Birmingham Committee on Foreign
Relations
2002 - 2010 Program Years
January 2010
John Reppert, Brigadier General (retired)
“The Arc of Stability: Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan”
December 2009
Dr. Lutz Hermann Görgens, German Consul General
“The Berlin Wall: The Rise/The Fall and the Aftermath”
November
2009
Michael Cutler
Amnesty and the Nexus between Immigration and National Security
October
2009
Dr. Robert H. Donaldson
The US, Russia, and NATO: Why ‘Reset’ is not Enough
September
2009
Gustavo Coronel
Venezuela: From an Authoritarian
Petrostate to Narcostate
April 2009
Martin Rickerd OBE MVO
The Challenges and Opportunities
for the International Economy
March 2009
Dr. Roy Stafford
The Hopes for the Obama Foreign Policy
from a European Perspective
February 2009
Ambassador Robin Raphel
"Women and Leadership in the
Evolving 21st Century World”
January 2009
James Goldgeier
"Liberal Legacies and Conservative
Conundrums: American Foreign Policy
in the Next Administration"
November 2008
Herman “Hank” J. Cohen
Africa: Is There a Light at the End of the Tunnel?
October 2008
Ambassador Alphonse F. La Porta
The Challenges of Stability in
Southeast Asia: Radical Islam and
National Integrity
September 2008
Dr. Thomas Bagger
United Europe –
A Legacy of U.S. Foreign Policy?
March 2008
Adam Ward
The Strategic Implications of China's Rise
February 2008
Robert "Dobie" Langenkamp
Inconvenient Truths Redax: Questions Not Being Answered by our
Presidential Candidates
January 2008
Mr. Geoffrey Nyarota
How the International Community Contributed to the Failure
of Zimbabwe
December 2007
Professor Randall Law
Lessons from the History of Terrorism
September 2007
Professor Alan Lee Williams
Transatlantic Convergence or Divergence: NATO-EU-UK
June 2007
Christopher N. Smith, Attorney at Law and Honorary Consul of the
Kingdom of Denmark
"Export Now!"
May 2007
Ms. Nidra Poller, Paris Editor of Pajamas Media and novelist
"French Presidential Elections: All is Not Won!"
April 2007
The Hon. William J. Cabaniss, Jr., Former U.S. Ambassador to the
Czech Republic
"My Experience as Ambassador to the Czech Republic"
March 2007
Fred Charles Ikle, Former Undersecretary of Defense
"Annihilation from Within: The Ultimate Threat to Nations"
February 2007
Mr. Jeremy Martin, Director, Energy Program, Institute of the
Americas
Latin America
January 2007
Mr. Scott Bates
Vice-President and Sr. Fellow
for National Security Policy in Washington, D.C.
New Approaches to Defending the U.S. From Terrorist Attack
December 2006
Martin Rickerd,
UK Consul General
Tackling the Big Issues - Some Priorities for British Global Policy
November 2006
Mr. Barry C. Lynn, Sr.
Fellow, the New America Foundation
"End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global
Corporation"
October, 2006
"The American Interest" (quarterly publication) comes
to Birmingham
to be announced
September 2006
Mr. Steven C. Clemons
Sr. Fellow and Director, American Strategy Program,
The new America Foundation
"Pulling America's Head Out of the Sand:
Thoughts on Transforming Crisis and Convulsion into Stability
in the Middle East
June 2006
Mr. Edward G. Abington
Senior Associate, Bannerman & Associates, Inc.
"After the Israeli and Palestinian Elections: What Chance
for Peace?"
May 2006
Dr. Jay C. Davis
Non-Proliferation: Iran and North Korea
April 2006
Mr. John O'Sullivan
Editor-in-Chief, United Press International
Europe, America and the Permanent Crisis
March 2006
Mark Brzezinski
Member, Council on Foreign Relations Task Force
U.S. Policy Towards Russia - Task Force Report
February 2006
Gordon G. Chang
Author and Lecturer
North Korea and China - A Take on the World
January 2006
Mr. John O'Sullivan
Editor-in-Chief, United Press International
Europe, America and the Permanent Crisis
December 2005
Michael J. Dziedzic
Retired USAF Colonel
Rebuilding Societies in Post-War Settings
November 2005
Leslie S. Lebl
Former Minister-Counselor for Political Affairs, U.S. Mission
to the European Union in Brussels
The U.S., the European Union and the Greater Middle East
October 2005
Alan Tonelson
Research Fellow at the U.S. Business and Industry Council Educational
Foundation
"Globalization and U.S. Trade Issues."
September 2005
Valerie J. McNevin, Esq.
E-Finance, E-Security Specialist in the Financial Sector Operations
and Division Vice-President at the World Bank
Rethinking Intelligence: How the New Methods of Financing Terrorism
are Changing and Challenging Us."
June 2005
Major General Jim Darden (USA-Ret)
"Europe and Africa"
May 2005
Alan D. Romberg
Former Principal Deputy Director of Policy Planning Staff, Department
of State
"China-Taiwan and U.S. Relations"
April 2005
Major General Carl H. Freeman (USA-Ret)
Former Chairman, Inter-American Defense Board and
President, Inter-American Defense College
"The Challenges of Security Cooperation in the Americas Post
9-11"
March 2005
Christopher Kojm
Former Deputy Executive Director of the 911 Commission
"Preparedness in the Face of Terrorist Threats"
February 2005
Ambassador Edward Masters
Co-Chairman of
The United States-Indonesia Society
"Can Indonesia's
Infant Democracy Survive the Tsunami?"
January 2005
Ambassador William J. Cabaniss
U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic
"Central
Europe-Growth and Democracy"
December 2004
Mr. John Clark
Senior Research Fellow
Sagamore Institute for Policy Research
"China and
U.S. Policy"
November 2004
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld
Director of the New York based
American Center for Democracy
"Financing
Terrorism"
October 2004
Ambassador Phillip C.
Wilcox, Jr.
President
Foundation for Middle East Peace
"Israel
and Palestine: Is Peace Possible?"
September 2004
E. Wayne Merry
Senior Associate
American Foreign Policy Council
"America and Europe: Breaking the Cold War Alliance
to Build a New Partnership"
May 2004
Mr. Robert Pickus
World Without War Council
"The Hispanic Challenge"
April 2004
Andrew Apostolou
Director of Research, The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
"U.S. Public Debate on Foreign Policy, Its Peculiar Character
and its
Detachment from Policymaking"
March 2004
Mr. Ken Jensen
Executive Director of the American Committees on Foreign Relations
Washington, D.C.
"Afghanistan and Iraq in the Light of Previous Interventions"
February 2004
Dr. Richard Millett
Senior Advisor of the Latin America for Political Risk Service
January 2004
"U.S. Neocons and Foreign Policy"
Mr. Jonathan Clarke
President of the American Journalism Federation
Decemeber 2003
"Lessons From Baghdad"
Robert R. Reilly
Director of the Voice of America
November 2003
"North Korea - After the Bomb"
Mr. Joseph P. Manguno, Jr.
Senior News Editor for CNN International
October 2003
"Rational and Humane Solutions to
the Population Problem"
Werner Fornos, President
Population Institute, a Washington, D.C.
Based Non-Profit Public Interest Group
September 2003
"Prospect for Latin America's Economies"
Isaac Cohen
President and CEO of Inverway, LLC
Washington, D.C.
May 2003
"The U.S. and Pakistan"
Ambassador Husain Haqqani
Visiting Scholar
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Washington, D.C.
April 2003
"Examining Our Policies in the Middle East"
Ambassador Edward L. Peck
Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq
Chevy Chase, Maryland
