Past FPRI Events (2006)

Thursday, December 7, 2006

FPRI in the Suburbs

Homeland Security: What the Public and Private Sectors Must Do

Cosponsored by the World Affairs Council of Greater Valley Forge

Stephen Gale
Co-Chairman, FPRI Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security

Monday, December 4, 2006

Five Years After 9/11: What Needs To Be Done?

Vice Admiral (Ret.) Lowell (Jake) E. Jacoby

A former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Admiral Jacoby is Executive Vice President for Strategic Intelligence Opportunities at CACI. He possesses 37 years of experience in the military and intelligence fields. His leadership in defense intelligence transformation and his key role in national intelligence reform were recognized by the award of his third Defense Distinguished Service Medal and the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal.

This luncheon address is the public portion of a 2-day private symposium on counterterrorism and homeland security sponsored by FPRI’s Center on Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Homeland Security. The Center’s work is supported by grants from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development and the Department of Education.

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

The 2006 Robert Strausz-Hup Lecture

Benjamin Franklin and the Traditions of American Diplomacy

Harvey Sicherman
President, FPRI

The Annual Robert Strausz-Hupé Lecture was established in honor of the late Ambassador Robert Strausz-Hupé, founder of FPRI.

As a student of geopolitics and a former aide to three U.S. secretaries of state, Harvey Sicherman will assess the role of Benjamin Franklin in the larger context of the history of American diplomacy, uncover Franklin’s views of world politics, and reveal the lessons for American foreign policy today.

Dr. Sicherman served as Special Assistant to Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and was a member of the Policy Planning Staff of Secretary of State James A. Baker, III. He was also a consultant to Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman, Jr. and Secretary of State George Shultz. His books include America The Vulnerable: Our Military Problems and How to Fix Them, co-edited with John F. Lehman (FPRI, 2002) and Palestinian Autonomy, Self-Government, and Peace (Westview, 1993). He appears regularly on national and local news media, including the Lehrer NewsHour. Dr. Sicherman received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, where he has served as an adjunct lecturer.

Monday, October 30, 2006

BookTalk

Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror

Mary Habeck
Associate Professor of Strategic Studies
Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

On Knowing the Enemy:
“This important book provides the first clear analysis of the radical ideology propelling the terrorism of the Middle East. Habeck’s explanation of Jihadism is set forth in a posied, authoritative voice—a model for a study of this kind.” — Charles Hill, Distinguished Fellow, International Security Studies, Yale University

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Study Group on America and the West
Chaired by James Kurth

Liberalism and the Challenge of Islam: The Case of the Netherlands

Bart Jan Spruyt
President, Edmund Burke Foundation

Saturday, October 21, 2006

Understanding China: A History Institute for Teachers

Perspective on China and the World

Featuring

Jacques deLisle
Director, Asia Program, FPRI
Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania

June Teufel Dreyer
Senior Fellow, FPRI
Professor of Political Science, University of Miami at Coral Gables

Moderator: Walter A. McDougall
Co-Chair, FPRI History Institute for Teachers
Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations, University of Pennsylvania

This is the public portion of a weekend-long conference for teachers on “Understanding China,” sponsored by the Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education, a project of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and by the Clausen Center for World Business, Carthage College, and the School of Professional Studies, Carthage College.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

FPRI in Princeton:

Network Terror: Terrorism, Disruption and the Need for Continuity Planning

Lawrence Husick
Senior Fellow, FPRI Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security

Cosponsored by the Princeton Committee on Foreign Relations

Lawrence A. Husick, Esq., will present the Institute’s research into one “soft underbelly” in national security — the unprotected systems and data acquisition (SCADA) networks that run most aspects of the US economy and our daily lives. Drawing on a wealth of fascinating historical examples, Mr. Husick will describe these important but unseen systems, and why they may represent one of the greatest threats to our nation from both terrorists and enemy nation-states. He will present FPRI's solutions, as well as his own efforts to bring this threat to the attention of those responsible for homeland security.

