Baltimore Council
on Foreign Affairs
1992-1995
9/17/1992 Hasan Abu Nimah
Member, Jordanian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Talks; Ambassador of Jordan to Italy; Former Representative to the European Community
“Jordanian Participation in the Middle East Peace Process”
9/24/1992 Habib Ben Yahia
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tunisia
“Tunisian Perspective on the Post Cold-War Order: Democratization, Middle East Peace, and the Free Market”
10/13/1992 Lawrence A. Pezzullo
Executive Director, Catholic Relief Services;
Former U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua
“Challenge in the New World Order: Conflict in Humanitarian Aid”
10/22/1992 Oleh H. Bilorus
Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States
“Ukraine: Struggle for Democracy and Proper World Role”
11/9/1992 Jukka Robert Valtasaari
Ambassador of Finland to the United States
“The Foreign Policy of Finland After the Collapse of the Soviet Union”
11/23/1992 Leonard H. Robinson, Jr.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
“Promises and Challenges of Democracy Toward Africa”
11/30/1992 Robert G. Kaiser
Managing Editor, The Washington Post
“Prospects for the New Russia”
12/10/1992 Jacques Andreani
Ambassador of France to the United States
“France and the United States, and the Prospects of European Unification”
1/6/1993 The 13th Annual Baltimore Sun Foreign Policy Panel
Joseph R.L. Sterne, Charles Corddry, Mark Matthews
“Foreign Policy: From Bush to Clinton”
1/11/1993 Barbara Franklin
Secretary of Commerce
“New Market Opportunities in the Changed World”
1/18/1993 Siddharta Shankar Ray
Ambassador of India to the United States
“India Today”
2/9/1993 Amos Perlmutter
Professor of Political Science and Sociology, The American University
“Israel, the Middle East, and the Clinton Presidency”
2/25/1993 Vladmir Petrovich Lukin
Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States
“The Future of Russian-American Relations”
3/9/1993 Fabio Castillo
Rector, The University of El Salvador
“The Role of the Central American University in the Democratization of the Area”
3/24/1993 Alfred Sommer
Dean of the School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University
“World Health Issues and American Foreign Policy”
4/8/1993 Fayez A. Tarawneh
Ambassador of Jordan to the United States
“Middle East Peace: A Year in Review and Prospects Under the Clinton Administration”
4/15/1993 Alexander Borg Olivier
Principal Officer, Department of Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations
“The Ex-Yugoslavia, the Emerging World Order and the ‘New’ United Nations”
5/6/1993 William Donald Schaefer
Governor of the State of Maryland
“The International Economic Policy of Maryland”
5/19/1993 Ahmed Sakr
President, Foundation for Islamic Knowledge
“Islamic Fundamentalism”
5/27/1993 Paul Goble
Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
“Crisis in Russia”
6/16/1993 Charles McMillion
President, MBG Information Services
“Maryland in the New Global Economy: Private Opportunities and Public Challenges”
9/14/1993 Stasys Lozoraitis
Ambassador of Lithuania to the United States
“Lithuania’s Pursuit of Happiness in the Post-Soviet Era”
9/23/1993 Peter A. Berle
President, National Audubon Society
“United States Policy of the Global Environment: An Environmental Activist’s Perspective”
10/6/1993 Konah K. Blakett
Charge D’Affairs of the Republic of Liberia
“Crisis in Liberia”
10/20/1993 General Robert C. Oaks
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Air Forces Central Europe
“U.S. Military Roles in Europe Today”
11/4/1993 Immo Stabreit
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United States
“Germany’s Role in Europe and the Trans-Atlantic Partnership”
11/23/1993 Samuel Lewis
Director, Policy Planning Staff, U.S. Department of State
“Foreign Policy in a Disorderly World”
11/29./1993 Li Dayou
Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United States
“China: Domestic Agenda and Foreign Policy”
12/14/1993 Itamar Rabinovich
Ambassador of Israel to the United States
“The Arab-Israeli Peace Process: A Current Assessment”
1/12/1994 The 14th Annual Baltimore Sun Foreign Policy Panel
Joseph R.L. Sterne, Charles Corddry, Mark Matthews
“National Security Under Clinton”
2/7/1994 Adriaan Pieter Roetert Jacobits de Szeged
Ambassador of the Netherlands to the United States
“After the NATO Summit: The Road Ahead”
2/22/1994 Ahmed Maher El Sayed
Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the United States
“The End to the Myths in the Middle East”
3/3/1994 John Lewis Gaddis
Director, Contemporary History Institute, Ohio University
“The Post Cold War World”
