The 2008 Durfee Lecture Series
7:00 PM, Brooks Memorial Library
Topic: The Three Faces of Chinese Power
David M. Lampton is the Dean of Faculty, George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies, and Director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He was the former president of the National Committee on United States-China Relations; past director of China Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and The Nixon Center; former associate professor of political science at Ohio State University; honorary doctorate, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Ph.D., political science, Stanford University.
He has many books and other publications. His latest book is The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money and Minds (2008). Coffee and refreshments at 6:00 in the Library's Meeting Room, 2nd floor.
7:30 PM, School for International Training
Topic: The Unintended Consequences of the Iraq War: Challenges for the Next President.
Peter Galbraith has been a consultant for corporations in the
areas of strategic communications and marketing strategy. He has
been in Iraq many times over the last twenty-one years during historic
turning points for the country: the Iran-Iraq War, the Kurdish genocide,
the 1991 uprising, the immediate aftermath of the 2003 war, and the writing
of Iraq's constitutions. He draws on his nearly two decades of involvement
in Iraq policy working for the U.S. government to appraise what has occurred
and what will happen. He is author of The End of Iraq (2006) and Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened America's Enemies (September 2008.)