Monday, October 9, 2006

Homeland Security: an Insider’s Perspective

Jack Tomarchio
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis

A former senior fellow of FPRI, Jack Tomarchio is now responsible for helping to build the intelligence capabilities of the Department of Homeland Security, and for managing intelligence that could be useful in defense against terrorist threats. He serves as primary liaison to state and local governments, Congress, CIA, FBI, and major companies in the private sector. He is also a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, following active duty in the Middle East and Europe.

Wednesday, October 4, 2006

Free Trade and East Asia: A Roundtable Discussion

Sponsored by the Foreign Policy Research Institute

FPRI, 1528 Walnut Street, Suite 610, Phila.

Five years after the People's Republic of China and Taiwan entered the World Trade Organization, proposals and plans for Free Trade Areas have proliferated in the region. China has pressed a ten-year time-table for the creation of an ASEAN-China Free Trade Area. Taiwan has pursued a Free Trade Agreement with the United States. Japan has undertaken more modest free trade offers that seek to parallel or counter China’s efforts. Some have floated the unlikely idea of a Cross-Strait Free Trade Area.

Such free trade arrangements can reduce significantly barriers to trade that have survived the increasingly liberal WTO-centered order, and they are often offered and defended in those terms. Nonetheless, the recent proposed FTAs have substantial political implications and perhaps primarily political motivations — potentially increasing China’s regional clout, reducing the U.S.’s regional role, providing another medium for friction or rivalry between China and Japan, further squeezing Taiwan’s international space and economic prospects or binding Taiwan more tightly to the U.S. or to the PRC.

Short papers will be presented by leading experts, as described below.

China as a Trading Partner with Asia and the US

Gregory Chow, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Princeton University

Gregory Chow has served as an advisor on econmic reform to prime ministers and economic commissions in China and Taiwan. He served as Chairman of the American Economic Association's Committee on Exchanges in Economics with the People’s Republic of China from 1981 to 1994 and as Co-chairman of the U.S. Committee on Economics Education and Research in China with support from the Ford Foundation from 1985 to 1994. He was responsible for a three-year program (1984-1986) to teach modern economics in China under the sponsorship of the Chinese State Education Commission (formerly Ministry of Education). His book, The Chinese Economy (Harper and Row, 1985) has been translated into Chinese (Nankai University Press, 1985). His books include: China’s Economic Transformation (Blackwell Publishers, 2002) and Knowing China (World Scientific, 2004).

Japan’s Pursuit of FTAs in the Region

Edward Lincoln, Center for Japan-US Business and Economic Studies, New York University

Professor Lincoln is the director of the Center for Japan-U.S. Business and Economic Studies and Professor of Economics at New York University Stern School of Business. He is the author of eight books and monographs, including East Asian Economic Regionalism (Council on Foreign Relations and Brookings Institution, 2004), Arthritic Japan: The Slow Pace of Economic Reform (Brookings, 2001), and Troubled Times: U.S.-Japan Economic Relations in the 1990s (Brookings, 1998). An earlier book, Japan Facing Economic Maturity (Brookings, 1988) received the Masayoshi Ohira Award for outstanding books on the Asia-Pacific region. Before joining NYU, Professor Lincoln was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. In the mid-1990s, he served as Special Economic Advisor to Ambassador Walter Mondale at the American Embassy in Tokyo. He received his PhD in Economics from Yale.

China-ASEAN FTA’s: Aims and Consequences

Alice Ba, Assistant Professor, Political Science & International Relations, University of Delaware

Dr. Ba has been a visiting researcher at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta, Indonesia. She received her Ph.D., Government & Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. She has published extensively on China-ASEAN relations in such journals as Asian Survey, Pacific Review, International Journal, and American-Asian Review.

The Prospects for a US-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement

Terry Cooke, Senior Fellow, FPRI, and Managing Director of GC3 Strategy, Inc.

Dr. Cooke is the founder and Managing Director of GC3 Strategy, Inc., an international consultancy that specializes in linking advanced technologies and capital between Asia and the U.S. He is also an advisor at the Lauder Institute at Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania, a Senior Fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute and a Senior Fellow in the Department of Management at the Wharton School. In addition, he is a Senior Consultant for Business Development in the Greater China Region for Targa Therapeutics Corp. Prior to founding GC3 Strategy and assuming his current academic positions, he was a Senior Officer in the U.S. Foreign Service, where he enjoyed a 15-year career, including a stint as Senior commercial Officer at the American Institute in Taiwan. Dr. Cooke received a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley.

