Spring 2008 Event Schedule
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January 17th: Scowcroft National Security Seminar, 5:15 to 6:45PM
George Bush Presidential Library Orientation Theatre
LTC John Nagl
author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife and
Marylin Young
Professor of History,
New York University
"Perspectives on Counter-Insurgency"
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January 21st: Private Screening of Charlie Wilson's War
Aggieland Premiere Cinema 16
with an introduction by Jim Olson
Senior Lecturer, CIA-Officer-in-Residence, George Bush School
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February 7th: Scowcroft National Security Seminar, 5:15 to 6:45 PM, Allen 1110
John Parachini
Director, Intelligence Policy Center
RAND Corporation
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February 11th: Scowcroft Institute Special Event, 5:15 to 7:15 PM, Allen 1110
James Oberwetter
Former United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
"Princes, Prices, Petroleum and Reform: Subjugating terrorism in the land of the Two Holy Mosques"
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February 21st: Scowcroft National Security Seminar, 5:15 to 6:45 PM, Allen 1110
Thomas Mahnken
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
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March 5th: SIIA "Meet the Author" Series, 5:30 to 6:30 PM, Allen 1108
Michael C. Desch
Director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Professor, & Robert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence & National Security Decision Making
Bush School of Government, Texas A&M University
Author of Power and Military Effectiveness: The Fallacy of Democratic Triumphalism
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March 20th: Leadership and National Security Reform: The Next President's Agenda Conference at the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center
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March 27th: Scowcroft Institute Special Seminar, 5:15 to 6:45 PM, Allen 1110
Alan Dobson
Professor of Politics and Director, Institute for Transatlantic, European and American Studies
University of Dundee
"Arguing About the NATO Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic and Improving the Tone of the Special Relationship: Churchill and Truman at the Summit, January 1952."
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April 4th - 6th: Lone Star National Security Forum,
Garrett Creek Ranch, Paradise, TX
by invitation only
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April 8th: Special Seminar, 12:00 to 1:00, Allen 1063
Ambassador Larry Napper
Senior Lecturer and Ambassador-in-Residence
"Spring Break in Iraq: Impressions from an Iraq Governance Team Member"
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April 9th: Scowcroft National Security Seminar, 5:15 to 6:45 PM
Fredrik Logevall
Professor of History
Cornell University
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April 24th: SIIA "Meet the Author" Series, 5:30 to 6:30 PM, Allen 1107
Jason Parker
Assistant Professor of History
Texas A&M University
Author of Brother's Keeper: the United States, Race, and Empire in the British Caribbean
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May 2nd: Scowcroft Institute Special Seminar, 12:30 to 1:30 pm, Allen 110
Doug Menarchik
Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia, USAID
"The Role of Development and US National Security Strategy."
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May 5th: Lenore and Francis Humphrys International Speakers Program, 5:30 to 6:30,
George Bush Library Museum Orientation Theatre
Evan Thomas
Editor, Newsweek
"Presidential Leadership and the 2008 Campaign"