University of Delaware
Office of Public Relations
UpDate - Vol. 16, No. 16, Jan. 9, 1997
Annual foreign policy series begins tonight on campus

     A series of lectures on "Public Opinion, Foreign Policy and
the 1996 Election" will be held at the University during January
and February.
     Sponsored by the Department of Political Science and
International Relations, the lectures are free and open to the
public and will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Room 125 of Clayton Hall.
     The series opens this evening, Jan. 9, with Jeremy Rosner,
senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, whose topic is "The 1996 Elections: The People Have
Spoken; Did They Say Anything About Foreign Policy?"
     Speaking on Thursday, Jan. 16, will be Bruce Jentleson,
director and professor of the Washington Center at the University
of California, Davis, who will speak on "The Neo-Isolationism vs.
Neo-Internationalism Debate and the Future of American Foreign
Policy."
     Robert Y. Shapiro, professor of political science at
Columbia University, will make a presentation on Tuesday, Jan.
21, on "Public Opinion, Democracy and Foreign Policy."
     Other speakers, with topics still to be announced, include:
Steven Kull, director of the Program on International Policy
Attitudes, on Monday, Jan. 13; John Doble of John Doble Research
Associates on Monday, Jan. 27; and James Lindsay, professor of
political science at the University of Iowa, on Monday,   Feb. 3.
     For more information on the series, contact the Department
of Political Science and International Relations at 831-2355.