The Washington, DC Chapter of Sciences po Alumni, U.S.A., and the  CampusFrance Agency of the Embassy of France

Cordially invite you to a Panel Discussion

“American Elections from a European and American Perspective”

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

5:30 to 7:00 pm

 Embassy of France

4101 Reservoir road NW,

Washington DC 20007

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Description:

Professor James M. Goldgeier, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University and Justin Vaisse, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution in Washington DC, discuss the role of foreign policy on the US elections and their effect onTransatlantic Relations.

Moderator:

Harvey B. Feigenbaum (Sciences-po  alumnus) and Pascal Delisle (Sciences-po alumnus)

Speakers:

Justin Vaisse is Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution in Washington DC. A former advisor for the Policy Planning Staff of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Justin Vaisse focuses on American foreign policy and transatlantic relations. He is also an expert on Islam in France. He graduated from the Institut d’ Etudes Politiques de Paris in 1998 (Section: Service Public) and was an adjunct professor at Sciences-Po in Paris from 2003 to 2007, and is currently an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Vaisse is currently working on a major book on the history of neoconservatism in America. He is the author or co-author of several books on the United States, especially on American foreign policy, including the award-winning L'empire du milieu. Les Etats-Unis et le monde depuis la fin de la guerre froide (with Pierre Melandri - Paris: 2001) and Washington et le monde. Dilemmes d'une superpuissance (with Pierre Hassner - Paris: 2003).

Dr. James M. Goldgeier is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. At GWU, Professor Goldgeier teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in U.S. foreign policy and theories of international relations. He is the author of Leadership Style and Soviet Foreign Policy (John Hopkins, 1994), which received the Edgar Furniss book award in national and international security, and Not Whether But When: The U.S. Decision to Enlarge NATO (Brookings, 1999). Dr. Goldgeier co-authored (with Michael McFaul) Power and Purpose: U.S. Policy toward Russia after the Cold War (Brookings, 2003), which received the 2004 Lepgold Prize for the best book on international relations. His most recent book (co-authored with Derek Chollet) is America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11, published in June 2008 by Public Affairs.

Please reply no later than September 27, 2008. Feel free to forward this invitation to other Sciences po Alumni.

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