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The following list is of all speeches presented in 2003-2004 season available online.  In reverse chronological order.

 

 

August 9, 2004

The Honorable

Slade Gorton

 

Richard Ben-Veniste

members of the 9/11 Commission Report

The 9/11 Commission Report

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July 29, 2004

Jano Rosebiani

Documentary Film Maker

Ibrahim and Taimour

Survivors of

imprisonment/massacre under Saddam's Iraq,

Founders of the

Free Prisoner's Association

Surviving Torture,

Counting the Dead

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July 27, 2004

Brigadier General

Eival Gilady

Head, Strategic Planning Divisions, Israel Defense Force

Strategy and Security in Israel

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July 20, 2004

His Excellency

Koichi Haraguchi

Ambassador Extraordinary and Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations

The United Nations and

Japan-U.S. Relations

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June 2, 2004

Dr. Richard Baum

UCLA Asia Institute

Orville Schell

Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley

Xiao Qiang

Director, Berkeley-China

Internet Project

Political Reform in Greater China: One Country? Three Systems?

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May 24, 2004

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs,

Author, A New World Order

A New World Order

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May 6, 2004

The Honorable

James Lilley

Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Author, China Hands

Recent Developments in China

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April 30, 2004

Vitaly Ignatenko

Director General ITAR-TASS,

Russian News Agency

Russia on the Move: President Putin's Priorities for a Second Term

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April 21, 2004

Cokie Roberts

Political Analyst

Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised our Nation

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April 15, 2004

His Excellency

Jan Petersen

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway

Global Security Challenges: A Norwegian Perspective

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April 13, 2004

His Excellency

Aziz Mekouar

Ambassador of Morocco to

the United States

Islam, Democracy and Economic Reform in Morocco: Escaping the Shadows of Terrorism

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April 8, 2004

The Honorable

Joseph Nye

Dean, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics

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April 1, 2004

His Excellency

Jiechi Yang

Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to

the United States

 

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Mar 22, 2004

J. J. Goldberg

Editor, The Forward

American Foreign Policy and the Jewish Lobby

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Mar 19, 2004

The Rt. Honorable

Paul Murphy

Secretary of State for

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland:

The Price of Peace

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Mar 16, 2004

His Excellency

Sergio Vento

Ambassador of Italy to

the United States

Bi-Lateral Relations Between Italy and the United States: Cooperation in Crisis Areas

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Mar 4, 2004

His Excellency

George Savvaides

Ambassador of Greece to

the United States

Greece in the New Millennium

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Feb 19, 2004

The Honorable

Caspar Weinberger

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense

Chairman, Forbes

U.S. Military Action in Iraq: Necessity and Outcomes

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Feb 18, 2004

His Excellency

Sir Emyr Jones Parry

Ambassador of the United Kingdom

to the United Nations

Why We Need the United Nations

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Jan 19, 2004

His Excellency

Alexander Downer M.P.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Australia

Meeting the Challenges of a Changing Global Regional Security Outlook

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Jan 16, 2004

The Honorable

Jane Harman

Ranking Democrat, House Permanent Select Committee

on Intelligence

The Intelligence on Iraq's WMD:

Looking Back to Look Forward

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Jan 14, 2004

The Honorable

Dick Cheney

Vice President of the United States

 

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Dec 9, 2003

David Kang

Victor Cha

Authors: Nuclear North Korea

Nuclear north Korea: A Debate

on Engagement Strategies

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Dec 8, 2003

Her Excellency

Buthaina Shaaban

Minister of Expatriates, Spokesperson, Government of Syria

The U.S. Syria Relationship: What's Next?

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Dec 2, 2003

His Excellency

Kofi Annan

Secretary General of the

United Nations

The Importance of the United Nations to the Future of the World

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Nov 19, 2003

His Excellency

Daniel Ayalon

Ambassador of Israel to

the United States

Israel's Efforts for Peace

in the Middle East

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Nov 17, 2003

Dr. Charles Wolf

Dr. Benjamin Zycher

Authors, Faultlines in China's

Economic Terrain

Faultlines in China's

Economic Terrain

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Nov 13, 2003

Toby Dodge

Associate Fellow, Royal Institute of International Affairs

Author, Inventing Iraq

Inventing Iraq: A Failed Experiment in Nation Building

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Nov 11, 2003

Abraham H. Foxman

National Director,

Anti-Defamation League

Anti-Semitism:

On the Rise Again?

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Oct 2, 2003

The Honorable

Edward Peck

Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq

After Iraq What:

A Candid Assessment

of Likely Developments

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Sept 24, 2003

Daniel Lubetsky

Founder, President, OneVoice

Mohammad Darawshe

Middle East Director, OneVoice

Empowering Palestinian and

Israeli Moderates

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Sept 22, 2003

His Royal Highness

Prince Bandar Bin Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud

Ambassador of Saudi Arabia

to the United States

U.S. Saudi Relations:

In Transition?

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Sept 19, 2003

Her Excellency

Dr. Hassan Wirajuda

Minister of Foreign Affairs

Republic of Indonesia

 

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