Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Globally Occupied Attention series presents…

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What Can Blue Do For You?
The 2006 Congressional Elections & U.S. Foreign Policy

Schubas
3159 North Southport
Chicago, IL 60657

6:30 p.m. – doors open
7:00 p.m. – talk/audience Q&A following discussion

$10 – members/nonmembers
(for ages 18+, alcohol served, ID required)

The recent U.S. elections resulted in a change in the color of Congress, with Democrats gaining control for the first time in over a decade.  So, what does this change mean for U.S. foreign policy over the course of the next few years?  What are the implications for U.S. policy toward Iraq and the broader Middle East?  How will the Red/Blue dynamic play out on the world stage?

Please join the GOAt audience in welcoming two experts to the Schuba’s stage to discuss this important issue.

Brian Hanson is the associate director of the Roberta Buffett Center of International and Comparative Studies and Lecturer in Political Science at Northwestern University.  He teaches a course on international relations.  Prof. Hanson is also vice chair of the board of the Stanley Foundation, one of the nation's largest private operating foundations, which works to promote and build coalitions of support for multilateral approaches to international problems.  He taught senior military and foreign service officers and members of the U.S. intelligence community in a program on foreign policy analysis run by MIT.  Before academia, Prof. Hanson served as the foreign affairs advisor to Senator Alan Dixon of Illinois.  During that period, he experienced a similar change of congressional power as we have just seen. 

Dan Lindley is an assistant professor in the department of political science at the University of Notre Dame, where he is also a fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.  Prof. Lindley received his B.A. in international relations and French from Tufts University in 1984.  Before graduate school in the Security Studies Program at MIT, he worked for Congressman Ratchford, the Center for Defense Information, the Federation of American Scientists, and the Brookings Institution.  Prof. Lindley’s book, Promoting Peace with Information: Transparency as a Tool of Security Regimes, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.  Prof. Lindley lectured at MIT and was a fellow in the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. 

Moderated by Scott Smith, web editor, Chicagoist.com/Time Out Chicago

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