Baltimore Council
on Foreign Affairs
1998-2001
9/17/1998 Stephen Philip Cohen
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution; Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science, University of Illinois
“Did the South Asian Tests Make Any Difference”
10/13/1998 Bard E. O'Neill
Professor of International Affairs, The National War College
“National Security and Middle East Terrorism”
10/28/1998 Dorodjatun Kuntjoro Jakti
Ambassador of Indonesia to the United States
“The Future of Indonesia’s Economy”
11/10/1998 John Duke Anthony
President, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
“The Changing Nature of U.S. Interests in the Persian Gulf: Implications for American Policies”
11/23/1998 Schlomo Lahat, Former Mayor of Tel Aviv; and
Najat Arafat Khelil, National Vice President, Palestinian American Congress
“The May 4, 1999 Deadline Looms. Is Permanent Peace Possible?
An Israeli and a PalestinianView”
12/17/1998 Barry R. McCaffrey
Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy
“The National Drug Control Policy: Reducing Drug Abuse and Its Consequences in America”
1/19/1999 The 19th Annual Baltimore Sun Foreign Policy Panel
G. Jefferson Price, III, Dan Berger, Thomas Bowman, Will Englund, Bill Glauber, Ann LoLordo, Mark Matthews
“The United States and The World in 1999”
2/23/1999 Thomas Matussek
Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of The Federal Republic of Germany to the United States
“German Priorities During the E.U. Presidency”
3/30/1999 Clovis Maksoud
Professor of International Relations, American University; Former League of Arab States’ Chief Representative to the U.S. and the U.N.
“Global Challenges and Arab Responses”
4/8/1999 Lawrence J. Korb
Director of Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
“National Defense in the 21st Century”
4/22/1999 Shaul Bakhash
Clarence Robinson Professor of History, George Washington University
“The Future of Iran-U.S. Relations”
5/6/1999 “Town Meeting” co-sponsored with the U.S. Department of State, Session I
Alan Larson
“U.S. Economic Policy”
5/6/1999 Alan Larson
Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Economic and International Affairs
“U.S. Economic Policy”
“Town Meeting”co-sponsored with the U.S. Department of State, Session II
Robert Beecroft
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Regional Security
“National Security Policy”
“Town Meeting” co-sponsored with the U.S. Department of State, Session III
Morton H. Halperin
Director, Office of the Policy Planning Staff
“The 50th Anniversary of NATO, and Kosovo”
5/11/1999 Robert M. Hayden
Director, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh
“The Clinton Policy on Kosovo”
5/20/1999 Richard N. Haas
Director, Foreign Policy Studies Program, The Brookings Institution
“The Foreign Policy Legacy of the Clinton Administration”
6/3/1999 Ted Galen Carpenter
Vice President, Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, The Cato Institute
“Washington’s Erratic China Policy”
6/8/1999 Jonathan Clarke
President, American Journalism Foundation; Fellow, The Cato Institute
“Kosovo: Searching for an Honorable Exit”
9/23/1999 Adeed Dawisha
Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason University
“The Survival of Saddam Hussein and America’s War on Iraq”
10/6/1999 Shibley Telhami
Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development, University of Maryland College Park
“The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Why the End Is Near”
10/21/1999 John R. Bolton
Senior Vice President, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; Former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
“American Sovereignty and International Law”
World Trade Center
11/8/1999 Lee Hong-Koo
Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the United States
“Korea in the Crisis of Transformation”
11/18/1999 Sir John Margetson
Former British Ambassador to Vietnam, the United Nations, and the Netherlands
“A British View of American Foreign Policy”
11/30/1999 Parris N. Glendening
Governor of the State of Maryland
“Maryland’s Strategy in the International Economy”
12/13/1999 Scott Ritter
Former U.N. Weapons Inspector to Iraq
“Endgame: Future Approaches to the Iraqi Crisis”
1/20/2000 General Wesley K. Clark
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
“NATO and the Future of Trans-Atlantic Alliance”
2/16/2000 The 20th Annual Baltimore Sun Foreign Policy Panel
G. Jefferson Price, III, Bill Glauber, Jay Hancock, Frank Langfitt, Mark Matthews, and Ms. Kathy Lally
“The World in 2000”
3/22/2000 Amos Perlmutter
Professor of Political Science and Sociology, The American University
“President Clinton’s Foreign Policy: The Harvest of Two Administrations”
4/11/2000 Marc Grossman
Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
“Remarks on the U.S.-European Partnership”
5/2/2000 Yoram Hazony
President of the Shalem Center, Jerusalem and Washington, D.C.
