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Monday,
May
14:
Longshot:
Vaccines for National Defense
A chat with Biodefense expert
Kendall Hoyt
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Probing the history of
vaccine development, Dartmouth Medical School
professor
Kendall Hoyt discovers that many
late-twentieth-century developments that have
been celebrated as a boon for innovation—the
birth of a biotechnology industry and the rise
of specialization and outsourcing—have undercut
the research practices and collaborative
government-industry networks that drove
successful biodefense projects in the past.
Hoyt’s timely investigation teaches important
lessons for our efforts to rebuild
twenty-first-century capabilities, especially
when the financial payback for a particular
vaccine is low, but the social returns are high.
Join WorldBoston for its popular monthly
author series at a great new location:
Where:
Downtown Harvard Club
1 Federal St., 38 Fl., Boston 02110
Date:
Monday,
May 14
Time:
5:30 - 7:00 pm
Cost:
$15
Member rate
Cost:
$25 General admission
Price includes soft drinks and
a trio of chowders!
Validated parking
is available for an extra $10
RSVP required:
wb@worldboston.org
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April 3:
The Arab
Uprising: The Protests and the Struggle for a New
Middle East
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A chat with Middle East expert
Marc Lynch
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America must now come to
grips with a Middle East where public opinion actually
matters, perhaps for the first time in the region's history.
Informed by inside access to the Obama administration and a
wealth of knowledge about youth activists and Islamists
alike, Marc Lynch
provides an essential guide to a
changing Middle East and North Africa. |
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March 14:
American
Gridlock
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A chat with economist and strategist
H. Woody Brock
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Pessimism is
ubiquitous as the pressing issues of massive
debt, high unemployment, and anemic economic
growth divide the populace into warring
political camps. Ideologues talk past each
other, with neither side admitting the other has
any good ideas. In American Gridlock,
Brock bridges the Left/Right divide,
illuminating a clear path out of our economic
quagmire.
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Feb. 15:
No One's
World
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A chat with national security and European
affairs expert
Charles Kupchan
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Georgetown Prof. Kupchan
contends the Western order will not be displaced
by a new great power or dominant political
model. The 21st century will not belong to
America, China, Asia, or anyone else. It will be
no one's world. For the first time in history,
the world will be interdependent--but without a
center of gravity or global guardian.
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Jan. 24:
The
Future of Value
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A chat with sustainability strategist
Eric Lowitt
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Nominated for 2011
Finance/Economics Business Book of the Year by 800-CEO-READ,
Eric Lowitt's
The Future of Value reveals how
the boundaries of competition have been altered by
sustainability’s emergence as the newest dimension of
competitive strategy.
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Dec. 8:
Islam Without Extremes ~
A chat with Turkish commentator
Mustafa Akyol
In Islam Without Extremes, Turkish
political commentator and author Mustafa Akyol offers a
compelling intellectual basis for reconciling Western
liberalism and Islamic theology. Join us for the final
program in our year-long Spotlight on Turkey series.
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Nov.
21: Being There ~ A chat with editor and cultural anthropologist
Sarah H. Davis
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Inn
Being
Theree:
Learning to Live Cross-Culturally,
Sarah H. Davis, Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology
at Emory University,,presentss
travellers’ tales and
anthropologists’ essays that entertain and illuminate.
Her edited volume shows how the moral and intellectual
challenges of living cross-culturally revealed
to the authors the limits of their perception and
understanding.
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Oct. 4:
Post-Imperium - A chat
with the Carnegie
Endowment's Moscow Director
Dmitri Trenin
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In
Post-Imperium: A Eurasian Story,
Dmitri
Trenin
contends that Moscow's bid to consolidate its "zone of
privileged interests" over former Soviet republics has
raised questions about the nature of Russia’s relations with
its neighbors and prospects for regional stability. Trenin,
who served in the Soviet and Russian armed forces from 1972
to 1993, argues that Moscow needs to drop the notion of
creating an exclusive power center in the post-Soviet space.
Like other former European empires, Russia has no choice but
to reinvent itself as a global player and member of a wider
community.
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Sept. 14: Deng Xiaoping
and the Transformation of China - A chat
with
Harvard Professor Emeritus
Ezra F.
