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Americas - Audio and Transcripts (members' only)
Members-only audio and transcripts from members' events related to the Americas are listed below. Other event transcripts can be found in the reports and papers section under 'Other Resources'.
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Tuesday 30 June 2009 18:00 to 19:15
What Will the World Look Like in the Obama Era?
The Lord Garden Memorial Lecture
Lord Ashdown of Norton-Sub-Hamdon, Co-President, Chatham House
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Thursday 18 June 2009 17:30 to 18:30
Europe and the United States: Between Fear and Hope
Dominique Moisi, Senior Advisor, Institut Francais des Relations Internationales; author, The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Monday 15 June 2009 17:30 to 18:30
A Global New Deal: Lessons From FDR's UN Projects
Speaker: Dr Dan Plesch, Director, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD)
Discussant: Professor Sir Richard Jolly, Honorary Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex; Assistant Secretary General, United Nations (1982-2000)
Chair: Professor William Barnard, Democrats Abroad UK
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Thursday 28 May 2009 13:30 to 14:30
Drugs and Democracy: The War on Drugs and the Need for a New Way Forward
HE Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Former President of Brazil
Discussant: Mike Trace, Chairman, International Drug Policy Consortium
Moderator: Professor Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Associate Fellow, Americas, Chatham House
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Wednesday 6 May 2009 17:30 to 18:30
'War on Terror' - The Idea, The Reality
Professor Philip Bobbitt, Herbert Wechsler Professor of Jurisprudence, Columbia Law School; author, Terror and Consent: The Wars for the 21st Century
Chair: Dr Paul Cornish, Head, International Security Programme, Chatham House and Carrington Chair in International Security
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Wednesday 1 April 2009 09:30 to 11:00
The London Summit: Multiple Perspectives on the G20
Dr Youssef Boutros-Ghali, Minister of Finance, Egypt; Chairman, International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC)
Lord Malloch-Brown, Prime Minister's Special Envoy for the G20 London Summit
Dan Price, Senior Partner for Global Issues, Sidley Austin
Stephen Roach, Chairman, Morgan Stanley Asia
Dr Paola Subacchi, Research Director, International Economics, Chatham House
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Thursday 12 March 2009 08:00 to 09:00
More Foreign, Less Office: Doing Diplomacy in the 21st Century
Under 35s Forum
James Bevan, Director-General for Change and Delivery, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chair: Zeina Al Khalifa, First Secretary, Embassy of the Kingdom of Bahrain
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Monday 16 February 2009 17:30 to 18:30
NATO in Afghanistan: Transatlantic Security and Canadian Defence Strategy
The Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay, Minister of National Defence, Canada
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Wednesday 28 January 2009 17:30 to 18:30
Reconnecting with the Rule of Law: Constitutionality and Foreign Policy in the Obama Administration
Philippe Sands QC, Professor of Law, University College London; barrister, Matrix Chambers; Author; Torture Team: Deception, Cruelty and the Compromise of Law
David Cole, Centre for Transnational Legal Studies; Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Chair: Elizabeth Wilmshurst, Associate Fellow, International Law Programme, Chatham House
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Tuesday 27 January 2009 09:00 to 12:00
Managing Global Insecurity
Keynote speaker:
Rt Hon David Miliband MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Respondents:
Sandy Berger, Chairman, Stonebridge International; former US National Security Advisor
Thomas Pickering, Vice Chairman, Hills & Company; former US Permanent Representative to the United Nations
Bruce Jones, Director, Center on International Cooperation, New York University
Stephen J Stedman, Senior Fellow, Center for International Security Cooperation, Stanford University
Anwar Choudhury, Director, International Institutions, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chairs:
Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
Carlos Pascual, Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution
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Thursday 22 January 2009 17:30 to 18:30
Regaining the Initiative: Opportunities for the US Under President Obama
Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House; Author, forthcoming Chatham House Report, Rethinking the United States' International Role
Chair: Michael Moore MP, Council, Chatham House
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Tuesday 20 January 2009 18:30 to 19:30
President Obama: Key Challenges in the US Relationship with China
David Schlesinger, Editor-in-Chief, Reuters News
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Thursday 15 January 2009 18:00 to 19:00
Reflections on the US-UK Relationship
HE Robert H Tuttle, Ambassador of the United States to the UK
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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