| March 5, 2008 |
Russia: The Cold War May  Not Be Over
James Coyle Ph.D.,
Director, Center for Global Education, Chapman
University, Orange, Ca. |
James Coyle is the director for the Center for Global Education at Chapman University in Orange, California. In addition, he is an adjunct lecturer at the University of California at San Diego, Pepperdine University, and University of San Diego.
From 1979-2003, Dr. Coyle was a foreign service officer for the United States Government; he speaks several languages including Turkish, Persian, French, and German and has co-authored a textbook on comparative politics in the Middle East.
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February 6, 2008 |
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Global Health as it relates to Foreign Policy
Nancy Carter-Foster
Secretary of State's Representative on HIV/AIDS |
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Nancy Carter-Foster is the Senior Advisor for Health Affairs for the U. S. Department of State and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Health. She is responsible for identifying emerging health issues and making policy recommendations for USG foreign policy concerns regarding international health; in addition, Ms. Carter-Foster coordinates the Department’s interactions with the health non-governmental community.
Ms. Carter-Foster is the liaison for the development of public-private partnerships in health and has worked extensively on global health, especially HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases; she chairs the Interagency Task Force Roundtable on Global Road Safety, working with the full gamut of domestic agencies on health and transportation, as well as private sector interests affected by the menace of road traffic problems abroad.
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December 12, 2007 |
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What U.S. Energy Policy  Should Be
Robert Ebel
Chair, Energy & National Security Project
Center for Strategic and International Studies |
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Mr. Ebel is a senior advisor of the CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies) Energy Program, where he provides analysis on world oil and energy issues with particular emphasis on the former Soviet Union and the Persian Gulf. He is also co-director of the Caspian Sea Oil Study Group and the Oil Markets Study Group. In addition, he has directed studies on global nuclear materials management and on the geopolitics of energy.
Mr. Ebel has held leadership positions with the CIA, the Department of the Interior (Office of Oil and Gas), and ENSERCH Corporation, where he served as vice president of international affairs. |
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October 17, 2007 |
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The World Political and Economic Forecasts in 3's
3 Months, 3 Years, 3 Decades
Peter Zeihan
Director of Global Analysis
Stratfors |
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September 7, 2007 |
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Should We Be Worried About Population Growth
Dr. Ellen Brennan-Galvin
Professor, Yale University
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Ellen Brennan-Galvin is currently a lecturer and senior research scholar at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. Prior to her position at Yale, she had a 25-year career at the United Nations, where she was chief of the Population Policy Section. Dr. Brennan-Galvin has edited the UN series Population Growth and Policies in Mega-Cities and directed projects on reproductive health and human rights, HIV/AIDS, and international migration policies. She is an advisor to the National Academy of Science, World Bank, and the former chairwoman of the Stanford World Affairs Forum.
Dr. Brennan-Galvin is a graduate of Smith College and holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University; she has been an international fellow at Columbia University, a population council fellow at Princeton University, and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
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| January 9, 2008 |
Major Issues we will Face in 2008
Peter White
President of the Southern Center for International Studies |
Peter White is founder and president of the Southern Center for International Studies, a non-profit, educational institution dedicated to internationalizing the thinking of Americans. He graduated from Fordham University, and attended the Academy of International Law at The Hague and the National War College. Mr. White has traveled extensively. His visits to Asia have included private meetings with a variety of leaders ranging from Chiang Kai-shek to Deng Xiaoping; and he has participated in a number of fact-finding missions to Indo China (1971) and the Peoples’ Republic of China, including the first U.S. foreign policy group to visit China after the Shanghai communiqué, led by former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in 1974.
In 2000, he was invited by the British government to examine the peace process in Northern Ireland where he met with the leaders and representatives of the main political and government agencies. Mr. White has over thirty years of experience in international programming, and also advises a number of governors, university, and state government officials and corporations. Mr. White is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, the Atlanta Rotary Club, and is trustee of the Communicable Disease Center Foundation. He regularly contributes articles relating to U.S. foreign policy issues to newspapers and periodicals. |
| November 7, 2007 |
Climate Change and Energy Security
Paul Lynch
HM Consul General, Houston
United Kingdom |
Paul Lynch represents the government of the United Kingdom. In that capacity, he is qualified to speak on the strategic priorities of the nation. Climate change is such a priority. On a regular basis, Consul General Lynch receives briefings and materials from leading scientists and research experts. In the normal course of business, he speaks with policy leaders, department heads and other government leaders. In doing so, he keeps abreast of current information, programmes and policies that the UK views as crucial to the world's future. |
| September 26, 2007 |
The Grand Bargain with Iran
Chris Preble
Director of Foreign Policy Studies
Cato Institute, Washington DC
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| August 21, 2007 |
Corpus Christi's Muslim  Community
also comments & discussion about Islamic Jihadists
Sheikh Osama Bahloul
Imam, Islamic Society of South Texas |
Education:
AL-AZHAR UNIVERSITY Cairo, Egypt Comment by Marty: Al-Azhar is to the Arab world what Oxford and Harvard are to the western world. To Sunni Muslims it is the center of learning, a little like the Vatican. It is the oldest university in the world. I had a two hour visit in Cairo with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar in the spring of 2005.
PhD Comparative Religions March 2003 - Present
Thesis: Critique of Christian issues within Will Durant’s "The Story of Civilization"
Doctorate Review Board: Professor Hussein Magd Khattab – Dean of faculty of Usool el Din, Al-Azhar University, Professor Mohamed Abuzeid – Dean of Islamic Studies, Al-Azhar
AL-AZHAR UNIVERSITY Cairo, Egypt
Master in Da’awah (High Honors) September 2002
Thesis: Establishment of Da’awah curriculum aimed at people of all of faiths
*Certified in Authentic Recitation of Quran (Ijazah) – by his Honor Sheikh Mahmoud Attiah Zayed
AL-AZHAR UNIVERSITY Cairo, Egypt
Bachelor of Art in Islamic Studies with Honors May 1997
Ranked in top 4 of the class of 200. |
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