Salt Lake Committee on Foreign Relations <p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"> <font style="font-size: 18px;"> <span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226); text-decoration: underline;">Recent Speakers<br /><br /></span></font><font style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></font><font style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></font><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">January 18th, 2012</font></strong><br />SPEAKER
– Ambassador John Price<br />TOPIC
– "When the White House Calls" <br /><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br />November 17th, 2011</font></strong><br />SPEAKER
– Dr. Tim Chambless<br />TOPIC
– "U.S.-China Relations: The Need for Cooperation and to Avoid Conflict" <br /><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br />October 12th, 2011</font></strong><br />SPEAKER
– Ambassador Patrick Duddy<br />TOPIC
– "The Venezuelan or Brazilian Model- Which Way Forward for South America?" <br /><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br />May 25th, 2011</font></strong><br />SPEAKER
– Ambassador Barbara Bodine<br />TOPIC
– "Avoiding the Worst Policy Mistakes in Yemen" <br /><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br />April 20th, 2011</font></strong><br />SPEAKER
– Imam Muhmammad Musri<br />TOPIC
– "Role of Moderate Muslims After 9/11" <br /><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br />March 10th, 2011</font></strong><br />SPEAKER
– Ambassador Christopher Hill<br />TOPIC
– "Engaging the Axis of Evil" <br /><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br />February 10th, 2011</font></strong><br />SPEAKER
– Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. <br />TOPIC
– "Not Going Away: The Persistent Challenge of North Korea" <br /><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br />January 11th, 2011</font></strong><br />SPEAKER
– Dr. Arthur I. Cyr<br />TOPIC
– "Presidential Politics and Foreign Policy- Continuity or Change?" <br /><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br />November 11th, 2010</font></strong><br />SPEAKER
– Ambassador Carey Cavanaugh<br />TOPIC
– "How do you Advance Peace and Fight Terrorism in Today's Troubled World?" <br /><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br />October 13th, 2010</font></strong><br />SPEAKER
– Husain Haqqani<br />TOPIC
– "The Critical Importance of Strategy in U.S.-Pakistan Relations" <br /><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br />September 15th, 2010</font></strong><br />SPEAKER
– Dr. Robert
H. Donaldson<br />TOPIC
– "Reviewing the reset with Russia: Hit or flop?" <br /><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br />June 30th, 2010</font></strong><br />SPEAKER
– Roxane Farmanfarmaian<br />TOPIC
– " <a target="_blank" wfxsrc="How the Past Informs the Future CFR1.doc" wfxtype="resource" href="/xml/wfxdirect/res;jsessionid=C37065D8BE06CC45EE9D9408B699C03A.TCpfixus72b?name=How+the+Past+Informs+the+Future+CFR1.doc&type=resource">The Middle East: How the Past Informs the Future</a>" <strong></strong><br /><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br />May 19th, 2010</font></strong><br />SPEAKER
– Valerie Hudson<br />TOPIC
– " The Heart of the Matter: The Security of Women and the Security of States" <strong></strong><br /><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br />April 20th, 2010</font></strong><br />SPEAKER
– Marshall Goldman<br />TOPIC
– " Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia" <strong></strong><br /><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br />March 17th, 2010</font></strong><br />SPEAKER
– Ambassador Princeton N. Lyman<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><b> </b></font> <br />TOPIC
– " A Fresh Look at Africa: It's Growing Strategic and Economic Importance" <strong></strong><br /><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br />February 23rd, 2010</font></strong><br />SPEAKER
– Gladys N. Ashitey, MD<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><b> </b></font> <br />TOPIC
– " Fulfilling a Political Promise: Inventing a Healthcare System for 22 Million Ghanaians" <strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br /></font></strong><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br />February 3rd, 2010</font></strong><br />SPEAKER
– Henry D. Sokolski <br />TOPIC
– " The Pitfalls of our Current Arms Control Proposals" <strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br /></font></strong><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br />November 17th, 2009</font></strong><br />SPEAKER
– Dr. Cynthia A. Watson <br />
TOPIC
– " What's
Burning? Immediate International Priorities" <strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br /></font></strong><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br />October 29th, 2009<br /></font></strong>SPEAKER - Amos N. Guiora<br />TOPIC - "Freedom from Religion: Rights and National Security"<strong></strong><strong></strong><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br /><br />September 23rd, 2009<br /></font></strong>SPEAKER- Charles Horner<br style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(241, 249, 246);" />TOPIC- "Rising China and its Postmodern Fate" <strong></strong><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br /><br />May 21st, 2009<br /></font></strong>SPEAKER- Dr. Jay C. Davis<br style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(241, 249, 246);" />TOPIC- "Nuclear Weapons: Why do we still have them and how many do we need?"<strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br /><br />April 20th, 2009</font></strong><br />SPEAKER - <span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Professor Bahman Baktiari</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />TOPIC - <span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 12px ! important;">"How to Engage Iran? Lessons from three decades of troubled US-Iranian Relations”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">March 10th, 2009</font></strong><br />SPEAKER - Jeremy Martin<br />TOPIC - "US-Mexico Relations: Energy, Security and the Merida Initiative."