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Spring 2009 


Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World

Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO and Founder of Acumen Fund and author of Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World, Levin Institute, 116 E. 55th St, 6:00 PM 

The Future of Pakistan

Thursday, April 30, 2009
Parag Khanna, Senior Research Fellow, American Strategy Program Director, New America Foundation and Jonathan Paris, Associate Fellow, International Centre for the Study of Radicalization, King's College London, at the Levin Institute, 116 E. 55th St., 6:30 PM


The Great Experiment: Globalization

Thursday, April 16, 2009
Strobe Talbott, President of the Brookings Institution and author of The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States and the Quest for a Global Nation, at the Levin Institute, 116 E. 55th St, 3:00 PM

Rise and Fall of Hyperpowers

Thursday, March 12, 2009
Amy Chua, Professor at Yale Law School and author of Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance- and Why They Fall, at the Levin Institute, 116 E. 55th St, 6:30 PM

Fixing Global Finance

Thursday, February 26, 2009
Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times and author of Fixing Global Finance, at the Levin Institute, 116 E. 55 St., 6:30 PM

Climate Change

Thursday, February 5, 2009
Michael A. Levi, Council on Foreign Relations' David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change

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Fall 2008 


The Great Inflation: The Impact on Globalization

Thursday, December 18, 2008
Robert Samuelson, Columnist for the Washington Post and Newsweek, and author of The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath

Russia

Thursday, November 13, 2008
Steve LeVine, Correspondent in BusinessWeek’s Washington Bureau and author of Putin’s Labyrinth: Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia 

Foreign Policy in Campaign 2008

Thursday, October 23, 2008
Christopher Cox, John McCain's presidential campaign's New York Executive Director; Edward Cox, John McCain's presidential campaign's New York Chairman; Jeh Johnson, Foreign policy adviser for Barack Obama's presidential campaign and member of Barack Obama's national finance committee; Josh Rothstein, Volunteer for Barack Obama for America Foreign Policy Team

War for Wealth

Thursday, October 16, 2008
Gabor Steingart, Senior Correspondent, Der Spiegel and author of The War for Wealth: The True Story of Globalization, or Why the Flat World is Broken

Implications of Globalization

Thursday, October 2, 2008
Robert Shapiro, Former Undersecretary of Commerce and author of Futurecast: How Superpowers, Populations, and Globalization Will Change the Way You Live and Work 

Global Issues and Values-Based Foreign Policy

Monday, September 22, 2008
Paula Dobriansky, Undersecretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

Leadership in International Affairs

Thursday, September 18, 2008
Ted Sorensen, Special Counsel and Adviser to President John F. Kennedy and author Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History 

The Second World

Thursday, September 11, 2008
Parag Khanna, Director of the Global Governance Initiative and Senior Research Fellow in the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation and author of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order 

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Spring 2008 


Has Multiculturalism Failed?

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Ian Buruma, Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism, Bard College; Author, Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance and Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its EnemiesPaul Scheffer, Professor of Urban Sociology, University of Amserdam; Author, The Multicultural Drama.

Pakistan: What Happens Now

Thursday, March 27, 2008
Arif Jamal, Lahore based scholar and journalist; Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University. Robert Templer, Director, Asia Programs, International Crisis Group

Venture Philanthropy: Can Social Investors Transform Nonprofits?

Thursday, February 21, 2008
Cheryl Dorsey, President, Echoing Green; Beth Cohen, Senior Director, Global Philanthropists Circle, Synergos; Diana Ayton-Shenker, President, Global Momenta, Senior Fellow, Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program

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Winter 2008 


Can the CIA Get it Right?

Thursday, January 31, 2008
Tim Weiner, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist at the New York Times, author of the books Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA and Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames: An American Spy

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Fall 2007 


The New Russia Challenge

Thursday, December 6, 2007
Leonard Benardo, National Foundations Regional Director, Open Society Institute. Jonathan Becker, Dean of International Studies, Bard College; author of Soviet and Russian Press Coverage of the United States: Press, Politics and Identity in Transition

The J Curve: Why Nations Rise and Fall

Thursday, November 15, 2007
Ian Bremmer, president, Eurasia Group. 

