Past Programs
2013 – 2014
Barbara Slavin, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
“Iran Gets a New President, But Will it Make a Difference?”
Janet Bogue, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
“Diplo-Mapping: The Maps Diplomats Draw and their Consequences”
John Zogby, founder of the Zogby Poll
“First Globals: Understanding, Managing and Unleashing our Millennial Generation”
Robert H. Donaldson, Trustees Professor Emeritus of Political Science University of Tulsa
“Putin’s Return: What Does it Mean for Russia–and for the U.S.?”
David Shambaugh, Professor of Political Science and Internationa Affairs, George Washington University
“China Goes Global: The Partial Power”
Andrea Mazzarino, Human Rights Watch
“Disability Rights Activism in Russia: A Case Study of Government-Civil Society Relations”
Diana Villiers Negroponte, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
“How Are Brazil and Mexico Confronting the Challenges of Globalization?”
Benjamin Peters, Department of Communication, University of Tulsa
R. Dobie Langenkamp, Consultant, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy
Robert H. Donaldson, Professor Emeritus, University of Tulsa
“Crisis in Ukraine”
Charlotte (“Charlie”) Ponticelli, ACFR Program Director
“The Status of Women’s Rights in Afghanistan”
James Clad, Cambridge Energy Research Associates
“The World Politics of a Changing Energy Landscape”
2012 – 2013
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Senior Correspondent, Washington Post
“The War within the War for Afghanistan”
Dr. Stanley W. Black, University of North Carolina
“The Eurozone Crisis”
Dr. Elizabeth Overton Colton, Program Director, ACFR
“Foreign Policy Challenges for the New Administration”
Dr. Charles E. Ziegler, University of Louisville
“The New ‘Great Game:’ Central Asia in Geopolitics Today”
Dr. Rick Roberts, U.S. Department of State (retired)
“The Iraq Reconstruction Experience and Implications for the Future of American Diplomacy”
Nicholas Kralev, Author of “America’s Other Army, Former Financial Times and Washington Times Correspondent
“The U.S. Foreign Service: Behind the Scenes of American Diplomacy”
Richard W. Soudriette, President, Center for Diplomacy and Democracy
“The Importance of Democracy Promotion as a Pillar of U.S. Foreign Policy”
Husain Haqqani, Former Pakistani Ambassador
“Afghanistan and Pakistan after the U.S. Withdrawal”
Ambassador Molly Williamson, U.S. Department of State (retired)
“The Geopolitics of Oil”
Dr. Paula Newberg, University of Texas-Austin
“Pakistan’s Elections: What Happens Now?”
2011 – 2012
Dr. Robert P. Haffa, Jr., Haffa Defense Consulting, LLC
“American Defense: Where We Need to Spend More, Where We Need to Spend Less”
Mickey Edwards, Former Member of Congress from Oklahoma, Vice President, Aspen Institute
“What Ever Happened to Bipartisanship in Foreign Policy?”
Peter F. Allgeier, Former Ambassador to the WTO and Deputy U.S. Trade Representative
“How Can the U.S. Regain Competitiveness in Foreign Trade?”
Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller
“After New START: What’s Next in Arms Control with Russia?”
Dr. Dan E. Caldwell, Pepperdine University
“Vortex of Conflict: U.S. Policy in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq”
Tamim Khallaf, Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“Egypt and the Arab Spring: Prospects, Challenges, and the Future of the Middle East”
Lt. Gen. Frank G. Klotz (USAF, retired), Council on Foreign Relations
“After Iraq and Afghanistan: America’s New Defense Strategy…and Budget”
Col. T.X. Hammes (USMC, retired)
“Defense in Times of Austerity”
Dr. Richard Millett
“Mexico’s Elections and the War on Drugs: What Does the Future Hold?”
Dr. Robert H. Donaldson
“Putin’s Return: What Does it Mean for Russia and for the U.S.?”
2010 – 2011
Norman J. Szydlowski SemGroup Corporation President and Chief Executive Officer
“The Future of Iraqi Oil”
Former U.S. Ambassador Edwin G. Corr
“Promoting and Protecting U.S. Interests in our Changing and Challenging Hemisphere”
Dr. Bernard D. Cole (Captain, USN, retired), National War College
“China’s Strategic Priorities”
Matthew Hoh, Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy Director, Afghanistan Study Group
“Re-Thinking the U.S. War in Afghanistan”
Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico James R. Jones
“The Mexican Drug Trade: Where is it Leading Mexico and the U.S.?”
Steven C. Clemons, Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
“American Foreign Policy Needs Repair: Can the US Rebalance and Upgrade its Military and Diplomatic Skills?”
Jacqueline H. Wilson, Senior Program Officer, Academy for Conflict Management and Peacebuilding U.S. Institute for Peace
“Peacebuilding in Sudan”
Dr. Bruce E. Bechtol, Jr., Angelo State University
“Not Going Away: The Persistent Challenge of North Korea”
Hon. John F Maisto, Retired U.S. Ambassador Chairman of the Board of Advisors, ACFR
“Transitions to Democracy and U.S. Policy–Never Easy!”