<br /><br /><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">Feb 12th, 2009</font></strong><br />SPEAKER - Dr. Peter Mansoor<br />TOPIC - "The Iraq War: Opportunities Missed and Lessons Learned"<br /><br /><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">Jan 20th, 2009</font></strong><br />SPEAKER - Rocky Anderson<br />TOPIC - "Genocide, Lost Opportunities and the high road for human rights"<br /><br /><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">Nov 13th, 2008</font></strong><br />SPEAKER - Aric Mutchnick<br />TOPIC - "The Israeli/Palestinian conflict: Can there ever be peace in the holy land?"<br /><br /><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">Oct 9th, 2008</font></strong><br />SPEAKER - Dr. Seyom Brown<br />TOPIC - "The Higher Realism: A New Foreign Policy for the United States"<br /><font style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></span></font><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">Sept 18, 2008</font></strong><br />SPEAKER - Dr. Asbed Kotchikian<br />TOPIC - "Underneath the Shadow of the Bear: Georgian-Russian Relations"<font style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br /><br /></span></span></font><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">April 17, 2008</font></strong><br />SPEAKER - Carlyle (Karl) Thayer<br />TOPIC - "China's 'Harmonious World' Doctrine and Southeast Asia"<font style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226); text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span></font><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">March 19, 2008<br /></font></strong>SPEAKER - Ambassador William D. Montgomery<br style="font-weight: normal;" />TOPIC -" Crisis in the Balkans: The Implications of Kosovo Independence"<br /><font style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></font><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">Jan 29, 2008<br /></font></strong>SPEAKER - Salvador Jimenez, US Mexican Consul<br style="font-weight: normal;" />TOPIC - " Mexico-Utah Relations"<strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /></span></font></strong><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">Nov 27, 2007<br /></font></strong>SPEAKER - Leslie S. Lebl, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council of the US<br style="font-weight: normal;" />TOPIC - " Radical Islam in Europe"<br /><font style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></font><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">Oct 23, 2007<br /></font></strong>SPEAKER - Dr. Bruno Tertrais, Senior Research Fellow <br style="font-weight: normal;" />TOPIC - "Trans-Atlantic Relations: A New Beginning?"<strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br /></font></strong> <font style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></font><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">Sept 18, 2007<br /></font></strong>SPEAKER - Ambassador Donald P. Gregg <br style="font-weight: normal;" />TOPIC - "North Korea: The Longest Running Failure in the History of American Espionage"<br /> <font style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></font><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">June 6, 2007<br /></font></strong>SPEAKER - Patrick Mendis<br style="font-weight: normal;" />TOPIC - "Glocalizaton: The Human Side of Globalization"<br /><div style="text-align: left;"> <strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br /> April 11, 2007</font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;">SPEAKER - Dr. Paula Newberg,<br />International Consultant and United Nations and United Nations Foundation Special Advisor<br style="font-weight: normal;" />TOPIC - "Afghanastan and Pakistan and Their Neighbors"<br /> </div><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong><font style="font-size: 18px;"></font><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">March 28, 2007</font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;">SPEAKER - Gerald Robbins, Freelance Journalist</div><div style="text-align: left;">TOPIC - "Redefining Turkey's Strategic Importance".<strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br /><br /></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><strong>February 13, 2007</strong></font></div><div style="text-align: left;">SPEAKER - Dr. Ronald W. Mortensen, Administrative Officer, U.S. AID</div><div style="text-align: left;">TOPIC - "Humanitarian Assistance and U.S. Foreign Policy"<strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br /><br /></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">January 23, 2007</font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;">SPEAKER - Dr. Dean Collinwood, Professor of Asian Politics, University of Utah</div><div style="text-align: left;">TOPIC - " Whither the New Japan?"<strong><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br /><br /></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">November 28, 2006</font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;">SPEAKER - Dr. Robert D. LangenKamp, Professor of Law, University of Tulsa</div><div style="text-align: left;">TOPIC - "The Geopolitics of Oil".<strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br /><br /></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">October 11, 2006</font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;">SPEAKER - Pauline Baker, President, Fund for Peace</div><div style="text-align: left;">TOPIC - "Weak and Failing States: What are they? How do we recognize them? What do they signify? How should we respond?"<strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br /><br /></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">September 27, 2006</font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;">SPEAKER - Roxanne Farmafarmian, Donner Scholar, Cambridge University</div><div style="text-align: left;">TOPIC - "Iran : Rogue on the Sidelines or Lynch Pin to the Middle East".<strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br /><br /></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">August, 2006</font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;">SPEAKER - David R. Irvine, Brigadier General (ret.)