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THE 2007 ANNUAL DINNER
I support FPRI because it’s not afraid to say that America, despite
its flaws, has been a force for good in the world.
—FPRI Trustee John M. Templeton Jr.,
quoted in National Review, April 16, 2007.
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The Foreign Policy Research Institute’s
2007 ANNUAL DINNERFeaturing the presentation of
THE 3RD ANNUAL
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD
to
PHILIP ZELIKOW
Address following the Presentation
on America’s Role in the World
Thursday, November 15, 2007
The Westin Hotel – Philadelphia99 South 17th Street at Liberty Place
Chairs, Annual Dinner:John M. Templeton, Jr. and Ronald J. Naples
Chair, Special Events: Susan H. GoldbergChairman of the Board: Robert L. Freedman
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THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AWARD FOR PUBLIC SERVICE
FPRI seeks to bring the best of scholarship to bear on foreign policy issues andemphasizes the importance of public service on behalf of the nation. These twoelements are also symbolized by the career of Benjamin Franklin, who devotedhimself from an early age to public service and to resolving problems throughobjective analysis, drawing upon the best knowledge available. Franklin’sinternational career culminated in his role as a diplomat whose work provedcrucial in securing American independence.
In 2005, on the occasion of FPRI’s 50th anniversary and on the eve of BenjaminFranklin’s 300th birthday, we presented the first annual Benjamin FranklinAward for Public Service, to honor Americans whose public service exemplifiesthe ideals of Benjamin Franklin and the United States. That first award waspresented to Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, and the second to journalist CharlesKrauthammer. This year, the trustees of FPRI are pleased to designate PhilipZelikow as the third honoree.
PHILIP ZELIKOW
Philip Zelikow is the White Burkett Miller Professorof History at the University of Virginia and serves onthe advisory panel for global development of the Billand Melinda Gates Foundation. From 2005-07 he wasCounselor of the State Department, and in 2003-04 hewas executive director of the 9/11 Commission, themost wide-ranging government investigation in U.S.history. In 2001 he directed the Carter-Ford
commission on federal election reform, which successfully guided legislation andspending to revamp America’s election systems. From 2001-03 he was also amember of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
When not in government, Zelikow has taught and directed research programs atHarvard University and at University of Virginia, where he directed the MillerCenter of Public Affairs from 1998-2005. His books include The Kennedy Tapes(with Ernest May, Norton); Essence of Decision (revised edition with GrahamAllison, Longman); and Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (withCondoleezza Rice, Harvard University Press).
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PROGRAM
Welcoming Remarks – Ronald J. Naples
Presentation of Colors – Drexel ROTC Honor Guard
(“Task Force Dragon Army ROTC”)
America the Beautiful - Brass Quintet
DinnerPresentation of the Third Annual
Benjamin Franklin Public Service Award
to Philip Zelikow
by Robert L. Freedman, Chairman, Harvey Sicherman, President,Susan H. Goldberg, Special Events Chair,and Ronald J. Naples, Dinner Co-chair
Keynote Address – America’s Role in the World
Philip Zelikow
Closing Remarks – Ronald J. Naples
Musical Tribute to the U.S. Armed Forces - Brass Quintet
(David Ludwig, Artistic Director)
Adjournment
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2007 PARTNERS(as of October 19, 2007)
PRESENTING SPONSORSDRS. JOHN & JOSEPHINE TEMPLETON
W. W. KEEN BUTCHER
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PLATINUM
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We also thank our Dinner SupportersBennett AaronJames AggerEd BacharachHon. Adrian BasoraGeorge J. BaxterPeter and Victoria Dachowski Theodore Friend Ivan H. GabelRobert GalvinNancy GilboyMr. and Mrs. Richard W. Graham IIHon. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.Mrs. Dorrance HamiltonCheryl and Fred HalpernJoseph J. Janos IIIMr. and Mrs. Morgan R. JonesJerome Kaplan
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(USN, Ret.)Joseph S. Zuritsky
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2007 FPRI HIGHLIGHTS
Highlights of FPRI’s research, publications, events, and media coverage in 2007 arepresented below by major programmatic areas.