Can Market Mechanisms Address Climate Change

Thursday, October 25, 2007
Yannick Glemarec, Executive Coordinator for UNDP Global Environment Facility

Iraq After the Petraeus Report

Thursday, September 27, 2007
Jeffrey D. McCausland, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs; Visiting Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at the Penn State Dickinson School of Law, former Dean of Academics, US Army War College. Maj. James Spies, Special Forces Branch Representative, United States Military Academy at West Point

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Spring 2007 


Unknown Unknowns: Anticipating and Countering Insurgency in Iraq

Thursday, May 10, 2007
Caleb Carr, Visiting Professor of History, Bard College; author of The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians and The Alienist. Nathaniel Fick, author of One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer; former Captain, United States Marine Corps. Jon Lellenberg, former Director, Policy & Strategy, in the Office of the Secretary of Defense's special operations and counterterrorism bureau.

Anti-Americanism in World Politics

Thursday, April 19, 2007
James W. Ceaser, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia; author of Reconstructing America: The Symbol of America in Modern Thought and Red Over Blue: The 2004 Elections and American Politics among many others. Paola Cesarini, Instructor, Providence College; co-editor Authoritarian Legacies and Democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe; contributing author, Anti-Americanism

HIV and International Security

Thursday, March 22, 2007
Ambassador Mark R. Dybul, United States Global AIDS Coordinator; former Assistant Director for Medical Affairs, Department of Health and Human Services. Joelle Tanguy, Managing Director of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GBC); former US Executive Director, Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontiers)

How Moral Can We Get? War, Ethics, and US Foreign Policy

Thursday, March 1, 2007
Joel Rosenthal, President, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

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Fall 2006 


Russia Rising: Eurasia, The United States and the European Union

Thursday, December 14, 2006
John Hulsman, author of Paradigm for the New World Order and co-author of Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World; Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Anatol Lieven, author of The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence and co-author of Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World; Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation

Latin America’s New Left: Implications for Inter-American Relations

Saturday, November 11, 2006
Javier Corrales, Associate Professor of Political Science, Amherst College; author of Presidents Without Parties: The Politics of Economic Reform in Argentina and Venezuela in the 1990sOmar Encarnación, Associate Professor of Political Studies, Bard College; author of The Myth of Civil Society: Social Capital and Democratic Consolidation in Spain and Brazil.

Iran: Our Gravest Threat?

Thursday, October 12, 2006
Tom Parker, Director, Iran Human Rights Documentation Center; Former UK Special Advisor on Transitional Justice, and Head of the Crimes Against Humanity Investigation Unit, Coalition Provisional Authority; currently a Fellow in the Department of Political Science, Brown University. James A. Phillips, Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs, Heritage Foundation; Member, Committee on the Present Danger.

Five Years Later: Are We Prepared?

Thursday, September 14, 2006
Paul J. Browne, Deputy Commissioner of Public Information, New York City Police Department; former Chief of Staff, US Treasury Department Office of Enforcement. Richard K. Betts, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University; Commissioner to the National Commission on Terrorism; author of Surprise Attack: Lessons for Defense Planning.

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Spring 2006 


Water Wars

Thursday, April 27, 2006
Michael Klare, Five College Professor of Peace and Security, Hampshire College; author of Blood and Oil, and Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global ConflictMark Lytle, Professor of History, Bard College

America and the World

Thursday, March 2, 2006
Fareed Zakaria, Editor, Newsweek International; author of The Future of Freedom

Investigating Saddam Hussein: Lessons Learned from the Balkans

Thursday, February 23, 2006
Richard Dicker, Director, International Justice Program, Human Rights Watch; Tom Parker, former UK Special Advisor on Transitional Justice, and Head of the Crimes Against Humanity Investigation Unit, Coalition Provisional Authority; former Investigator, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

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Fall 2005 


Coming Challenges to the United Nations

Thursday, December 1, 2005
Barbara Crossette, former UN Bureau Chief, New York TimesEdward Luck, Director, Center on International Organization, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs


The Rise of Chinese Power

Thursday, November 10, 2005
Dan Blumenthal, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Elizabeth Economy, Director of Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
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Does Preventive War Have a Future?