3/30/1994 Korean Caravan
Messrs. Chung Gi Kim, Sueng-Soo Han, Donald P. Gregg, James Zumwalt,
W. Robert Warne, Robert G. Rich, Jr.
“The Future of U.S.-Korea Relations Under the New Administration”
4/7/1994 Contemporary Issues of American Foreign Policy, with a Panel of Journalists from The Baltimore Sun
Clara Germani, Daniel Berger, Richard O’Mara
“Haiti and American Foreign Policy Issues”
4/11/1994 Benjamin L. Cardin
U.S. Representative from Maryland’s 3rd District; Commissioner, The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
“U.S. Role in a Changing World”
World Trade Center
4/27/1994 Timothy E. Wirth
Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs
“The Post Cold War Foreign Policy Agenda”
World Trade Center
5/5/1994 Yegor Gaidar
Former Prime Minister of Russia; Head, The “Russia’s Choice” Party
“The Russian Economy in Transition”
5/9/1994 Richard A. Falk
Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Princeton University
“Does Clinton Have a Foreign Policy?”
5/25/1994 Eugene K. Lawson
President, U.S.-Russia Business Council
“The Evolving Business Climate in Russia”
6/8/1994 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”
9/29/1994 Abdul Aziz Said
Professor of International Relations; Director, Peace and Conflict Resolution Studies, The American University
“What Peace Will Look Like”
10/1/1994 Lawrence A. Pezzullo
Special Advisor to President Clinton on Haiti
“Clinton’s Haiti Policy: A Study in Maladroitness”
10/11/1994 Kenneth F. Hackett
Executive Director, Catholic Relief Services
“Rwanda”
10/20/1994 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”
11/1/1994 Japan Caravan
William Farrell, Toshihiro Kiribuchi, Koichi Nishioka
“Restructuring Japanese Corporations in a Changing Environment”
11/22/1994 Abdulrahim Abby Farah
Former United Nations Under Secretary General for Special Political Questions with Responsibilities for Africa
“International Interventions in Troubled States: The Somali Experience”
12/7/1994 “Town Meeting” Co-sponsored with U.S. State Department, Session I
Ambassador James Dobbins
"Haiti" “Town Meeting” Co-sponsored with U.S. State Department, Session II
Ambassador Darryl Johnson
“Russia and the New Independent States”
“Town Meeting” Co-sponsored with U.S. State Department, Session III
Ambassador Winston Lord
“U.S. Policy in East Asia”
1/11/1995 The 15th Annual Baltimore Sun Foreign Policy Panel
Joseph R.L. Sterne, Charles Corddry, Mark Matthews
“Cold Peace: 1995”
2/22/1995 Paul A. Goble
Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
“Russia After Chechnya: Can Reform Survive?”
3/2/1995 Wayne R. Smith
Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy
“Whither U.S.-Cuban Relations”
3/8/1995 Paulo Tarso Flecha de Lima
Ambassador of Brazil to the United States
“Brazil: An Outlook”
3/14/1995 William J. Perry
Secretary of Defense
“Priorities for National Security Policy”
3/28/1995 Andreas van Agt
European Union Ambassador to the United States
“Europe: A Powerhouse Under Construction?”
4/5/1995 John Anderson
President, World Federalist Association; Member of Congress, 1960-1980; Independent Candidate for President, 1980
“The United Nations at the Crossroads”
4/26/1995 Federico Salas
Minister for Political and Congressional Affairs
“The Future of U.S.-Mexican Relations”
Hyatt Regency Hotel
5/11/1995 Takakazu Kuryiama
Ambassador of Japan to the United States
“Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of World War II: A Japanese Perspective”
5/24/1995 Robert B. Oakley
U.S. Ambassador to Somalia, 1982-1984; Special Envoy to Somalia, 12/92-13/93; 10/93-3/94
“Protecting U.S. Interests in a New, Disorderly World”
6/13/1995 Warren Zimmermann
U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1989-1992
“Bosnia and the New Nationalism”