A NEW AMERICAN STRATEGY
America needs a long-term national strategy to meet the challenges to its security.These include not only terrorism but also the changing foreign policies ofcountries such as Russia and China and the effects of economic globalization.Harvey Sicherman, president of FPRI and a former aide to three U.S. secretariesof state, is writing a book entitled Cheap Hawks, Cheap Doves, and the Pursuit of
American Strategy, that will address our nationalsecurity imperative from a geopolitical and historicalperspective.
“Counterinsurgency has a vital political componentcharacterized by the “three C’s”.
A new government must be able to:(1) co-opt important political groups,
(2) corrupt others to cooperate; and(3) coerce those who refuse.
Good counterinsurgency political policyreduces the “coercibles” to the smallest number.”
—Harvey Sicherman, in his January 2007 FPRI Enote,“Iraq Endgame.”
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The Center on Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Homeland Security, foundedafter 9/11, studies international terrorism, examines critical vulnerabilities inAmerica’s infrastructure, and suggests ways to improve homeland security.
In December 2006, the Center sponsored a two-day conference, Five Years After9/11: What Needs To Be Done? keynoted by Vice Adm. (Ret.) Lowell E.Jacoby of CACI International. At the invitation of conference participant Col. James Powers, director of the Pennsylvania Office of Homeland Security,Drs. Gale and Sicherman subsequently attended a July 6 meeting in Harrisburgof the Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness Advisory Council, ofwhich FPRI was made a permanent member. Also attending were CEOs ofcompanies responsible for critical infrastructure in Pennsylvania. On September24, the Center held a one-day seminar on Public and Private Cooperation onCritical Infrastructure, featuring a keynote address by John J. Guest, U.S.Department of Homeland Security Regional Protective Security Advisor for theMid-Atlantic Region.
On Jan. 24, 2007, the Center co-sponsored, with the American Academy ofDiplomacy, a symposium on Terrorism and Diplomacy, featuring a keynoteaddress by Rand Beers.
The Center also offers briefings on the war on terror supported in part by a grantfrom the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. These briefings are offered as a publicservice (free and open to the public). In 2007, it presented the following talks:
What Students Should Know About 9/11 and the War on Terrorism, two45-minute webcasts for secondary school classes, featuring Stephen Gale,Lawrence Husick, Michael Radu, and Harvey Sicherman. More than 50schools from around the country participated. Tokyo Broadcasting Systeminterviewed both the speakers and students in the live studio audience fortheir article on this program.
Lawrence Husick on The Battle for Muslim Hearts and Minds
CENTER ON TERRORISM, COUNTERTERRORISM, ANDHOMELAND SECURITY
Co-chairs: Stephen Gale and Michael Radu
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Matthew Levitt on Hamas, Fatah and Israel
Robert Sica on Homeland Security from the Perspective of the U.S. SecretService (co-sponsored with the Union League of Philadelphia)
Harvey Sicherman and Edward Turzanski, Impromptu Briefing on Iraq:The Next Phase
Senior Fellow Mr. Husick gave commentary on the film Obsession: RadicalIslam’s War Against the West, for the Friends of Huntingdon Valley Library inNovember 2007.
Dr. Turzanski was appointed to the Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council (ATAC),which is coordinated by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Philadelphia.
Forensic psychiatrist and Center Senior Fellow MarcSageman’s Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-first Century (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press) is forthcoming inDecember 2007. Dr. Sageman was in demand throughoutthe year with the media, particularly after the GlasgowAirport attack.
The War on Terrorism: A collection of FPRI essays, 2001-2007, was released on September 11, 2007 and is availableupon request. As. Dr. Sicherman writes in the introduction,“this volume helps to fulfill FPRI’s overall mission not onlyto describe an issue, but also to suggest public policy thatadvances the causes of American ideals and interests.” Theenotes, Orbis articles, and essays are presented under thesections American Strategy, Homeland Security, Knowingthe Enemy, the Military Dimension, and What Young People
Should Know About Terrorism.
