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FPA is proud to present Eason Jordan, President, Newsgathering and International Networks, CNN, as part of the Cyrus Vance Lecture Series. The Prevention of Deadly Conflict series seeks to Address the looming threats to world peace of intergroup violence and advance new ideas for the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict. The series will examine […]

The Foreign Policy Association and the American Turkish Society, Inc. invite you to attend a luncheon with Kemal Dervis, Economy Minister of the Republic of Turkey. Prior to being named the Turkish Economy Minister earlier this year, Mr. Dervis oversaw the World Bank’s poverty reduction programs worldwide and was also global network head for economic […]

Join us for our second annual World Leadership Forum and engage with top business leaders, policy makers, media leaders and leading academics in a discussion on the most important trends in the world economy. The goal of the World Leadership Forum is to stimulate an open debate among world leaders in business and government that […]

Presider: Jackie Adams, OTR Board of Governors Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 Location: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York Registration: 11:45am- 1:00pm Lecture and Discussion: 1:00pm – 2:00pm OTR is a midday lecture series offering current insights and analyses of critical foreign affairs issues. A continuing roster of distinguished experts […]

“On Money and Markets: A Wall Street Memoir” with Henry Kaufman Credit Suisse First Boston 2 2013-01-24 14:59:52 178527

Location Banco Santander Central Hispano 45 East 53rd Street (btw. Park & Madison Avenue), NYC Time Registration – 5:30 pm Lecture – 6:00 pm Reception -7:00 pm   Online Registration FPA Members: FREE Non-Members: $25 Guests of FPA Members and Members of the OTR Lecture Series: $15 Students (Valid ID Required): $5   Or call […]

The Annual FPA – NBC Luncheon: Great Decisions in Foreign Policy will be held this year at The Palace Hotel. 455 Madison Avenue New York City. Brian Williams, Host of “The News with Brian Williams,” and a distinguished panel of NBC correspondents will join FPA Members and the general public. As is customary at this […]

The Foreign Policy Association invites you to attend a lecture and discussion of a new book: “The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century” by Charles A. Kupchan This event is part of the Mary Belknap Lecture Series   Speaker: Charles A. Kupchan Associate Professor of International […]

The Foreign Policy Association cordially invites you to attend its annual Financial Services Dinner. This years honoree will be Sir John Bond, Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc. Keynote Speaker: Sir John Bond Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc.     Sponsored by:       AEA Investors American International Group (AIG) Arab Banking Corporation AXA Group […]

This event is open to Off-The-Record members only Presider: Anne Sitrick, Chairman, OTR Board of Governors Registration: 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Lecture and Discussion: 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Bar Association of the City of New York 2 2013-01-24 14:59:52 178527

The Foreign Policy Association and Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs present Richard Goldstone, Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa and Aryeh Neier President, Open Society Institute speaking on Promoting Democracy Through International Law RICHARD GOLDSTONE serves as a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He was Chief Prosecutor of the United […]

Before September 11th, few Americans had heard of the Taliban, and even fewer knew of its shocking treatment of women. Sally Armstrong, award-winning Canadian journalist and UNICEF special representative to Afghanistan, has done extensive research in that country, both during the Taliban’s chaotic reign and after. Along the way, she interviewed women, recording their daily […]

“Clash of Civilizations —or New World Disorder” Speaker: Arnaud de Borchgrave, Editor-at-Large, United Press International Presider: The Hon. John Train, Chairman, Northcote Parkinson Fund   Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 Location: Banco Santander Central Hispano 45 East 53rd Street (Between Park & Madison Avenue)   Time: Registration/5:30 pm Lecture/6:00 pm Reception/7:00 pm   Admission: FPA […]

The Foreign Policy Association and BritishAmerican Business Inc invite you to attend the Winston Churchill Lecture with Dick Grasso, Chairman & CEO, New York Stock Exchange, speaking on “Restoring Investor Confidence Worldwide”   Location: The Metropolitan Club One East 60th at Fifth Avenue   Time: April 30, 2003 12:00 – 2:00 PM   Registration: FPA/OTR […]

As editor of the influential Washington-based political magazine The Weekly Standard, Mr. Kristol is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading political analysts and commentators. Mr. Kristol regularly appears on Fox News Sunday and on the Fox News Channel. Before founding The Weekly Standard in 1995, Mr. Kristol lead the Project for the Republican […]

NBC News Luncheon Presider: Brian Williams, NBC News Anchor Speakers: A distinguished panel of NBC News Corespondents   Date: Thursday, April 24, 2003 Location: New York Palace Hotel 455 Madison Avenue, New York City   Time: Registration – 11:30 am Luncheon -12:00 pm Adjournment – 2:00 pm   Admission: FPA/OTR member: $85 Non-Members: $125 Limited […]

