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GAGE invited eleven of the nation’s most prominent intellectuals to think boldly and imaginatively about America’s future role in the world, and how the Bush Doctrine’s strategy of preemption, unilateralism, and assertive democratization is suited to U.S. foreign policy going forward. This is part one of three of that discussion held at the Miller Center of Public Affairs on June 7 and 8, 2007. |
Bruce Riedel who spoke at a Miller Center of Public Affairs Forum June 15, is a senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution who retired in 2006 after twenty-nine years with the CIA. He has served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Near East and South Asian Affairs, and as senior director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council. In the May/June 2007 issue of Foreign Affairs, Riedel argues that “Al Qaeda is a more dangerous enemy today than it has ever been before.” |
General Paul V. Hester, USAF who spoke at a Miller Center of Public Affairs Forum June 1, is commander of the Pacific Air Forces, located at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. He is responsible for Air Force activities in a command supporting 55,000 Air Force personnel serving principally in Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, Japan, and South Korea. A combat veteran, he has logged more than 200 total combat hours in Southeast Asia. |
On April 23rd, 2007, the Miller Center for Public Affairs held a forum to ask the question: “Are Western Leadership Concepts Appropriate in Islamic Cultures?” We bring you this now here on the Charlottesville Podcasting Network.
Steffen Schubert, a banker who serves as managing director of Tejoori Limited, previously was chief executive officer of the Dubai International Finance Exchange.
Moustapha Ismail Sarhank, a scholar in the interdisciplinary field of leadership, psychology, and religion, is honorary chairman of Sarhank Group for Investments, a holding company with headquarters in Egypt and Geneva.
David E. Martin is the founding chief executive officer of M-CAM, Inc., the international leader in intellectual property-based financial risk management. Dr. Martin is also a Batten Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
This event is co-hosted with the International Business Society at Darden.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg is a White House correspondent for the New York Times. From 2002 to 2006 she was a congressional correspondent for the Times. She has been a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where she was part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia.
Kathie Olsen is deputy director and chief operating officer of the National Science Foundation and former deputy director for science of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Previously she was chief scientist at NASA. She spoke at the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia about the need to create a national science policy to guide the country through the next hundred years.
“Today the global economy is tightly linked to science, mathematics and engineering,” Olsen says. “Wise federal spending on science and technology is good economic policy.”