The War on Terrorism
A collection of FPRI essays, 2001-2007
Foreign Policy Research InstituteCenter on Terrorism, Counterterrorism,
and Homeland Security
Stephen GaleMichael Radu
Harvey SichermanEditors
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Senior Fellow Abdallah Schleifer was a featured scholar in PBS’s “Jihad: TheMen and Ideas behind Al Qaeda,” the first of a multi-part series, “America at aCrossroads.”
Dr. Radu’s manuscript, Islam in Europe, has been completed and submitted forpublication.
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF AMERICA AND THE WESTCo-chairs: Walter McDougall and James Kurth
The Center for the Study of America and the West conducts research to answerthe question, what is “the West”? It also publishes original works, runs a studygroup, and sponsors a History Institute for Teachers that serves high schoolteachers from around the country.
Over the past year, the Center’s Study Group commissioned and discussed papersby Christian Kopff on Cicero and Tacitus on Empire: The Roman Tradition andAmerican Conceptions of Foreign Policy; James Kurth on ReconstructingWestern Principles in an Anti-Western Age; and Andrew Roberts, A History ofthe English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900. It also arranged for a talk by JeremyBlack on The State of Europe, Stephen Kotkin’s talk, “Russia under Putin,Toward Democracy or Dictatorship?,” cosponsored by the Midatlantic-RussiaBusiness Council, and “The Election of French President Nicholas Sarkozy: ANew Era in French-American Relations?” co-presented by the French-AmericanChamber of Commerce, Host-Sponsored by Duane Morris LLP, with HarveySicherman, David Appia and Jean-Loup Archawski.
Dr. McDougall completed the second volume of his U.S. history, continuing onfrom Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585–1828(HarperCollins, 2004); volume 2, Throes of Democracy: The American Civil WarEra, 1829–1877, will be published in March 2008.
PROGRAM ON NATIONAL SECURITY
Chair: The Hon. John F. Lehman, Jr.; Director: Michael Noonan
What is the best military strategy for conducting the war on terror? How shouldU.S. forces be organized to provide for the common defense? FPRI helps answerthese and other important national security questions through research,conferences, and publications.
The Program’s most exciting news this year was the safe return in June ofDirector Michael Noonan, a captain in the U.S. Army Reserve, from his 14-month deployment to Texas, Kuwait, and Iraq, where he served on a MilitaryTransition Team with an Iraqi light infantry battalion in and around thenorthern city of Tal Afar. Mr. Noonan gave An Eyewitness Briefing on Iraq forFPRI’s Summer School in July; an article based on this presentation has beenpublished in the November/December 2007 American Interest.
On October 15, the program co-sponsored (with the Reserve OfficersAssociation) a conference held in Washington, D.C., Mind the Gap: Post-IraqCivil-Military Relations in America. The Conference covered Military andSociety (John Allen Williams, Tom Ricks, Elizabeth Stanley), InteragencyProcess (Bernard Carreau, Nadia Schadlow, Heather Coyne), Operation IraqiFreedom and Civil-Military Relations (Frank Hoffman, Peter Feaver, RichardKohn), Professional Ethics and Dissent (Don Snider, LtGen Gregory Newbold,and Peter Hegseth), and a keynote address by the Hon. Ike Skelton, Chairmanof the House Armed Service Committee.
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ASIA PROGRAM - Director: Jacques deLisle
FPRI’s Asia Program promotes debate and analysis of the many importantdevelopments in this vital region. Each year the program includes four elements:(1) research, (2) the Study Group on the U.S. and Asia, (3) an annualconference; and (4) educational programs for the public and teachers.
The topic of the Program’s March 2007 conference was China Rising: AssessingChina’s Economic and Military Power, keynoted by John Pomfret,Washington Post correspondent and author of Chinese Lessons. Participantsincluded a reporter from Beijing Review, who interviewed participants AveryGoldstein and Jonathan Pollak.
The Program is currently planning its March 2008 conference,Political Transitions and Foreign Policy in East Asia, aconference on regional business issues, such as the “Tai-shang”(Taiwanese businesspeople on the mainland), and a symposiumon the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The Program’s Study Group hosted a talk by Tom Ginsburg onLessons for Democratic Transitions: Case Studies from Asia.
