Wednesday, April 14, 2010WHEN: 7:00 a.m.WHAT: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce (USCC); and the U.S.-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Business Council breakfast honoring the Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam in an effort to enhance bilateral economic relations between Vietnam and the U.S. Speakers: U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk; Prime Minister of Vietnam Nguyen Tan Dung; David Chavern, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at USCC; and Alexander Feldman, President of the US-ASEAN Business Council.WHERE: Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC.CONTACT: 202-463-5682, http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=press@uschamber.com&subject=The%20U.S.%20Chamber%20of%20Commerce%20(USCC);%20and%20the%20U.S.-Association%20of%20Southeast%20Asian%20Nations%20(ASEAN)%20Business%20Council%20-%20Event%20; web site: http://www.uschamber.com/NOTE: Credentialed media must register to 202-463-5682 or http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=press@uschamber.com&subject=The%20U.S.%20Chamber%20of%20Commerce%20(USCC);%20and%20the%20U.S.-Association%20of%20Southeast%20Asian%20Nations%20(ASEAN)%20Business%20Council%20-%20Event%20 WHEN: 9:00 a.m.WHAT: The George Washington University (GWU) Elliott School of International Affairs Discussion on "L'imagination au pouvoir: Seeing a future for biological weapon disarmament." Speakers: Jean-Pascal Zanders, Research Fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies; and Amy Smithson, Senior Fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.WHERE: GWU Elliott School, 1957 E Street NW, Lindner Family Commons, Room 602, Washington, DC.CONTACT: 202-994-8025; web site: http://www.gwu.edu/ NOTE: RSVP to Kirk Bansak at http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=kirk.bansak@miis.edu&subject=The%20George%20Washington%20University%20(GWU)%20Elliott%20School%20of%20International%20Affairs%20-%20Discussion%20 WHEN: 9:00 a.m.WHAT: The Hudson Institute's Center for Political-Military Analysis; and Partner for a Secure America Discussion on "Assessing the Nuclear Security Summit." Speakers: Richard Weitz, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis at the Hudson Institute; former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Semmell, for Nuclear Nonproliferation; Christopher Ford, Senior Fellow and Director at the Center for Technology and Global Security at the Hudson Institute; Ken Luongo, President of the Partnership for Global Security; and Miles Pomper, Senior Research Associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.WHERE: Hudson Institute, 1015 15th Street NW, Walter and Betsy Stern Conference Center, Washington, DC.CONTACT: 202-223-7770; web site: http://www.hudson.org/NOTE: RSVP to Richard Weitz at http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=weitz@hudson.org&subject=The%20Hudson%20InstituteWHEN: 9:30 a.m.WHAT: Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing on “U.S. policy towards the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Witnesses: Defense Under Secretary for Policy Michele Flurnoy; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns; Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Corps Gen. James Cartwright; Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.WHERE: Room 253 Russell Senate Office Building.CONTACT: 202-224-3871; web site: http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/WHEN: 10:30 a.m.WHAT: House Armed Services Committee Hearing on “U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy and Force Structure.” Witnesses: Principal Deputy Defense Under Secretary for Policy James Miller; Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton, Commander of the U.S. Strategic Command; Energy Under Secretary for Nuclear Security Thomas D'Agostino, Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration; and Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Ellen Tauscher.WHERE: Room 2118 Rayburn House Office BuildingCONTACT: 202-225-4151; web site: http://www.armedservices.house.gov/ WHEN: 12:00 p.m.WHAT: The Heritage Foundation Discussion on "Iran's Nuclear Program: What Do We Know?" Speakers: Frederick Fleitz, professional staff member of the House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee; James Phillips, Senior Research Fellow of Middle Eastern affairs at the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation; Henry Sokolski, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center; and Helle Dale, Senior Fellow of Public Diplomacy at the Heritage Foundation.WHERE: Heritage Foundation, 214 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Lehrman Auditorium, Washington, DC.CONTACT: 202-675-1752, http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=lectures.seminars@heritage.org&subject=The%20Heritage%20Foundation%20-%20Discussion%20; web site: http://www.heritage.org/ NOTE: RSVP online: http://www.heritage.org/WHEN: 1:30 a.m.WHAT: House Appropriations Committee Hearing on "Security Assistance." Witnesses: