When   Monday, November 9, 2009   Time   4:00 PM - 5:30 PM  
Where   Rebecca Crown Center Hardin Hall 633 Clark Street   map it
Audience   - Faculty/Staff - Student - Public
Contact   Margaret M Graves   +1 847 491 2653  
Group   Department of Political Science

American Foreign Policy and the Challenges of the 21st Century

with Stephen Stedman

November 9, 2009

4-5.30pm

Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center

Reception to follow

Stephen Stedman is a senior fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Center for International Security and Cooperation and professor of political science (by courtesy) at Stanford University. Stedman directs Stanford's Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies and is a director of 'Managing Global Insecurity,' a joint project with Stanford, New York University and the Brookings Institution. Stedman's research addresses the future of international organizations and institutions. In 2003, he served as the research director of the U.N. High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. Upon completion of the panel's report Stedman remained at the U.N. as an assistant secretary-general. He was an election observer in Angola in 1992 and in South Africa in 1994. He was a consultant to the U.N. on issues of peacekeeping in civil war, light weapons proliferation and conflict in Africa, and preventive diplomacy. Stedman received his PhD in political science from Stanford in 1988.

Presented by The Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies and the Department of Political Science with the generous support of the Admiral Alban "Stormy" Weber Family.