A fascinating new book called Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Poweris Transforming the World, looks at Beijing’s increasing skill at usingdiplomacy, trade incentives, cultural and educational exchanges, andother techniques to build an image of a benign global leader. Speakinglast week at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, thebook’s author, Asia specialist Joshua Kurlantzick, described thepractical reasons China is relying more on soft than hard power.”Trudy Rubin, “China woos globe with ‘soft power’,” PhiladelphiaInquirer, an article widely republished since its originalpublication in late July
“The implications of China’s continued rapid growth include China’s overtaking theU.S. in overall GDP terms sometime around 2040. Such a large and fast-growingeconomy will change global patterns of production, trade, and pricing, and alsoimplies adjustments in the balance of global military force projection capabilities.”
— Albert Keidel, “Assessing China’s Economic Rise: Strengths,Weaknesses and Implications,” FPRI Enote, July 2007
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PROJECT ON DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONSDirector: Amb. Adrian Basora
With Russia resurgent and democracy under attack in certain key post-Sovietstates, this FPRI project on postcommunist transitions is synthesizing key lessonslearned since 1989 and applying them to current-day Europe and Eurasia. TheProject’s goal is to develop more effective guidelines for democracy-promotion intoday’s changed and challenging circumstances. The target audiences includepolicymakers and aid-providers in both Washington and Europe, and democraticreform advocates and leaders in the former communist countries themselves.
The Project´s Transatlantic Steering Group held its second annual conference inFebruary 2007; findings from that conference will appear in the Winter 2008issue of Orbis and will be disseminated to leaders in Washington, Brussels andother European capitals.
“After the Berlin Wall fell in 1990, we didn’t go in andsay ‘We´re promoting democracy.’ What we did say was,“If you want to do these things, we´ll support you.’ Themessage was not that we’ll tell you what to do, but thatwe will support what you are doing. The Poles took us upon that right away, and then you had a domino effect:the Velvet Revolution, Hungary, etc. People had beenlonging for and working towards democracy for many
years. – Adrian Basora speaking on what he calls the post-postcommunist era onNPR’s Radio Times in March 2007.
THINK TANKS AND CIVIL SOCIETIES Director: James McGann
Over the past year, FPRI´s TTCS Program and the Center for Security Studies,a division of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich), developed thefirst online Think Tank Directory with data on think tanks working in the areaof security studies and international affairs throughout the world. Dr. McGanngave briefings and consultations with foundations and government agencies inHungary, Croatia, Slovakia, China, France, and Germany. The year also saw thepublication of his Think Tanks and Policy Advice in the US: Academics, Advisorsand Advocates (March 2007, Routledge).
American Interest
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FPRI IN THE MEDIA
Los Angeles Times
New Republic
Philadelphia Inquirer
Wall Street Journal
Philadelphia Inquirer
USA Today
FPRI scholars are regularly interviewed by local, national, and international media,which also regularly cite FPRI publications. In 2007, FPRI has appeared on or inmedia including:
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E-NOTES
Each week, FPRI transmits by email a succinct analysis of some criticalinternational issue. These bulletins are emailed to some 25,000 key people in 85countries directly, and reach thousands more indirectly by postings on theInternet at FPRI’s site (which now receives 50,000 visits a month) and inrepostings. Frequently they are reprinted in or quoted by newspapers around theworld. Below are examples of the subjects covered this year.
• How Iran Could Help End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,Robert Zelnick, 9/2007
• Mexico and the Drug Cartels, George W. Grayson, 8/2007• Assessing China’s Economic Rise: Strengths, Weaknesses and
Implications, Albert Keidel, 7/2007• Al Qaeda Confusion: How to Think about Jihad,
Michael Radu, 7/2007• Will “Europe” Survive the 21st Century?,
Walter McDougall, 7/2007• Castro’s Corn: Petroleum and Globalization,
Irving Louis Horowitz, 5/2007• World War II and Its Meaning for Americans,
David Eisenhower, 5/2007• Ten Counterinsurgency Commandments from Afghanistan,
Greg Mills, 4/2007• What Every American Needs to Know about Taiwan,
Shelley Rigger, 3/2007• Russia under Putin: Toward Democracy or Dictatorship?
