 | Strobe Talbott |
Strobe Talbott, president of The Brookings Institution, will be the speaker at the George Herbert Walker Jr. Lecture in International Studies on Wednesday, Feb. 14.
His talk, titled "America and the World: Restoring a Damaged Foreign Policy," will be held at 4 p.m. in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. Sponsored by the MacMillan Center, the lecture is open to the public free of charge.
Talbott assumed the presidency of the Brookings Institution in July 2002 after a career in journalism, government and academe. He previously served as the founding director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. He served in the State Department from 1993 to 2001, first as ambassador-at-large and special adviser to the Secretary of State for the new independent states of the former Soviet Union, then as Deputy Secretary of State for seven years.
Prior to government service, Talbott was with Time magazine for 21 years. As a reporter, he covered Eastern Europe, the State Department and the White House. In addition, he was also Washington bureau chief, editor-at-large and foreign affairs columnist.
His books include: "Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy and the Bomb," "The Russia Hand, at the Highest Levels" (with Michael Beschloss), "The Master of the Game, Reagan and Gorbachev" (with Michael Mandelbaum) and "Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament," among numerous others. He has also written for Foreign Affairs, The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, International Security, The Economist, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Slate.
Talbott has been a fellow of the Yale Corporation, a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a director of the Council on Foreign Relations, the North American Executive Committee of the Trilateral Commission, and the American Association of Rhodes Scholars.
An alumnus of Yale (B.A. '68), Talbott is the recipient of an honorary degree from the University and honorary doctorates from Monterrey Institute, Trinity College, Georgetown University and Fairfield University. He has been awarded state orders by the presidents of Estonia, Germany, Lithuania, Poland and the king of Sweden.
The Hon. George Herbert Walker III, currently the United States ambassador to Hungary, established this lecture series in 1986 in memory of his father, a distinguished graduate of the Yale Class of 1927.
T H I S
Talk will examine ways to restore
America's 'damaged foreign policy'
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