Events
The German Elections: The State of the Polity and Prospects for German Foreign Policy
September 30, 2009 // 4:00pm — 5:00pm
Constanze Stelzenmüller, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, Berlin Office, German Marshall Fund and Former Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Liechtenstein: Transparency, Trust and Credibility in a Changing Global Financial Order
September 25, 2009 // 10:00am — 11:00am
His Excellency Klaus Tschütscher, Prime Minister, Principality of Liechtenstein
Negotiating With the Enemy: U.S.-China Talks During the Cold War, 1949-1972
September 24, 2009 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Yafeng Xia, Associate Professor of History, University of Long Island and Margaret Gnoinska, the George Washington University
Soviet-Taiwanese Relations During the Early Cold War
September 23, 2009 // 4:00pm — 5:15pm
Shin Kawashima, Japan Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Director's Forum: The Enlargement of the European Union
September 22, 2009 // 10:00am — 11:00am
EU enlargement has been celebrated as the European Union's most successful foreign policy. The peaceful transformation in postcommunist Europe is a tribute not only to the peoples and leaders of those 10 countries, but also to the umbrella provided by the European Union. Dr. Michael Leigh, who has served as director-general for enlargement since 2006, highlighted the successes of the enlargement process to date as well as the main challenges to come.
Book Talk: Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces
September 21, 2009 // 4:00pm — 5:00pm
Steven Ward, Senior Intelligence Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency
U.S.-Dutch Relations in the Post-1945 Era
September 18, 2009 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
L. Paul Bremer III, Former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands; Renée Jones-Bos, Dutch Ambassador to the U.S., Cornelis A. van Minnen, Director, Roosevelt Study Center; Hans Krabbendam, Assistant Director, Roosevelt Study Center; Giles Scott-Smith, Senior Researcher, Roosevelt Study Center
Photo Exhibition: Prague Through the Lens of the Secret Police
August 20, 2009 // 1:00pm — 2:00pm
Pavel Zacek, Director, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes; Ladislav Bukovszky, Director, Security Services Archive; Jiri Ellinger, Czech Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement
July 20, 2009 // 12:30pm — 2:00pm
Lawrence S. Wittner, State University of New York at Albany; David S. Patterson Yale University; Stan Riveles, Institute for Defense Analyses
That Little Infernal Cuban Republic: U.S. Policies Toward Cuba in Historical Perspective
July 15, 2009 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Contemporary U.S. policies toward Cuba and the domestic and international factors shaping the possibilities for a new bilateral relationship were discussed.