Stephen Kotkin, 3/2007• Into Africa: China’s Quest For Resources And Influence,
Jacques deLisle, 2/2007• What’s Next in Somalia? Garrett Jones, 1/2007• Assessing the Long War, Frank G. Hoffman, 1/4/2007• Past the Apogee: America Under Pressure,
Charles Krauthammer, 12/2006• Briefing on Iraq Study Group Report,
Trudy Kuehner (reporter), 12/8/2006• Knowing the Enemy, Mary Habeck, 11/17/2006
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Orbis, a Journal of World Affairs
Half a century since its founding, Orbis continues to offerserious discourse on the full range of topics relating toAmerican foreign policy and national security, as well as in-depth analysis on important international developments.Orbis is available to institutional subscribers (universities,embassies, etc.) online at ScienceDirect.
James Kurth completed three years of editorship with theFall 2007 issue, and will be succeeded for now by a series ofguest editors (Adrian Basora for the Winter 2008
democratization special issue and Frank Hoffman and Michael Noonan for theSpring 2008 special military issue.)
Orbis 2007 contents included:
Winter 2007: Peter Cornelius and Jonathan Story on China and Global EnergyMarkets • David Lei on Outsourcing to China • Matthew Chen on ChineseNational Oil Companies • Vanni Cappelli on Pakistan • Thomas Johnson andChris Mason on Afghanistan • Laurie King-Irani on Iraq • Benjamin Schwartz onthe Wahhabi/Neo-Salafi Movement • Nikolas Gvosdev on Russia’s Identity •Daniel Treisman on Putin’s Silovarchs
Spring 2007: Bruce Cumings on the American Way of Going to War • PaulGottfried on Wilsonianism • Lawrence Jarvik on NGOs • Adam Stulberg onUAVs • Rocco Martino on Innovation • George Grayson on Mexican Corporatism• Seth Kaplan on the Congo • Bart Jan Spruyt on Liberalism and Islam in theNetherlands
Summer 2007: Andrew Roberts on the English Speaking Peoples • Elbridge Colbyon Restoring Deterrence • Christopher Hemmer on The Next Grand Strategy •Thomas McCabe on Muslims and Democracy • Harold James on Empire andAlternatives • Matthew Phillips on Anonymous Nuclear Attacks • DavidWestbrook on Radical Islamism • Harsh Pant on India’s Balancing Act • GlennKutler on U.S. Military Fatalities in Iraq: Year 4
Fall 2007: Barry Posen on U.S. Grand Strategy • Paul Smith on Climate Changeand Military Response • Geoffrey Till on Maritime Strategies • Jonathan Pollackon Chinese Military Power • Timothy Hoyt on Maritime Strategies in History •June Dreyer on China’s Power and Will • James Kurth on the New MaritimeStrategy • Andrew Erickson and Gabe Collins on China’s Energy Security Strategy• Claude Berube on The Promise of Private Naval Companies • Paul Bracken onFinancial Warfare • Joseph Figueiredo on U.S. Latin America Policy
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MARVIN WACHMAN FUND FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONDirector: Alan Luxenberg
The Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education focuses on “teachingthe teachers”—advancing teachers’ knowledge of world affairs and aiding themin incorporating this knowledge in the classroom – and encouraging a dialogueamong pre-college educators, university scholars, students, and parents. TheFund reaches teachers across the nation through Footnotes, its bulletin foreducators. These bulletins are frequently reprinted in American Educator andother magazines and posted at other websites.
Walter McDougall and David Eisenhower co-chair the Fund’s HistoryInstitute for Teachers. These history institutes receive generous funding fromthe Annenberg Foundation, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, and theKauffman Foundation, and in-kind support from the Cantigny First DivisionFoundation, a division of the McCormick Tribune Foundation. The Kauffmangrant will enable us to begin in 2008 a new program on Teaching the History ofInnovation. We are developing this program out of our conviction that studentsneed to better understand the historical context for and consequences ofchallenges in the physical world.
