Is There An Obama
Foreign Policy?
A
Global Currents Discussion With:
James M. Lindsay
Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice Greenberg Chair,
Council on Foreign Relations
Tuesday
October 27, 2009
4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Ford Auditorium, Allen Medical Library,
Case
Western Reserve University
During the past presidential election, many voters surely hoped that a new President’s approach to foreign policy would be very different from that of President George W. Bush. Now some activists are beginning to wonder if they got what they voted for. The Obama Administration has a distinctive style and rhetoric, as the Nobel Peace Prize committee recently acknowledged in dramatic fashion. But it is harder to distinguish a distinctive foreign policy view and practice.
Jim Lindsay has long studied both U.S. foreign
policy and how it is made. As a one-time
National Security Council staffer, scholar at
the Brookings Institution, professor at both the
University of Iowa and the LBJ School of Public
Affairs of the University of Texas, and Vice
President of the Council on Foreign Relations,
he has been a close observer of the foreign
policy community. His studies range from how
Congress influenced nuclear arms policy to
America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign
Policy. He is currently working on a book about
President Obama’s foreign policy approach. Betsy Sullivan, foreign affairs columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Kathryn C. Lavelle, our Ellen and Dixon Long Chair in World Affairs, will comment.
This event is made possible by the generosity of Ms. Eloise Briskin
For further information:
http://policy.case.edu,
padg@case.edu, 216 368-2426
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James M. Lindsay
is senior vice president, director of
studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg chair
at the Council on Foreign Relations
(CFR). He is a leading authority on the
American foreign policymaking process
and the domestic politics of American
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Before returning to CFR in 2009, Dr.
Lindsay was the inaugural director of
the Robert S. Strauss Center for
International Security and Law at The
University of Texas at Austin, where he
held the Tom Slick chair for
international affairs at the Lyndon B.
Johnson School of Public Affairs. From
2003-2006, he was vice president,
director of studies and Maurice R.
Greenberg chair at CFR. He previously
served as deputy director and senior
fellow in the foreign policy studies
program at the Brookings Institution and
has taught at the University of Iowa. In
1996-97, he was director for global
issues and multilateral affairs on the
staff of the National Security Council.
His responsibilities included UN reform,
State Department reorganization, and
funding for international affairs. He
has also served as a consultant to the
United States Commission on National
Security/21 Century
(Hart-Rudman Commission) and as a staff
expert for the United States Institute
of Peace’s congressionally mandated Task
Force on the United Nations.
Dr. Lindsay has authored, coauthored,
or edited more than fifteen books and
fifty journal articles and book chapters
on various aspects of American foreign
policy and international relations. His
book with Ivo H. Daalder,
America Unbound: The Bush Revolution
in Foreign Policy
(Brookings Institution
Press, 2003), was awarded the 2003
Lionel Gelber Award, named a finalist
for the Arthur S. Ross Book Award, and
selected as a top book of 2003 by
The Economist.
His other books include
Agenda for the Nation (with Henry J. Aaron and
Pietro S. Nivola, Brookings Institution
Press, 2003), which was named an
"Outstanding Academic Book of 2004" by
Choice Magazine;
Defending America: The Case for
Limited National Missile Defense
(with Michael E.
O’Hanlon, Brookings Institution Press,
2001); Congress and the Politics of U.S.
Foreign Policy (Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1994); and
Congress and Nuclear Weapons
(Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1991). He has also
contributed articles to the op-ed pages
of many major newspapers, including the
New York Times
Washington Post,
and
Los Angeles Times.
Dr. Lindsay holds an AB in economics
and political science (highest
distinction, highest honors) from the
University of Michigan and an MA, MPhil,
and PhD from Yale University. He has
been a fellow at the Center for
International Affairs and the Center for
Science and International Affairs, both
at Harvard University. He is a recipient
of the Pew Faculty Fellowship in
International Affairs and an
International Affairs Fellowship from
the Council on Foreign Relations. He is
a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations.
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