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October 17, 2007
Political science Sears Lecture Series begins with former CIA director
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - |
R. James Woolsey will present "Energy, Security and the Long War of the 21st Century" at 8 p.m. Nov. 12 in Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. The title for this year's Sears Lecture Series is "U.S. Security in an Insecure World." All talks are free and open to the public.
"R. James Woolsey has been a prominent figure in the U.S. national security policy community across several presidential administrations for both parties," said Louis René Beres, a professor of political science and event organizer. "Of course, he is best known for his leadership of the CIA during President Bill Clinton's administration."
Woolsey served as director of the CIA from 1993-95. He also served as ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe from 1989-91, as undersecretary of the Navy from 1977-79 and general counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services from 1970-73. From 1983-86 he was a delegate to the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks and the Nuclear and Space Arms Talks. He also served as a military adviser to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks from 1969-70.
Today he is vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, a Virginia-based consulting firm.
Future Sears Lecture Series speakers, topics and dates include:
* Shibley Telhami, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institute's Saban Center for Middle East Policy, will present "America and the Middle East: Where Are We, and Where Do We Go From Here?" at 8 p.m. Jan. 24 in Stewart Center's Fowler Hall.
* Tom Ricks, "Washington Post" military correspondent, will present "The Iraq War as a Failure of the American System?" at 8 p.m. Feb. 18 in Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse.
* Robert Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, will present "What's Wrong with the War on Terrorism?" at 8 p.m. March 26 in Stewart Center's Fowler Hall.
The Sears Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department of Political Science, which is housed in Purdue's College of Liberal Arts.
The biennial series is named for the late Purdue historian Louis Martin Sears, who was a faculty member in the then joint Department of History and Political Science from 1920 until his retirement in 1956. Sears specialized in diplomatic history and biography and was the author of numerous books. The lecture series bearing his name is alternately sponsored by the history and political science departments.
Writer: Amy Patterson Neubert, (765) 494-9723, apatterson@purdue.edu
Source: Louis René Beres, (765) 494-4189, lberes@purdue.edu
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