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Mid-Maine Global Forum Annual Dinner
August 7, 2019, 6:15 PM
$42Our summer dinner program at Colby returns!!
Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center, Colby College
August 7th, 6:15 wine/beer reception
7 pm Dinner followed by keynote address and Q & A
Professor Stephen Walt
Harvard Kennedy School
The Hell of Good Intentions: American Foreign Policy and the Decline of U.S. Primacy
Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he served as Academic Dean from 2002 to 2006. He previously taught at Princeton and at the University of Chicago, where he was Master of the Social Sciences Collegiate Division and Deputy Dean of Social Sciences. He is a contributing editor at Foreign Policy magazine, co-chair of the editorial board of International Security, and co-editor of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs book series. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in May 2005 and received the International Studies Association’s Distinguished Senior Scholar award in 2014. His books include The Origins of Alliances, which received the 1988 Edgar S. Furniss National Security Book Award, and Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy, which was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber International Affairs Book Award and the Arthur Ross Book Prize. His most recent book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (co-authored with John J. Mearsheimer) was a New York Times best-seller and has been translated into more than twenty foreign languages.
Place: Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center, Colby College(See campus map at http://www.colby.edu) Park at rear of building.
Choice of Entree:
Roasted Vegetable Napoleon (vegan), w/spiced carrot puree, crispy shallot, and chive oil
Pan-roasted Statler Chicken Breastw/ crisp potato cake, wilted greens and lemon-herb compound butter
or
Wild Salmon w/maple mustard glaze, french beans, and fork-mashed potatoes
Wine will be served with the dinner.
Price: $42 per person
As seating is limited, please RSVP as soon as possible to:
or call (207) 214-2805
and let us know your choice of dinner entree, and if you have a seating preference.
Please send a check, payable to “Mid-Maine Global Forum,” by Wednesday, July 31st to:
Steve Ball
Mid-Maine Global Forum
PO Box 2636
Waterville, ME 04903
The Mid-Maine Global Forum Board: Steve Ball (President), Mary Benziger, Jim Fleming, David Greenham, Michael Griffin (Treasurer), Sylvia Jadczak, Margy Knight (Vice-President), Steve Knight (Secretary), Bill Lee, David Leigh, David Richards, Tammy Rabideau, Joan Sanzenbacher, Crystal Shamas-Douglas, Jerry Tipper
Stephen M. Walt: University of California Berkeley M.A., Ph.D. in Political Science; Stanford University B.A. in International Relations.
For more information on Professor Walt go to:
https://www.belfercenter.org/person/stephen-m-walt
His weekly FP column is at: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/voices/walt