PARTIAL LIST OF SPEAKERS, 2002-2003

This list is a compilation by ACFR's Washington staff of speakers used in the Committees and at the Annual Conference during the 2002-2003 season. It appears on this web site to give interested parties an idea of the sorts of speakers ACFR employs and should not be taken as a permanent roster of expert talent.

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Edward Abington, Bannerman & Associates, "Is the Establishment of a Palestinian State a Viable Option?" and "The Real Threats to American National Security"

Arthur Alexander, president, Japan Economic Institute, "Will Japan Ever Recover?"

Thomas Allen, vice president for health affairs, Center for Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, "Smallpox: An Old Threat Revisited"

Sarah Archer, visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute, "Civil-Military Interface"

Dimitris Avramopoulos, former mayor of Athens, Greece "The Greek View of Events in the Region"

Arnold Baker, chief economist, Sandia Laboratories, "US Petroleum Policy: Deja Vu All Over Again"

Ann Louise Bardach, writer and journalist, "Cuba Confidential - Dinner with Fidel Castro"

Frederick Barton and Bathsheba Crocker, International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies, "A Wiser Peace: An Action Strategy for a Post-Conflict Iraq"

Dana Bauer, consultant, "US -Turkish Relations: Mutual Miscalculations"

Ilan Berman, vice president for policy, American Foreign Policy Council, "Russian Interests and Policies in the Middle East"

Nancy Birdsall, president, Center for Global Development, "Latin America's Financial Crises"

Peter Bridges, former U.S. ambassador to Somalia, "The U.S. and the Problem of Failed States," and "Africa and the War on Terrorism"

Laurens Brinkhorst, former Dutch minister of agriculture, "The European Union's New Foreign Policy & Defense Capabilities"

Lisa Bronson, deputy under secretary of defense, technology security policy and counter-proliferation and director, Defense Technology Security Administration, "Technology, Proliferation and Security - Global Challenges"

Soemadi Brotodiningrat, Indonesian ambassador to the U.S., "US-Indonesia Relations in a Time of Crisis"

Frank Calzon, Center for a Free Cuba, "42 Years of Embargo: Is This the Time to Subsidize Castro?"

Nicholas Clements, founder and chairman of Green-China, "Update on the Chinese Leadership and the Challenges They Face"

Herman Cohen, former U.S. ambassador and former assistant secretary of state for African affairs, "Africa and the War on Terrorism"

Isaac Cohen, president, Inverway LLC, "Prospects for Latin America's Economies"

Svante Cornell, editor, The Central-Asia Caucasus Analyst, "The Role of Turkey's New Islamic-Leaning Government in Current U.S. Policy" and "Oil in the Regional Politics and Political Economy of Central and Southwest Asia"

Seth Cropsey, director, International Broadcasting Bureau, "U.S. International Broadcasting and the War on Terrorism"

Walter Cutler, former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, "Challenge and Change in the Middle East"

Valeria de Campos-Mello, special assistant to the assistant-secretary-general for political affairs at the United Nations, "The Role of the U.N. in Human Security and Conflict Prevention"

Edward Dew, Fairfield University, "Contemporary Muslim Life"

Tom Dine, president, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, "The Role of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in the War on Terror"

Jorge Dominguez, director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, "A Mexico Update"

Robert Donaldson, trustees professor of political science, University of Tulsa, "Russia at Ten: A Progress Report"

Michael Dziedzic, Balkans Initiative, United States Institute of Peace, "Building Peace in the Balkans"

Matthew Evangelista, Department of Government, Cornell University, "Russia, International Terrorism, and the War in Chechnya"

M. Nabil Fahmy, Egyptian ambassador to the U.S., "U.S-Egyptian Relations Post 9-11"
Mark Falcoff, resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute, "Venezuela and Brazil: The Shifting Axes of U.S.-Latin American Relations"

Robert William Farrand, former deputy high representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, "Brcko Crucible for Peace in the Balkans"

Andrew Finkel, Knight Wallace journalism fellow, University of Michigan, "Islam and Democracy: The Verdict of the Turkish Electorate"

Chris Flavin, president, Worldwatch Institute, "Another World Summit...So What? The Post-Johannesburg Challenge"

Robert Gallucci, dean, Georgetown School of Foreign Service, "America's Vulnerability and the Axis of Evil"

Paul Gardner, former U.S. ambassador to Papua New Guinea, "The New Indonesian Democracy - Its Problems and Prospects"

Adam Garfinkle, editor, The National Interest, "U.S. Iraq Policy and Relations With Europe" and "Is 'Arab Democracy' an Oxymoron?"

Banning Garrett, director, Asia Program, Atlantic Council of the U.S., "U.S. Policy Toward China: Immediate Problems and Long Term Prospects"

James Gibney, executive editor Foreign Policy magazine, "After the War: Globalization and American Exceptionalism"

Bob Giles, curator of Harvard University's Nieman Foundation, "The American Press and Its Duty to Cover Foreign Affairs"

Marshall Goldman, associate director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University, "The Piratization of Russia: Is Putin the Solution?"