</div><div style="text-align: left;">TOPIC - "Tortured Times for American Values".<strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><br /><br /></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">May 2006</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">SPEAKER - Tony Sullivan, Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies, University of Michigan<br />TOPIC -"The Riddle of Palestine: Arab Politics, U.S Policy and the Dialectic of Civilization."<div style="text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">April 2006</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><br /></span>SPEAKER - Elizabeth A. Whitaker, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.<br />TOPIC - "Latin America Turn Left: U.S Policy- Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, and Venezuela."</p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">March 2006</span><br />SPEAKER - Tom Blau, Professor of National Security Affairs, School for National Security Executive Education,National Defense University, where he manages the Regional Defense Counter Terrorism Fellow Program for Foreign officers and U.S government Staff. </p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">February 2006</span><br />SPEAKER - Amb. Abderahman Salaheldin, Consul General of Egypt in San Francisco; formerly Dep. Asst. Minister of Foreign Affairs for North America.<br />TOPIC - "Egypt and the U.S.: A Model for Dialogue Between Civilizations."</p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">January 2006</span><br />SPEAKER - Amb. Joseph C. Wilson IV, Currently manages J.C. Wilson International Ventures on Strategic Management and International Business Development; formerly Ambassador, Gaboese Republic and Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe; also served in Niger, Togo, South Africa, Burundi, Congo and Germany; last official American meeting with Saddam Hussein before "Desert Storm" as Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S Embassy, Baghdad, Iraq. </p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">November 2005</span><br />SPEAKER - Christopher Kojm, President, 9/11 Public Discourse Project; formerly Deputy Executive of 9-11 Commission; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence Policy and Coordination in the State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research.<br />TOPIC - "The 9-11 Commission Recommendations: One Year Later."</p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">October 2005</span><br />SPEAKER - Rami G. Khouri, Executive Editor, Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon); member, Brookings Institution Task Force on "U.S Relations with the Islamic World," ; formerly Editor-in-Chief of the Jordan Times.<br />TOPIC - "Democratization in the Middle East and American Foreign Policy." </p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">September 2005</span><br />SPEAKER - Isaac Cohen, President and CEO Inverway LLC, Washington, D.C dedicated to business development in the Western Hemisphere.<br />TOPIC - "Will CAFTA Work?"</p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">May 2005</span><br />SPEAKER - Alexander Konovalov, Professor, Moscow State Institute of International Relations; president, Institute for Strategic Assessments; member, Expert Council, the Committee on Foreign Relations; Council of the Federation (upper chamber, Russian Parliament)<br />TOPIC - "Russo-American Relations and Security"</p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">April 2005</span><br />SPEAKER - Henry Sokolski, Executive Director, The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center<br />TOPIC - "Nuclear World War: The Next Big Worry." </p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">March 2005</span><br />SPEAKER - Michael K. Young, President, University of Utah; member of the U.S Commission on International Religious Freedom; member of Committee on International Judicial Relations of the Judicial Conference of the United States; formerly Dean George Washington University Law School.<br />TOPIC - "Religious Tolerance in a Divided Word: Possibilities and Pitfalls."</p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">Febuary 2005</span><br />SPEAKER - Sean Anderson, Professor of Political Science, Idaho State University<br />TOPIC - "Iran: Lessons for the War on Terror"</p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">January 2005</span><br />SPEAKER - Prof. Ibrahim A. Karawan, Director of the Middle East Center, University of Utah; Member, Advisory Board of the Center for International Studies at Oxford University; Fellow, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland.<br />TOPIC - "Terrorism in the Name of Islam; The Doctor and the Sheikh."</p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">December 2004</span><br />SPEAKER - Johathan Clarke, Writer, lecturer, and consultant on international issues and a former career diplomat in the British Diplomatic Service.<br />TOPIC - "America Alone: The New-Conservatives and the Global Order."</p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">November 2004</span><br />SPEAKER - E. Wayne Merry, Sr. Associate, American Foreign Policy Council, Sr. Fellow, Pearson Peace Keeping Center, Nova Scotia, Russia Specialist, Amnesty International/USA<br />TOPIC - "Trans-Atlantic Relationships Bad and Getting Worse (Regardless of Our Election Outcome): Why and What Needs to Be Done."</p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">October 2004</span><br />SPEAKER - Dr. Kenneth Jensen, Executive Director, American Committees on Foreign Relations<br />TOPIC - "The Presidential Debate on Foreign Policy and Administration Transition."</p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(189, 225, 226);">September 2004</span><br />SPEAKER - Dr. Jay C. Davis, Director, ANSER Institute for Homeland Security<br />TOPIC - "The Real Proliferation Threat: Iran and North Korea"</p></div></div>
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