Assistant Secretary of State David Johnson of the Bureau of International and Law Enforcement Affairs; Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Shapiro of the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs; and Daniel Benjamin, Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the State Department.WHERE: TBACONTACT: 202-225-2771: web site: http://appropriations.house.gov/WHEN: 2:00 p.m.WHAT: House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on "Combating Anti-Semitism: Protecting Human Rights." Witnesses: Hannah Rosenthal, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism at the State Department; Kenneth Jacobson, Deputy National Director of the Anti-Defamation League; Rabbi Andrew Baker, Director of International Jewish Affairs for the American Jewish Committee; and Elisa Massimino, President and CEO of Human Rights First.WHERE: Room 2172 Rayburn House Office BuildingCONTACT: 202-225-5021; web site: http://www.foreignaffairs.house.gov/ WHEN: 2:00 p.m.WHAT: The Hudson Institute Discussion on "Iran and the Russian Reset," assessing "the emerging U.S.-Russia-Iran strategic recalibration." Speakers: S. Enders Wimbush, Senior Vice President of International Programs and Policy at the Hudson Institute; Ariel Cohen, Senior Research Fellow at the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies at the Heritage Foundation; Svante Cornell, Research Director at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program; David Kramer, Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund; and Richard Weitz, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis at the Hudson Institute.WHERE: Hudson Institute, 1015 15th Street NW, Sixth Floor, Walter and Betsy Stern Conference Center, Washington, DC.CONTACT: 202-223-7770; web site: http://www.hudson.org/NOTE: RSVP to Richard Weitz at http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=weitz@hudson.org&subject=The%20Hudson%20Institute%20-%20Discussion%20
WHEN: 2:30 p.m.WHAT: Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing on “Strategic Forces Programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration in review of the Defense Authorization Request for FY2011.” Witness: Thomas D'Agostino, Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration.WHERE: Room 222 Russell Senate Office BuildingCONTACT: 202-224-3871; web site: http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/ WHEN: 2:30 p.m.WHAT: Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing on “Current Readiness of U.S. Forces.” Witnesses: Vice Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Peter Chiarelli; Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. James Amos; Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert; and Vice Chief of Staff of the Navy Gen. Carrol Chandler.WHERE: Room 562 Dirksen Senate Office BuildingCONTACT: 202-224-3871; web site: http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/ WHEN: 2:30 p.m.WHAT: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on "Unfinished Business in Southeast Europe: Opportunities and Challenges in the Western Balkans." Witnesses: Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Alexander Vershbow; Kurt Volker, Senior Fellow and Managing Director of Johns Hopkins University's Center on Transatlantic Relations; Ivan Vejvoda, Executive Director of the Balkan Trust for Democracy, The German Marshall Fund of the U.S., Belgrade, Serbia.WHERE: Room 419 Dirksen Senate Office BuildingCONTACT: 202-224-4651; web site: http://foreign.senate.gov/WHEN: 6:45 p.m.WHAT: Social Action and Leadership School for Activists (SALSA) Discussion on "The Israeli Nuclear Arsenal: Implications for the Middle East and the World."WHERE: SALSA, 1112 16th Street NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC.CONTACT: 202-234-9382 ext. 229NOTE: Register online: http://www.hotsalsa.org/
**************************************************Thursday, April 15, 2010WHEN: 8:00 a.m.WHAT: Energy Department; Inter-American Development Bank; Organization for American States; and Institute for the Americas Energy and Climate Ministerial of the Americas to bring energy leaders together to "advance the goals of the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas":- 8:00 a.m.: Welcoming remarks by Assistant Energy Secretary David Sandalow - 8:20 a.m.: Keynote address by Energy Secretary Steven Chu - 12:15 p.m.: Remarks by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton WHERE: Inter-American Development Bank, 1330 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC.CONTACT: 202-586-4940Note: The event is by invitation only. Media coverage information TBA. WHEN: 8:00 a.m.WHAT: The National Defense University Foundation Discussion on "Nukes, Missile Defense, and U.S. Security." Speaker: Principal Deputy Defense Under Secretary for Policy James MillerWHERE: The Capitol Hill Club, 300 First Street SE, Washington, DC.CONTACT: Elma Rhue, 202-685-3582; web site: http://www.ndu.edu/ NOTE: RSVP required to http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=rhuee@ndu.edu&subject=The%20National%20Defense%20University%20Foundation%20-%20Event%20 