Thursday, October 27, 2005
Thomas Nichols, former Chairman of Strategic Studies, US Naval War College; Scott Silverstone, Associate Professor of Political Science, US Military Academy, West Point

Sustaining a Liberal Empire

Thursday, September 22, 2005
Lt. Gen. William Odom, US Army (Ret.), Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute; author of America's Inadvertant Empire and Fixing Intelligence


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Spring 2005 


The Future of Middle East Security

Thursday, May 12, 2005
Fawaz Gerges, Christian A. Johnson Chairholder in International Affairs and Middle Eastern Studies, Sarah Lawrence College; Author of "The Jihadists: Unholy Warriors"

The North Korean Question

Thursday, April 14, 2005
Charles Armstrong, Associate Professor of History, Columbia University; Leon Sigal, Director, Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project, Social Science Research Council; reservations required

A Discussion with David Rieff

Monday, March 14, 2005
A discussion with David Rieff, author of "At the Point of a Gun: Humanitarian Dreams and Armed Intervention" and Aryeh Neier, President, Open Society Institute

The United Nations and the Prevention of Genocide

Thursday, March 3, 2005
Juan Méndez, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Prevention of Genocide, United Nations; President, International Center for Transitional Justice

Power, Terror, Peace, and War

Monday, February 7, 2005
Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow in US Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations; Author of Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk

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Fall 2004 


Democracy in the Middle East and Elsewhere: Is it the Right American Policy?

Thursday, December 2, 2004
Omar Encarnación, Associate Professor of Political Studies, Bard College and Adrian Karatnycky, former President, Freedom House

US Foreign Policy after the Election

Thursday, November 11, 2004
Jonathan Schell, Senior editor, The Nation

The Nature of the Iraqi Resistance

Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Molly Bingham, Nieman Fellow, Harvard University and Steven Connors, Freelance photojournalist

The Consequences of the Iraq War

Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Max Boot, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations and Mark Danner, Professor of Human Rights and Journalism, Bard College, and Author of The Massacre at El Mozote

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Spring 2004 


Lecture: The Consequences of Iraq

Thursday, April 8, 2004
Ian Bremmer, president, Eurasia Group; Henry R. Luce Professor in Human Rights, Democracy, and New Media Studies, Bard College; regular contributor to the New York Review of Books,The New York Times Magazine , New Republic, and The Guardian College; regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, New York Times Magazine, New Republic, and The Guardian. For reservations or further information, call 212-333-7575 or e-mail cristol@bard.edu.

Lecture: International Crime

Thursday, March 18, 2004
Jack Blum, former U.S. Senate Investigator on International Financial Crime, Corporate Fraud and Government Corruption.

Lecture: Russia, Central Asia, and American Foreign Policy

Thursday, February 12, 2004
Ian Bremmer, president, Eurasia Group; Henry R. Luce Professor in Human Rights and Journalism, Bard College; regular contributor to the New York Review of Books,The New York Times Magazine , New Republic, and The Guardian; and Karl Meyer, editor of World Policy Journal. The lecture will be moderated by James Chace, director of the BGIA Program. Reservations requested.

BGIA Speaker Series

Monday, February 2, 2004
"Geneva and Beyond" Marcia Freedman, Former Member of Israeli Parliment.

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Fall 2003 


On the Road to Empire

Thursday, December 11, 2003
Mark Danner, Henry R. Luce Professor in Human Rights and Journalism, Bard College and author of The Massacre at El Mozote.

Is Colombia the Next Vietnam?

