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Talk on American oil dependence set Wednesday
4:03 p.m., April 3, 2006--UD's spring Global Agenda lecture series, “Hidden Dangers: Global Challenges Below the Radar,” continues at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 5, with a lecture by Gal Luft, co-founder of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security. Luft is co-chair of the Set America Free Coalition. An expert on strategy, geopolitics, terrorism, Middle East and energy security, he has published numerous studies and articles and has appeared in the media and as a consult for think tanks and news organizations worldwide. Luft has testified before committees of the U.S. Congress, including Senate Foreign Relations, House Foreign Relations, House Science, and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. All lectures in the series will be held at 7:30 p.m., Wednesdays, in Mitchell Hall, except as otherwise noted. The series, which continues through May 17, is free and open to the public. The lecture by John Bolton, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, will be held at 6:30 p.m., Monday, April 10. Remaining lectures in the series include: 6:30 p.m., Monday, April 10, John Bolton, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations--Bolton's experience in government spans the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. Bolton was named U.N. ambassador in 2005 without Senate confirmation. A Baltimore native, Bolton has served in the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Before his appointment as U.S. undersecretary of state for arms control and international security in 2001, Bolton was senior vice president of the American Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit public policy center in Washington, D.C. May 3, John McLaughlin, former acting director and deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency--McLaughlin's CIA career spanned more than 30 years, beginning in 1972 with a focus on European, Russian and Eurasian issues. He was director of European analysis and director of Slavic and Eurasian analysis. While deputy director for intelligence, he created the Senior Analytic Service. He founded the Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis, teaching the history, mission and essential skills of the analytic profession to new CIA employees. May 17, Kenneth Pollack, former CIA and National Security Council analyst on the Middle East--Pollack is Director of Research for the Saban Center for Middle East Studies at the Brookings Institution. Previously, he served on the National Security Council during the Clinton administration. He was a senior research professor at the National Defense University and an Iran-Iraq military analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1988-95. Organized by Ralph Begleiter, UD's Rosenberg Professor of Communication and distinguished journalist in residence, the series is designed to survey potential threats to the United States and explore the complex framework of global relations. The series is cosponsored by the University of Delaware and the World Affairs Council of Wilmington. For more information on the speakers and their subjects, visit [www.udel.edu/global]. For general information on the series, call the Department of Communication at (302) 831-8041. |
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