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Washington, DC
June 23, 2008
Delivered America In the World: Magoo at the Helm to the Washington World Affairs Council Summer Institute on International Affairs.

Washington, DC
April 25, 2008
Delivered A China Policy for the 21st Century to the National War College Alumni Association.

New Orleans, LA
March 28, 2008
Delivered Why Not Try Diplomacy? to the University Continuing Education Association.

Shanghai, China
February 21, 2008
Delivered The Promise of Sino-American Relations, the Annual Lecture in Honor of A. Doak Barnett & Michel Oksenberg.

Cambridge, MA
February 11, 2008
Delivered American Interests, Policies, and Results in the Middle East: Energy, Israel, Access, and the Containment of Muslim Rage to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology"s Security Studies Program.

Los Angeles, CA
October 4, 2007
Delivered Diplomacy in the Age of Terror to the Pacific Council on International Policy.
Arabic version

Charlottesville, VA
September 18, 2007
Participated in the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs National Discussion and Debate Series on the resolution: "Keeping troops in Iraq is vital for America's national interests in the Middle East." Ambassador Freeman and Jessica Mathews (president of the Carnegie Endowment) debated Frederick Kagan (resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute) and Reuel Marc Gerecht (affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute).
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Victoria, British Columbia
July 25, 2007
Delivered China and the Global Resource Balance to the Summer Roundtable of the Pacific Pension Institute.

Washington DC
June 25, 2007
Delivered American Foreign Policy and the Arab World to the Summer Institute of the World Affairs Council.
Arabic version

Washington DC
June 23, 2007
Delivered What Could Go Wrong for China? to Le Cercle.

Washington DC
May 24, 2007
Delivered Can American Leadership Be Restored? to the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs.
Arabic version

Washington DC
March 27, 2007
Delivered China in the Times to Come as inaugural address to the China Study Center.

Washington DC
March 13, 2007
Panel Discussion: Beyond Quagmire in Rolling Stone Magazine.

Washington DC
February 9, 2007
Delivered Diplomacy and Empire to DACOR (Diplomats and Consular Officers, Retired).
Arabic version

Williamsburg, Virginia
January 6, 2007
Delivered National Security in the Age of Terrorism to the Congressional Research Service Seminar for New Members.
Arabic version

Washington, DC
October 31, 2006
Delivered The GCC and the Management of Policy Consequences to the 15th Annual US-Arab Policymakers Conference.
Arabic version

Washington, DC
October 19, 2006
Delivered China: Three Challenges and One Surprise to the Committee for the Republic

Washington, DC
October 11, 2006
Delivered Mao Zedong: Nationalist in Spite of Himself to the SAIS China Forum

Washington, DC
October 4, 2006
Delivered Why Not Let Them Hate Us, as long as They Fear Us? to the United States Information Agency Alumni Association
Arabic version

Washington, DC
September 20, 2006
Interview: "Building Understanding: The Role of the MEPC" with the Saudi-U.S. Relations Information Service (SUSRIS).

Washington, DC
August 14, 2006
Interview: "Strengthening the Relationship: Whose Job?" with the Saudi-U.S. Relations Information Service (SUSRIS).

Pacific Grove, CA
May 7, 2006
Delivered "The Arabs Take a Chinese Wife: Sino-Arab Relations in the Decade to Come" to the World Affairs Council of Northern California at Asilomar.

Warrenton, VA
October 20-22, 2005
Chaired The Stanley Foundation conference "The United States, Iran, and Saudi Arabia: Necessary Steps Toward a New Gulf Security Order" at the Airlie Center in Warrenton, Virginia. A summary of the primary findings of the conference are in this Policy Dialogue Brief (PDF), published in February 2006.

Washington, DC
September 12, 2005
Delivered "Where Do We Go From Here?" to the 14th Annual Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference.

Arlington, VA
November 19, 2004
Delivered "Objectives and End-Games in the Middle East" to the Institute for Defense Analyses on November 19, 2004, incorporating remarks to the Rhode Island Yale Club on November 10, 2004..

Washington, DC
October 26, 2004
Interviewed on "Shifting Sands in the U.S.-Saudi Arabian Relationship" by the Saudi-U.S. Relations Information Service.

Washington, DC
September 13, 2004
Delivered "The Way Forward: A Diplomatist's Perspective" as part of a panel at the 13th Annual Arab-U.S. Mideast Policymakers conference of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations and the U.S.-GCC Corporate Cooperation Committee.

Washington, DC
September 8, 2003
Delivered remarks on the quality of U.S.-Arab relations to the 12th Annual Conference of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations" as part of a panel at the 13th Annual Arab-U.S. Mideast Policymakers conference of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations and the U.S.-GCC Corporate Cooperation Committee.

London, England
September 13-15, 2002
Spoke on Saudi Arabia's Foreign and Domestic Dilemmas as well as on the implications of a possible U.S. assault on Iraq to an overflow audience at the annual meeting of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). The outline of his remarks is available here: "Saudi Arabia's Foreign and Domestic Dilemmas."

Washington, DC
September 9, 2002
Delivered "Reflections on a War with Iraq" as part of a panel with Arab League Ambassador Hussein Hassouni, CINCCENT General Tommy Franks and Qatari Ambassador Badr Al-Dafa at the 11th Annual Arab-U.S. Mideast Policymakers conference of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations and the U.S.-GCC Corporate Cooperation Committee.

 
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