Lecture on “A Common European Defense-Utopian Dream or Practical Possibility?” Speaker: H.E. Yannos Papantoniou Greek Minister of National Defense Date: Thursday, April 3, 2003 Location: Banco Santander Central Hispano 45 East 53rd Street (Between Park & Madison Avenue) Time: Registration: 5:30 pm Lecture: 6:00 pm Reception: 7:00 pm Banco Santander Central Hispano 2 2013-01-24 14:59:52 […]

The Foreign Policy Association, The American Society of International Law and The Committee on International Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York invite you to attend a panel on “Pre-emptive Force: When can it be used? Implications for Iraq and North Korea” Moderator: Anne-Marie Slaughter Dean, Woodrow Wilson School […]

Speaker: Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University Presider: Patricia Huntington, OTR Board of Governors Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 Location: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 42 West 44th Street Registration: 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Lecture and Discussion: 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. This event is […]

Speaker: Kati Marton Author of “Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That shaped out Our Recent History” Location: Overseas Press Club 40 West 45th Street (Between 5th and 6th Avenue) Time Reception 5:30 Lecture 6:30 Select a level to register online below FPA Members: Free [member registration] Non-Members: $25 [Non-Member registration] Guests: $15 [Guest registration] Students: $5 […]

Amb. Richard N. Haass on “Defining a Post Post-Cold War Foreign Policy”. Location HSBC Bank USA Fifth Avenue at 40th Street, 11th Floor (Entrance on 40th Street) Time Registration – 5:30 pm Lecture – 6:00 pm Reception -7:00 pm   Online Registration Registration for this event has closed. HSBC Bank 2 2013-01-24 14:59:52 178527

Location TIAA-CREF Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. Auditorium 730 Third Avenue, 17th Floor (Between 45-46th Street) Time Registration – 5:30 pm Lecture – 6:00 pm Reception -7:00 pm   Registration: Online registration for this event is closed. For information on attending this event, please call 212 481 8100 x222. TIAA-CREF Building 2 2013-01-24 14:59:52 178527

Tired of having one-way conversations with CNN’s Paula Zahn? Want someone smart with whom to muse about cultural and political topics du jour? Craving a highly structured and intellectual environment in which to have these conversations? Of course you are. Sign up for the new MB/FPA Salon, “Middle East Press Coverage: Fair or Flawed?” Discuss […]

Board members of the Foreign Policy Association were recently in Brussels, where they were invited by the European Union to tour the European Parliament and the European Commission, before heading to Poland, where they met with President Aleksander Kwasniewski and other high-ranking members of the Polish government. The trip was led by George Cunningham, head […]

The undeniable threat of weapons of mass destruction presents new challenges to existing home security policies. In the weeks immediately after 9/11, letters contaminated by anthrax began appearing in cities on the eastern seaboard of the United States; in June 1993, two years before its successful sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, Aum […]

The Foreign Policy Association cordially invites its members to attend a luncheon celebrating Switzerland’s membership in the United Nations, and to welcome H.E. Kaspar Villiger, President of the Swiss Confederation. Villiger will deliver a speech titled, “Switzerland and the United Nations: Building on Common Values” For additional information, please call: (212) 481 8100 Ext. 256 […]

Speaker: Randall J. Larsen, Director of the ANSER Institute for Homeland Security, will lecture on the challenges facing the United States in its most urgent task — protecting its citizens from terrorist attacks. Presider: Col. Russell D. Howard, Professor and Head, Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy Time Registration 5:30 Lecture 6:00 Reception […]

Speaker: F. Gregory Gause III, Director, Middle East Institute and Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Vermont Presider: Arthur Ross, Vice Chairman, United Nations Association of the Americas Location: Banco Santander Central Hispano 45 East 53rd St. (Between Park and Madison Avenue) Admission: FPA Members FREE [member registration] Non-Member $25.00 [non-member] Guests $15.00 [Guest] […]

“New Trends in Global Economic Integration: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead” FPA’s annual World Leadership Forum brings together international policy-makers, heads of state and business leaders to address important issues that impact global policies. Last year’s forum included discussions by former President Bill Clinton, former World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz and former Federal Reserve […]

Speaker: H.E. Gareth Evans President & CEO, International Crisis Group Fomer Foreign Minister of Australia Presider: The Hon. Salvador Beltran del Rio President of the Society of Foreign Consuls in New York and Consul General of Mexico in New York Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 Location: Rockefeller University, Caspary Auditorium 1230 York Avenue (66th Street) […]