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2018-2019 Lecture Dates
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Past Speakers
Ambassador (ret.) Nicholas Burns
U.S. Relations with Europe in a Time of Crisis: Challenges for the Next President
Ali Aslan
The German Dilemma: Merkel, Refugees, and the Rise of the Far Right
John Micklethwait
Decision 2016: Brexit and the Future of the European Union
Angela Stent
US-Russia Relations: Is This Cold War 2.0?
Amb. Vitaly Churkin
The Role of Russia in the United Nations and International Relations
Masha Gessen
Russia: Is Anyone Driving the Bus?
Robert Hardman
A Thoroughly Modern Monarch: Inside the Court of Queen Elizabeth II
Robert Legvold
U.S.-Russian Relations: Where to in the Era of Obama?
Robert Amsterdam
Russia, Putin and Energy Imperialism
Talat Halman
Turkey: EU Applicant, U.S. Ally, Mideast Actor
Warren Hoge
Extending a Hand or Pointing a Finger: The Slate of the Trans-Atlantic Conversation
Robert C. McFarlane
The Russian Renaissance: How Real, How Helpful, How Long?
Sergey Lavrov
The United Nations in the Foreign Policy of Russia
Amb. Thomas Pickering
The U.S. and Russia
Amb. Jaakko Laajava
The Northern Dimension - Prospects and Policies For a New Northern Europe
Dr. John S. Micgiel
From Fantasy to Facts: East Central Europe and NATO
Robert B. Zoellick
Germany's Unification: Lessons for Policy Makers
Dimitri K. Simes
Russia: Lost But Not Found (Yet)
James F. Hoge
The Fallout from Kosovo
Steven Solnick
What's Next for Russia?
Amb. Richard C. Holbrooke
America's Role in the Post-Cold War and Why Bosnia Matters
Osborn Elliot
The News Media After Diana
Stephen F. Cohen
Yeltsin's Russia, Clinton's Yeltsin
Alexander Motyl
In Russia's Shadow: The Future of Non-Russian States and the West
John S. Micgiel
Democratic Change in East-Central Europe
Joseph La Palombara
Italy: Corruption, Reform, and Business as Usual
Fritz Stern
Helmut Kohl's Ambiguous Success