Cette conférence sera en anglais.
This public lecture will be in English.
The Ottawa Roundtable on Security and Intelligence
Please join us for the launch of the Security and Intelligence Roundtable for 2009/2010. The Roundtable features a series of public lectures and discussions organized by the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the University of Ottawa, co-sponsored by the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS, www.casis.ca). We also welcome the University of Ottawa’s Centre for International Policy Studies as a sponsor of this talk.
The Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Obama’s Strategy
BRUCE RIEDEL
Tuesday, October 6
1200 to 1400 hours
Desmarais Building, third floor, rm.3120
55 Laurier Avenue East
Bruce Riedel is a Senior Fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He retired in 2006 after 30 years service at the Central Intelligence Agency including postings overseas. He was a senior advisor on South Asia and the Middle East to the last three Presidents of the United States in the staff of the National Security Council at the White House. He was a negotiator at several Arab-Israeli peace summits including at Camp David and Wye River. He was also Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Near East and South Asia at the Pentagon and a senior advisor at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels. In January 2009 President Barack Obama asked him to chair a review of American policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan the results of which the President announced in a speech on March 27, 2009. He is the author of The Search for al Qaeda: Its Leadership, Ideology and Future published by Brookings Press. He teaches at Georgetown University and SAIS.
A light lunch will be available.
The Ottawa Roundtable on Security and Intelligence is open to faculty and students, to CASIS members, government officials, interested members of the public and the media. No registration for these events is required and no fee is charged.
For additional information about the Roundtable, please contact Professor Wesley Wark at wkwark@aol.com
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