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To: lurqer who wrote (14431)	3/12/2003 6:27:25 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

lurqer: You have been making some great contributions to this thread. I'm a member of The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations and check out the topic for our guest speaker for tomorrow night: globalchicago.org America as Empire? The Responsibilities and Risks of American Power, Lecture II By: The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations Time Start: 5:30:00 PM- Time End: 7:30:00 PM Thursday 13 Mar 2003 Phone: (312) 726-3860 The Honorable Strobe Talbott, President, The Brookings Institution 5:30 p.m. Cash bar 6:00–7:30 p.m. Lecture and discussion Where:Fairmont Hotel 200 N. Columbus Drive Chicago Admission: $15 Chicago Council on Foreign Relations members $25 nonmembers This is a Chicago and the World Forum Program. The United States’ position as the world’s sole superpower and the responsibilities that role confers are more critical to the conduct of foreign policy today than at any time in our recent history. The end of the Cold War ushered in an age of relative calm that was shattered by the events of September 11. In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, the Bush administration has placed national security concerns at the forefront of its agenda and has made clear its willingness to utilize preemptive and unilateral responses to perceived foreign threats. This approach has led to heightened unease among many of our allies and has sparked talk of the need to contain the new U.S. “hyper-power.” Does the combination of unchallenged U.S. power and expressed willingness to aggressively protect its national interests signal the advent of an American empire? Is it possible for the United States to be a benign imperial power? If the United States decides to use its economic and military power to be the guarantor of peace, stability and democracy in foreign countries, does it risk losing its soul as a republic? Are we doomed to follow in the footsteps of the failed empires of the 20th century—Ottoman, British and Soviet—or will America’s commitment to promoting freedom and democracy around the world sustain the power she wields for generations to come? Strobe Talbott assumed the presidency of the Brookings Institution in July 2002. Previously, he was founding director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. He served in the State Department from 1993-2001, first as ambassador-at-large and special adviser to the secretary of state for the new independent states of the former Soviet Union, then as deputy secretary of state. Prior to that he had an award-winning 21-year journalism career at Time magazine. His books include “The Age of Terror: America & The World After September 11” (coedited with Nayan Chanda), “At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War” (with Michael Beschloss), and “Deadly Gambits: The Reagan Administration and the Stalemate in Nuclear Arms Control.” A native of Dayton, Ohio, he was educated at Hotchkiss, Yale and Oxford and has been awarded state orders by the presidents of Lithuania and Poland. The Global Chicago Center, The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations 116 S. Michigan Avenue, 10th floor, Chicago, IL 60603-6097 tel:312-726-3860, fax:312-726-5177, email