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Global Policy Seminar

Fall 2003 Highlights:  

Thursday, August 28
U.S. National Security- Interests, Values, Strategy
Meeting with Dr. Cory Schalke, National Security Council, Director for International Defense and Arms Control.  Dr. Cory Schalke has played a significant role in drafting the national Security Strategy Review of the Bush Administration.  The document that Dr. Schalke drafted is a far-reaching statement of the Administration's priorities and approaches to international affairs and merits careful reading.  It initially provoked a media flurry and controversy over its ideas about pre-emptive/preventive military action (e.g. Iraq.)

Thursday, September 18
Evolving Situation in Iraq and U.S. Policy
Attending the House Armed Service Committee Hearings on U.S. policy and operations in Iraq at the Capital Hill.  Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz, General Peter Pace (Vice Chairman of the JCS) and Under Secretary of Defense, Dov S. Zakheim will testify. 

Thursday, October 23
The U.S., Europe, The Middle East: Divided Views
Meeting with Amy Hawthorne, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.  Amy will talk about prospects and problems for democratization in Iraq.  Amy is currently working on a special project on Democratic reform in the Middle East. 

Briefing by Hassan Rahman, Chief Representative of the PLO/PNA.  Hassan will discuss about the current Palestinian-Israeli Situation.

Former Ambassador Phillip Wilcox, The Foundation for Middle East Peace will give a presentation on Israel and Palestine.  Ambassador Wilcox has served in Jerusalem among other posts.

Finally, we will visit Brookings Institution with former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Director of the Saban Center of Middle East Policy, Martin Indyk. 

Thursday, October 30
Global Substance Abuse Crisis and the War on Drugs
Discuss the Plan Colombia with Ingrid Vaicius of the Center on International Policy.  Visit Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) to gain the U.S. Government view on Plan Colombia and U.S. Government International Activities.  Brief visit to the DEA Museum across from Pentagon City.  Look over the President's National Drug Control Strategy for 2003.

Thursday, November 13
Visit Supreme Court and meeting with Court's Judicial Fellow. 

Thursday, November 20
Meet Maren Zerrifi of the Arab American Institute.  Maren will take up the current developments in Palestine/Israel from a Palestinian vantage.  Visit National Science Foundation (NSF) for a meeting with Julia Moore on General Modified Organisms (GMO) a technical issue that has important ramifications for agriculture, trade, perhaps health and well-being worldwide.  Julia has served at the State Department and in communications for the NSF, and spent the past year at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars researching this issue.  Visit Delegation of the European Union and meet with William Burros.  Bill will discuss US-EU relations, differences over the Middle East and economic concerns. 

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