"BARACK OBAMA'S FOREIGN POLICY: ONE YEAR AND COUNTING"featuring STEPHEN M. WALT, The Robert & Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Monday, January 11, 2010, 6:30-8:00 pm
at the Académie Diplomatique Internationale
4bis Avenue Hoche - 75008 Paris
The talk will be in English and followed by a cocktail reception.
Just a year on the world stage and President Barack Obama finds himself immersed in a hyperactive foreign policy universe. From clenched fists and nuclear disarmament, to just and unjust wars and a Nobel Peace Prize, his global impact on geopolitical crises and on the international community as a whole is inestimable. Stephen Walt, one of Harvard's preeminent experts on international affairs, will share with us his perspective on Obama's global challenges and opportunities at this exciting, perhaps precarious, and historically critical time.
Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Rene Belfer Professsor of International Relations at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He previously taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago, where he served as Master of the Social Science Collegiate Division and Deputy Dean of Social Sciences. He has been a Resident Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, and he has also served as a consultant for the Institute of Defense Analyses, the Center for Naval Analyses, and the National Defense University. He presently serves on the editorial boards of Foreign Policy, Security Studies, International Relations, and Journal of Cold War Studies, and he also serves as Co-Editor of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, published by Cornell University Press. Additionally, he was elected as a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in May 2005.
Professor Walt is the author of The Origins of Alliances (1987), which received the 1988 Edgar S. Furniss National Security Book Award. He is also the author of Revolution and War (1996), Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy (2005), and, with co-author J.J. Mearsheimer, The Israel Lobby (2007).
The Académie Diplomatique Internationale was founded in 1926 as one of the world's first independent institutions dedicated to international affairs, and is currently being revitalized as a center for modern diplomacy under the Presidency of His Highness the Aga Khan. The ADI convenes conferences and public debates, conducts diplomatic training courses, and undertakes research projects relevant to the diplomatic, business and foreign policy communities.