Hon. Ambassador Carey Cavanaugh, Director, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce University of Kentucky
“Addressing Europe’s ‘Frozen’ and ‘Not-so-Frozen’ Conflicts”
2009 – 2010
German Ambassador Klaus Scharioth
“Transatlantic Relations”
Robert H. Donaldson, Professor of Political Science, University of Tulsa
“The U.S., Russia, and Regional Security: Why ‘Reset’ is Not Enough”
Dr. Joshua Muravchik, Foreign Policy Institute Fellow
“The Next Founders: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East”
Dr. Martin Edwin (“Mick”) Andersen, National Defense University
“Is the State Department Lip-syncing Gen. Custer? Indigenous Rights, the Latin Left and the Slaughter of U.S. Diplomacy”
The Honorable Francis Rooney, former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican
“U.S. Relations with the Vatican”
Dr. Jean A. Garrison, University of Wyoming
“China’s Quest for Energy Security–Implications for American Foreign Policy”
Dr. Gale Mattox, U.S. Naval Academy
“NATO: In Search of a Strategic Concept”
Dr. Andrew Bacevich, Boston University
“The Limits of Power: The U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan”
Chris Farrell, Marketplace Money
“The Globalization of Financial Policy-Making: Implications and Choices for the USA”
Dr. Mike Morris, Oklahoma State University
“The New South Africa: An Entrepreneurial View from the Townships”
Dr. Wayne S. Smith, Senior Fellow and Director of the Cuba Program Center for International Policy
“The Full Moon and U.S. Policy toward Cuba”
2008 – 2009
Robert H. Donaldson, University of Tulsa
“Russia, Georgia, and the United States: New ‘Cold War’ Brewing?”
Melvin A. Goodman, retired CIA analyst
“Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA”
Peter Gubser, former President, American Near East Refugee Aid
“American Interests in the Middle East”
Erika B. Schlager, U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
“Inter-Ethnic Relations: Possession is 9/10ths of the Law”
Edwin Truman, Peterson Institute
“Reform and Role of the International Monetary Fund in the Current Financial Crisis”
Peter W. Singer, Brookings Institution
“Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century”
Richard W. Murphy, retired Ambassador
“The U.S. and the Palestinian Crisis: How Did We Get Here and Where are We Going?”
Richard Millett, University of Missouri-St. Louis
“Is the Mexican Drug Crime Wave the Wave of the Future”
Adam Garfinkle, Editor, The American Interest
“How to Stop Worrying about Terrorism”
Barbara Slavin, Washington Times
“The Iranian Elections and their Meaning for the U.S.”
2007 – 2008
Robert H. Donaldson, University of Tulsa
“Putin’s Russia: Is It Again Our Adversary?”
Gustavo Coronel, Associate Editor, PetroleumWorld.com
“Venezuela: Strategies of an Authoritarian Petrostate”
Paula Newberg, former U.N. Special Adviser on Afghanistan
“Pakistan’s Political Crises: What’s Ahead?”
Walter Russell Mead, Council on Foreign Relations
“God and Gold: American Power in Perspective”
Jurek Martin, Financial Times
“America and Europe: Plus ça change…”
Joel Sokolsky, Royal Military College of Canada
“Canadian-American Security Relations: The Military Dimension”
Douglas Brooks, International Peace Operations Association
“Inept or Invaluable: Private Military Contractors from Baghdad to Bunia”
Jacqueline Weaver, University of Houston Law Center
“The Future of the Traditional Petroleum-Based Economy”
John Ritchie, U.S. Department of State
“U.S.-Mexican Relationship: A Difficult Marriage, but Divorce is Impossible”
P.R. Chari, Government of India (retired)
“India’s Security Problems: Ten Years after the Nuclear Test”
2006 – 2007
Najmeh Bozorgmehr, Iranian journalist at Brookings Institution
“What Does Iran Want?”
Lee Cullum, Columnist, Dallas Morning News
“American Power and the Rise of China”
Dr. Leon Sigal, Social Science Research Council
“North Korea: How Did We Get Here and What’s Next?”
Rachel Stohl, Center for Defense Information
“Weapons of Individual Destruction: Understanding the Small Arms Trade”
Tamar Jacoby, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
“Immigration Reform: Policy and Politics”
Polly Nayak, formerly with Central Intelligence Agency
“U.S.-India Relations: Past Bumps and Future Prospects”
Stephen Flynn, Council on Foreign Relations
“The Edge of Disaster: What’s Needed for Homeland Security?”
Dr. Robert E. Hunter, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO
“Strategic Partners: The U.S., NATO, and the EU”
Dobie Langenkamp, former Director, NELPI, University of Tulsa
“Iraq’s War without End: The Role of Oil”
2005 – 2006
Dr. Jay C. Davis, Strategic & Scientific Consultant, ANSER
“Nuclear Nonproliferation: Does US Policy Still Make Sense?”
