Partner Events

Upcoming Partnership Events

Monday, October 4, 2010

Platinum Partners Dinner

Confronting Al Qaeda and the New Terror Networks

Marc Sageman Author of “Understanding Terror Networks” and “Leaderless Jihad”

• Forensic psychiatrist and FPRI Senior Fellow
• Former CIA case officer who served in Afghanistan in 1987-89
• Former scholar-in-residence for the NY City Police Department
• Testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, appeared on PBS Newshour, and has been cited in the NY Times and in media all over the world.
• Regularly consulted by U.S. government agencies.

What The Reviewers Say About Sageman’s Books

“The most sophisticated analysis of global jihadis yet published.” -- NY Review of Books

“It stands what you think you know about terrorism on its head and helps you see the topic in a different light.” – Washington Post

Monday, November 15, 2009

FPRI Annual Dinner

Power, Money, and American National Security— Today and Tomorrow

Niall Ferguson

Named one of the world’s hundred most influential people
-- Time Magazine

Current Positions

• The Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University
• The William Ziegler Professor, Harvard Business School
• Contributing Editor, Financial Times (London)
• Regular Contributor, Newsweek Magazine

Books by Ferguson

• The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Penguin, 2008)
• War of the World: 20th Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006)
• Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (Penguin, 2004)
• Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order (Basic, 2003)

Earlier 2010 Partnership Events

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Special Event Exclusively for FPRI Partners Who Make Their 2010 Partnership Contribution Before January 21, 2010

Paul Bracken on Managing the Second Nuclear Age

Paul Bracken, Professor of Management and Political Science at Yale University, will discuss his just-completed book manuscript that defines and clarifies the major issues of what he calls “the second nuclear age” – an age of multiple nuclear powers. “Nuclear weapons,” he says, “are returning as a source of conflict and influence in international affairs,” and we must re-think fundamental issues of strategy and deterrence.

Few people are as qualified to frame this discussion as Paul Bracken. His 1983 book The Command and Control of Nuclear Forces (Yale University Press) is a classic work on the risks of accidental nuclear war. He is a member of the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel; the Joint Forces Command Transformation Advisory Group; and the Strategic Advisory Group to Review the U.S. National Warning System for the Director of National Intelligence. He designed the core course for all entering MBAs at Yale’s School of Management on “Problem Framing” and is a founding member of Yale’s Grand Strategy Program. Prof. Bracken is a member of FPRI’s Board of Advisors. In 2008, he delivered FPRI’s First Annual Rocco Martino Lecture on Innovation and World Affairs, addressing the issue of “Technological Innovation and National Security.”

For his previous FPRI essays, visit

• Intelligence and Risk Management, 12/2008
• Technological Innovation and National Security, 6/2008
• Financial Warfare, 9/2007

Partners are also invited to special partnership events throughout the year, including:

Thu. Feb. 4, 2010

FPRI Members Briefing

The Foreign Policy of Abraham Lincoln

Harvey Sicherman President, FPRI

A former aide to three U.S. secretaries of state, Harvey Sicherman has written numerous essays and books on U.S. foreign and defense policy. He received his Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania.

He is author or editor of numerous books, chapters, and articles, including America the Vulnerable: Our Military Problems and How To Fix Them, co-edited with John Lehman (2002), Is There Still A West? The Future of the Atlantic Alliance, co-edited with William Anthony Hay (2007); The War on Terror: 21st Century Perspectives, co-edited with Stephen Gale and Michael Radu (Transaction, 2008); Templeton Lectures on Religion and World Affairs, 1996–2007 (FPRI, 2008); Cheap Hawks, Cheap Doves, and the Pursuit of American Strategy (forthcoming).

Of related interest:

• Harvey Sicherman on Benjamin Franklin and the Traditions of American Diplomacy
• Mackubin Owens on Abraham Lincoln: Leadership in Wartime

Sunday, April 18, 2009

Annual Champagne Brunch for Bronze Partners

The 21^st Century: What to Expect

George Friedman President of STRATFOR

Dr. Friedman is the Chief Executive Officer of STRATFOR, a company he founded in 1996 that is now a leader in the field of global intelligence. He is also the author of numerous articles and books on international affairs, warfare and intelligence. His most recent book, The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century, is a New York Times Best Seller. In this book Dr. Friedman draws on an exploration of history and geopolitical patterns dating back hundreds of years to explain where and why future wars will erupt and how they will be fought, which nations will gain and lose economic and political power, and how new technologies and cultural trends will alter the way we will live in the new century. Included among his previous books are The Future of War, The Intelligence Edge, and America’s Secret War. Major television and radio networks such as CNN, Fox News, and NPR frequently invite Dr. Friedman to appear as an international affairs intelligence expert. Barron’s has cited STRATFOR’s analysis on numerous occasions and Barron’s cover article featured an interview with Friedman in October 2001. He has also been featured in Time magazine, The New York Times Magazine and The Wall Street Journal and is frequently quoted in USA Today, The New York Times, Fortune, Newsweek, International Herald Tribune and many other domestic and international publications.