“Israel’s Post Zionism in the New Middle East”
5/18/2000 L. Craig Johnstone
Senior Vice President, International, Economic and National Security Affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
“American Economic Interests in the Global Economy”
5/23/2000 Charlene Barshefsky
United States Trade Representative
“America’s Case for China’s WTO Accession and PNTR”
5/23/2000 Jerry MacArthur Hultin
Under Secretary of the Navy
“The Modern Navy and Globalization”
5/31/2000 Josè Vallarino, Jr.
Chairman of the Board and CEO, The Panama Coca Cola Bottling, Co.; President of Commissions on the Future of the Panama Canal; Advisor to the President of Panama on the Canal
“Panama and the Canal, The Years Ahead”
6/6/2000 Harry Harding
Dean, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
“U.S.-China Relations”
6/12/2000 Ivo H. Daalder
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
“Myths and Realities of the Kosovo War”
10/3/2000 Dan Berger, Editorial Page Writer, The Baltimore Sun;
Steven David, Professor of Political Science; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Arts and Science, Johns Hopkins University;
Joseph R.L.Sterne, Senior Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, Johns
Hopkins University; Editorial Page Editor, The Baltimore Sun, 1972-1997
“Guiding Principles and Concepts in the Bush and Gore Foreign Policy”
10/11/2000 Marc Ginsberg
Managing Director and CEO, Northstar Equity Group; U.S. Ambassador to Morocco, 1993-1998
“Guiding Principles and Concepts in the Gore Foreign Policy”
10/23/2000 William E. Brock
Chairman, Intellectual Development Systems, Inc.; Former Chairman, The Republican National Committee
“Guiding Principles and Concepts in the Bush Foreign Policy”
11/14/2000 Juergen Chrobog
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United States
“Germany, Europe and the United States in an Era of Global Challenges”
12/4/2000 Jonathan Lawley
Director, The Royal African Society
“Personal Reflections on 52 Years :Living and Working in Southern Africa and Some Thoughts on the Need to Reassess Aid Programs for Africa”
1/23/2001 David Elekana Ivry
Ambassador of Israel to the United States
“The Current Situation in the Middle East”
1/31/2001 Peter F. Romero
Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
“Continuing Challenges to Democracy and Development in the Western Hemisphere”
2/8/2001 William B. Wood
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
“Multilateral Sanctions and U.S. Foreign Policy”
2/21/2001 Ernest W. Lefever
Founding President, Ethics and Public Policy Center
“Nuclear Arms: Instruments of Peace?”
3/5/2001 Edward E. Masters
Vice Chairman, The United States-Indonesia Society;
Former U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia
“Indonesia: Asia’s New Promise or Continuing Problem?”
3/26/2001 Hasan Abdel Rahman
Chief Representative of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Palestinian National Authority in the United States
"The P.L.O. View of the Situation in the Middle East”
4/12/2001 Michael E. O'Hanlon
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
“The National Security Policy of the Bush Administration”
4/12/2001 Maleeha Lodhi
Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States
“Security in South Asia"
5/8/2001 Daniel L. Byman
Policy Analyst and Director for Research, The RAND Corporation
“The Problem of Iraq: Challenges for a New Administration”
5/17/2001 The 21st Annual Baltimore Sun Foreign Policy Panel
G. Jefferson Price, III, Frank Langiftt, Mark Matthews, Will Englund, Joseph Murphy, Bill Glauber, and Jay Hancock
“America and the World”
5/22/2001 Thomas C. Hubbard
Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
“United States Asian Policy”
6/11/2001 David M. Lampton
Professor, The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies; Director of China Studies at SAIS and at the Nixon Center
“Looking at U.S.-China Relations in the Early Bush Administration”