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2007 Members Weekend


U.S. Leadership and Global Affairs: The Changing Strategic Landscape

 

Friday, January 26, 2007

 

6:00 - 7:00 p.m. --

 

Registration and Welcome (Casa)

 

7:00 - 9:00 p.m. --

Keynote Address and Discussion Dinner (Casa)

 

U.S. Policy Options in Iraq

Leon Panetta, Member, Iraq Study Group

Ms. Lee Cullum, Contributing Columnist, Dallas Morning News (Moderator)

Mr. Warren Christopher, former Secretary of State (Chair)

 

Saturday, January 27, 2007

 

8:00 - 9:00 a.m. --

Breakfast and Welcome

 

9:00 – 9:15 a.m. --

Break

 

9:15 – 10:15 a.m. --

Plenary Session (Shutters)

 

Securing the Homeland

Asa Hutchinson, first Under Secretary of Homeland Security

Gregory F. Treverton, former Vice Chair of the National Intelligence Council (Moderator)

Alexander J. Cappello, former Chairman of the International Board of YPO (Chair)

10:15 - 10:30 a.m. --

Break

10:30 - 11:45 a.m. --

Breakout Discussion Sessions (Shutters)

 

What kind of World Power will China be?

William Overholt, Director, Center for Asia-Pacific Policy, RAND Corporation

Joseph Quinian, Managing Director, Bank of America Capital Management

Susan Shirk, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for China           

 

Nuclear Proliferation beyond the NPT

Mike Chinoy, former CNN Chief Asia Correspondent

Charles Curtis, President, Nuclear Threat Initiative

Neil Joeck, former Director for Counterproliferation Strategy, NSC

James Steinberg, Deputy National Security Advisor to President Clinton (Chair)

 

Shias, Sunnis, and the Muslim World

Reza Aslan, Author of No God But God

Munawar Anees, founder of Periodica Islamica

Tracy Dahlby, former International Editor of Newsweek

Jack Miles, Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur “Genius” Award Winner (Chair)

 

Putin’s Russia: Democratic Stresses but International Success?

Michael McFaul, Director, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University

Daniel Treisman, Professor of Political Science, University of California

Jane Olson, Advisory Board, Human Rights Watch Europe and Central Asia Division (Chair)

 

 

11:45 - 12:00 p.m. --

 

Break

12:00 - 1:30 p.m. --

Lunch and Keynote Address (Casa)

 

Global Energy Markets

Robert Malone, Chairman and President of BP America

Mikkal Herberg, Director, Asian Energy Security Program, National Bureau of Asian Research

John E. Bryson, Chairman and CEO of Edison International (Chair)

 

1:30 - 1:45 p.m. -- 

Break

 

1:45 - 3:00 p.m. -- 

Plenary Discussion Session (Shutters)

 

Asian Futures

Mickey Kantor, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and USTR

Kazumasa Kusaka, former Vice Minister for International Affairs, Japan

Michael Thawley, former Australian Ambassador to the United States

Harry Harding, Director of Research and Analysis, the Eurasia Group (Moderator)

Paul Evans, Vice Chair, Board of Directors, Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada

 

3:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- 

 

Break

3:15 - 4:30 p.m. -- 

Breakout Discussions (Shutters)

                                   

Nuclear Proliferation beyond the NPT

Mike Chinoy, former CNN Chief Asia Correspondent

Charles Curtis, President, Nuclear Threat Initiative

Neil Joeck, former Director for Counterproliferation Strategy, NSC

James Steinberg, Deputy National Security Advisor to President Clinton (Chair)

 

The Turbulent Middle East

Laurie Brand, former President, Middle East Studies Association

Mel Levine, former member of the House International Relations Committee

Sonny Astani, Chairman, Astani Enterprises, Inc. (Chair)

  

Latin America’s Left Turn

Javier Corrales, Political Science Professor, Amherst College

Denise Dresser, Mexican Political Analyst, Author and University Professor

Laurence Whitehead, Official Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University

Abraham F. Lowenthal, President Emeritus and Fellow, Pacific Council on International Policy (Chair)

 

What’s Next for the European Union?

Ian O. Lesser, Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States

Rockwell Schnabel, U.S. Representative to the European Union for George W. Bush

C. L. Max Nikias, Provost, University of Southern California (Chair)

 

Human Rights in an Age of Terrorism

Joanne Mariner, Director, Terrorism/Counterterrorism Program, Human Rights Watch

Thomas Saenz, Counsel to the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles and former Vice President of Litigation for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund

Allen Weiner, Christopher Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, Stanford University

Kal Raustiala, Director, Burkle Center for International Relations, UCLA (Chair)

 

4:30 - 6:00 p.m. --

 

Sunset Break

6:00 - 7:00 p.m. --

 

Cocktail Reception (Shutters)

7:00 - 9:00 p.m. --

Keynote Address and Discussion Dinner (Casa)

 

East Asia and the United States

Christopher R. Hill, U.S. Assistant Secretary of East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Mr. Warren Christopher, former Secretary of State (Chair)

 

 

 

 
 
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