John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture
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
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The John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture: The Future of NATO
Speaker: Madeleine K. Albright, Former U.S. Secretary of State; Chair, Group of Experts, NATO's New Strategic Concept
Presider: Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations
May 27, 2010
Dr. Albright will discuss the new recommendations and analyses of the Group of Experts on NATO's New Strategic Concept, including how NATO governments can further transform the Alliance, and the twenty-first century challenges and opportunities the Alliance will face.
Related Reading:
NATO 2020: Assured Security; Dynamic Engagement
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The John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture: Lessons from the U.S. Occupation in Iraq
Speakers: Stuart Bowen Jr., Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction; Lead author, Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience
James Dobbins, Senior Fellow and Director, International Security and Defense Policy Center, Rand Corporation; Lead author, Occupying Iraq: A History of the Coalition Provisional Authority
Douglas J. Feith, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for National Security Strategies, Hudson Institute; Author, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism; Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, U.S. Department of Defense
Presider: Gideon Rose, Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs
June 23, 2009
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The John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture: The War on Terror and the Rule of Law, Two Views
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
January 15, 2008
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A Conversation with Josef Joffe
Speaker: Josef Joffe, Editor, Die Zeit; and author, Überpower: The Imperial Temptation of America
Presider: James Traub, Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine
June 16, 2006
This meeting is the John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture.
12:15 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Meeting
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The World's Worst Problems: Finding the Biggest Bang for the Buck Through Cost-Benefit Analysis
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
January 20, 2005
**This meeting will be on-the-record.
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America's Role in the World
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
February 3, 2004
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Americans are from Mars, Europeans Are From Venus: They Agree on Little and Understand Each Other Less and Less
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
October 8, 2002