with the name(s) of the crew and whether you are bringing equipment such as cameras, etc. WHEN: 9:00 a.m. WHAT: The Jamestown Foundation holds a conference on "Implications for U.S. Security Interests in the Horn of Africa":- 9 a.m.: Opening address by Bruce Riedel, Senior Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Peace at the Brookings Institution- 1 p.m.: Keynote address by Daniel Benjamin, Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the State Department- 3:30 p.m.: panel discussion on "The Future of Yemen" with Victoria Clark, author of "Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes"; Christopher Boucek, Associate at the Carnegie Middle East Program; and former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Edmund HullWHERE: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC.CONTACT: 202-483-8888; web site: http://www.jamestown.org/ NOTE: Register online: http://yemenconference.eventbrite.com/
WHEN: 9:30 a.m.WHAT: Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing on nominations of Navy Vice Adm. James Winnefeld Jr., to be admiral and commander of the United States Northern Command and Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command; and Army Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander to be General and Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command. Witnesses. Nominees.WHERE: Room G-50 Dirksen Senate Office Building.CONTACT: 202-224-3871; web site: http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/ WHEN: 10:00 a.m.WHAT: House Armed Services Committee Hearing on the “Independent Panel's Assessment of the Quadrennial Defense Review.” Witnesses: Former Defense Secretary William Perry and former White House National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, co-chairman of the U.S. Institute for Peace's Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel.WHERE: Room 2118 Rayburn House Office BuildingCONTACT: 202-225-4151; web site: http://www.armedservices.house.gov/ WHEN: 10:00 a.m.WHAT: House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on "Combating Climate Change in Africa." Witnesses: Jonathan Pershing, Deputy Special Envoy in the State Department's Office of the Special Envoy for Climate Change; Franklin Moore, Deputy Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development's Bureau for Africa; Leon Rajaobelina, Chairman of the Board of the Madagascar Foundation for Protected Areas and Biodiversity, former Malagasy Ambassador to the United States; and Fred Boltz, Senior Vice-President for Global Strategies at Conservation International.WHERE: Room 2172 Rayburn House Office BuildingCONTACT: 202-225-5021; web site: http://www.foreignaffairs.house.gov/
WHEN: 11:00 a.m.WHAT: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on "U.S. - Japan Relations." Witnesses: George Packard, President of the United States-Japan Foundation, New York, N.Y.; Richard Katz, Editor-in-Chief of the Oriental Economist Report, New York, N.Y.; Michael Auslin, Director of Japan studies for the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.WHERE: Room 419 Dirksen Senate Office BuildingCONTACT: 202-224-4651; web site: http://foreign.senate.gov/WHEN: 12:00 p.m.WHAT: The Hudson Institute Cnference on "Venezuelistan: Iran's Latin American Ambitions." Speakers: Retired Venezuelan Air Force Brig. Gen. Boris Saavedra; Alberto Bolivar, Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute of Bolivar; Manochehr Dorraj, Professor of Political Science at Texas Christian University; and former Costa Rican Ambassador to the United States, Jaime Daremblum, Senior Fellow and Director of Hudson's Center for Latin American Studies.WHERE: Hudson Institute, 1015 15th Street NW, Sixth Floor, Washington, DC.CONTACT: 202-223-7770; web site: http://www.hudson.org/NOTE: RSVP to http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=isaratsis@hudson.org&subject=The%20Hudson%20Institute%20-%20Conference%20 WHEN: 12:15 p.m.WHAT: University of Maryland Center for International and Security Studies Forum Discussion on “Nuclear Policy in the Obama Administration.” Speaker: Steve Fetter, Assistant Director at Large of the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President.WHERE: The University of Maryland, 1107 Van Munching Hall, College Park, Md.CONTACT: 301-405-7614; web site: http://www.umd.edu/
WHEN: 1:00 p.m.WHAT: National Press Club Newsmaker Luncheon with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano who will deliver an address on the state of the nation's and the world's aviation security system.WHERE: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Ballroom, Washington, DC.CONTACT: Melinda Cooke, 202-662-7516; web site: http://npc.press.org/
