Event Date: February 10, 2009 - 1:00 pm
Location: room 4004, 120 University Private,Social Sciences Building,

A talk by James Dobbins, Director, International Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND National Security Research Division, Washington, D.C.

Co-Sponsor: Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.

Registration is not required. This event will be in English.

Mr. Dobbins’ talk will be based on his newly published book, After the Taliban: Nation-Building in Afghanistan, which won the 2008 Douglas Dillon Award for Distinguished Writing on American Diplomacy.

James Dobbins previously served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Europe; Special Assistant to the President for the Western Hemisphere; Special Adviser to the President and Secretary of State for the Balkans; Ambassador to the European Community; Clinton administration’s Special Envoy for Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo; Bush administration’s first Special Envoy for Afghanistan; Bush administration’s representative to the Afghan opposition in the wake of September 11, 2001.

This event is part of CIPS programming on Afghanistan.