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Panelists:

Interdependence and Chaos: A Challenge Into The '90s
Professor Madeline Albright
Senior foreign policy advisor to Democratic Presidential aspirant Michael Dukakis. A professor of International Affairs at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, she is a former member of the National Security Council.

America in Ascendancy
Professor Richard Haass
Foreign policy issues coordinator for presidential aspirant Senator Robert Dole. A lecturer in public policy at the JFK School of Government, Harvard University and former official in the Department of State and Defense, he is the author of Congressional Power: Implications for American Security Policy and the co-editor of Superpower Arms Control.

Is NATO Necessary?
Professor Richard Eichenberg
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also the author of numerous works on defense issues, including his forthcoming book, Public Opinion and National Security in Western Europe.

The Economic Challenge from East Asia
Professor Ezra Vogel
A leading expert on interaction between the U.S. and Japan, he is a Professor of Sociology at Harvard University at Harvard University where he is the former Director of the East Asian Research Center and the Honorary Director of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at the Harvard Center for International Affairs. He is also the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard, and Newsweek has heralded him as one of the top 25 Asian hands.

Gorbachev and Perestroika: Can He Make It Work?
Professor Marshall Goldman
Professor of Economics at Wellesley College and Associate Director of the Russian Research Center, Harvard University. Among his many books are Gorbachev's Challenge: Economic Reform in the Age of High Technology; USSR in Crisis: The Failure of an Economic System; Detente and Dollars

The Cold War, The Reagan Doctrine, and Afghanistan: Victory for Whom?
Mr. Richard Barnet
Co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Policy Studies. His numerous books include Global Reach; Roots of War; Intervention and Revolution; The Alliance: America, Europe and Japan & The Making of the Post World War. He is a frequent contributor on International Affairs to the New Yorker.

Discussant/Interlocutor:

Professor Marvin Kalb
Currently the Director of the Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, he has recently interviewed all Presidential candidates on behalf of National Public Broadcasting Service. A former diplomatic correspondent for CBS News and network Bureau Chief in Moscow, Mr. Kalb also served in the State department at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

Moderator:

Ms. Laura-Beth Berenson

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