Rear Adm. Dr. William McDaniel
“A New Diplomacy: Navy Hospital Ships in Humanitarian Relief Missions”
Dr. John C. Hulsman, Heritage Foundation
“Europe after the Constitutional Debacle: Its Impact on Transatlantic Relations”
Dr. Isaac Cohen, Inverway LLC
“Hemispheric Relations after Mar Del Plata”
Dr. Alan Zelicoff, formerly of Sandia National Labs
“Recognizing Global Pandemics: A Collaboration Challenge to the International Community”
Dr. Satu Limaye, Institute for Defense Analyses
“India’s Passage to Asia: Implications for the U.S.”
Steven C. Clemons, New America Foundation
“New Arc of Global Instability: U.S. Foreign Policy and the War on Terror”
Dr. Lee W. Huebner, Northwestern University
“American Foreign Policy And the Revolution in Global Communications”
Dr. Larry Diamond, Hoover Institution
“Can the United States Promote Democracy in the Middle East?”
John Frisbie, President, U.S.-China Business Council
“Prospects for U.S.-China Trade”
Milton Viorst, journalist and author
“Storm from the East: The Struggle Between the Arab World and the West”
2004 – 2005
Wayne E. Merry
“America and Europe: Breaking the Cold War Alliance to Find a True Partnership”
Herman Cohen
“Africa: Is There a Light at the End of the Tunnel?”
Charles J. Skuba
“U.S. Trade Priorities in Latin America: Focus On Central America and the Caribbean”
Nicholas Eberstadt
“Demographic Trends in Asia/Eurasia: Some Strategic Implications”
Col. Thomas X. Hammes
“Fourth Generation Warfare: What It Means in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and against the Global Insurgency”
Ruth Wedgwood
“Fighting Terrorism Within the Law”
Gen. Carl Freeman
“The Challenge of Hemispheric Security Cooperation—Post 9/11”
R. Dobie Langenkamp
“China and the U.S.—Collision Course on Energy?”
Clyde Prestowitz
“The Great Shift in Wealth to the East”
Richard Millett
“Crisis Along the Andean Ridge”
2003 – 2004
Rear Admiral Eric A. McVadon (retired)
“Picking Partners in Northeast Asia: A Changing Challenge”
Ambassador Edward Masters (retired), Co-Chair, U.S.-Indonesia Society
“The War on Terrorism: Focus on Indonesia”
Geoffrey Smith, former Times of London columnist
“America and Europe: Old and New”
Tom Buckley
Dobie Langenkamp
Phil Lauinger
Paul Rahe
“Has American Unilateralism Killed United Nations Collective Security?”
Gerald Robbins, Foreign Policy Research Institute
“Turkey in Transition: Implications for the U.S.”
Dr. Luis Bitencourt, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
“Changing Perspectives in Brazil”
Edward Abington, Bannerman & Associates
“The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Is There a Way Out?”
Dr. Carol Saivetz, Harvard University
“The Politics and Geopolitics of Caspian Oil”
Ambassador Donald Gregg (retired)
“How Do We Protect our National Interests in the Age of Global Terror?”
Dr. Robert H. Donaldson
“Putin’s Russia: Emerging Democracy or Creeping Dictatorship?”
2002 – 2003
Ambassador Robert Oakley, National Defense University
“War on Terrorism: Focus on Pakistan”
Amy Meyers Jaffee, Baker Center, Rice University
“Caspian Sea Energy Issues”
Amb. Laurens Brinkhorst, EU Commission
“The EU and the US”
Dr. Gideon Aran, Hebrew University
“Religion and Political Violence”
Amy O’Neill Richard, Department of State
“Traffic in Human Subjects”
Dr. Tom Allen, OSU Medical School
“Smallpox: An Old Threat Revisited”
Heather Hurlburt, former White House staff member
“From Falun Gong to Vietnam Veterans: Who Shapes our Foreign Policy?”
Hussain Haqqani, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
“America’s New Alliance with Pakistan: Avoiding the Traps of the Past”
Amb. Mark Parris
“Turkey and America: Still Strategic Partners?”
Dr. Marshall Goldman, Harvard University
“The Piratization of Russia: Is Putin the Solution?”
Dr. Jorge Dominguez, Harvard University
“Mexico and the US: Today and Tomorrow”
2001 – 2002
September 5: H.E. Rubens Antonio Barbosa, Ambassador of Brazil
“Challenges Facing Brazil”
Marina Ottaway, Carnegie Endowment on International Peace
“Promoting Democracy Abroad: Is There a Role for the Private Sector?”
Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr.
“Building the Alliance against Terrorism”
Rose Gottemoeller, Carnegie Endowment
“The New U.S.-Russian Partnership on Counterterrorism and Nuclear Security”
Joe Molyneux, Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold Co.
“The Nexus between Al Qaeda and Money Laundering”
David Shambaugh, The George Washington University
“China and the U.S.: 30 Years after Nixon’s Journey”
Anders Aslund, Carnegie Endowment
“Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the former Soviet Bloc”
Vygaudas Usackas, Ambassador of Lithuania
“The Case for Lithuanian Membership in NATO”
Frank Calzon, Center for a Free Cuba
“Is Castro Still a Threat, or Is it Time to End the Embargo?”
Robert H. Donaldson, University of Tulsa
“Report on Russia”