Speeches
The United States, China and the New Global Geometry
It is only natural that when Chinese and Americans meet these days, we should discuss the changing balance between us. There is indeed a shift in relative economic and military power. It is less profound than many imagine.
Failed Interventions and What They Teach
I feel honored to have been asked to open this conference on U.S.-Arab relations and America’s ties with the broader Middle East. But I confess that, as an American, the results of U.S. policies in the Middle East remind me of the T-shirt someone once gave me. It said: “Sinatra is dead.
Objectives and End-Games in the Middle East
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Saudi Arabia's Foreign and Domestic Dilemmas
Even before 9/11, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia faced increasingly obvious foreign policy and domestic challenges.
Remarks presented to the 14th Annual Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The GCC and the Management of Policy Consequences
It is an honor once again to make the concluding remarks at the annual US-Arab Policymakers Conference. I do so, of course, as an individual and as an American concerned with the implications of events in the Gulf region, not on behalf of any organization or group with which I am affiliated.
The Way Forward: A Diplomatist's Perspective
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Shifting Sands in the U.S.-Saudi Arabian Relationship
SUSRIS: Thank you, Ambassador Freeman, for taking time to discuss US-Saudi relations. You are a frequent visitor to Saudi Arabia and just completed a trip there. Can you tell us your impressions of the relationship?
The Promise of Sino-American Relations
This lecture series honors the memory of Doak Barnett and Michel Oksenberg, two of America's most eminent China scholars. I encountered both men first through their writings, then came to admire them as human beings, and finally to cherish them as friends.
Diplomacy in the Age of Terror
Nine years ago this August, President Clinton declared war on Al Qaeda, a terrorist movement that sees continued American friendship and cooperation with the world's 1.4 billion Muslims as the principal obstacle to the religious tyranny it hopes to impose on them.