Author Spotlight Series

Guest Event

A Conversation with Daniel L. Schorr

Presider: Marvin Kalb, Executive Director, Joan Shorenstein Center
Speaker: Daniel L. Schorr, Author, Staying Tuned; Senior News Analyst, National Public Radio
May 15, 2001

This meeting will be on the record.

Members may bring a guest to this event.

General Meeting

The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World,1700-2000

Presider: Walter Russell Mead, Senior Fellow, U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker: Niall Ferguson, Author, The Pity of War and The House of Rothschild; Professor of Political and Financial History, University of Oxford
April 12, 2001

General Meeting

Intervening in Civil Conflicts Abroad: Lessons from the American Civil War

Presider: Charles Maynes, President, The Eurasia Foundation
Speaker: Jay Winik, Author, April 1865: The Month That Saved America; Adjunct Lecturer and CISSM Senior Fellow, University of Maryland, School of Public Affairs
April 12, 2001

General Meeting

Capitalism: Success in the West and a Struggle for the Rest

Presider: Carl S. Gershman, President, National Endowment for Democracy
Speaker: Hernando de Soto, Author, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else; President, Institute for Liberty and Democracy
March 5, 2001

Special Location:

The Brookings Institution

1775 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C.

General Meeting

Capitalism: Success in the West; a Struggle for the Rest

Presider: Carl S. Gershman, President, National Endowment for Democracy
Speaker: Hernando de Soto, Author, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else; President, Institute for Liberty and Democracy
February 20, 2001

General Meeting

Six Nightmares

Presider: Lester M. Crystal, Executive Producer, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Speaker: Anthony Lake, Former National Security Adviser (1993-97); Author, Six Nightmares
January 24, 2001

From high-tech terrorism at home to political instability abroad, Anthony Lake will examine six scenarios, each a threat to America’s safety, and lay out possible steps to prevent them.

General Meeting

Governance in a Globalizing World

Presider: Michael H. Armacost, President, The Brookings Institution
Speaker: Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Co-editor, Governance in a Globalizing World; Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
January 10, 2001

General Meeting

Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran

Presider: Toby T. Gati, Senior International Adviser, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld
Speaker: Elaine Sciolino, Senior Writer, New York Times
November 13, 2000

Cosponsored by the Council's Middle East Forum

General Meeting

The Secret War Against Hanoi: History Revealed

Presider: Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Former Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, U.S. Department of Defense; Partner, Dechert Price & Rhoads
Speaker: Richard H. Shultz Jr., Director, International Security Studies Program and Associate Professor, International Politics, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Author, The Secret War Against Hanoi: Kennedy’s and Johnson’s Use of Spies, Saboteurs, and Covert Warriors in North Vietnam
June 1, 2000

General Meeting

Operation Rollback Revealed

Presider: Peter W. Rodman, Director, National Security Programs, The Nixon Center; former Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (Reagan administration)
Speaker: Peter Grose, Author, Operation Rollback: America’s Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain; Fellow, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
May 23, 2000

Peter Grose, author of ‘Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles,’ turns his writer’s eye to the Cold War and ‘Operation Rollback’ —America’s earliest covert efforts behind the Iron Curtain.

General Meeting

South Africa and the Evolution of Democracy

Presider: Gwendolyn Mikell, Director, Africa Studies Program and Professor, Anthropology and Foreign Service, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker: Martin Meredith, Independent commentator; Author, Coming to Terms: South Africa's Search for Truth; former Foreign Correspondent, London Observer and Sunday Times
April 26, 2000

Africa Studies Program

General Meeting

A Covert Cold War Hot Spot: The Tibetan Struggle for Independence

Presider: Doyle McManus, Washington Bureau Chief, Los Angeles Times
Speaker: John Kenneth Knaus, Author, Orphans of the Cold War: America and the Tibetan Struggle for Survival, former CIA Officer in Residence, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
March 21, 2000

General Meeting

Witness to Hope: Pope John Paul II—A Panorama of Pontifical Proportions

Presider: Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Speaker: George Weigel, Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center; Author, Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
February 8, 2000

General Meeting

Information Warfare: Gathering Intelligence for the New Battlefield

Presider: Michael N. Pocalyko, Principal, Monticello Capital, LLC
Speakers: Zalmay M. Khalilzad, Director, Strategy and Doctrine Program, RAND Corporation
John P. White, Lecturer in Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
November 30, 1999

Co-editors of Strategic Appraisals: The Changing Role of Information in Welfare

Related Readings:

Foreign Affairs Sept/Oct '98, "Power and Interdependence in the Information Age", by Keohane and Nye

General Meeting

The Backlash Against Globalization

Presider: Anne Wexler, Chair, Wexler Group
Speaker: Thomas L. Friedman, Author, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization; Foreign Affairs Columnist, New York Times
October 4, 1999

Pulitzer-prize winning columnist Thomas Friedman will talk about his provocative new book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree— Understanding Globalization. The conflict between the worldwide market forces that are driving today's economies— the Lexus— and powerful local forces of religion, ethnicity, and cultural identity— the Olive Tree— is, in Friedman's words, "the great drama of our time>"

General Meeting

Responding to Collective Violence and Genocide

Presider: Katherine T. Ward, Senior Fellow, Coalition for International Justice
Speaker: Martha Minow, Professor, Harvard Law School; Author, Between Vengeance and Forgiveness
September 29, 1999

Council on Foreign Relations

Meetings

A Conversation with Daniel L. Schorr

The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World,1700-2000

Intervening in Civil Conflicts Abroad: Lessons from the American Civil War

Capitalism: Success in the West and a Struggle for the Rest

Capitalism: Success in the West; a Struggle for the Rest

Six Nightmares

Governance in a Globalizing World

Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran

The Secret War Against Hanoi: History Revealed

Operation Rollback Revealed

South Africa and the Evolution of Democracy

A Covert Cold War Hot Spot: The Tibetan Struggle for Independence

Witness to Hope: Pope John Paul II—A Panorama of Pontifical Proportions

Information Warfare: Gathering Intelligence for the New Battlefield

The Backlash Against Globalization

Responding to Collective Violence and Genocide

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