RCOE TV: World Affairs Council of Inland Southern California

Susan Douglass speaks to an audience at the Mission Inn in Riverside, California. She is an education consultant for the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Produced in cooperation with the World Affairs Council of Inland Southern California.

Dr. Thomas Fingar, former chair of the National Intelligence Committee, speaks to members and guests of the World Affairs Council of Inland Southern California on the topic of national security and intelligence analysis.

Daniel Ford, a teacher at Chaparral High School, Temecula Valley Unified School District talks about his summer trip to Turkey on fellowship from the World Affairs Council and the Turkish Cultural Foundation. Produced in cooperation with the World Affairs Council of Inland Southern California.

Sir Richard Feachem, Executive Director of Global Health Services and Professor at University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley, discusses the global aid industry, its 60-year history, and where international aid and global health stand today. Produced in cooperation with the World Affairs Council of Inland Southern California.

The authors of "California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It," detail the policy missteps that brought California to its long-running budgetary breakdown. Paul is a former deputy treasurer of California and deputy editorial page editor of The Sacramento Bee, and Mathews is a contributing editor with the Los Angeles Times.

As representative of the Kurdistan Regional government of Iraq to the United States, Qubad Talabani brings a dual diplomatic portfolio to this World Affairs Council lecture that makes for an illuminating discussion of a complicated yet fascinating history. He is the official representative of the Kurdish population of the distinctive northern region of Iraq, and in service to the emergent national Iraqi government headed by his father, Jalal Talabani.

Richard Solomon, the former Ambassador to the Philippines, discusses his book, "American Negotiating Behavior: Wheeler-Dealers, Legal Eagles, Bullies and Preachers."

Reza Asian, contributing editor at the Daily Beast, author of the bestselling "No god by God," and familiar figure on mainstream media, joins Dr. Laila Lalami, a Moroccan-born faculty member at UC Riverside, for a discussion of the political climate in the United States on the eve of the "Arab Spring."

The distinguished UC Riverside graduate and career diplomat returns to Riverside for his third World Affairs Council lecture in three years. Unmatched analysis from the foreign service officer who has an extensive portfolio of postings throughout the middle east and who served as U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan from July 2005 through April 2007.

Dr. Thomas Fingar recaps the long strategic view on which he, as chairman of the National Intelligence Committee, briefed the incoming Obama Administration. Dr. Fingar is a fellow in International Studies at Stanford University, where he earned his PhD. in political science in 1977. He has an extensive portfolio in foreign affairs, having served most recently as First Deputy Director, Intelligence for Analysis. Taped before the World Affairs Council on Inland Southern California, April 9, 2009 at Riverside's Mission Inn.