Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series
The Einaudi Center launched the Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series in Spring 2006 with a talk by Larry Diamond, professor of political science and sociology and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Since then, the series welcomed several other prominent speakers that are listed below. The Series foresees 4-6 speakers a year who have a position of prominence in international affairs and can address topical issues from a variety of perspectives.
Click on the name of a speaker below to learn more about these events. Features include summaries of the lectures, media coverage, as well as videos of the talks available through CornellCast video (www.cornell.edu/video/).
The Einaudi Center also hosts the Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellowship that brings to campus persons who have distinguished themselves as international public figures.
| Speaker | Body | Date | |
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| Eric Alterman |
Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College and "The Search for a Liberal Foreign Policy" Media Coverage |
4/22/2013 | |
| Rajiv Chandrasekaran |
Senior Correspondent and Associate Editor at the Washington Post "The Surge of Uncertainty: An Examination of America's Strategy in Afghanistan" Media Coverage |
4/2/2013 | |
| Charles Kupchan |
Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University "After Pax Americana: No One's World" Media Coverage |
2/21/2013 | |
| Timothy Snyder |
Housum Professor of History at Yale University "Thinking the Twentieth Century" Media Coverage |
10/1/2012 | |
| Duvvuri Subbarao |
Governor of the Reserve Bank of India "India in a Globalized World: Some Policy Dilemmas" |
8/28/2012 | |
| Peter Beinart |
Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundations and Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science at The City University of New York "The Crisis of Zionism" Media Coverage |
5/1/2012 | |
| Lord Skidelsky |
A.D. White Professor-at-Large and Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick "The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on the Future of International Relations" Media Coverage |
4/18/2012 | |
| Abbas Maleki |
Associate Professor of Energy Policy at Sharif University of Technology, Wilhelm Fellow at the Center for International Studies at MIT, and Deputy Foreign Minister of Iran, 1988-1997 "Iran's Foreign Policy and its Future" Media Coverage |
3/12/2012 | |
| Peter Bergen |
CNN National Security Analyst and Bestselling Author "The Awakening: How Revolutionaries, Barack Obama, and Ordinary Muslims are Remaking the Middle East" Media Coverage |
3/7/2012 | |
| Robert Keohane |
Professor of International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University "When Should the U.S. Intervene? Criteria for Military Intervention in Weak Countries" Media Coverage |
10/13/2011 | |
| G. John Ikenberry |
Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Media Coverage |
4/11/2011 | |
| Eliot Cohen |
Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at the Johns Hopkins University Media CoverageEinaudi Center News
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4/1/2011 | |
| Ian Buruma |
Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College"Enemies of Democracy" Media Coverage |
2/10/2011 | |
| Carolina Barco Isakson |
Ambassador of Colombia to the United States (2006-Sep 2010) Media Coverage |
11/15/2010 | |
| Stephen M. Walt |
Professor of International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School of Government Media CoverageSlope Media video |
9/16/2010 | |
| Vaclav Klaus |
President of the Czech Republic Media Coverage |
9/14/2010 | |
| Mahmood Mamdani |
Professor of Government at Columbia University and Director of Columbia's Institute of African Studies Media Coverage |
4/29/2010 | |
| Thomas J. Christensen |
Professor of Politics and International Affairs and Director of the China and the World Program, Princeton University Media Coverage |
4/8/2010 | |
| Steve Coll |
Staff writer at the New Yorker and President of the New American Foundation Media Coverage |
3/8/2010 | |
| HRH Prince Turki AlFaisal |
Former Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Media Coverage |
4/23/2009 | |
| Martin Palous |
Czech Ambassador to the United Nations Media CoverageClick here to view a video of this lecture |
3/11/2009 | |
| Thomas Carothers |
Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Media CoverageClick here to view a video of this lecture |
3/6/2009 | |
| Nancy Birdsall |
President, Center for Global Development Media Coverage |
11/3/2008 | |
| Stephen Krasner |
Professor of International Relations at Stanford and former Director of the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of State Media Coverage |
9/17/2008 | |
| Francis Fukuyama |
Bernard Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the International Development Program, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University Media Coverage |
4/23/2008 | |
| Anthony C. Zinni |
Retired General in the U.S. Marine Corps, former Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Central Command, Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of 1956 Professor Media Coverage |
4/15/2008 | |
| Laure Delcour |
Senior Research Fellow, Institut des Relations Internationales et Stratégiques, Paris Media Coverage |
11/12/2007 | |
| Carlo Trojan |
Former EC Ambassador to the international organizations in Geneva Media Coverage |
10/23/2007 | |
| Harry Kuiper |
Wageningen University and Chairman of the Scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms of EFSA, the European Food Safety Authority Media Coverage |
10/16/2007 | |
| Hanan Ashrawi |
Founder and Executive Committee Chair of the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH) and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council Media Coverage |
9/20/2007 | |
| David Calleo |
Dean Acheson Professor, Director of the European Studies Program, John Hopkins University Media Coverage |
4/24/2007 | |
| Shibley Telhami |
Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland Media Coverage |
4/12/2007 | |
| John Mearsheimer |
Department of Political Science, University of Chicago Media Coverage |
3/28/2007 | |
| Gillian Sorensen |
Former Assistant Secretary General of the UN; Senior Adviser at the UN Foundation Media Coverage |
2/6/2007 | |
| Lakhdar Brahimi |
Former Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General, UN Under-Secretary-General Media CoverageClick here to view a video of this lecture |
11/21/2006 | |
| Larry Diamond |
Professor of political science and sociology and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University Media Coverage |
4/11/2006 |
