The New Congress and US Foreign Policy
Prof. Charles Stewart
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 100 participants.
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
With the 108th Congress taking office, what will US foreign policy be in 2003? What will the impact be on our neighbors and the rest of the world? Prof. Charles Stewart, an expert on congressional politics, will help lead our discussions with: guests who have served in the Congress, the Cabinet, and the White House; experts in various subjects; & grassroots activists who have worked with communities around the world.
UPDATE (Jan. 15): We are now using larger rooms. To join us if you have not pre-registered, please sign up (http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/feedback/c108-reg.shtml) so that you can be notified of the location for each remaining session. We also encourage you to arrive early for each session.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/events/congress108.shtml
Contact: MIT Western Hemisphere Project, hemisphere-admin@mit.edu
Sponsor: Western Hemisphere Project
Issues and Directions: National Security
Prof. Charles Stewart
We will examine US national security policy in the Western Hemisphere; and other important foreign-policy issues, ranging from war in the Middle East to homeland security to ballistic missile defense and proliferation of weapons and fissile materials. We will also look at how NGOs and activists organize around security issues and how they work to affect Congressional actions.
Guests include Joe Gerson (American Friends Service Committee); Liz Gronlund (Union of Concerned Scientists); Juliette Kayyem and Jeremy Pressman (Harvard); and Allison Macfarlane and Steve Van Evera (MIT).
For more details, see http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/events/congress108-ns.shtml
Thu Jan 9, 07-09:00pm, 1-150
Issues and Directions: Trade, Environment, Globalization
Prof. Charles Stewart
Our discussion will examine US international finance and investment policy in the Western Hemisphere; and various other foreign-policy issues dealing with "globalization," ranging from trade and embargoes to labor laws and environmental enforcement.
Among our guests are economist Robert Z. Lawrence, who served in the Clinton White House; Nick Ashford, Director of the Technology & Law Program at MIT; Patrick Keaney, manager of Jill Stein's recent gubernatorial campaign (Green Party); Catherine Benedict of the Boston Global Action Network; and pediatrician Michael Yogman (Harvard Medical School), who recently visited Cuba.
For more details, see http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/events/congress108-te.shtml
Thu Jan 16, 07-09:00pm, W31-301 (Dupont)
Issues and Directions: Human Rights
Prof. Charles Stewart
We will look at the role that human rights plays in Washington's bilateral relationships in Latin America and the Caribbean; the rights of indigenous peoples; US intervention in Colombia; the forty-year embargo against Cuba; immigration and asylum policy and the rights of prisoners taken in combat; and other issues.
Guests this week include Rep. Mike Capuano (D-Mass.); Margaret Burnham, professor of law at Northeastern University; Kevin Batt, anthropologist, attorney, and member of Tonantzin (the Boston Committee to Support the Native Peoples of Mexico); and Julieta Lemaitre (Universidad de los Andes), whose work is in women's rights and reproductive rights.
For a comlete list of panelists and other details, see http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/events/congress108-hr.shtml
Thu Jan 23, 07-09:00pm, 66-110
Lessons from the Hill
Prof. Charles Stewart
Our guests served in the US Congress for a total of 34 years: Mickey Edwards as a conservative Republican and Dan Glickman as a liberal Democrat; Glickman also served in President Clinton's Cabinet.
UPDATE (Jan. 15): We will also be joined by Juan Orduz, former Deputy Chief of Mission at the Colombian Embassy in Washington.
Our discussion with our guests will focus on their experience in Washington: how members of Congress analyze foreign-policy issues; how constituency interests are often traded off against party and national interests; and how alliances are made across district lines, across the aisle, and with the Executive branch. As far as possible we will look at the composition of the new Congress; and at how members of Congress relate to the diplomats, lobbyists, NGOs, and activists who work to affect their actions.
For more details, see http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/events/congress108-lh.shtml
Thu Jan 30, 07-09:00pm, 66-110
Latest update: 21-Jan-2003
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