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Breaking Down the Walls Conference
From: Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:37:53 -0500
From: <bobr () bobrosenberg phoenix az us> To: "Dave Farber" <dave () farber net> Date: March 09, 2010 07:57:11 PM EST Subject: Breaking Down the Walls Conference Dave Perhaps for I.P. Bob BREAKING DOWN THE WALLS Presented by ASU Co-Sponsored by Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations March 31 - April 2, 2010 The Wyndham, Phoenix, AZ REGISTER online at http://BDTW2010.com Arizona State University in conjunction with the LBJ and George H.W. Bush Schools and SHAFR invite everyone to a conference, Breaking Down the Walls: Increasing the Discourse in the American Policy Making Community, to be held at the Phoenix Wyndham Hotel, March 31-April 2, 2010. The conference features panels and roundtables on a wide variety of topics ranging from counterinsurgency to the global politics of the environment to the current state of public diplomacy. ASU is bringing together academics from various disciplines with people who are or have been active foreign policymakers from groups such as the U.S. military, State Department, CIA, DEA, and non-governmental organizations. Participants will include Admiral Bobby Inman, Ambassador John Maisto, as well as keynote speakers including Dr. George Herring and General Victor Renuart, NORTHCOM/NORAD Commander. We hope that you will join us for this great opportunity in the Valley. The full program is available at this website (we have also included the full program below). Please see our website at: http://bdtw2010.com/ for details on registration ($125 for general audience and $25 for students for the three day event), accommodations and travel as well as general information about the conference. PLEASE NOTE: There are several sessions, some include meals, and you MUST register ONLINE with ASU to be included. PCFR is NOT the registration agent, only a co-sponsor. REGISTER AT http://BDTW2010.com Breaking Down the Walls Conference Working Program Wednesday, March 31, 2010 Opening Reception at Main Ballroom of the Wyndham, Downtown, 6-7 PM 7-8:30 PM Presentation by Dr. George Herring, Professor of History, University of Kentucky and author of the prize winning, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 The Uses and Misuses of History in the Long History of American Foreign Relations Thursday, April 1, 2010 8:15-10:00 am Panel 1: The Lessons of Counterinsurgency Chair: Yoav Gortzak, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University Panelists: Colonel Gian Gentile, U.S. Military Academy The Perils of the Counterinsurgency Narrative: A Critical View toward the American Army and its Seduction with Population Centric Counterinsurgency Colonel David Gray, U.S. Military Academy Jeremy Kuzmarov, University of Tulsa "Modernizing Repression: Police Training, Operation Phoenix and Counter- Insurgency in Vietnam." Robert Brigham, Shirley Ecker Bosky Professor of History, Vassar College, "Counterinsurgency in Iraq" Commentators: Colonel Adam Such, U.S. Special Forces, U.S. Army retired Colonel Daniel Roper, USA/USMC Counterinsurgency Center Panel 2. Journalism and U.S. Foreign Policy Chair: Nick Sarantakes, U.S. Naval War College Panelists: Aaron Brown, CNN and Arizona State University Sidney Rittenberg, retired journalist Andrei Cherny, Founder of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas *David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times Steve Clemons, New American Foundation Panel 3: Economic Development Among Women in the Third World Chair, David Gartner, Sandra Day OConnor School of Law Moderator : Kellie Kreiser, Thunderbird School of Global Management Panelists: Amanda Bullough, Thunderbird School of Global Management Mary Sully de Luque, Thunderbird School of Global Management Jennifer Field, Office of Global Engagement, Goldman, Sachs, & Co. Commentators: *Paul Brinkley, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation Agency *Bob Love, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation Agency Thursday, 10:15-11:45 Panel 4: The Future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime Roundtable Panelists Professor Orde Félix Kittrie, Professor of Law, Arizona State Universitys Sandra Day OConnor College of Law Leonard Spector, Deputy Director of the Monterey Institute of International Studies' James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies Catherine Lotrionte, former Assistant General Counsel at the CIA Commander Chris Bidwell, National Security Counselor, Advance Systems Concepts Office, Defense Threat Reduction Agency
