Academic Exchange Alumni Retreat

Tuesday, May 31

6:00 pm           Cocktails

7:00 pm           Dinner

Keynote: Kori Schake: Senior fellow and director of foreign and defense policy studies, AEI

Wednesday, June 1

9:00 am           Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice in International Relations

• Will Ruger: President of the American Institute for Economic Research
• Steve Del Rosso: Director of International Peace and Security at the Carnegie Corporation
• Lise Morjé Howard: Professor of Government and Foreign Service, Georgetown; President, Academic Council on the UN System
• Moderator: Bruce Jentleson: William Preston Few Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Duke University

10:30 am                Break

10:45 am         Contemporary Issues in the Middle-East

• Dahlia Scheindlin: Fellow at Century International, a progressive New York-based think-tank ; Haaretz columnist, pollster and political strategist for Israeli and international campaigns
• Ghaith al-Omari: Fellow in The Washington Institute’s Irwin Levy Family Program on the U.S.-Israel Strategic Relationship and former executive director of the American Task Force on Palestine.
• Eric Schwartz: President of Refugees International and Professor of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
• Moderator: Charles Kupchan, Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University, and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations

12:00 pm         Lunch

Key-Note: Israel and the Shifting Terrain in the Middle-East

Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba: Ambassador of the UAE to the US, Minister of State

1:30 pm           China and the Great Powers in the Middle-East

• Avery Goldstein: David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations and Inaugural Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania
• Suzanne Maloney: Vice-President and Director for Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institute
• Minxin Pei: Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College
• Moderator: Jonathan Caverley, Professor in Strategic and Operational Research and director of the Bernard Brodie Strategy Group at the United States Naval War College

3:00 pm           Break

6:00 pm           Cocktails

7:00 pm           Dinner

Thursday, June 2

9:00 am Geopolitics and Regional Dynamics

• Gregory Gause: John H. Lindsey ’44 Chair, Professor of International Affairs and Head of the International Affairs Department at the Bush School of Government and Public Service
• (ret) Karl Eikenberry: Former-US Ambassador to Afghanistan and Lieutenant General, U.S. Army, Retired
• Audrey Kurth Cronin: Distinguished Professor of International Security and founding Director of the Center for Security, Innovation, and New Technology at American University
• Moderator: Shane Harris: Intelligence and National Security Correspondent for the Washington Post

10:30 am The Constitution of Knowledge – A Defense of Truth

Jonathan Rauch: Senior fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings

11:30 am Check out and Departure