Vogel
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Once described by Mao Zedong as a "needle inside a ball of
cotton," Deng Xiaoping was the pragmatic,
disciplined force behind China's radical evolution in the
late twentieth century. In Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, Harvard Professor Emeritus
Ezra Vogel tells how the man confronted the
damage wrought by the Cultural Revolution, dissolved Mao's
cult of personality, and loosened the economic and social
policies that had stunted China's growth. Obsessed with
modernization, Deng opened trade relations with the West,
which lifted hundreds of millions of his countrymen out of
poverty. Yet he answered to his authoritarian roots, most
notably when he ordered the crackdown in June 1989 at
Tiananmen Square.
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August 25: The Other
Barack - A chat
with
award-winning Globe reporter
Sally H. Jacobs
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The Other Barack:
The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father....Author
and
award-winning Boston Globe reporter
Sally Jacobs tells the full story of
Barack Obama--father of the American
President--through
exclusive interviews, prodigious research, and determined
investigation.
The book profiles a man who arrived in the U.S.
from Kenya to become a brilliant, Harvard-educated
economist. It reveals the life of
a
polygamist, an alcoholic, and an ardent African nationalist
unafraid to speak truth to power at a time when that could
get you killed. Father of eight, nurturer of
none, he was nonetheless--like his famous son--a man moved
by the dream of a better world.
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July 20: Juggernaut -
A chat with former
WorldBank lead economist
William Shaw
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In their
new book
Juggernaut William Shaw, visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace,
and co-author Uri Dadush assess how emerging
markets are re-shaping the main avenues of globalization -- trade,
finance, migration, and the global commons. Projecting the
global economy will triple in 40 years, they identify
key policy options for managing this
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June 14: The
Whistleblower - A chat
with human rights investigator
Kathryn
Bolkovac
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Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One
Woman's Fight for Justice...Soon to be a major motion picture starring
Rachel Weisz, this is the riveting account of
Kathryn Bolkovac, a former Nebraska police
officer who served as a human rights
investigator in Bosnia.
At great personal risk, she exposed human rights
abuses committed against young girls, who'd been
forced into prostitution and used as sex slaves,
by U.S. military contractors such as DynCorp and
other UN-related police and international
organizations.
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May 12: Conversations
with Power -
A chat with author
Brian Michael
Till
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Brian Michael Till
is a research fellow with the DC-based New America
Foundation, where he primarily works with Middle
East and Latin American policy. He blogs for the
Atlantic. In CONVERSATIONS WITH POWER: What
Great Presidents and Prime Ministers Can Teach Us About
Leadership, Till sits down with luminaries such
as Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Ehud Barak, Mikhail
Gorbachev, and Vaclav Havel, asking the hard questions
and gleaning their advice for coming generations.
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April 20: The Future of
Power -
A chat with power expert
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
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Joseph S.
Nye, Jr. is University Distinguished Service Professor and
former Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School. He has served
as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security
Affairs, Chair of the National Intelligence Council, and
Deputy Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance,
Science and Technology.
In 2004,
he published Soft Power: The Means to Success in
World Politics; Understanding International
Conflict
(5th edition); and The Power Game: A Washington
Novel.
In 2008, he published The Powers to Lead.
Nye's latest book just came out: The Future
of Power .
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March
16:
Playing Our Game: Why China's Rise
Doesn't Threaten the West
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Edward
S. Steinfeld,
Professor of political economy at MIT, directs the
MIT-China Program (MISTI) and co-directs the MIT
Industrial Performance Center's China Energy Group. In
Playing Our Game: Why China's Rise Doesn't Threaten the West,
he challenges the notion that political change in China has
lagged economic trans-formation. The book argues instead
that the Chinese growth story is fundamentally about China's
internalization of the rules and practices
of advanced industrial nations.
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February
15:
Osama bin Laden -
A chat with CIA bin
Laden unit chief
Michael Scheuer
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We launched our CHAT & CHOWDA Author
Series with Michael Scheuer, former head of
the CIA's bin Laden unit. His
biography,
Osama bin Laden, offers a no-nonsense
biographical look at this "pious, brave,
intelligent, charismatic" enemy of the West. A
lively Q&A delved into what makes bin Laden such
a formidable strategist and threat to the West,
and how al-Qaeda might take advantage of current
turmoil in the Middle East.
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Read the Financial
Times
book review
Hear CBS Boston's Dan Rea
interview Scheuer |
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Thursday,
March 1:
Ambassador Joao Mira
Gomes
Portugal's Permanent
Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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NATO in the 21st Century: Cooperation in Times of
Constraint
Where:
The
Hampshire House
84 Beacon St., Boston, MA 02108
Date:
Thursday,
March 1
Time:
5:30 -
7:00 pm
Cost:
$20
Member rate
Cost:
$30 General admission
Price includes
program, hors d'oeuvres, and a complimentary glass
of wine or beer.
