Dickey Center for International Understanding

On Tuesday, April 8th, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright participated in a wide-ranging conversation with Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth. In a 90-minute appearance, Secretary Albright discussed her service as Secretary of State and US Ambassador to the United Nations and provided insights into some of the critical issues of today. She also addressed her work around the world as a lifelong champion of democracy promotion, and, as the nation's first female Secretary of State, her advocacy for involving more women in international affairs as well as the challenges for women of balancing life and work in the high-pressure arena of politics and policy. A question and answer period followed the conversation. In 1997, Dr. Albright was named the first female Secretary of State and became, at that time, the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. As Secretary of State, Dr. Albright reinforced America's alliances, advocated for democracy and human rights, and promoted American trade, business, labor, and environmental standards abroad. From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Albright served as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and was a member of the President's Cabinet. Prior to her service in the Clinton Administration, she served as President of the Center for National Policy; was a member of President Jimmy Carter's National Security Council and White House staff; and served as Chief Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie. Dr. Albright is a Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. She chairs both the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and the Pew Global Attitudes Project and serves as president of the Truman Scholarship Foundation. She serves on the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Policy Board, a group tasked with providing the Secretary of Defense with independent, informed advice and opinion concerning matters of defense policy. Dr. Albright also serves on the Boards of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Aspen Institute and the Center for American Progress. In 2009, Dr. Albright was asked by NATO Secretary General Anders Fog Rasmussen to Chair a Group of Experts focused on developing NATO's New Strategic Concept. Sponsored by the Dickey Center for International Understanding. Category Education License Standard YouTube License

Scott Shane, New York Times, Washington Bureau Tuesday, March 4, 2014 Description: Edward Snowden flagrantly violated the law by giving reporters hundreds of thousands of classified documents about the National Security Agency. But his revelations about domestic and global surveillance have deeply split both the public and Congress, with many Americans turning their ire not on Snowden but on the government. Behind the biggest intelligence leak in history is a complex story of dysfunctional government secrecy, an unprecedented string of leak prosecutions, and technology that makes it both easier to leak and easier to catch leakers. As a national security reporter for the New York Times, Scott Shane spent months examining and writing about Snowden's NSA documents and the confidential diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. He has seen a former CIA officer, accused of sharing classified information with him and another reporter, go to federal prison. He spoke about the crisis of government secrecy and the challenges of reporting on government secrets in a democracy.

Donald Steinberg, President and CEO of World Learning, Inc. Former Deputy Administrator, USAID Friday, February 28, 2014 Description: The global environment for international development has been impacted by the entry of new development funders, new requirements for host country ownership and capacity building, the so-called "democratization of development," the diffusion of economic power, the growing role of civil society institutions and the private sector, the requirement to take good ideas to scale, the application of advanced technologies, and the need to include previously marginalized groups, including women, people with disabilities, ethnic and religious minorities, indigenous populations and the LGBT community. Drawing on his three decades experience in the development and diplomacy world -- including his current service as President of World Learning and his immediate past service as deputy administrator at U.S. Agency for International Development, Ambassador Steinberg will discuss the implications of these changes for the way that individuals, academic institutions, civil society organizations, governments, private companies and other key actors approach the challenge of global development.

The Dickey Center at Dartmouth: "Putin's Russia" Eugene Rumer, Director and Senior Associate, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Former National Intelligence Office for Russia and Eurasia, U.S. National Intelligence Council Tuesday, February 25, 2014 Description: Eugene Rumer's research focuses on political, economic, and security trends in Russia and former Soviet states as well as on Russia's foreign policy, especially its relations with the United States, China, and the Middle East. Prior to joining Carnegie, Rumer was the national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the U.S. National Intelligence Council from 2010 to 2014. In this role he led the intelligence community's analytic efforts and served as senior intelligence adviser to the policy community.

The Dickey Center at Dartmouth: "Who 'Owns' the North Pole and Who Decides? Betsy Baker, Associate Professor at Vermont Law School and Senior Fellow for Oceans and Energy at the Institute for Energy and the Environment "Who 'Owns' the North Pole and Who Decides? Science, Politics, and Continental Shelf Claims" Thursday, February 20, 2014 Description: Professor Baker's immersion in Arctic law and policy flows from her work in Europe and the United States on law of the sea, international environmental law, comparative law, property law, and Canadian-U.S. cooperation. Her writing on legal aspects of continental shelf mapping landed her on the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy as a member of the science crew for two Arctic extended continental shelf mapping deployments to the Beaufort and Chukchi seas in 2008 and 2009. For 2009-2010, she was selected as a Dickey Research Fellow in the Institute of Arctic Studies at Dartmouth College.

