Baltimore Council
on Foreign Affairs
1995-1998
9/14/1995 Jeffrey J. Smith
General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency
“The C.I.A.: Challenges of the New Decade”
10/5/1995 Schlomo Gur
Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Israel
“The Middle East From Confrontation to Co-operation”
10/17/1995 Andre Killian
Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of South Africa; Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa to Canada, 1992-1994
“The Future of South Africa”
10/21/1995 Rodrigo Pardo
Minister of Foreign Relations, Colombia
“United States-Colombian Relations”
11/12/1995 Jayantha Dhanapala
Chairman, 1995 Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
“Extending the Non-Proliferation Treaty – A Case History of a Multilateral Disarmament Conference”
12/14/1995 Alexander F. Watson
Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs
“The Americas in the 21st Century: Defining U.S. Interests”
1/17/1996 Dennis B. Ross
Special Middle East Coordinator, U.S. Department of State
“The Middle East Peace Process”
1/22/1996 Peter Tarnoff
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
“U.S. Foreign Policy: Critical Times, Critical Choices”
2/5/1996 The 16th Annual Baltimore Sun Foreign Policy Panel
Joseph R.L. Sterne, Mark Matthews, Gilbert Lewthwaite
“Foreign Policy: 1996”
2/28/1996 Robert O. Freedman
Acting President, The Baltimore Hebrew University
“Israel and the Middle East Peace Process: An Assessment”
3/12/1996 John McCarthy
Ambassador of Australia to the United States
“Australia, the United States and Asia”
4/2/1996 David Binder
Washington Bureau, The New York Times
“Bosnia: How Did We Get There and Where It Is Going”
4/16/1996 Carlos Lleras de la Fuente
Ambassador of Colombia to the United States
“The Colombia Paradox”
4/30/1996 Alfonsas Eidintas
Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to the United States
“Lithuania’s Return to the Western Community”
5/16/1996 Ariel Cohen
Senior Analyst, Russian and Eurasian Studies, The Heritage Foundation
“U.S.-Russian Relations on the Eve of the Russian Presidential Elections”
5/23/1996 Fernando Remirez de Estenoz
First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cuba; Head of the Cuban Interests Section, Embassy of Switzerland
“Cuba 1996”
6/5/1996 James B. Reardon-Anderson
Professor, School of Foreign Service; Director, Asian Studies, Georgetown University
“The United States and China: The Road Ahead”
6/12/1996 Raymond A.J. Chretien
Ambassador of Canada to the United States
“Canada’s Global Foreign Policy Objectives: Regional Stability Issues and the Canada-U.S.Partnership"
6/13/1996 Kwon Woo Park
Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the United States
“The Republic of Korea: Meeting the Challenges of Change”
9/16/1996 Dermot A. Gallagher
Ambassador of Ireland to the United States
“Current Developments in Ireland: The Peace Process and Other Issues”
9/24/1996 Warren Zimmermann
Professor of International Diplomacy, Columbia University; U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1989-1992
“ The Yugoslav Disaster: Dangers and Prospects”
10/16/1996 Earl A. Powell, III
Director, National Gallery of Art
“Nation to Nation: The National Gallery of Art”
11/12/1996 Maleeha Lodhi
Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to the United States
“U.S.-Pakistan Relations”
11/20/1996 John Wood
Ambassador of New Zealand to the United States
“New Zealand: Yesterday and Today”
12/9/1996 Jack F. Matlock, Jr.
U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1987-1991; George F. Kennan Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
“Dealing with Russia”
1/9/1997 The 17th Annual Baltimore Sun Foreign Policy Panel
Joseph R.L. Sterne, Gilbert Lewthwaite, Mark Matthews
“Foreign Policy Under the New Clinton Team”
1/16/1997 Reverend J. Bryan Hehir, Th.D.
Professor of the Practice in Religion and Society, Harvard Divinity School; Counselor, Catholic Relief Services
“American Foreign Policy in the 90s: The Setting and Strategic Choices”
1/23/1997 Miomir Zuzul
Ambassador of Croatia to the United States
“A Croatian View of Balkan Stability”
3/5/1997 Robert S. Gelbard
Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
“Narcotics and International Crime as National Security Threats”
3/18/1997 Pedro Luis Echeverria
Ambassador of Venezuela to the United States
“Venezuela’s New Economic Measures”
4/9/1997 Mdumiso Ndima Ntshinga
Senior Political Counselor, Embassy of South Africa to the United States
“The Future of South Africa”
4/17/1997 Carl Liljegren
Ambassador of Sweden to the United States
“A Swedish Perspective”
5/7/1997 Michael Stuermer
Friederich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nurnberg; Director, Research Institute for International Affairs, Ebenhausen, Germany
“The United States and the German National Interest”
5/12/1997 Jeffrey E. Garten
Dean, Yale School of Management; Former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade
“Big Emerging Markets and America’s Future”
5/28/1997 Yuri M. Vorontsov
Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States
“The Future of Russian-American Bilateral Relations”
9/16/1997 I. William Zartman
Jacob Blaustein Professor of International Organization and Conflict Resolution; Director of African Studies, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
“African Conflict and American Response”
10/28/1997 Morton H. Halperin
Senior Vice President, The Twentieth Century Fund; Relations; Former Special Assistant to the President
“Stolen Elections as International Crime”
11/13/1997 Naresh Chandra
Ambassador of India to the United States
“Indo-U.S. Relations”
12/4/1997 Dato Dali Mahmud Hashim
Ambassador of Malaysia to the United States
“United States-Malaysia Relations”
12/9/1997 William Pfaff
The International Herald Tribune
“America’s Role in the New World”
12/17/1997 Elihau Ben-Elissar
Ambassador of Israel to the United States
“The Israeli View of The Peace Process”
1/14/1998 The 18th Annual Baltimore Sun Foreign Policy Panel
Dan Berger, Mark Matthews, Thomas Bowman, G. Jefferson Price, III, Frank Langfitt, Kathy Lally
“Challenges to U.S. Foreign Policy until Century’s End”
1/26/1998 Peter Romero
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs
“U.S. Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean for 1998”
2/4/1998 James R. Lilley
U.S. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, 1989-1991
“China and the United States in the 21st Century: Cooperation and Competition, or Confrontation?”
2/17/1998 Kunihiko Saito
Ambassador of Japan to the United States
“A Changing Japan in a Changing World”
2/26/1998 Walid Al-Moualem
Ambassador of the Arab Syrian Republic to the United States
“Syria and the Peace Process”
3/2/1998 Nikolai Tchoulkov
Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations
“Russia and the United Nations”
3/17/1998 Matthew P. Daley
Deputy Special Representative of the President and the Secretary of State for Implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords
“Bosnia: The Shape of Things To Come”
4/14/1998 Joris M. Vos
Ambassador of the Netherlands to the United States
“Europe and the United States: A View from behind the Dykes”
5/5/1998 Steve H. Hanke
Professor of Applied Economics, The Johns Hopkins University
“IMF Policy Fiascoes in Indonesia”
6/8/1998 Benjamin L. Cardin
U.S. Representative, 3rd District of Maryland
“U.S. Role in the New World Order: Superpower or Supercop?"
6/10/1998 Tedo Japaridze
Ambassador of Georgia to the United States
“Georgia, the South Caucasus, and Beyond”