Recognize my great friend and colleague, the best president of the best World Affairs council in the United States. I know we have a lot of World Affairs Council Members here. Gym falk, very, very grateful to jim for his help in this. As ive said, weve got the players, including stephen hadley, who will be speaking tonight, a truly great Public Servant who is the director of the nsc under bush, and i say Public Servant in days when that meant something and it really mattered. We respected people who hold these high positions. Were going to look forward to hearing from him tonight. And i think without even leaving the stage, im going to get the first panel under way so we can start this. As a college professor, i would say get your notepads out. There are going to be questions, discussion, so were going to start with our first panel, and i want to invite the panelists to come up to the stage. Tim sayle from the university of toronto is going to chair the panel and lead the discussion. H
I know we have a lot of World Affairs Council Members here. Jim faulk, very hateful for this help. We have players, including stephen hadley, who will be speaking tonight. A truly great Public Servant which the director of the nsc under bush, i say Public Servant in days when that meant something and it really mattered. We respected people who hold these types of positions. We look forward to hearing from him tonight. And i think without even leaving the stage, i will get the first panel underway so that we can start this. If i was a college professor, i would say, get your notepads out. We will start with our first panel, and i want to invite the panelists to come up to the stage. Tim sale from the university of toronto is going to chair the panel and lead the discussion. He works on nato, who has been in the news quite a bit. Meghan osullivan, the kirkpatrick professor at the Kennedy School at harvard, an expert on north america, among other things, and one of the officials of the tr
Thank you, jeff. Im honored to moderate this panel with four dear friends and valued colleagues. There is a concern afoot that as a moderator i might let it go to my head and try to interject myself too much in the discussion. So i will sit down there while they make their presentations and will come back up here during the actual q a time. You have the detailed bios of the speakers in your program so i will not repeat those first is professor richard emerman. His bio says he recent retired from temple university. I know richard well. Richard does not know the meaning of the word retirement. We are Close Friends and collaborators and the state Department Historical Advisory Council and he continues to be active as a scholar and mentor and is an active citizen in the guild of National Security scholars and historians. Next to him is a professor mel leffler of the university of virginia. Again, another titan in the field of diplomatic history. I started reading his books as an undergrad
Days when that meant something and it really mattered. We respected people who hold these types of positions. We look forward to hearing from him tonight. Leavingink without even the stage, i will get the first panel underway so that we can start this. Professor, illege would say, get your notepads out. We will start with our first invite thei want to panelists to come up to the stage. Tim sale from the university of to chair theing panel and lead the discussion. , who has beento in the news quite a bit. Meghan osullivan, the kirkpatrick professor at the Kennedy School at harvard, an expert on north america, among other things, and one of the officials of the trilateral commission. Peter feaver, welcome back to the hilltop. He is a professor at duke and director of the grant staff Strategy Program and former white house official in the Bush Administration. If you would not mind joining me and giving a big round of welcome for our panelists. Tim . [applause] tim thank you. It is a pleas
I would be remiss if i did not recognize my great friend, colleague, the best president of the best World Affairs council in the United States. I know we have a lot of World Affairs Council Members here. Jim faulk, very grateful to jim for this help. We have players, including stephen hadley, who will be speaking tonight. A truly great Public Servant who was the director of the nsc under bush, and i say Public Servant in days when that meant something and it really mattered. And we respected people who hold these high positions. We look forward to hearing from him tonight. And i think now without even leaving the stage, i will get the first panel underway so that we can start this. As a college professor, i would say, get your notepads out. There will be questions, discussion. We are going to start with our first panel, and i want to invite the panelists to come up to the stage. Tim sale from the university of toronto, who was here as a postdoc, he is going to chair the panel and lead