Each weekend-long program provides some 40 educators from around thecountry the opportunity to learn directly from the top scholars in their fields onsubjects teachers are often under-prepared to teach. Many more teachers accessthe videotapes, reports, classroom lessons, and other materials posted at ourwebsite. In 2007, we held three Institutes:
Teaching About the Military in American Historyand Teaching Military History: Why and How, bothco-sponsored by and held at the Cantigny First DivisionMuseum, Wheaton, IL. In addition to onsiteparticipants, registrants participated by webcast from
around the country as well as Iraq, Israel, Great Britain, Singapore, South Africa,Sri Lanka, and Switzerland. Reports from these conferences have been picked upby George Mason University’s History News Network and numerous other sites.The importance of teaching this oft-neglected subject has been widelycommented upon in the media in recent years, and the Wachman Fund ismaking this subject a core part of its program.
EDUCATION
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Living Without Freedom, co-sponsored by theNational Constitution Center and the NationalLiberty Museum, Philadelphia. Speakers includedCarlos Eire, whose book, Waiting for Snow inHavana, was the 2006-07 selection for One Book,One Philadelphia, a joint project of the Mayor’soffice and the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Fall 2007 sees the publication of Alan Luxenberg’s ThePalestine Mandate and the Creation of Israel, 1920-1949(Mason Crest) It is part of a 10-volume series for thesecondary school audience on THE MAKING OF THE
MODERN MIDDLE EAST. The series also includes volumesby FPRI Senior Fellow Barry Rubin on The IranianRevolution and the Resurgence of Islam and The MiddleEast in the Age of Uncertainty, 1991-present, and by
former FPRI Hooper Fellow J. E. Peterson on Tensions in the Gulf, 1978-1991.
Harvey Sicherman’s Concluding Comments to Students in the Webcast,
“What Students Need to Know About 9/11,” Sept. 11, 2007
You have to understand not only the rest of the world in this era but alsothe history of it. Today’s crises didn’t emerge because someone woke upone day and decided to do something. They are the consequences oflong-term trends, and the only thing that will prevent them frombecoming crises, that will allow you to manage problems over the long-term, is to become aware of those circumstances, understand the history.
My Ph.D is in political science, but I’m going to make the historians’case. Americans traditionally do not care for history because we’re acountry that looks to the future, the past seems like a burden to beshuffled off. But that’s not the way the rest of the world looks at it. Weare too far gone to say we will divorce ourselves from the rest of theworld and not be affected by it. So therefore my injunction to youwould be that the single best thing you can do is what WinstonChurchill advised, “Read history, understand history.” From that you’llgain a much better appreciation not only of the rest of the world butmost important of America itself.
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Extracts from Middle-School Student Essays prepared as part of a lessondeveloped by Susan Mitchell, Jefferson Middle School, San Diego, aparticipant in our May 2007 History Institute, Living WithoutFreedom.
I never realized that the U.S. had so much freedom or how importantfreedom is.
I was shocked how other countries don’t have freedom and the way they haveto live. I’m so grateful for what I have in the U.S. I have freedom and that’swhat everyone wants and needs. I feel bad for the other countries and wishI could help them.
Without freedom we are lost and hopeless.Freedom is what makes us whole and puttogether. Without freedom we havenothing to look forward to.
I have heard of all these countries but Inever really took it serious because I don’tlive there. Learning all this has made mehappy and extremely grateful to be livingin a free country.
It’s important for me to live in a freecountry because I have big dreams and inorder to fulfill them I must live in a freecountry.
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A lot of other countries, the government controls what they do, when they do,and how it’s going to be done. They aren’t allowed any access to the outsideworld. It’s all run by their government, but they don’t even get to choose that.America has freedom because we fought for it and we’re still fighting for itonce again. We’re allowed to explore and gain knowledge.
Without freedom I probably wouldn’t be in school and be as smart.Freedom is starved in other countries. Ridiculous rules are made to enslavecitizens, to use them and then throw them away like nothing. Freedom helpsus Americans fulfill our dreams and aspirations. I love freedom!
America gives the people laws that allowthem to do really anything that doesn’thurt someone. Say we don’t like thatthey’re going to cut down a park in ourneighborhood, we can go to city hall andstop it with a petition. Really easycompared to other countries, huh?