WHEN: 1:30 p.m.WHAT: House Armed Services Committee Hearing on “The Report on the Ballistic Missile Defense Review and the FY2011 National Defense Authorization Budget Request for Missile Defense Programs.” Witnesses: Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy Bradley Roberts; Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly, Director of the Missile Defense Agency; and J. Michael Gilmore, Director of Operational Test and Evaluation in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.WHERE: Room HVC-201, U.S. Capitol.CONTACT: 202-225-4151 recorded schedule 202-225-2675 http://www.armedservices.house.gov/ WHEN: 6:00 p.m.WHAT: The George Washington University (GWU) Elliott School of International Affairs Middle East Policy Forum on "Law and Order Under Hamas: Construction of an Islamic Security Sector?" Speakers: Yezid Sayigh, Professor of Middle East Studies at the Department of War Studies of the School of Social Science and Public Policy at King's College, London.WHERE: GWU Elliott School, 1957 E Street NW, Lindner Family Commons, Room 602, Washington, DC.CONTACT: 202-994-8025; web site: http://www.gwu.edu/
**********************************************Friday, April 16, 2010WHEN: 8 a.m. WHAT: The National Defense University Foundation Discussion on "Nuclear Deterrence Perspectives." Speakers: Linton Brooks, former Director of the National Nuclear Security Administration.WHERE: The Capitol Hill Club, 300 First Street SE, Washington, DC.CONTACT: Elma Rhue, 202-685-3582; web site: http://www.ndu.edu/ NOTE: Note: RSVP required.
WHEN: 8:30 a.m.WHAT: The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS); and the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) Conference on "International Relations of Asia 2010: Perspectives and Policy on a Changing Regional Order":- 8:30 a.m.: Welcoming remarks by Karl Jackson, Director of Asian studies and Southeast Asian studies at SAIS; and Meredith Miller, Vice President of Economic and Trade Affairs and Outreach at NBR.- 9:00 a.m.: Panel discussion on "Hard Security" with James Green of the Office of Policy Planning at the State Department; David Lampton, Director of China Studies at SAIS: Dean Cheng, Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation; and paper presenters: Sarah Yun, Emily McLeod, Jeffrey Tang, and Ben Arendt.WHERE: SAIS, Nitze Building, 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, AuditoriumCONTACT: Felisa Neuringer Klubes, 202-663-5626, http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=fklubes@jhu.edu; web site: http://www.jhu.edu/ WHEN: 9:00 a.m.WHAT: The Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE); the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation; the U.S. National Center for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC); and the Australian National University conference on "Seizing the Moment: APEC 2010 and 2011." Speakers include former Vice President Walter Mondale; and IIE Director C. Fred Bergsten.WHERE: IIE, 1750 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC.CONTACT: 202-328-9000; web site: http://www.iie.org/ NOTE: RSVP to http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=meetings@piie.com
WHEN: 10:00 a.m.WHAT: The National Press Club Newsmaker Program news conference to detail climate geoengineering challenges and possibilities. Speakers: Christopher King, Staff Director for the Office of House Science and Technology Committee Chairman Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.); environmental author Jeff Goodell; former White House Council of Environmental Quality official Sam Thernstrom.WHERE: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Zenger Room, Washington, DC.CONTACT: Frank Maisano, 202-828-5864, http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=frank.maisano@bgllp.com; web site: http://npc.press.org/
WHEN: 10:30 a.m. WHAT: The Heritage Foundation Discussion on "The Dollar, The Euro, and the International Monetary Order: What is the U.S. to Do?":- 10:30 a.m.: Panel Discussion with Steve Hanke, Co-Cirector of the Institute for Applied Economics and the Study of Business Enterprise at Johns Hopkins University; Judy Shelton, member of the Board of Directors at the National Endowment for Democracy; and William Beach, Director of the Center for Data Analysis at the Heritage Foundation- 12:00 p.m. Keynote address by Robert Mundell, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1999 and professor of economics at Columbia UniversityWHERE: Heritage Foundation, 214 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Allison AuditoriumCONTACT: 202-675-1752, http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=lectures.seminars@heritage.org; web site: http://www.heritage.org/
WHEN: 12:15 p.m. WHAT: The New America Foundation (NAF) Discussion on "Thinking Through the Thinkable on a Nuclear Iran." Speakers: Thomas Schelling, Professor at the University of Maryland and winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in economics; Jeffrey Lewis, Director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at NAF; and Steve Clemons, Director of the American Strategy Program at NAF.WHERE: New America Foundation, 1899 L Street NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC.CONTACT: Kate Brown, 202-596-3365, http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=brown@newamerica.net; http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=communications@newamerica.net; web site: http://www.newamerica.net/ NOTE: RSVP online: http://www.newamerica.net/events/2010/tom_schelling [http://www.newamerica.net/events/2010/tom_schelling]; The webcast will be available live online: http://www.newamerica.net/events/2010/tom_schelling [http://www.newamerica.net/events/2010/tom_schelling] and http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/ [http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/