The Legal Dimension of US-Taiwan-China Issues

Jacques deLisle, Director, FPRI Asia Program, and Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania

Prof. deLisle is Director of FPRI’s Asia Program and Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania. He writes on contemporary Chinese law, China's approach to international legal issues, and Chinese politics and foreign policy. He has served frequently as an expert witness on issues of P.R.C. law and government policies. He is also a consultant, lecturer and advisor to foreign-assisted legal reform, development and education programs, primarily in China, including the Temple University-Tsinghua University Masters of Law Program.

A US-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement: the Perspective from Taipei

Albert Liu, Cross-Strait Interflow Prospect Foundation

Dr. Liu is a senior fellow with the Cross-Strait Interflow Prospect Foundation. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of East Asian Studies, national Chengchi Unviersity.

Prospects for a US-Republic of Korea Free Trade Agreement

Roy U.T. Kim, Professor of International Political Economy, Drexel University, and Senior Fellow, FPRI

An advisor to the Korean International Trade Association and to Congressman Curt Weldon on free trade issues in East Asia, Dr. Kim has published articles in a variety of international academic journals, including The Pacific Review (London), Washington Quarterly, Problemi Dal'ego Vostoka (Moscow), and Wolgan Chosun (Seoul), and in newspapers around the world, including Christian Science Monitor, Izvestsia (Moscow), Yomiuri Shinbum (Tokyo), Dong-A Ilbo (Seoul), and Chosun Ilbo (Seoul).

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

11th Annual Templeton Lecture on Religion and World Affairs

S. Abdallah Schleifer
Director, Washington Bureau, Al Arabiya
Senior Fellow, FPRI

Abdallah Schleifer, Director at the Washington News Bureau of Al-Arabiya, recently retired as Distinguished Lecturer in Mass Communications at the American University in Cairo, where he was also Director of the Adham Center for Television Journalism. He is a veteran journalist who covered the Middle East for American and Arab media for more than 20 years, serving as NBC News radio correspondent and TV producer/reporter from 1970 to 1983 and as NBC News Cairo Bureau Chief from 1974 to 1983. He is a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University. He has been a guest on CNN, PBS, BBC, and other European as well as Japanese television news programs.

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

The Global Consequences of the Declaration of Independence

David Armitage
Harvard University

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Post-Conflict Stability and Reconstruction: The Lessons of Iraq

Featuring Andrew Garfield and Frank G. Hoffman Senior Fellows, Foreign Policy Research Institute

In the wake of 9/11, President George W. Bush announced that henceforth those states that harbored or fostered terrorism would be held as accountable as the terrorists. The translation of the war on terrorism from groups to state meant either to change a government's behavior, or, failing that, to change the government itself. Military force might overthrow a regime such as the Taliban or Saddam’s Iraq but what would be put in its place? And how could the United States and its allies assure the success of the new political order?

In 2005, the Foreign Policy Research Institute initiated a pair of studies that would analyze the lessons learned thus far from what the military calls Phase IV, or stabilization and reconstruction following the end of major conflict. Andrew Garfield led a British and American research team that interviewed British officers and officials for their perspectives on the efforts of their US Coalition partner in Iraq. Frank G. Hoffman surveyed U.S. Marine efforts in Iraq.

The newly completed studies have been designed to aid US military and civilian planners to refine a set of best practices, including a set of principles that can become a consensus, as we confront a long and difficult struggle. Executive summaries have been circulated as FPRI E-Notes:

• Succeeding in Phase IV: British Perspectives on the U.S. Effort To Stabilize and Reconstruct Iraq, Andrew Garfield, 9/8/2006
• Changing Tires on the Fly: The Marines and Postconflict Stability Ops, Frank G. Hoffman, 9/10/2006

The full reports will be distributed at the briefing and will be made available online here at www.fpri.org.