To live without freedom would behorrible. You will have your own familytelling on you about what you said aboutthe government. You can’t even have funwithout government permission.
Did you know that in North Korea thegovernment and dictator have absolutepower? That means the Koreans are practically being told what to do in theirlives. I don’t know how they can live like that. Thanks to the Declaration ofIndependence and the Constitution we are able to do many things and notbe arrested for doing so. I believe that people should be able to do what theywant, it’s a good thing that back then others thought the same. SomeAmericans should start appreciating the fact that we do have freedom. Eventhough I’m only a middle schooler I am very proud to be free!
So many people out there are so ungrateful for America’s freedom andgovernment, well I see the value that America’s freedom and governmentprovides us. Freedom in America is amazing.
Freedom is certainly not free, it comes with a price, many people die for ourrights, and I am thankful every day that I have it. Freedom is an importantthing in my life and I am privileged to say my dad has helped with myfreedom as well as others.
In few parts of this world freedom is taken advantage of. To everyone else, it’slike seeing a flying unicorn. Before I learned about all this, I never reallyconsidered what all this “freedom” was about. Now I know that we don’treally know how much freedom we have.
I’m surprised that not all countries are free. On t.v. you don’t see that theydon’t have freedoms. When I see countries like China or Russia I usually seehappy people. I think they have gotten used to that way of living. Theyshould be allowed to travel elsewhere. Most people in their countries think itis the best because they never gone out of it.
The things we’ve been learning about in class, it surprises me because Ithought by now every country would have at least a little bit of Freedom, butno, there are still some countries struggling.
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OTHER 2007 FPRI EVENTS
PARTNERSHIP BRIEFINGS: Edward Turzanski, Stephen Gale, and Michael
Radu, Three Perspectives on Terrorism and Homeland Security - PARTNERSHIP
DINNERS with John Hillen and Robert Kaplan - TEMPLETON LECTURE ON
RELIGION AND WORLD AFFAIRS: Zuhdi Jasser on Americanism vs. Islamism -
CYNTHIA P. ROBINSON MEMORIAL LECTURE by Raymond Stock on From Before
King Tut to Hosni Mubarak: Egypt’s Post, Present, and Future in a Novel by
Naguib Mahfuoz – ALVIN Z. RUBINSTEIN MEMORIAL LECTURE: Zachary Shore
on Breeding Bin Ladens – ROBERT STRAUSZ-HUPE LECTURE: Harvey Sicherman,
Benjamin Franklin and the Traditions of American Diplomacy - FPRI IN THE
SUBURBS, cosponsored by the World Affairs Council of Greater Valley Forge:
Stephen Gale on Homeland Security: What the Public and Private Sectors Must
Do – INVITATION-ONLY LUNCHEON with U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Ross
Wilson – Luncheon with John K. Glenn of the German Marshall Fund of the
United States on American and European Public Opinion in 2007, co-sponsored
by American Council on Germany.
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Joshua Kurlantzick onCharm Offensive: HowChina’s Soft Power isTransforming the World
Barry Rubin on TheTruth About Syria
BOOK TALKS
Robert Kaplan, HogPilots, Blue WaterGrunts: the AmericanMilitary in the Air, atSea, and on the Ground
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OTHER BOOKS BY FPRI SCHOLARS
Jeremy Black,Great Powers and theQuest for Hagemony(Routledge, 2007)
George Grayson,Mexican Messiah(Pennsylvania StateUniversity, Sept. 2007)
June Teufel Dreyer,China’s Political System,6th ed. (LongmanEducational Publishers,2008)
Vladislav M. Zubok,A Failed Empire(University of NorthCarolina Press, 2007)
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PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
As is evident from the many corporations, organizations, and individuals notedthroughout this report, there are numerous ways to partner with FPRI onlectures, events, and publications. FPRI is always interested in exploring theseopportunities. Please contact Alan Luxenberg ([email protected]), 215-732-3774 x105if you would like more information or to discuss your ideas.