WHEN: 1:00 p.m.WHAT: Asia Society Washington Center Discussion with Commander of the U.S. Central Command Gen. David Petraeus who will deliver remarks on his perspectives on an array of issues.WHERE: Army Navy Club, 901 17th Street NW, Washington, DC.CONTACT: 202-833-2742
WHEN: 2:30 p.m.WHAT: Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing on “Strategic Forces Programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration in review of the Defense Authorization Request for FY2011.” Witness: Thomas D'Agostino, Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration.WHERE: Room 222 Russell Senate Office BuildingCONTACT: 202-224-3871; web site: http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/ WHEN: 2:30 p.m.WHAT: Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing on “Current Readiness of U.S. Forces.” Witnesses: Vice Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Peter Chiarelli; Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. James Amos; Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert; and Vice Chief of Staff of the Navy Gen. Carrol Chandler.WHERE: Room 562 Dirksen Senate Office BuildingCONTACT: 202-224-3871; web site: http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/ WHEN: 2:30 p.m.WHAT: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on "Unfinished Business in Southeast Europe: Opportunities and Challenges in the Western Balkans." Witnesses: Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Alexander Vershbow; Kurt Volker, Senior Fellow and Managing Director of Johns Hopkins University's Center on Transatlantic Relations; Ivan Vejvoda, Executive Director of the Balkan Trust for Democracy, The German Marshall Fund of the U.S., Belgrade, Serbia.WHERE: Room 419 Dirksen Senate Office BuildingCONTACT: 202-224-4651; web site: http://foreign.senate.gov/WHEN: 6:45 p.m.WHAT: Social Action and Leadership School for Activists (SALSA) Discussion on "The Israeli Nuclear Arsenal: Implications for the Middle East and the World."WHERE: SALSA, 1112 16th Street NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC.CONTACT: 202-234-9382 ext. 229NOTE: Register online: http://www.hotsalsa.org/
**************************************************Thursday, April 15, 2010WHEN: 8:00 a.m.WHAT: Energy Department; Inter-American Development Bank; Organization for American States; and Institute for the Americas Energy and Climate Ministerial of the Americas to bring energy leaders together to "advance the goals of the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas":- 8:00 a.m.: Welcoming remarks by Assistant Energy Secretary David Sandalow - 8:20 a.m.: Keynote address by Energy Secretary Steven Chu - 12:15 p.m.: Remarks by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton WHERE: Inter-American Development Bank, 1330 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC.CONTACT: 202-586-4940Note: The event is by invitation only. Media coverage information TBA. WHEN: 8:00 a.m.WHAT: The National Defense University Foundation Discussion on "Nukes, Missile Defense, and U.S. Security." Speaker: Principal Deputy Defense Under Secretary for Policy James MillerWHERE: The Capitol Hill Club, 300 First Street SE, Washington, DC.CONTACT: Elma Rhue, 202-685-3582; web site: http://www.ndu.edu/ NOTE: RSVP required to http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=rhuee@ndu.edu&subject=The%20National%20Defense%20University%20Foundation%20-%20Event%20 with the name(s) of the crew and whether you are bringing equipment such as cameras, etc. WHEN: 9:00 a.m. WHAT: The Jamestown Foundation holds a conference on "Implications for U.S. Security Interests in the Horn of Africa":- 9 a.m.: Opening address by Bruce Riedel, Senior Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Peace at the Brookings Institution- 1 p.m.: Keynote address by Daniel Benjamin, Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the State Department- 3:30 p.m.: panel discussion on "The Future of Yemen" with Victoria Clark, author of "Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes"; Christopher Boucek, Associate at the Carnegie Middle East Program; and former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Edmund HullWHERE: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC.CONTACT: 202-483-8888; web site: http://www.jamestown.org/ NOTE: Register online: http://yemenconference.eventbrite.com/
WHEN: 9:30 a.m.WHAT: Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing on nominations of Navy Vice Adm. James Winnefeld Jr., to be admiral and commander of the United States Northern Command and Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command; and