 Panel 5. The Environmental Effects of War Chair: H. Michael Gelfand, James Madison University Panelists David Biggs, Department of History, University of California, Riverside, "Vietnam the Ideal Eco-Historical Laboratory: Environmental Dimensions of Military Occupation Studied in Depth in Thua Thien Hue" Lisa Brady, Boise State University, "The Perplexing Nature of War and Peace: An Environmental Analysis" Bob Neer, Columbia University "The Weapon That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Napalm, from Hero to Hated 1945- 2009 Richard Tucker, University of Michigan The (Mostly) Unknown History of War's Environmental Consequences Edmund Russell, University of Virginia Nicking the Thin Edge of the Wedge: What History
 Tells Us about the Environmental Law of War Panel 6. Congress, the White House, and American Foreign Policy Chair: Andy Johns, Professor of History, Brigham Young University Panelists: Jeremi Suri, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison "The Domestic Political Barriers to Diplomacy in the United States" Robert C. Johnson, Professor of History, CUNY-Brooklyn "Procedure and Polarization: Congress & Post-Vietnam U.S. Foreign Policy" David Hostetter, Robert C. Byrd Center This Has Now Become a Civil Rights Issue: Congress, the White House, and Sanctions on South Africa Commentators Fulton Armstrong,Senior Professional Staff Member for the Majority of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee *Jasmeet Ahuja, Professional Staff Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs *Congressperson Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona 8th District Special Luncheon 12-1:30 Speaker, *Deputy Chief of Mission to Mexico, John D. Feely Thursday, 1:45-3:15 PM Panel 7: Roundtable: Global Risks and Homeland and National Security Policies Moderator and Discussion Paper: Sharon L. Caudle, PhD, Younger-Carter Distinguished Policymaker in Residence The Bush School of Government and Public Services "Security Strategies and Global Risks." Discussants: Jeryl L. Mumpower, PhD, Professor and Director of the Master in Public Service and Administration Program, Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Chair, The Bush School of Government and Public Service Larry C. Napper, Ambassador (ret) and Senior Lecturer, The Bush School of Government and Public Service Corey D. Gruber, Assistant Deputy Administrator, National Preparedness Directorate, Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Donald Reed, Deputy Interim Chief, Land Branch, J35 Future Operations Division, U.S. Northern Command John OConnell, Thunderbird School of Global Management Panel 8: The Politics of the Environment in the Modern World Chair: Kelly McFarland, U.S. State Department Historians Office Panelists: Jacob Hamblin, Department of History, Oregon State University NATOs Flirtation with Environmentalism Clark Miller, Arizona State University Jerry Kammer, Center for Immigration Studies Strategic Negligence: How the Sierra Clubs Distortion on Border and Immigration Policy Are Undermining Its Environmental Legacy Commentators: John DAnna, Arizona Republic and author of blog, AZ Green Day Jim Buizer, Office of the President, Arizona State University Panel 9: Roundtable on the Challenges and Opportunities in the War on Terror Roundtable Participants: Admiral Bobby R. Inman, U.S. Navy (retired), National Security Agency (retired), and LBJ Centennial Chair in National Policy, LBJ School of Public Affairs Kenny Leahman, CIA National Clandestine Service (retired); Vice President Global Security Issues, GuardianPro Llewellyn D. Howell, Thunderbird School of Global Management Marc Susser, U.S. State Department Philip Jones, Chair, Department of Global Studies, Embrey-Riddle Aeronautical University Thursday, 3:45-5:15 Panel 10. An Assessment Model for US Public Diplomacy Efforts: Special Roundtable on the Implementation of American Public Diplomacy Chair: Alison Holmes, Yale University Ken Matwiczak, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
 LTC Mark Cheadle, US Army, Master in Public Affairs Candidate, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas
 John Osborn, Commissioner, Presidential Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy Cherreka Montgomery, Acting Director for Analysis, Evaluation, & Performance Measurement, Office of Policy, Planning, & Resources, Department of State Gerald McGloughlin, Director of Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy Panel 11. The Potential and the Limits of Humanitarian Interventions Chair: Bradley Coleman, SOUTHCOM Historical Office Panelists: Paul Slovic, Decision Research "The More Who Die, the Less We Care" Alan Kuperman, LBJ School, University of Texas-Austin Rethinking the Responsibility to Protect Colonel Timothy J. Geraghty, US Marine Corps (retired) A Noble Mission Gone Astray, The Beirut
