Art of Diplomacy Lecture Series
Since 2015, the Foreign Policy Institute (FPI) has held a series of speaking events with distinguished speakers and accompanying commentators from SAIS faculty or FPI Fellows. The events have been, and will continue to be, unique in that they are organized into a coherent series whereby attendees will gain an understanding of several different aspects of the diplomatic field from interviewers helping the speakers to draw out lessons learned from their careers.
Our objective is to increase SAIS students’ understanding of modern diplomacy as an art by exposing them to recent and current practitioners. We want to teach students how modern diplomacy is conducted, what the challenges that speakers have faced are, and how they used diplomacy tactics to approach them.
Science Diplomacy: From Fighting for Human Rights to Using Science as a Bridge for Peace
Date: April 18, 2019
Location: Washington, DC
Speaker: Zafra Lerman, President, Malta Conferences Foundation
Diplomacy and Diversity: A Female Diplomat in the Middle East
Date: April 3, 2019
Location: Washington, DC
Speaker: Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley
Climate Negotiation on the Frontlines
Date: February 11, 2019
Location: Washington, DC
Speaker: Sue Biniaz, Senior Fellow, United Nations Foundation and Former Deputy Legal Adviser, U.S. State Department
Congressional Diplomacy: An Indirect Role in American Foreign Policy
- Date: February 21, 2018
- Location: Washington, DC
- Speaker: Alex Gallo, Senior Associate, CSIS, and former Professional Staff Member, House Armed Services Committee
Reaching a Nuclear Deal: A Conversation on Sanctions and Negotiations
- Date: November 2, 2017
- Location: Washington, DC
- Speaker: Prof. Adam J. Szubin, former Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of the Treasury
"Art of Diplomacy Lecture Series" discussion with Ambassador Eric Edelman
- Date: October 25, 2017
- Location: Washington, DC
- Speaker: Eric Edelman, former Ambassador to Finland and Turkey
- Interviewer: Eliot Cohen, Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS
Diplomacy within the United Nations
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Date: December 8, 2016 -
Location: Bologna, Italy -
Speaker: Michael Møller, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva
Journalism and Diplomacy
- Date: October 27, 2016
- Location: Bologna, Italy
- Speakers: FPI Senior Fellow James Mann and David C. Unger
Challenges in Environmental Diplomacy
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Date: April 18, 2016 -
Location: Washington, DC -
Speaker: Deputy Assistant Secretary Daniel Reifsnyder -
Interviewer: Dr. Lynn Wagner ('91, PhD '98)
Conducting American Foreign Policy in the Middle East & South Asia
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Date: November 17, 2015 -
Location: Washington, DC -
Speaker: Dean Vali Nasr -
Interviewer: Ambassador Shirin Tahir-kheli
Public Diplomacy’s role in U.S. Foreign Policy
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Date: November 3, 2015 -
Location: Washington, DC -
Speaker: Ambassador Stuart Holliday -
Interviewer: Dr. Daniel Serwer