Annual foreign policy lecture series scheduled in January
American Foreign Policy After 2000" will be the topic of the annual Winter Session lecture seminar series cosponsored by the Department of Political Science and International Relations, the Office of International Programs and Special Sessions and the World Affairs Council of Wilmington.
The lectures, which are free and open to the public, are scheduled at 7:30 p.m., during January, in 125 Clayton Hall. The series is being offered in conjunction with a Winter Session course, POSC 444.
- On Thursday, Jan. 6, Robert Lieber, professor of government at Georgetown University, will discuss "Foreign Policy in the New Millennium." The author of six books, including Theory and World Politics, The Oil Decade and No Common Power: Understanding International Relations, Lieber previously taught at Harvard and Oxford universities and the University of California at Davis. His current writing examines the domestic face of American foreign policy.
- * On Monday, Jan. 10, Michael E. O'Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, will speak on "How To Be a Cheap Hawk." An expert in Asian security issues, arms treaties, civil warfare, U.S. defense strategy and budget and military technology, O'Hanlon has written How To Be a Cheap Hawk: The 1999 and 2000 Defense Budgets, A Half Penny on the Federal Dollar: The Future of Development Aid, Saving Lives with Force: Military Criteria for Humanitarian Intervention, Defense Planning for the Late 1990s: Beyond the Desert Storm Framework and The Art of War in the Age of Peace. His current book project is Technological Change and the Future of Warfare. With a bachelor's, two master's and doctoral degrees from Princeton University, O'Hanlon was a former defense and foreign policy budget analyst for the National Security Division of the Congressional Budget Office.
- On Thursday, Jan. 13, Bruce Dickson, director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at George Washington University, will lecture on "The Dilemma of American Policy Toward China." Dickson is an authority on Chinese domestic and East Asian politics, political change and democratization and general comparative politics. With a bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Michigan, Dickson is the author of Democratization in China and Taiwan: The Adaptability of Leninist Parties and several articles. He also is a frequent commentator on political developments in China and Taiwan.
- On Tuesday, Jan. 18, Joshua Muravchik, resident scholar of the American Enterprise Institute, will discuss "American Leadership after 2000." His research areas include human rights and democracy, socialism and Iran. An adjunct professor for the Institute of World Politics and the executive director of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, Muravchik is the author of The Imperative of American Leadership: A Challenge to Exporting Democracy: Fullfilling America's Destiny, News Coverage of the Sandinista Revolution and The Uncertain Crusade: Jimmy Carter and the Dilemma. He also has written articles in numerous newspapers.
- On Monday, Jan. 24, Robert Herman, a foreign service officer in the Office of Policy Planning of the U.S. Department of State, will talk about "Democracy and Foreign Policy in the New Millennium."
- On Thursday, Jan. 27, Teresita Schaffer, director of the South Asia Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, will speak on "South Asia and U.S. Foreign Policy." Schaffer served in the U.S. Foreign Service for 30 years and was deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia from 1989-1992, ambassador to Sri Lanka from 1992-1995 and director of the Foreign Service Institute from 1995-1997. She also served as the director of the Office of International Trade. Her fields of expertise include political, economic and security developments in South Asia, U.S. trade policy and U.S. relations with the Middle East.
- On Monday, Jan. 31, Chantel de Jonge Oudraat, an associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, will discuss "Internal Conflicts and Coercive Measures: What Role for the U.S. and the U.N.?" De Jonge Oudraat works on the Managing Global Issues Project, which seeks to uncover mechanisms and processes that can make international governance regimes more effective. She is finalizing a book on the United Nations and the use of force and economic sanctions. Before joining Carnegie, de Jonge Oudraat was a research affiliate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University and senior research associate at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research in Geneva. De Jonge Oudraat currently serves on the board of Women in International Security. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Amsterdam, her master's degree from the University of Paris I and her doctorate in political science from the University of Paris II.
For more information, call James K. Oliver, Unidel Professor of Political Science and International Relations, at 831-2355.
Photographer to autograph campus keepsake book
 Still looking for that perfect gift for a student, a new graduate, an alumnus or a staff member? How about an autographed copy of a book that celebrates the beauty of the UD campus?
Nationally known photographer Richard Dunoff will sign copies of his keepsake book, University of Delaware: A Celebration, from noon-1:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 16, at the University Bookstore in the Perkins Student Center.
Dunoff spent a year at UD, capturing the spirit of the University from the lively intellectual life of its students and faculty to the beauty of its grounds.
The first-edition book contains 96 pages of color photography and 16 pages of historical photographs from the University of Delaware Archives.
A professional photographer for more than 20 years, Dunoff shoots on location for advertising, education and corporate clients. His work has appeared in numerous publications worldwide, including Fortune, Working Woman, Ladies Home Journal and Philadelphia magazines.
University of Delaware: A Celebration is on sale at the University Bookstore in the Perkins Student Center and in the Campus Shop at the Trabant University Center.
For more information, call 831-2637.
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