Army Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander to be General and Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command. Witnesses. Nominees.WHERE: Room G-50 Dirksen Senate Office Building.CONTACT: 202-224-3871; web site: http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/ WHEN: 10:00 a.m.WHAT: House Armed Services Committee Hearing on the “Independent Panel's Assessment of the Quadrennial Defense Review.” Witnesses: Former Defense Secretary William Perry and former White House National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, co-chairman of the U.S. Institute for Peace's Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel.WHERE: Room 2118 Rayburn House Office BuildingCONTACT: 202-225-4151; web site: http://www.armedservices.house.gov/ WHEN: 10:00 a.m.WHAT: House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on "Combating Climate Change in Africa." Witnesses: Jonathan Pershing, Deputy Special Envoy in the State Department's Office of the Special Envoy for Climate Change; Franklin Moore, Deputy Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development's Bureau for Africa; Leon Rajaobelina, Chairman of the Board of the Madagascar Foundation for Protected Areas and Biodiversity, former Malagasy Ambassador to the United States; and Fred Boltz, Senior Vice-President for Global Strategies at Conservation International.WHERE: Room 2172 Rayburn House Office BuildingCONTACT: 202-225-5021; web site: http://www.foreignaffairs.house.gov/
WHEN: 11:00 a.m.WHAT: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on "U.S. - Japan Relations." Witnesses: George Packard, President of the United States-Japan Foundation, New York, N.Y.; Richard Katz, Editor-in-Chief of the Oriental Economist Report, New York, N.Y.; Michael Auslin, Director of Japan studies for the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.WHERE: Room 419 Dirksen Senate Office BuildingCONTACT: 202-224-4651; web site: http://foreign.senate.gov/WHEN: 12:00 p.m.WHAT: The Hudson Institute Cnference on "Venezuelistan: Iran's Latin American Ambitions." Speakers: Retired Venezuelan Air Force Brig. Gen. Boris Saavedra; Alberto Bolivar, Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute of Bolivar; Manochehr Dorraj, Professor of Political Science at Texas Christian University; and former Costa Rican Ambassador to the United States, Jaime Daremblum, Senior Fellow and Director of Hudson's Center for Latin American Studies.WHERE: Hudson Institute, 1015 15th Street NW, Sixth Floor, Washington, DC.CONTACT: 202-223-7770; web site: http://www.hudson.org/NOTE: RSVP to http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=isaratsis@hudson.org&subject=The%20Hudson%20Institute%20-%20Conference%20 WHEN: 12:15 p.m.WHAT: University of Maryland Center for International and Security Studies Forum Discussion on “Nuclear Policy in the Obama Administration.” Speaker: Steve Fetter, Assistant Director at Large of the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President.WHERE: The University of Maryland, 1107 Van Munching Hall, College Park, Md.CONTACT: 301-405-7614; web site: http://www.umd.edu/
WHEN: 1:00 p.m.WHAT: National Press Club Newsmaker Luncheon with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano who will deliver an address on the state of the nation's and the world's aviation security system.WHERE: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Ballroom, Washington, DC.CONTACT: Melinda Cooke, 202-662-7516; web site: http://npc.press.org/
WHEN: 1:30 p.m.WHAT: House Armed Services Committee Hearing on “The Report on the Ballistic Missile Defense Review and the FY2011 National Defense Authorization Budget Request for Missile Defense Programs.” Witnesses: Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy Bradley Roberts; Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly, Director of the Missile Defense Agency; and J. Michael Gilmore, Director of Operational Test and Evaluation in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.WHERE: Room HVC-201, U.S. Capitol.CONTACT: 202-225-4151 recorded schedule 202-225-2675 http://www.armedservices.house.gov/ WHEN: 6:00 p.m.WHAT: The George Washington University (GWU) Elliott School of International Affairs Middle East Policy Forum on "Law and Order Under Hamas: Construction of an Islamic Security Sector?" Speakers: Yezid Sayigh, Professor of Middle East Studies at the Department of War Studies of the School of Social Science and Public Policy at King's College, London.WHERE: GWU Elliott School, 1957 E Street NW, Lindner Family Commons, Room 602, Washington, DC.CONTACT: 202-994-8025; web site: http://www.gwu.edu/
**********************************************Friday, April 16, 2010WHEN: 8 a.m. WHAT: The National Defense University Foundation Discussion on "Nuclear Deterrence Perspectives." Speakers: Linton Brooks, former Director of the National Nuclear Security Administration.WHERE: The Capitol Hill Club, 300 First Street SE, Washington, DC.CONTACT: Elma Rhue, 202-685-3582; web site: http://www.ndu.edu/ NOTE: Note: RSVP required.
