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    Historical Section 

    17 Notable Programs from 1985 - 2008

    The purpose of the Distinguished Speakers Program is to contribute to a thoughtful description and analysis of American Foreign Policy. Of over 600 addresses since 1980, 17 are presented as a sampling of that discussion. All of these 17 addresses are available on our YouTube channel.

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    Click on the speaker names below to access the video of each address.

     

    George Bush

    Vice President of the United States

    "A Major National Security Address"

    March 18, 1985

     

    Edward Teller

    Director Emeritus and Lawrence Livermore, Sr. Researcher, Hoover Institute

    "The End of the Cold War"

    March 5, 1990

     

    John Duke Anthony

    President, The National Council on US-Arab Relations

    "America and the Gulf Crisis: Why Should One Care?"

    November 20, 1990

     

    Strobe Talbott

    Editor at Large, Time Magazine

    "The New Russia and the New World"

    February 18, 1992

     

    Barbara Franklin

    Secretary of Commerce

    "New Market Opportunities in the Changed World"

    January 11, 1993

     

    Vladmir Petrovich Lukin

    Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States

    "The Future of Russian-American Relations"

    February 25, 1993

     

    John Lewis Gaddis

    Director, Contemporary History Institute, Ohio University

    "The Post Cold War World"

    March 3, 1994

     

    Yegor Gaidar

    Former Prime Minister of Russia; Head, The "Russia's Choice" Party

    "The Russian Economy in Transition"

    May 5, 1994

     

    Norman R. Augustine

    Chairman & CEO, Martin Marietta Corporation

    "The World That Came in From the Cold: Implications for the Post Cold War Economies of the United States and the Former Soviet Union."

    June 8, 1994

     

    Dimitri K. Simes

    President, The Center for Peace and Freedom; Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

    "The Russian Transformation: Implications for the United States"

    October 20, 1994

     

    Dennis B. Ross

    Special Middle East Coordinator, US Department of State

    "The Middle East Peace Process"

    January 7, 1996

     

    Jack F. Matlock, Jr. 

    US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1987-1991; George F. Kennan Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University

    "Dealing with Russia"

    December 9, 1996

     

    William Plaff

    The International Herald Tribune

    "America's Role in the New World"

    December 9, 1997

     

    Thomas Fingar

    Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research

    "United States Relations with the Great Powers: Russia and China"

    April 5, 2000

     

    Daniel Pipes

    Director, Middle East Forum

    "Vanquishing the Islamic Enemy"

    May 7, 2007

     

    Mr. David J. Kramer

    Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, US Department of State

    "Where is Russia Headed? Implications for US-Russian Relations"

    May 31, 2007

     

    Dr. Richard N. Cooper

    Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Harvard University

    "Prospects for the World Economy"

    December 16, 2008

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