Thomas Gorguissian, journalist, Al Wafd (Egyptian Daily), "Today's Egypt"

Donald Gregg, chairman, The Korea Society, "The Challenges and Opportunities of Negotiating with Kim Jong Il" and "Korea - Where to Now?"

Hussain Haqqani, journalist, diplomat, and visiting scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, "America's New Alliance with Pakistan: Avoiding the Traps of the Past"

Harry Harding, dean, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, "The Dilemmas of China's Foreign Policy"

Steven Harper, lieutenant commander, U.S. Navy Supreme Allied Command, Atlantic, "Briefing on NATO"

Robert Hathaway, director, Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson Center, "The Most Dangerous Place in the World: Three Scenarios"

James Huntley, vice-president, Council for a Community of Democracies, "Pax Democratica, Pax Americana: Alternatives for U.S. Foreign Policy"

Heather Hurlburt, former special assistant and speech writer for President Clinton, "From Falun Gong to Vietnam Veterans: Who Shapes Our Foreign Policy?"

Zaineb Istrabadi, professor, Indiana University, "Reflections of an Iraqi American"

Amy Jaffe, senior energy advisor, Baker Institute, Rice University, "Oil Geopolitics, Post September 11: Changing Landscapes'

Ken Jensen, executive director, ACFR, "The Public Debate over the War in Iraq"

Beth Jones, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs , "Trans-Atlantic Relations"

Farooq Kathwari, chairman, president and CEO, Ethan Allen Inc, "Resolving the Kashmir Dilemma"

Michael F. Kergin, ambassador of Canada to the U.S., "Canadian-U.S. Relations, Iraq and Beyond"

Feroz Khan, retired brigadier, Pakistani Army, "Strategic Stability in South Asia: How
Indian-Pakistani Relations Affect US Interests"

Hal Klepak, professor, Royal Military College of Canada and advisor to Canadian Defense and Foreign Affairs Ministries on Latin American, "Cuba and Castro"

John Kline, U.S. congressman, "The National Security Strategy"

Andrei Kozyrev, former foreign minister of Russia, "Putin's Policy Towards the West"

Michael Krepon, founding president, The Henry L. Stimson Center, "Cooperative Threat Reduction: Asymmetrical Threats, Terrorism, and Arms Control"

Robert Langenkamp, director, National Energy-Environment Law and Policy Institute, University of Tulsa, "Who Gets the Oil: International Law and the Occupation of Iraq"

Ken Lawson, assistant secretary for enforcement, Department of the Treasury, "The Financing of Terrorism"

Princeton Lyman, executive director, The Aspen Institute's Global Interdependence Initiative, "Does the Public Have a Voice in Foreign Policy? If Not, Why Not?"

Clovis Maksoud, director, Center for the Global South, and former League of Arab States' chief representative to the United Nations, "The UN's Arab Human Development Report"

Aaron Mannes and Morris J. Amitay, P.C., "The Establishment of a Palestinian State - A Viable Option?"

Jamsheed Marker, special adviser to the secretary general, United Nations and former ambassador of Pakistan, "The United States and The Current World Crisis"

Tom Marks, Oppenheimer Chair of Warfighting Strategy, Marine Corps University, "The Insurgency in Nepal and its Implications for Asia"

Ed Masters, co-chairman of the board, U.S.-Indonesia Society, "U.S.-Indonesian Relations Today: An Assessment"

Gale Mattox, professor, U.S. Naval Academy, "The U.S.-German Relationship" and "U.S. European Relations: Can We Repair the Gap?"

Eric McVadon, U.S. Navy (ret.), The Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, "U.S. vs. North Korea Redux: And This Time We Want China to Intervene?" and "China: A Power, a Problem, and a Partner - The Far East & U.S. Foreign Policy"

Carla Menares-Bury, special coordinator for international programs, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, Department of State, "U.S. Policy Regarding International Trafficking in Persons"

Richard Millett, Marine Corps University & North-South Center, University of Miami, "Colombia's Conflicts in Global and Regional Context"

Afshin Molavi, journalist and author, "Economic Woes, Reformist Blues, and Green Card Dreams: The 'Iranian Street' and U.S Policy"

Joe Molyneux, vice president of security, Freeport McMoran Copper and Gold Co. "International Money Laundering and the War on Terrorism" and "Indonesia and the War on Terrorism"

Stephen Morrison, director, Africa Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies, "Oil and Africa: New Resources, New Partners"

Laurie Mylroie, author, Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War Against America, "The Coming War with Iraq"

Azar Nafisi, professor, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, "Veiled Threats: Women and Radicalism in Islam" and "Reading Lolita in Tehran"

Julia Nanay, senior director, PFC Energy, "Caspian Oil and Gas"

Paula Newberg , The U.N. Foundation, "Will We Succeed in Rebuilding Afghanistan"

Phyllis E. Oakley, former assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research, "Afghanistan, Terrorism and Current Foreign Policy"

Robert Oakley, former U.S. ambassador to Zaire, Somalia, and Pakistan, "The War on Terrorism: Focus on Pakistan" and "The Iraq Debate"

Amy O'Neill-Richard, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S. Department of State, "Trafficking in Humans: The Continuing Scourge"

Marina Ottaway, senior associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, "Nation Building: Think Again"

Harold Pachios, chairman, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. "Can We Influence the Arab Street and Does It Matter?"