Thursday, November 13, 2003
Kenneth Sharpe, Swarthmore College, coauthor of Drug War Politics: The Price of Denial. Silvana Paternostro, Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute and author of In the Land of God and Man

Russia and the Future of American Foreign Policy

Thursday, October 9, 2003
Ian Bremmer, President, Eurasia Group
Jonathan Becker, Dean of International Studies, Bard College

The Consequences of the Iraq War

Thursday, September 11, 2003
Charles Kupchan, Senior Fellow, European Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations, Author of The End of the American Era and Max Boot, Senior Fellow in National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Author of The Savage Wars of Peace

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Spring 2003 


Humanitarianism at Bay

Thursday, May 8, 2003
 Joelle Tanguy

Lecture: "Humanitarianism at Bay"

Thursday, May 8, 2003
Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program lecture by Joelle Tanguy.

Lecture: "American Empire: The Realtities and Consequences of Diplomacy"

Wednesday, April 9, 2003
Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program lecture by Andrew Bacevitch.

Lecture: "American Empire: The Realtities and Consequences of Diplomacy"

Wednesday, April 9, 2003
Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program lecture by Andrew Bacevitch.

Lecture: "Imperial America"

Thursday, March 13, 2003
The BGIA presents Caleb Carr, Military Historian, Best Selling Novelist. Author of The Alienist and The Lessons of Terrorism.

Lecture: "America at War"

Thursday, February 20, 2003
The BGIA presents Max Boot, Council on Foreign Relations; Features Editor, Op-Ed Page, The Wall Street Journal; Author of The Savage Wars of Peace & Ian Buruma, Henry R. Luce Professor in Human Rights, Democracy, and New Media Studies, Bard College; regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, New York Times Magazine, New Republic, and The Guardian.

America at War

Thursday, February 20, 2003
Max Boot, Council on Foreign Relations; Features Editor, Op-Ed Page, The Wall Street Journal; Author of The Savage Wars of Peace & Ian Buruma, Henry R. Luce Professor in Human Rights and Journalism, Bard College; regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, New York Times Magazine, New Republic, and The Guardian.

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Fall 2002 


International Crime - Unraveling the Trail of Money

Thursday, December 5, 2002
Jack Blum — Former US Senate Investigator on International Financial Crime, Corporate Fraud and Government Corruption; Consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service on international financial crime and off-shore tax evasion

The US as a Permanent World Policeman?

Thursday, November 7, 2002
Reuben Brigety — Arms Division, Human Rights Watch
Thant Myint-U — Policy Analyst, United Nations Office of Humanitarian Affairs, and former Spokesman, United Nations Protection Force, Sarajevo

The Humanitarian Trap

Thursday, October 3, 2002
David Rieff — author of A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis and Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West

Two panels to mark the events of September 11, 2001

Tuesday, September 10, 2002
On September 10, 2002 Bard College will present two panels to mark the events of September 11, 2001. Panel One: "The War on Terrorism" (4:30-6:00 p.m.), featuring: Thomas Keenan (moderator), Director, Bard Human Rights Project; Mark Lytle, Professor of History, Bard College; and James Miller, Deputy Director, Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program. Panel Two: "What's Next- War or Peace?" (7:30-9:00 p.m.), featuring: Jonathan Becker (moderator), Dean of International Studies; Caleb Carr, Author, "The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians"; Barbara Crossette, contributing writer, "The New York Times"; James Chace, Paul W. Williams Professor of Government, Bard College; and Sanjib Baruah, Professor of Politics, Bard College. The panels will be on September 10, 2002 in the Multipurpose Room of the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College. The panels are free and no reservations are required. Sponsored by: Dean of International Studies, Dean of the College, the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program, the Human Rights Project and the Bard-St. Stephen's Alumni/ae Association.

The Russia House - What's Up and Who's in Charge?

Thursday, September 5, 2002
Ian Bremmer — President, Eurasia Group
Nina Khruscheva — Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute

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