FPRI is pleased to announce theformation of the Robert Strausz-HupéSociety in memory of its founder,Ambassador Robert Strausz-Hupé (Mar.25, 1903 - Feb. 24, 2002). Membership inthe Society is open to all who inform usthat they have added a provision for FPRIin their wills, and we are pleased torecognize these charter members of the
Society: W. W. Keen Butcher, Jack Gilray Christy, Ned Dunham, Robert L.Freedman, Frank Giordano, Bobbie Gohn, Charles B. Grace, Jr., Bruce H.Hooper, Jerome Kaplan, Rocco Martino, I. Wistar Morris III, ElainePiccolomini, Sam Savitz and John M. Templeton, Jr.
Each year the members of the Society will be convened for lunch or dinner anda private briefing by the Institute’s President, Dr. Harvey Sicherman. In addition,members receive a certificate evidencing their membership in the Society.
For further information on joining this society, please contact Alan Luxenberg,215 732 3774 x105 or [email protected]. Year-end contributions to support theongoing work of FPRI are also welcome.
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INTERN
Malik Neal, now a junior at West PhiladelphiaCatholic High School, became the youngest studentever to intern at FPRI in Spring 2007. In the summerfollowing 9th grade, he studied at Yale University aspart of the Junior Statesman of America program. Heparticipates in the World Affairs Club at WestPhiladelphia Catholic and serves on the World AffairsCouncil's Student Committee. When he arrived atFPRI for an interview, he came with Paul Bremer's MyYear in Iraq and discussed other books with FPRI VicePresident Alan Luxenberg, including books by AlanDershowitz and Bernard Lewis.
West Philadelphia Catholic is a School Member ofFPRI's Marvin Wachman Fund for InternationalEducation. The school has hosted talks by FPRISenior Fellows Edward Turzanski and LawrenceHusick on the war on terrorism, and its studentsfrequently attend FPRI events.
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David Ludwig, composer, joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute, where he isthe composition department coordinator and the artistic director of the 20/21New Music Ensemble, in 2002. His residencies have included the Marlboro MusicSchool, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the Gardner Museum, and theMacDowell and Yaddo Artist Colonies. His music, which has been performed invenues including Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center, the Kimmel Center, and theLibrary of Congress, has been praised for “expressive directness” by the New YorkTimes. In 2005 Mr. Ludwig composed the score for FPRI’s 50th AnniversaryFilm. His Chanukah Cantata will be performed by the Choral Arts Society onDec. 11-12, 2007 at Congregation Rodeph Shalom, 615 N. Broad Street,Philadelphia; his piano quintet will be performed at Swarthmore’s Lang Hall onApril 20, 2008.
Rebekah Daley, horn, a Cleveland native, is in her second year at the CurtisInstitute, where she holds the Susan and Frank Mechura Annual Fellowship andstudies with Jennifer Montone.
Chris Guilfoyle, bass trombone, a native of San Antonio, TX, was accepted intothe Curtis Institute as a high-school junior. He holds the Crown Holdings, Inc.Annual Fellowship at Curtis and studies with Blair Bollinger. Prior to attendingCurtis, he was a member of the Houston Youth Symphony, the Greater HoustonYouth Orchestra, the Virtuosi of Houston, and Texas Allstate SymphonyOrchestra. In May 2005 he won the International Trombone Festival’s GilbertoGagliardi trombone competition in New Orleans.
Matthew Kitzen-Abelson, trumpet, is from Collegeville, PA. He is in his thirdyear at the Curtis Institute, where he studies with David Bilger and holds theHarry and Jeanette Yanoff Annual Fellowship.
Sam Schlosser, trombone, is from Seattle, WA. He is in his first year at the CurtisInstitute, where he studies with Nitzan Haroz.
Rachel Serber, trumpet, was born in Plymouth, MN. She is in her fourth yearat the Curtis Institute, where she studies with David Bilger and holds thePhiladelphia Orchestra Fellowship. She currently performs with the Symphonyin C (formerly the Haddonfield Symphony); in summer 2007 she participatedin the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan. Upcoming performances includeBach’s Brandenberg Concerto No. 2 with members of the Curtis SymphonyOrchestra at 4 pm on November 18 at St. Mark’s Church, 1625 Locust Street,Philadelphia.
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We congratulate FPRIon its longstanding heritage of assuring America’s constructive role in
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