Andrew Garfield

A former European Director of the Terrorism Research Center, Deputy Director of International Policy Institute (IPI) at King’s College London, and Senior Director of Influence and Insight for the Lincoln Group, Mr. Garfield is now a Senior Fellow at FPRI. Mr. Garfield is also a former senior British military, then civilian intelligence officer and former senior policy advisor at the UK Ministry of Defense. While serving in the UK Defense Intelligence Staff he led two major studies that reviewed key aspects of that organization’s approach to post-Cold War intelligence analysis and recommended radical changes to policy and organization that were subsequently implemented in full.

Frank G. Hoffman

A retired Marine infantry officer and a graduate of the Wharton School of Business, George Mason University, and the US Naval War College, Mr. Hoffman served as an analyst in the Pentagon and on the Armed Forces’ 1994–95 Roles and Missions Commission and as a staff member on the Commission on National Security (Hart-Rudman Commission). He is a Senior Fellow of FPRI and a Research Fellow at the Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities (CETO) in Quantico, VA.

Monday, September 18, 2006

A Private Dinner and Briefing with

Robert D. Kaplan

A long-time associate of FPRI, Robert D. Kaplan is a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and the author of 10 books on travel and foreign affairs, which have been translated into multiple languages. According to press reports, more than one president of the United States has read more than one of Bob Kaplan’s books. These books include Balkan Ghosts, Eastward to Tartary, Soldiers of God, Warrior Politics, and The Ends of Earth. His latest book is Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground, now out in paperback. Kaplan is Visiting Professor of Strategy at the US Naval Academy.

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Trilateral Conference

Turkish, Israeli, and US Perspectives on Regional Security

Featuring Scholars from

Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies (Turkey)

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (Israel)

Foreign Policy Research Institute (USA)

Thursday, September 14, 2006

FPRI in the Suburbs
Cosponsored by the World Affairs Council of Greater Valley Forge

Santa Claus, The Great Pumpkin, Effective Airline Security, and Other Myths We Tell Our Children

Lawrence A. Husick
Senior Fellow, FPRI
Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security

After the disruption of Islamist plans to bring down commercial aircraft flying from Great Britain to the United States in August, and imposition of strict new security rules prohibiting hand luggage, liquids, gels, and other materials, it appears that airline safety and security have again responded to threats and that we are safer than before. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mr. Husick will discuss the hows and whys of our failure to implement effective security and disaster planning, not only for air travel, but for the rest of our nation as well.

Monday, September 11, 2006 Terrorism SitRep

Situation Reports on the War on Terrorism

9/11 Five Years Later

Stephen Gale and Michael Radu
Co-Chairs, FPRI Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security

Thursday, September 7, 2006

Asia Study Group

North Koreas Nuclear Weapons

Kongdan Oh, Institute for Defense Analyses
Ralph Hassig, consultant

WACGVF Lecture Series

Three-Part Series with the
World Affairs Council of Greater Valley Forge

Thursday, March 16:
James Kurth on The War Against Islamist Terrorism

James Kurth is the Editor of Orbis, FPRI's journal of world affairs; Chair of FPRI's Interuniversity Study Group on America and the West; and the Claude Smith Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College, where he teaches defense policy, foreign policy, and international politics. He has been a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ), visiting professor of political science at the University of California at San Diego, and visiting professor of strategy at the US Naval War College. He is the author of over 100 professional articles and editor of two professional volumes in the fields of defense and foreign policy.

Friday, April 7
Jan Ting on Law, Immigration, and National Security

Jan Ting is Senior Fellow of FPRI and Professor of Law at Temple University. He served as Assistant Commissioner at the Immigration & Naturalization Service of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1990 to 1992. He appears frequently in the national broadcast and print media, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, National Public Radio, PBS Newshour and ABC Nightline.

Friday, May 5
Jacques deLisle on What’s Ahead for China?

Jacques deLisle is Director of FPRI's Asia Program and Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania. He writes on contemporary Chinese law, China's approach to international legal issues, and Chinese politics and foreign policy. He has served frequently as an expert witness on issues of P.R.C. law and government policies. He is also a consultant, lecturer and advisor to foreign-assisted legal reform, development and education programs, primarily in China, including the Temple University-Tsinghua University Masters of Law Program.