Baltimore Council
on Foreign Affairs
2010-2013
9/15/10 Her Excellency Meera Shankar
Ambassador of India to the United States
“United States-India Relations”
10/13/10 Ambassador Robert O. Blake
Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs
“India Has Risen: Strategic Engagement with India”
11/4/10 Kori Schake, Ph. D.
Distinguished Chair in International Security Studies at the United States
Military Academy; Hoover Institution Research Fellow
“Iran’s Nuclear Program and What To Do about It”
11/30/10 Mr. Steven Emerson
Executive Director, The Investigative Project on Terrorism
“Radicalization and Islamic Extremism in the United States”
12/14/10 His Excellency Dr. Klaus Scharioth
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United States
“The Transatlantic Agenda”
1/20/2011 Ms. Roberta S. Jacobson
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere
Affairs
“The Obama Administration and the Americas: Looking Ahead”
2/9/2011 Mr. Kenneth Hackett
President, Catholic Relief Services
“Haiti: Challenges on the Path Ahead”
3/21/2011 His Excellency Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the U.S.
“Nigeria in World Affairs and Her Relations with the United States”
3/30/2011 William Overholt, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
“China’s New Politics, New Economy and New International Behavior”
4/13/2011 Dr. John Duke Anthony
Founder, CEO and President, The National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
“Analyzing Transformational Change in the Arab World”
5/19/2011 Mr. William E. Craft, Jr.
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Trade Policy and Programs, Bureau of
Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs
“The Three Trade Agreements: Colombia, Korea, and Panama”
5/24/2011 His Excellency Namik Tan
Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to the United States
“Turkish Foreign Policy and Turkish-U. S. Relations in an Era of Change”
6/15/2011 Piracy Panel
Ms. Donna L. Murphy, Coordinator of Counter-Piracy and Maritime
Security, United States Department of State
Martin N. Murphy, Ph. D., Visiting Fellow, Corbett Centre for Maritime
Studies, King’s College, London
Daniel Whiteneck, Ph. D., Director of European Programs, Center for
Strategic Studies, Center for Naval Analyses
R. Robinson Harris, Ph. D., USN (Ret.), Director of Advanced Concepts,
Lockheed Martin Corporation
6/27/2011 Senator Ben Cardin
United States Senator, Maryland; Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
“…to the Shores of Tripoli: Democracy on the March in a Post bin Laden World”
9/21/2011 Ambassador Martin S. Indyk
Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution
“Israel and the Arab Awakenings”
10/6/2011 Mr. Bruce Riedel
Senior Fellow, The Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings
Institution
“Pakistan: The Most Dangerous Country in the World?”
10/20/2011 Professor Robert O. Freedman
Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins University; Professor Emeritus,
Baltimore Hebrew University
“Can Putin’s Russia Be an Ally to the United States?”
11/09/2011 Mr. Tom Bowman
Pentagon Correspondent, National Public Radio
“Afghanistan: Voices from the Front”
11/15/2011 His Excellency Joao Vale de Almeida
Head of Delegation
Delegation of the European Union to the United States
“Exiting the Crisis: Steps to Confidence and Growth”
12/15/2011 Thomas J. Christensen, Ph. D.
William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War; Co-
Director, China and the World Program, Princeton University
“China’s Foreign Policy since the Financial Crisis”
1/12/2012 William Moomaw, Ph. D.
Professor of International Environmental Policy; Director, Center for
International Resource Policy, Fletcher School, Tufts University
“Energy, National Security, and Climate Change”
2/22/2012 Steven David, Ph. D.
Professor of International Relations; Vice Dean of Undergraduate
Education, the Johns Hopkins University
“Apocalypse Now?: Iran’s Nuclear Threat to Israel and What To Do about It”
2/27/2012 Panel on “American Grand Strategy”
Daniel Whiteneck, Ph. D., Research Analyst, Center for Naval Analyses
Mr. Bryan McGrath, Founding Director of Delex Consulting, Studies & Analysis
Captain Peter Swartz, USN, (Ret.), Senior Analyst, Center for Naval Analyses
3/21/2012 His Excellency D. Jorge Dezcallar de Mazarreddo
Ambassador of Spain to the United States
“The Euro Crisis and United States-Spain Relations”
4/4/2012 Michael E. O’Hanlon, Ph.D.
Director of Research and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy; 21st Century Defense
Initiative; The Sydney Stein, Jr. Chair, the Brookings Institution
“Bending History: Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy”
4/26/2012 The Honorable Robert S. Ford
United States Ambassador to Syria
“The Arab Spring—Syria’s Uprising and America’s Options”
6/11/12 Representative Dutch Ruppersberger
Congressman, Maryland’s 2nd District
Ranking Member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence
Member, House Armed Services Committee
“A Perspective on American Foreign Policy”
6/20/12 Mr. Kenneth Wollack
President, National Democratic Institute
“The Arab Spring and the Pursuit of Democracy”
9/20/12 John J. Mearsheimer, Ph. D.
R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science
University of Chicago
“Can China Rise Peacefully?”
10/9/12 Mr. Franklin Miller
Principal, The Scowcroft Group
“The Continued Relevance of the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent”
11/14/12 Ambassador Steven Pifer
Director, Arms Control Initiative and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy,
Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institute
“The Arms Control Opportunity in 2013”
11/27/12 Professor Nathan J. Brown
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs,
Georgetown University
“Islamist Movements After The Arab Uprisings and What They Mean To The United States.”
12/5/12 His Excellency Olexander Motsyk
Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States
“The Prospects of Relations between Ukraine and the U.S.”
1/22/13 Dr. Nelly Lahoud
Senior Associate, Countering Terrorism Center, WestPoint
Associate Professor, the United States Military Academy
“Is Jihadism an Enduring Threat?”
2/7/13 Senator Ben Cardin
United States Senator, Maryland; Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
“Magnitsky: Reaffirming America’s Leadership on Human Rights.”
2/28/13 His Excellency Othman Hashim
Ambassador of Malaysia to the United States
4/4/13 His Excellency Ryszard Schnepf
Ambassador of The Republic of Poland to the United States
4/23/13 Professor David M. Lampton
George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies
Director of the China Studies Program
Former Dean of Faculty
Johns Hopkins School of International Studies
"How Well are America and China Cooperating?
5/16/13 The Honorable Donald Teitelbaum
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
United States Department of State
"Building Parnerships to Prevent the Spread of Terrorism in Africa"
6/12/13 Professor Robert Legvold
Marshall Schulman Professor Emeritus
Columbia Uniersity
"Whither Russia? What Difference Does it Make To US?"
6/12/2013 Professor Robert Legvold
Marshall Schulman Professor Emeritus
Columbia University
“Whither Russia? What Difference Does It Make To us?”
10/8/2013 Professor Henry Nau
Professor, The George Washington University
Elliott School of International Relations
“The Obama Foreign Policy: A Conservative Internationalist Approach”
10/22/2013 His Excellency Ebrahim Rasool
Ambassador of South Africa to the United States
The Diplomacy of Ubuntu: Drawing on Nelson Mandela’s Lesson for Solving Global Conflict”
10/31/2013 General Keith B. Alexander
Director of the National Security Agency
Director of United States Cyber Command
Cyber Challenges”
11/19/2013 Dr. Mary Habeck
Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins SAIS
“Al Qaeda’s Grand Strategy in its War with the World”
12/2/2013 Professor James Clad
Senior Advisor
Center for Naval Analyses
“The World Politics of a Changing Energy Landscape”
12/11/2013 His Excellency Francois Delattre
Ambassador of France to the United States
“New Opportunities in the French-American and Transatlantic Partnerships”