Hutton Honors College

Discussion Supper with Strobe Talbott
Brookings Institution President and Former State Department Official in the Clinton Administration

Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007 * 5-6:30 p.m. * Harlos House, 1331 E. Tenth St. * SIGN-UP REQUIRED

A noted expert on national security, foreign policy, Eastern Europe, and South Asia, Strobe Talbott served in the Clinton Administration State Department as ambassador-at-large and special adviser to the secretary of state for the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union, and then as deputy secretary of state. He had previously spent 21 years with Time magazine, covering Eastern Europe, the State Department, and the White House and then serving as Washington bureau chief, editor-at-large, and foreign affairs columnist. A graduate of Yale and a Rhodes Scholar, he served after leaving the State Department as founding director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. He is currently president of the Brookings Institution, an independent public policy research and analysis organization. His many publications include Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy, and the Bomb; Tackling Trade and Climate Change: Leadership on the Home Front of Foreign Policy (with William J. Antholis); Engaging with Russia: The Next Phase (with Roderic Lyne and Koji Watanabe); The Age of Terror: America & The World After September 11 (co-edited with Nayan Chanda); At the Highest Levels: the Inside Story of the End of the Cold War (with Michael Beschloss); and The Master of the Game: Paul Nitze and the Nuclear Peace.

On campus as a Patten Lecturer, Talbott will deliver two public lectures: "Repairs Ahead: American Foreign Policy in the Post-Bush Era" on Wednesday, Oct. 10, and "India, America, and the World" with Jaswant Singh, former foreign minister of India on Thursday, Oct. 11. Both lectures will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Rawles Hall 100.

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