This week in DC.

Monday, March 3

The Woodrow Wilson Center's (WWC) Kennan Institute
Lecture on "Is Russia Entering the Post-Putin Era?" with Thomas Graham, senior director of Kissinger Associates and former special assistant to President Bush and senior director for Russian affairs for the National Security Council.
Location: WWC, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.. 12 noon

The German Marshall Fund
Discussion on "A Challenge to Transatlantic Burden Sharing."
Participants: Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia Kurt Volker; German Ambassador to the U.S. Klaus Scharioth; and Guy Saint-Jacques, deputy chief of mission at the Canadian Embassy
Location: The German Marshall Fund, 1744 R St., NW, Washington, D.C.. 12 noon

The Johns Hopkins University Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Discussion on "Strengthening U.S. Foreign Assistance: Proposals for a More Effective Strategy."
Participants: Leo Hindery, vice chairman of the Helping to Enhance the Livelihood of People Around the Globe (HELP) Commission on U.S. foreign assistance; Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development; and Roger Leeds, director of the SAIS Center for International Business and Public Policy
Location: SAIS, Rome Building, 1619 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Auditorium, Washington, D.C.. 5 p.m.

Tuesday, March 4

The Woodrow Wilson Center (WWC)
Briefing on Kosovo's recent independence. [Note: Reservations required to Erin Mosely at 202-691-4266 or erin.mosely@wilsoncenter.org by March 3 at noon.]
Participants: Martin Sletzinger, director of East European Studies at WWC; Mario Zucconi, public policy scholar at WWC; and Ina Merdjanova, policy scholar at the Southeast Europe Project
Location: WWC, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.. 9 a.m.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Kosovo
Full committee hearing on "Kosovo: The Balkans' Moment of Truth?"
Witnesses: Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried testifies
Location: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building. 9:30 a.m.

The George Marshall Institute
Discussion on "Is An Outer Space Arms Control Treaty Verifiable?" with Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance and Implementation Paula DeSutter. [Note: RSVP to 202-296-9655 or info@marshall.org]
Location: National Press Club, 14th and F Sts., NW, First Amendment Lounge, Washington, D.C.. 1 p.m.

Senate Appropriations Committee
USAID Budget
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee hearing on the proposed budget request for FY2009 for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Witnesses: USAID Administrator and Director of Foreign Assistance Henrietta Fore testifies
Location: 138 Dirksen Senate Office Building. 2:30 p.m.

The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission)
Hearing on enlargement issues for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Participants: Michael Haltzel, senior fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Paul Nitze School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University; Steven Pifer, former U.S. ambassador to the Ukraine; Jausz Bugajski, director of the New European Democracies Project
Location: B-318 Rayburn House Office Building. 3 p.m.

Wednesday, March 5

Senate Foreign Relations Committee
National Security through Smart Power
Full committee hearing on "Strengthening National Security Through Smart Power - A Military Perspective."
Witnesses: Retired Gen. Anthony Zinni, former commander of the U.S. Central Command; and retired Adm. Leighton Smith, former commander of U.S. Naval Forces Europe
Location: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building. 9:30 a.m.

The Jamestown Foundation
Discussion on "Russia After the Presidential Elections: Challenges and Constraints in Russia's Domestic and Foreign Policy." [Note: RSVP required to rsvp-mar5@jamestown.org with your name and affiliation.]
Participants: Glen Howard, president of the Jamestown Foundation; Pavel Baev, research professor of the International Peace Research Institute; Jonas Bernstein, senior research associate at the Jamestown Foundation; and Stephen Blank, professor of Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College
Location: The Jamestown Foundation, 1111 16 St., NW, Suite 320, Washington, D.C.. 10 a.m.

The United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
Discussion on "The Role of Independent Diplomat: A New Approach to Diplomacy and Conflict." [Note: RSVP required to Elizabeth Jones at ejones@usip.org]
Participants: Carne Ross, founder of the Independent Diplomat; Soren Jessen-Peterson, guest scholar at USIP and director of Independent Diplomat's Washington, D.C. Office; and Daniel Serwer, vice president of Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations at USIP
Location: USIP, 1200 17th St., NW, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Washington, D.C.. 11 a.m.

The Center for U.S. Global Engagement
News conference to launch a National Security Advisory Council and to "call for a new foreign policy direction."
Participants: retired Marine Corps Gen. Anthony Zinni; retired Navy Adm. Leighton Smith Jr.; former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage; and Liz Schrayer, executive director for the Center for U.S. Global Engagement
Location: Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.. 12:15 p.m.

House Homeland Security Committee
Nuclear Smuggling Detection Technology
Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology Subcommittee hearing on "Nuclear Smuggling Detection: Recent Tests of Advanced Spectroscopic Portal Monitors."
Witnesses: Deputy Homeland Security Undersecretary for Management Elaine Duke; George Thompson, deputy director of programs at the Homeland Security Institute; and Vayl Oxford, director of the Homeland Security Department's Domestic Nuclear Detection Office
Location: 311 Cannon House Office Building. 2 p.m.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Ballistic Missile Defense Oversight
National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearing on "Oversight of Ballistic Missile Defense (Part I): Threats, Realities, and Tradeoffs."
Witnesses: TBA
Location: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building. 2 p.m.

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Russian Unanium Antidumping Investigation
Full committee hearing on the impacts of the capability of the United States to maintain a domestic enrichment capability as a result of the recently initiated amendment between the United States and the Russian Federation on the Agreement Suspending the Antidumping Investigation on Uranium from the Russian Federation.
Witnesses: David Spooner, assistant secretary of the Import Administration at the Commerce Department; William Tobey, deputy administrator for defense nuclear nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration of the Energy Department; Marvin Fertel, executive vice president of the Nuclear Energy Institute; Reinhard Hinterreither, president and CEO of Louisiana Energy Services; and John Welch, president and CEO of USEC Inc.
Location: 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building. 3 p.m.

The Johns Hopkins University Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Discussion on "Kazakhstan's Emerging Middle Class" with John Daly, international correspondent for United Press International. [Note: The public should RSVP to 202-663-7721 or caci2@jhu.edu]
Location: SAIS, Rome Building, 1619 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Auditorium, Washington, D.C.. 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 6

The United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
Discussion on "A World Without Nuclear Weapons: The International Dimension." [Note: RSVP required to rsvp@usip.org with your name, affiliation, daytime phone number and name of the event.]
Participants: Max Kampelman, of counsel at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson; James Goodby, research fellow at the Hoover Institution; and George Perkovich, vice president of studies of global security and economic development at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Location: USIP, 1220 17th St., 2nd Floor Conference Room, Washington, D.C.. 10 a.m.

House Foreign Affairs Committee
Central Asia
Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment Subcommittee hearing on "Central Asia: An Overview."
Witnesses: Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Pamela Spratlen, for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs testify
Location: 2200 Rayburn House Office Building. 2 p.m.

Friday, March 7

The Woodrow Wilson Center (WWC)
Book discussion of "On Nuclear Terrorism" with author Michael Levi.
Location: WWC, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.. 12 noon

The Johns Hopkins University Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Discussion on "If Foreign Aid Doesn't Achieve Economic Development, Then What Does?" [Note: The public should RSVP to 202-663-5943 or developmentroundtable@jhu.edu]
Location: SAIS, Rome Building, 1619 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Auditorium, Washington, D.C.. 12:30 p.m.