Peacekeeping Operation 1982-1984 David Gibbs, Department of History, University of Arizona US Interventionism and the Lessons of History:
 Reevaluating the 1995 Srebrenica Massacre Commentators Douglas Peifer, U.S. Air War College Colonel Kevin Farrell, Department of History, United States Military Academy Panel 12. American Intelligence Failures and Successes: The Lessons for the Future? Chair: Mitchell Lerner, Ohio State University Roundtable Panelists Al Sapia Bosch, Central Intelligence Agency (retired) Russ Swanson, Central Intelligence Agency (retired) Kenny Leahman, CIA National Clandestine Service (retired); Vice President Global Security Issues, GuardianPro Thursday Formal Dinner 6-7 reception, 7-9 PM Meal and Talk Keynote Speaker: General Victor Renuart, Commander of NORAD and NORTHCOM Friday, April 2, 2010 8:15-10 Panel 13: The International Politics of Trafficking in Drugs, Humans, and Arms Chair: Scott Decker, Arizona State University Roundtable Participants Jack McDevitt, Northeastern University Rick Van Schoik, Director, North American Center for Transborder Studies, Arizona State University Chuck Katz, Arizona State University Elizabeth Kempshall, Drug Enforcement Agency Panel 14: Anti-Americanism in a Global Context Panelists: Max Paul Friedman, 
Associate Professor of History
, American University, Anti-Americanism: How a Flawed Concept Distorts U.S. Policy in the
 Third World Alan McPherson, Associate Professor of International and Area Studies, University of Oklahoma How US Occupations Create Anti-Americanism: Thoughts from Latin America Brendon OConnor, Associate Professor in American Politics, US Studies Centre,
 University of Sydney
 Anti-Americanism and Public Diplomacy Daniela Stockmann, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
, Leiden University China and Anti-Americanism Commentators: Ambassador John Maisto (former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela and Nicaragua) Ed Warner, Voice of America (retired) Friday, 10:15-12 Panel 15. The International Dynamics of Immigration Moderator: Erik Lee, Associate Director, North American Center for Transborder Studies, Arizona State University 
 Roundtable Participants: Rodger Garner, US Agency for International Development, Mexico Mission Director 
 *Alan Bersin, Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Special Advisor for Border Affairs, U.S. Department of Homeland Security *Roberta Jacobsen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Canada, Mexico and NAFTA, U.S. Department of State Jim Kolbe, Senior Fellow, German Marshall Fund and former U.S. Congressman 
 Janet Ballantyne, Acting Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S. Agency for International Development David Danelo, Senior Fellow, Program on National Security, Foreign Policy Research Institute (author of The Border: Exploring the US-Mexican Divide) Panel 16. The Current State of Energy Policy as a Geopolitical Factor Chair: Roger Adelson, School of Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies, Arizona State University Panelists: Eugene Gholz, LBJ School, University of Texas and Daryl Press, Dartmouth University "Energy Dependence and Vulnerability to Coercion" Charlie Glaser, George Washington University "Oil Import Dependence and the Magnet Effect: Drawing the U.S. into International Conflicts" John Duffield, Georgia State University "The Re-Emergence of Energy Insecurity in the Industrialized Countries: Disparate Causes, Divergent Responses" Josh Shifrinson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Miranda Priebe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "How Secure is Saudi Oil? An Analysis of a Worst-Case Attack on Saudi Oil Infrastructure" Commentators *Jay Hakes, Director of the Jimmy Carter Center Panel 17. American Public Diplomacy Chair: John Dickson, Director, Office of Public Diplomacy, Western Hemisphere Affairs, State Department Roundtable Panelists: Ken Osgood, Department of History, Florida Atlantic University Nicholas Cull, Professor of Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California Ambassador James K. Glassman, Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Steve Corman, Professor Hugh Downs School of Communication, Arizona State University Patricia Kushlis, The WhirledView Blog, former member of USIA Friday Closing Luncheon, 12:30-2 PM *The Interdependency of Nations: The United States and the World in the 21st Century Arturo Valenzuela, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs * note soft commits/invited speakers
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