Speaker Series
International Security Speaker Series
Preventing war and stopping mass violence remain some of the greatest challenges of international relations. The International Security Speaker Series features leading scholars and policy practitioners discussing challenges and solutions for meeting the security demands of the modern world.
Past Events
| Apr 14, 2009 | Back to Black: An Argument for Removing U.S. Intelligence Activities from Public Scrutiny |
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | LBJ Library Brown Room, 10th Floor |
| Joan Dempsey, Vice President, Booz Allen and Hamilton | |||
| International Security Speaker Series | |||
| Apr 7, 2009 | Humanitarian NGOs in Armed Conflicts: The Dilemmas of Agency and Autonomy |
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | LBJ Library Brown Room, 10th Floor |
| Karen Mingst, Lockwood Chair Professor, University of Kentucky | |||
| International Security Speaker Series | |||
| Mar 24, 2009 | Lessons, Challenges, and the Continuation of the War on Terror |
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | LBJ Library Brown Room, 10th Floor |
| Juan Carlos Zarate, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism | |||
| International Security Speaker Series | |||
| Feb 11, 2009 | Not Your Father's Battlefield: Outsourcing Policy and Representative Democracy |
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | LBJ Library Brown Room, 10th Floor |
| Steven L. Schooner, George Washington University Law School | |||
| International Security Speaker Series | |||
| Feb 3, 2009 | Stabilizing Northeast Asia: Korea Between the United States and China |
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | LBJ Library Brown Room, 10th Floor |
| Tom McNaugher, RAND Corporation | |||
| International Security Speaker Series | |||
| Nov 11, 2008 | Energy Security, Iran, and the Persian Gulf |
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Thompson Conference Center Auditorium |
| A Panel Discussion with Eugene Gholz and Simon Henderson | |||
| International Security Speaker Series | |||
| Oct 29, 2008 | Iraq and the Future of American Policy in the Persian Gulf |
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | LBJ Library, Brown Room, 10th Floor |
| F. Gregory Gause, University of Vermont | |||
| International Security Speaker Series | |||
| Oct 16, 2008 | Cold War Lessons and Contemporary Dilemmas |
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | LBJ Library Brown Room, 10th Floor |
| Melvyn Leffler, University of Virginia | |||
| International Security Speaker Series | |||
| Oct 2, 2008 | Determining the Threat: Biological Weapons and National Security Interests |
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | LBJ library, Atrium, 10th Floor |
| Jeanne Guillemin, Boston College | |||
| International Security Speaker Series | |||
| Apr 10, 2008 | Global Civilization? |
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | LBJ Library Brown Room, 10th Floor |
| Philip Zelikow, Professor of History, University of Virginia | |||
| International Security Speaker Series | |||
| Apr 2, 2008 | The Reluctant Realism of George H. W. Bush |
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | LBJ Library Brown Room, 10th Floor |
| Tim Naftali, Director, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum | |||
| International Security Speaker Series | |||
| Mar 19, 2008 | The Danger of Weaponizing Outer Space |
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | LBJ Library Brown Room, 10th Floor |
| Mike Moore, Research Fellow, Independent Institute | |||
| International Security Speaker Series | |||
| Feb 26, 2008 | China & Global Institutions: Explaining Economic Competitiveness |
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | LBJ Library Brown Room, 10th Floor |
| Ed Steinfeld, Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT | |||
| International Security Speaker Series | |||
| Jan 24, 2008 | How the UN Can Help Stop Terrorism |
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | LBJ Library Brown Room, 10th Floor |
| Eric Rosand, Senior Fellow, Center on Global Counter-Terrorism Cooperation | |||
| International Security Speaker Series | |||
| Nov 8, 2007 | Executive Power Under Siege |
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | LBJ Library Brown Room, 10th Floor |
| David Rivkin, Partner, Baker Hostetler | |||
| International Security Speaker Series | |||
| Nov 1, 2007 | Who Controls the CIA? The Dangers of Outsourcing |
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | LBJ Library Brown Room, 10th Floor |
| Dr. RJ Hillhouse, Author | |||
| International Security Speaker Series | |||
| Oct 4, 2007 | Pitfalls in Democracy Promotion |
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | LBJ Library Brown Room, 10th Floor |
| Marina Ottaway, Director, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | |||
| International Security Speaker Series | |||
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