WHEN: 8:30 a.m.WHAT: The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS); and the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) Conference on "International Relations of Asia 2010: Perspectives and Policy on a Changing Regional Order":- 8:30 a.m.: Welcoming remarks by Karl Jackson, Director of Asian studies and Southeast Asian studies at SAIS; and Meredith Miller, Vice President of Economic and Trade Affairs and Outreach at NBR.- 9:00 a.m.: Panel discussion on "Hard Security" with James Green of the Office of Policy Planning at the State Department; David Lampton, Director of China Studies at SAIS: Dean Cheng, Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation; and paper presenters: Sarah Yun, Emily McLeod, Jeffrey Tang, and Ben Arendt.WHERE: SAIS, Nitze Building, 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, AuditoriumCONTACT: Felisa Neuringer Klubes, 202-663-5626, http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=fklubes@jhu.edu; web site: http://www.jhu.edu/ WHEN: 9:00 a.m.WHAT: The Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE); the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation; the U.S. National Center for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC); and the Australian National University conference on "Seizing the Moment: APEC 2010 and 2011." Speakers include former Vice President Walter Mondale; and IIE Director C. Fred Bergsten.WHERE: IIE, 1750 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC.CONTACT: 202-328-9000; web site: http://www.iie.org/ NOTE: RSVP to http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=meetings@piie.com
WHEN: 10:00 a.m.WHAT: The National Press Club Newsmaker Program news conference to detail climate geoengineering challenges and possibilities. Speakers: Christopher King, Staff Director for the Office of House Science and Technology Committee Chairman Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.); environmental author Jeff Goodell; former White House Council of Environmental Quality official Sam Thernstrom.WHERE: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Zenger Room, Washington, DC.CONTACT: Frank Maisano, 202-828-5864, http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=frank.maisano@bgllp.com; web site: http://npc.press.org/
WHEN: 10:30 a.m. WHAT: The Heritage Foundation Discussion on "The Dollar, The Euro, and the International Monetary Order: What is the U.S. to Do?":- 10:30 a.m.: Panel Discussion with Steve Hanke, Co-Cirector of the Institute for Applied Economics and the Study of Business Enterprise at Johns Hopkins University; Judy Shelton, member of the Board of Directors at the National Endowment for Democracy; and William Beach, Director of the Center for Data Analysis at the Heritage Foundation- 12:00 p.m. Keynote address by Robert Mundell, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1999 and professor of economics at Columbia UniversityWHERE: Heritage Foundation, 214 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Allison AuditoriumCONTACT: 202-675-1752, http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=lectures.seminars@heritage.org; web site: http://www.heritage.org/
WHEN: 12:15 p.m. WHAT: The New America Foundation (NAF) Discussion on "Thinking Through the Thinkable on a Nuclear Iran." Speakers: Thomas Schelling, Professor at the University of Maryland and winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in economics; Jeffrey Lewis, Director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at NAF; and Steve Clemons, Director of the American Strategy Program at NAF.WHERE: New America Foundation, 1899 L Street NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC.CONTACT: Kate Brown, 202-596-3365, http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=brown@newamerica.net; http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=communications@newamerica.net; web site: http://www.newamerica.net/ NOTE: RSVP online: http://www.newamerica.net/events/2010/tom_schelling [http://www.newamerica.net/events/2010/tom_schelling]; The webcast will be available live online: http://www.newamerica.net/events/2010/tom_schelling [http://www.newamerica.net/events/2010/tom_schelling] and http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/ [http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/
WHEN: 1:00 p.m.WHAT: Asia Society Washington Center Discussion with Commander of the U.S. Central Command Gen. David Petraeus who will deliver remarks on his perspectives on an array of issues.WHERE: Army Navy Club, 901 17th Street NW, Washington, DC.CONTACT: 202-833-2742