Mark Parris, former U.S. ambassador to Turkey, "Turkey, the U.S. and the Coming Storm" and "Turkey and America: Still Strategic Partners?"

Jack Perry, former U.S. ambassador to Bulgaria, "Current Assessment of American Foreign Policy"

Nesta and Ruhi Ramazani, writers and lecturers on Iran, "A Conversation with the Ramazanis"

Cyrus Reed, assistant provost for international education, Ball State University, "Fundamental Issues We Don't Talk About in America: Development, Terrorism, Justice, Credibility, and Sustainability"

Mitchell Reiss, dean of international affairs, College of William and Mary, "Crisis on the Korean Peninsula: How We Got There, What Can Be Done?"

Pat Roberts, U.S. Senator, chair, Senate Intelligence Committee, "The War on Terrorism and Iraq"

Gerald Robbins, freelance journalist, "Turkey and the United States in the Next Year" and "Turkey between Europe and the United States"

Sol Sanders, former Asia bureau chief, Business Week, "Southeast Asia and the War on Terrorism"

Rubar Sandi, head of the U.S.-Iraq Business Council, "The Economic Reconstruction of Iraq"

Harold Saunders, Kettering Foundation, "Central Asia: Confronting Extremism, Resolving Conflict, Nurturing Peace"

Sabri Sayari, director, Institute of Turkish Studies, Georgetown University, "Turkish Politics and Foreign Policy: Challenges and Prospects"

David J. Scheffer, senior vice president, United Nations Association, former United States ambassador at large for war crimes issues, "The United States and the International Criminal Court"

Leonard Schoppa, professor, University of Virginia, "Japan's Demographic Challenge: Will it Remain a Great Power in the 21st Century?"

Wendy Sherman, The Albright Group, former assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, "The Real Iraq? - North Korea and U. S. Policy"

Leon Sigal, director, Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project, Social Science Research Council, "Regional and Bilateral Dynamics of the U.S.-North Korea Standoff"

John Sitilides, executive director, The Western Policy Center, "EU Expansion: Cyprus & The Clash of Civilizations"

Richard Slaughter, international economic consultant, "Nation Building in Central Asia"

Steve Sloan, International Institute for Strategic Studies, University of Oklahoma, "International Terrorism"

Henry Sokolski, executive director, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, "North Korea: What Must We Do After Iraq?"

Sang-Hyun Song, judge, International Criminal Court, "The International Criminal Court for Globalized Justice: Adjudication of War Crimes"

Robert Steele, CEO, Open Source Solutions, Inc., "9-11, U.S. Intelligence, and the Real World"

Kenneth Stein, professor of contemporary Middle Eastern history, Emory University, and
Middle East fellow, The Carter Center, "The Land Question in Israel and Palestine"

John Stempel, professor of international studies and director of the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, University of Kentucky, "Between Iraq and a Hard Place"

Andrew Strauss, professor, Widener University School of Law, "Terrorism, the War in Iraq, and the Future: A Global Democratic Alternative"

Martin Torres, consul-general of Mexico in Salt Lake City, "U.S.-Mexico Relations, post September 11" and "U.S.-Mexico Relations: Before and After the War on Terrorism"

Robert F. Turner, University of Virginia School of Law, "The Presidency, War Powers, and the War on Terrorism"

Vygaudas Usackas, Lithuanian ambassador to the U.S., "Reflections on Jefferson, Democracy, Europe and the Atlantic Alliance" and "The U.S. and the Second Round of NATO Expansion"

Milton Viorst, journalist and author, "The Jewish Dilemma in Today's World"

Bob Weaver, US Secret Service, "Cyber-Terror"

Philip C. Wilcox, Jr., president, Foundation for Middle East Peace, "The Israeli Palestinian Conflict, Terrorism, and the War in Iraq"

Edward Williams, professor of political science, University of Arizona, "U.S.-Mexico Relations"

David Wippman, professor of law, Cornell Law School, "Law, Politics and the International Criminal Court"

E. Thomas Wood, managing director, Cambridge European Associates, "U.S.-European Relations Meltdown and its Future Implications"

James Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, "The War on Terror: Why We Are In It and How We Should Fight It"

Hakan Yavuz, assistant professor of political science at the Middle East Center, University of Utah, "Turkey, the US, and the Kurds, in an Iraqi Context"

Lawrence Ziring, professor of Political Science, Western Michigan University, "Pakistan in the Twentieth Century"