U.S. Intervention: From Vietnam to Iraq

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Welcome and Introductions:

Susan Ernst
Dean of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University

Sherman Teichman
Director, Institute for Global Leadership

Presentation of Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award to and addresses by Leslie Gelb and David Halberstam, introduction by John Hennessy-Niland, foreign service officer, European Regional Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Panelists:

Leslie Gelb (Tufts '59)
President, Council on Foreign Relations; Recipient, Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism; former Op-Ed page editor, The New York Times; former Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs; former director of policy planning and arms control, International Security Affairs, US Department of Defense; author, Toward a Theory of Alliances; coauthor, Our Own Worst Enemy: The Unmaking of American Foreign Policy and The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked

David Halberstam
Author of 16 books, Halberstam's writings on power in America, the Vietnam War, the rise of the power of modern media, and the ascent of the Japanese as a rival economic superpower have helped define the latter part of this century more than any journalistic works; his most recent title, War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals; Recipient, Pulitzer Prize

H.D.S. Greenway (discussant)
Foreign affairs columnist and former foreign editor, national editor, and editorial page editor, Boston Globe

Antonia Handler Chayes
Vice Chair and Senior Advisor, Conflict Management Group; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Director, Project on International Compliance and Conflict Management, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School; former Assistant and Under Secretary of the U.S. Air Force

Moderator:
Joe Jaffee '05
EPIIC Colloquium Member