ALEX & LENA CASPER MEMORIAL LECTURE

Monday
April 7, 2008
7:30 p.m.

Miami University Middletown
Campus & Community Center

Free and open to the public.
513.727.3200 or 1.86.MIAMI.MID (toll free)

Featuring
Ambassador Richard Haass

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Richard Haass is President of the Council on Foreign Relations, a position he has held since July 2003. The Council, based in New York with an office in Washington, DC, is an independent, national membership organization and a nonpartisan center for scholars dedicated to producing and disseminating ideas so that individual and corporate members, as well as policymakers, journalists, students, and interested citizens in the United States and other countries, can better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other governments.

Until June 2003, Richard Haass was Director of Policy Planning for the Department of State, where he was a principal advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell on a broad range of foreign policy concerns. Confirmed by the U.S. Senate to hold the rank of ambassador, Haass served as U.S. Coordinator for policy toward the future of Afghanistan and was the lead U.S. Government official in support of the Northern Ireland peace process. For his efforts, he received the State Department's Distinguished Honor Award. Ambassador Haass has extensive additional government experience. From 1989-1993, he was Special Assistant to President George Bush and Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council. In 1991, Haass was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal for his contributions to the development and articulation of U.S. policy during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Previously, he served in various posts in the Departments of State (1981-85) and Defense (1979-80) and was a legislative aide in the U.S. Senate.

Haass also has been Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at The Brookings Institution, the Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Studies at Hamilton College, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

A Rhodes Scholar, Haass holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and both the Master and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Oxford University.

Author:

The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course

The Reluctant Sheriff: The United States After the Cold War

Economic Sanctions and American Diplomacy

Intervention: The Use of American Military Force in the Post-Cold War World

Career Highlights:

President, Council on Foreign Relations

Former Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell

Former National Security Advisor to President George H.W. Bush