• John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture

  September 1, 2002 - Present

  This annual lecture series was begun in Fall 2002, and honors John B. Hurford, an enthusiastic and devoted member of the Council on Foreign Relations. The series features individuals who represent critical new thinking in international affairs and foreign policy.

  
  

   

  Meetings

  The John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture: The War on Terror and the Rule of Law, Two Views

  General Meeting

  
  January 15, 2008

  Related Project: John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture

  Speakers:	David Cole, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center; Coauthor, Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror
  	Jack Goldsmith, Professor, Harvard Law School; Former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice; Author, The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration
  Presider:	Jeffrey Toobin, Staff Writer, The New Yorker

   

  The World's Worst Problems: Finding the Biggest Bang for the Buck Through Cost-Benefit Analysis

  General Meeting

  
  January 20, 2005

  Related Project: John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture

  Presider:	John Cassidy, Staff Writer, The New Yorker
  Speaker:	Bjorn Lomborg, Editor and Project Lead, Global Crises, Global Solutions, the official report of the Copenhagen Consensus; Professor of Statistics, University of Aarhus; Director, Danish Environmental Assessment Institute

  **This meeting will be on-the-record.

   

  America's Role in the World

  General Meeting

  
  February 3, 2004

  Related Project: John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture

  Presider:	James M. Lindsay, Vice President & Director of Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
  Speakers:	Max Boot, Senior Fellow, National Security Studies, Council on Foreigh Relations, Ohio State University
  	John Mueller, Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies and Professor of Political Science, Mershon Center

   

  Americans are from Mars, Europeans Are From Venus: They Agree on Little and Understand Each Other Less and Less

  General Meeting

  
  October 8, 2002

  Related Project: John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture

  Presider:	Leslie H. Gelb, President, Council on Foreign Relations
  Speakers:	Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute, New York University
  	Robert Kagan, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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  New CFR Books

  

  In The Closing of the American Border, Edward Alden goes behind the scenes to tell the story of the Bush administration’s struggle to balance security and openness in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

  

  In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.

  

  America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.

  Complete list of CFR Books.

  New Council Special Reports

  
  

  Deterring State Sponsorship of Nuclear Terrorism

  In this report, CFR Senior Fellow Michael A. Levi analyzes the potential use of deterrence in preventing terrorist groups from acquiring nuclear weapons and recommends a new approach to U.S. declaratory policy, as well as ways to improve U.S. capabilities to determine the sources of terrorist attacks.

  China, Space Weapons, and U.S. Security

  In this report, Bruce W. MacDonald illuminates the strategic landscape of military space competition between the United States and China and highlights the dangers and opportunities the United States confronts in space.

  Complete list of Council Special Reports.

  David Rockefeller Studies Program Contacts

  For more information on the David Rockefeller Studies Program, contact:

  Gary Samore
  Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
  +1.212.434.9627
  gsamore@cfr.org

  Sebastian Mallaby
  Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Deputy Director of Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
  smallaby@cfr.org

  Janine Hill
  Deputy Director of Studies Administration
  +1.212.434.9753
  jhill@cfr.org

   

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