RSVP required:
wb@worldboston.org
Ambassador Gomes of Portugal will visit Boston (March 1-3)
to discuss the future of NATO and the transatlantic
relationship as the alliance prepares for the May 2012 NATO
Summit in Chicago. Ambassador Gomes will also speak on NATO
reform, especially the new strategic concept of smart
defense, and on lessons learned from recent and ongoing NATO
military activities in Libya and Afghanistan.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY:
Ambassador
João Mira Gomes serves as Portugal's
Permanent Representative to NATO. He began diplomatic
service in 1984 and joined the Permanent Delegation to NATO
in 1987 for six years. During the Portuguese Presidency of
the European Council, he was spokesman for the European
Community Monitor Mission on the former Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia. Amb. Gomes became the diplomatic advisor to the
governor of Macau from 1993-1996, and served as the
counselor of Embassy in 1994, before becoming Chief of
Cabinet for the Director General for Political Affairs.
After serving as Special Coordinator for the Western Balkans
from 1997 through 1999, he served at the Portuguese Embassy
in Sofia (2000-01) and in Paris (2001-05). He then took the
post of Permanent Representative to the Western European
Union (2005-06). Before becoming a full-rank Ambassador in
2010, João Mira Gomes served as Secretary of State for
National Defense and Maritime Affairs (2006-09). In
September 2010, Amb. Gomes became Permanent Representative
on the North Atlantic Council.
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Wednesday, February 8:
GLOBAL TRADE, ECONOMIC &
MARKETS OUTLOOK 2012
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Leaders of
New England's top companies and trade associations will
gather for
this perennially popular program. Special
guest
Geoffrey S. Somes, senior
economist at State Street Global Advisors, will
present his 2012 market forecasts and world economic
outlook.
Where:
Bingham McCutcheon
One Federal St., Boston
02110
Date:
Wednesday,
February 8
Time:
4:30 pm - Registration
5:30
pm - Program
Cost:
$45 Pre-registration
required!
RSVP required:
wb@worldboston.org
Parking is available at garage under building, at own
cost or at the Post Office Square Garage. MBTA "T" stops:
State Street or South Station.
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Wednesday, October 26:
Our 2nd Annual Reception
in honor of
The Consular Corps |
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with
welcoming remarks by
Governor Deval Patrick
WorldBoston and the Hon. Leonard Kopelman, Consul
General of Finland and Dean of the Consular Corps,
welcomed more than 180 business executives,
diplomats, university leaders, members, and friends
to this premier networking event.
WorldBoston especially thanks
our valued member and
2011 Reception Chair:
and
Our Sponsors:
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Event proceeds support the programs of WorldBoston,
an independent nonprofit
World Affairs Council serving the region
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Tuesday,
March 6:
Ambassador Gregory
Schulte
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Space Policy |
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WorldBoston and the Boston Committee on Foreign Relations
proudly present this joint luncheon meeting:
National Security and U.S. Strategy for a Changing
Space Environment
Where:
The Union Club of Boston
8 Park Street, Boston, MA 02108
Date:
Wednesday,
March 14
Time:
12:00 -
1:30 pm
Cost:
$35
Member rate
Cost:
$50 General admission
Price includes
3-course luncheon and program.
RSVP required:
wb@worldboston.org
Ambassador Schulte will discuss why space, as part of the global commons, is increasingly
important to our national security and economic prosperity.
The space environment is changing: it is also increasingly congested, contested, and
competitive – congested with debris, contested by countries
developing anti-satellite capabilities, and competitive with
an increasing number of countries and companies operating in
space.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY:
Ambassador Gregory L. Schulte was
U.S. Permanent Representative to the International Atomic
Energy Agency and the United Nations in Vienna, where he was
dispatched by President Bush in 2005 and extended by
President Obama through June 2009. Ambassador Schulte helped
report Iran to the UN Security Council, implement the U.S.
nuclear cooperation agreement with India, and establish
international nuclear fuel banks. After Vienna, Ambassador
Schulte spent ten months as a Senior Visiting Fellow at the
National Defense University's Center for the Study of
Weapons of Mass Destruction. Mr. Schulte served three tours
in the White House under two Presidents.
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