Affairs, the Washington Quarterly, and the New York Times.
GPS and Galileo: Challenge or Opportunity?
Related Project: Roundtable Series on Global Satellite Navigation: GPS and Galileo
Panelist: Guillaume Parmentier, Council on Foreign Relations, Richard L. Garwin
Iraq: What's Next?
Presider: Michael P. Peters, Executive Vice President & Director of Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker: Rachel Bronson, Olin Senior Fellow and Director of Middle East Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Daughters and Sons Event: Madam Secretary: A Memoir
Related Project: Daughter and Sons Event Series
Presider: Leslie H. Gelb, President, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker: Walter Russell Mead, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations, Max Boot, Olin Senior Fellow, National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow and Director, European Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Rachel Bronson, Olin Senior Fellow and Director, Middle East Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Members may bring their high school or college aged children to this event.
Alternatives to Space Weaponization
Related Project: Study Group on Space Posture for the 21st Century
Panelist: Daniel S. Goldin, Council on Competitiveness
Speaker: Richard L. Garwin, Council on Foreign Relations, Bruce M. DeBlois, Council on Foreign Relations
Contact Jeremy Marwell at 212-434-9615 or jmarwell@cfr.org
Daughters and Sons Event: Ted and Andrea Koppel
Related Project: Daughter and Sons Event Series
Speaker: Ted Koppel, Anchor and Managing Editor, ABC News, 'Nightline', Andrea Koppel, State Department Correspondent, CNN
Members may bring their high school or college aged children to this event.
A Conversation with Robert Jordan
Related Project: Roundtable on the Middle East and Islam
Presider: Rachel Bronson, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker: Robert W. Jordan, U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, U.S. Department of State
Contact Daniel Bloch at 212-434-9784 or dbloch@cfr.org
The Ideas That Conquered the World: What Is the 21st Century All About?
Related Project: Study Group on New World Order
Speaker: Michael Mandelbaum, Senior Fellow, Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy, Johns Hopkins University
Enemy Combatants and the Geneva Conventions
Related Project: Roundtable on Old Rules, New Threats
Presider: Anne-Marie Slaughter, President, ASIL
Speaker: William Haynes, General Counsel, U.S. Department of Defense, Holly J. Burkhalter, Advocacy Director, Physicians for Human Rights
Contact Lindsay Workman at 202-518-3449 or lworkman@cfr.org
Members’ Holiday Reception
You are cordially invited to attend a Holiday Reception.
Members are welcome to bring one guest.
Iraq: The War
Presider: Lawrence J. Korb, Senior Fellow and Director of National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker: John J. Devine, President, The Arkin Group, LLC; Former Deputy Director of Operations, Central Intelligence Agency, Marine Lieut. Gen. (ret.) Bernard E. Trainor, Lt. General (USMC, Ret.); Senior Fellow, National Security, Council on Foreign Relations, Thomas McInerny, Lt. General (USAF, Ret.); Former President and CEO, Business Executives for National Security (BENS), David Grange, Brigadier General (USA, Ret.); Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation; National Security Analyst for CNN and WGN-TV
North Korea's Nuclear Threat: Implications for Proliferation and Energy Policy
Related Project: Middle East Forum
Presider: William F. Martin, Washington Policy and Analysis, Inc.
Speaker: Daniel Poneman, The Scowcroft Group
Members' Holiday Reception
Georgia and the Caucasus
Related Project: George F. Kennan Roundtable on Russia and Eurasia
Presider: Stephen Sestanovich, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker: David Gamkrelidze, Parliament of Georgia
Contact Rositsa Petrova at 202-518-3421 or rpetrova@cfr.org
The Ideas That Conquered the World: What Is the 21st Century All About?
Related Project: Study Group on New World Order
Panelist: Jane M. Wales, President and CEO, World Affairs Council of Northern California
Speaker: Michael Mandelbaum, Senior Fellow, Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy, Johns Hopkins University
World Affairs Council of Northern California, 312 Sutter Street, 2nd Floor Conference Room (Lecture)
Omni Hotel, 500 California Street at Montgomery (Dinner)
Reforming NATO: Prague Summit and Iraq
Related Project: Roundtable on NATO and Terrorism
Presider: Ronald D. Asmus
Speaker: Richard G. Lugar, United States Senate
Conflict Prevention: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why?
Presider: William L. Nash, Senior Fellow and Director of The Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker: Leslie H. Gelb, President, Council on Foreign Relations, General John W. Vessey, USA (Ret.), Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Chairman, Center for Preventive Action Advisory Committee, Council on Foreign Relations, David A. Hamburg, Author, No More Killing Fields: Preventing Deadly Conflict; Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychiatry, Joan and Stanford, Barnett R. Rubin, Author, Blood on the Doorstep: The Politics of Preventive Action; Director of Studies, Center on International Cooperation, New York
Transcript: Conflict Prevention: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why?
Pew Global Attitudes Survey on Foreign Perceptions of the U.S. -- the Policy Implications of International Opinion
Speaker: Bruce Stokes, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Columnist, National Journal
For the past year and a half, the Pew Research Center has been working on the Global Attitudes Survey, an assessment of people’s values and beliefs drawn from 40-minute face-to-face interviews with 36,000 people in 44 countries. It focuses on public views of America, global attitudes toward U.S. foreign policy, American values and culture and how people all over the world feel about the state of their lives, their children’s future, their nations–their leaders and institutions–and the world. Bruce Stokes will address the survey’s findings and the implications for U.S. policy, specifically in the context of a potential war with Iraq.
In addition to his role as Senior Fellow, Economic Studies at the Council, Bruce Stokes works as a Columnist for the National Journal. His recent publications include A New Beginning: Recasting the U.S.Japan Economic Relationship (2000) and Partners or Competitors? The Prospects for U.S.European Cooperation on Asian Trade (1999). Mr. Stokes’s expertise is in international trade and U.S. economic relations with Asia and Europe.
New England Holiday Party
The Twin Deficits: How Should We Think About Them Now?
Related Project: C. Peter McColough Roundtable Series on International Economics
Presider: Stanley Fischer, President, Citigroup International
Speaker: Peter R. Fisher, Undersecretary for Domestic Finance, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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