American Troops and the Challenge of Post-Service Reintegration. Distinguished panel discusses the physical, psychological, emotional, and practical challenges our service people. Wednesday, February 5, 2014 4:30pm-6:00pm Filene Auditorium, Moore Building Sponsored by: Dickey Center Intended Audience(s): Public Categories: Panel includes: General Carter Ham, U.S. Army Dartmouth President Emeritus James Wright Acting Executive Director of the National Center for PTSD Paula Schnurr President of the Dartmouth Undergraduate Veterans Association Christopher Allen '15 Dickey Center Director Daniel Benjamin Sponsored by the Dickey Center for International Understanding

A Life in the Military General Carter Ham, Former Commander, United States Africa Command. Monday, February 3, 2014 4:00pm-5:30pm 041 Haldeman Center Sponsored by: Dickey Center Intended Audience(s): Public Categories: A Life in the Military General (ret) Carter Ham One of the very few enlisted men to rise through the ranks to Four-Star General, Carter Ham reflects on his nearly 40 year career in the US Army. General Ham retired in 2013 after serving as the Commander of United States Africa Command. Throughout his distinguished career the General held a wide range of leadership positions including: Commanding General of the US Army Europe, Director of Operations for the Joint Staff and Commander of the 1st Infantry Division. General Ham was at the forefront of many of the top issues the Pentagon faced in recent years and participated in combat operations in Iraq and oversaw America's military engagement in Libya. In addition to advocating for treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), he was the military lead for the Department of Defense's review of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. General Ham will share his thoughts on these experiences and more.

Carol Graham Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. She is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). Graham book coverCarol Graham is the author of The Pursuit of Happiness: Toward an Economy of Well-Being (Brookings, 2011; also published in Chinese and paperback); Happiness around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires (Oxford University Press, 2009; published in Chinese, Portuguese and paperback); Happiness and Hardship: Opportunity and Insecurity in New Market Economies (with Stefano Pettinato, Brookings, 2002; also published in Spanish); Private Markets for Public Goods: Raising the Stakes in Economic Reform (Brookings, 1998); Safety Nets, Politics and the Poor: Transitions to Market Economies (Brookings, 1994); Peru's APRA (Lynne Rienner, 1992); Improving the Odds: Political Strategies for Institutional Reform in Latin America (co-author, IDB, 1999); and A Half Penny on the Dollar: The Future of Development Aid, with Michael O'Hanlon (Brookings, 1997). She is the editor, with Eduardo Lora, of Paradox and Perceptions: Quality of Life in Latin America (Brookings, 2009); with Susan Collins, of the Brookings Trade Forum 2004: Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality (Brookings, 2006); and, with Nancy Birdsall, of New Markets, New Opportunities? Economic and Social Mobility in a Changing World (Brookings, 1999), and Beyond Trade-Offs: Market Reforms and Equitable Growth in Latin America (Brookings/IDB, 1988). She is the author of articles in journals including the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the World Bank Research Observer, Health Affairs, Health Economics, the Journal of Socio-Economics, World Economics, Foreign Affairs, the Journal of Development Studies, the Journal of Latin American Studies, World Development, the Journal of Happiness Studies, and of numerous chapters in edited volumes, including the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. She is an associate editor at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and on the editorial boards of numerous other economic journals. She is currently serving on a National Academy of Sciences Panel which is assessing the relevance of well-being metrics for policy. Graham served as Vice President and Director of Governance Studies at Brookings from 2002-2004. She has also served as a Special Advisor to the Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. She has also been a consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, United Nations Development Program, and the Harvard Institute for International Development, helping to design safety net programs in Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe.

Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprising Frederic Wehrey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Middle East Program The spillover of Syria's war into Lebanon and Iraq, combined with the widening involvement of Iran and Saudi Arabia, has spawned dire predictions of sectarian conflict engulfing the entire Middle East. But Shi'a-Sunni tensions are only one layer of a multi-dimensional conflict, often masking deeper political and economic dynamics. And although the Saudi-Iranian rivalry plays a role in aggravating Shi'a-Sunni identities, the real roots of sectarianism are found at the local level—in the weakness of political institutions, economic disparities, and in the elite manipulation of Sunni-Shia differences. Nowhere is this more evident than in the three Gulf Arab states most affected by sectarianism: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait.

Israel, The Search for Peace and the Arab Spring Former Prime Minister of the State of Israel Ehud Olmert Cook Auditorium, Murdough Center 4:30pm Former Prime Minister of the State of Israel Ehud Olmert While prime minister of Israel 2006-2009, Ehud Olmert came perhaps closer than any Israeli leader to forging peace with the Palestinians and also led his country through armed confrontations with Hamas and Hezbollah. A critic of the Netanyahu government's posture toward Iran, he is a keen observer of the Arab world and will discuss Israel's strategic situation and its prospects for peace with its neighbors amid the turmoil of the Arab Spring. Sponsored by The Dickey Center for International Understanding and the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace. Free and open to all.

2013 Stefansson Memorial Lecture: Sustainability and Collapse in the Norse North Atlantic: Implications for Climate Adaptation Today Thomas McGovern, professor of anthropology, Hunter College, City University of New York, has done archaeological fieldwork in the UK, Norway, France, the Caribbean, and NE US, but his main research work has been in the North Atlantic (Greenland, Iceland, Faeroes, and Shetland). McGovern was one of the founders of the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO, www.nabohome.org), and has served as NABO coordinator to the present. This international regional research cooperative has sponsored collaborative science, education, and outreach work from arctic Norway to Labrador, and its website now provides rich resources for science and education. . In 2009 NABO was funded by NSF to explore the possibilities of taking this collaborative model global by connecting other regional interdisciplinary teams working in longterm human ecodynamics. McGovern is associate director of the Human Ecodynamics Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (http://herc.gc.cuny.edu/).

Marc Lynch is professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, where he is the director of the Institute for Middle East Studies and of the Project on Middle East Political Science. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and edits the Middle East Channel for ForeignPolicy.com. He is the co-director of the Blogs and Bullets project at the United States Institute of Peace. Lynch publishes frequently on the politics of the Middle East, with a particular focus on information technology and political communication, Islamist movements, and the international politics of the region. His most recent book, The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East, published by PublicAffairs in 2012, was called "the most illuminating and, for policymakers, the most challenging" book yet written on the topic by The Economist. His other books include Voices of the New Arab Public: Al-Jazeera, Iraq, and Middle East Politics Today (2006), selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book, and State Interests and Public Spheres: The International Politics of Jordan's Identity (1999).

Steve Coll is the Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University. Coll most recently served for five years as president of The New America Foundation, a leading public policy institute in Washington that has supported a wide range of thinking on the public issues facing our society, including the changes in journalism. In 1985, Coll joined the Washington Post as a general assignment feature writer for the Style section and over the next twenty years served as a foreign correspondent and senior editor, culminating in his tenure as managing editor from 1998 through 2004. He received his first Pulitzer in 1990 for explanatory journalism with a series of articles on the Securities and Exchange Commission which he reported with David Vise. The author of seven books, Coll won his second Pulitzer Prize in 2005, in general non-fiction, for Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. Ghost Wars also won the Council of Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross award, the Overseas Press Club Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize for the best book published about international affairs. His latest book, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, was published this past November, and won the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs prize for best business book of the year.

Gen. James Mattis, retired commander of U.S. Central Command, is the Class of 1950 Senior Foreign Affairs Fellow this fall at the Dickey Center for International Understanding. Mattis, a 41-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, retired in March as commander of CENTCOM, which covers American military activities in the Middle East and Western and Central Asia, including Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, and Syria.

Prepare for a ripping evening of behind the scenes stories from Paul's landmark BBC documentaries and seemingly impossible challenges of his science projects and expeditions in the world's most remote and demanding regions. Paul is the man that scientists call when they have the really difficult jobs. In 30 years of science support he has never learned to say "no."

When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, statesmen invariably call for "a new Bretton Woods" to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The very name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of 44 nations gathered in July 1944, has become shorthand for enlightened globalization. The actual story surrounding the historic Bretton Woods accords, however, is full of startling drama, intrigue, and rivalry. Benn Steil will bring the saga to life, and talk about some of its lessons for understanding today's central economic issues.

The complex foreign relations challenges facing the United States require the savvy use of American power and influence. Human trafficking, conflicts over water, transnational crime, humanitarian disasters and the myriad of problems that threaten civilian security are multifaceted and defy simplistic remedies. Only through the smart application of American power can the U.S. hope to be an effective promoter of human rights and democracy around the world.

Tove Søvndahl Pedersen, Director of Greenland Self-Government and Chairman of the University of Greenland Presented by: Dickey Center for International Understanding, Institute of Arctic Studies.

Daniel Benjamin - Director, Dickey Center for International Understanding 4:00 pm / 041 Haldeman Center Dartmouth College

"The Other Side of the World: Women's Stories of Survival and Hope"

Aqqaluk Lynge - Chair, Inuit Cicumpolar Council Sponsored by the Dickey Center for International Understanding, The Institute of Arctic Studies and the Tucker Foundation

John Hobbie '57 - former co-director of the Ecosystems Center at Woods Hole

Richard Harris - Correspondent, Science Desk, National Public Radio Co-sponsored by the Dickey Center for International Understanding, Institute of Arctic Studies, and the IGERT Polar Environmental Change Program

Andrew Fountain - Professor of Geography and Geology at Portland State University Co-sponsored by the Dickey Center for International Understanding, Institute of Arctic Studies, and the IGERT Polar Environmental Change Program

Sponsored by the Dickey Center Institute of Arctic Studies