Monday, March 10
The George Washington University (GW) and the World Bank
Global finance forum on "Oil Price Volatility, Economic Impacts, and Financial Management: Risk Management Experience, Best Practice, and Outlook," March 10-11. Events begin at 8:30 a.m. Highlights:
8:30 a.m.: Steven Knapp, president of GW; Graeme Wheeler, managing director of the World Bank; and Alex Fleming, manager of the World Bank, delivers opening remarks
12:30 p.m.: Jim Burkhard, managing director of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, delivers remarks at a luncheon. Location: World Bank MC Building, 1818 H St., NW
5:30 p.m.: Shigeo Katsu, vice president of the Europe and Central Asia Region at the World Bank, delivers remarks [Note: RSVP to Katerina Svirina at, 202-458-1042 or esvirina@worldbank.org by March 6 at 5 p.m.]
Location: GW, 805 21st St., NW, Washington, D.C. or as noted.
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI)
Discussion on "What Now for Russia? The Regime and Opposition After the Presidential Election." [Note: Register online: http://www.aei.org/event1680]
Participants: Oleg Buklemishev, adviser to former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov; Vladimir Kara-Murza, former presidential campaign manager for Vladimir Bukovsky; Boris Nemtsov, former first deputy prime minister and co-founder of the Union of Right Forces; Vladimir Ryzhkov, co-chairman of the Republican Party of Russia; Michael McFaul, director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University; and Leon Aron of AEI
Location: AEI, 1150 17th St., NW, Wohlstetter Conference Center, 12th Floor, Washington, D.C.. 9 a.m.
The American Foreign Policy Council
Conference on "Missile Defenses and American Security." Highlights:
9 a.m.: Ilan Berman, vice president for policy at the American Foreign Policy Council, delivers remarks
9:15 a.m.: Former CIA Director James Woolsey delivers remarks on "21st Century Threats and Responses"
10 a.m.: Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., delivers remarks on "Missile Defense Priorities: The View from Congress"
10:45 a.m.: Keith Payne, president of the National Institute for Public Policy, delivers remarks on "New Requirements for Deterrence and Defense"
11:30 a.m.: Peter Brookes, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, delivers remarks on "The Case for European Missile Defense"
12:15 p.m.: Ilan Berman, vice president for policy at the American Foreign Policy Council, delivers concluding remarks [Note: RSVP required.]
Location: 902 Hart Senate Office Building. 9 a.m.
The Woodrow Wilson Center (WWC)
Discussion on "The Geography of North Caucasian Conflicts (1999-2007): Analysis of 14, 000 Violent Incidents" with John O'Loughlin, professor of geography and faculty research associate at the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado.
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 "Kosovo, Serbia and the Balkans: Where Does Europe Go From Here?" with David Kanin, adjunct professor of European studies and senior analyst at the CIA. [Note: RSVP to ntobin@jhu.edu]
Location: SAIS, Rome Building, 1619 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Room 806, Washington, D.C.. 12:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 11
Foreign Aid - Millennium Challenge Compact Countries
Millennium Challenge Corporation (F.R. Page 11155)
Meeting to discuss and consider selection issues that were deferred from its December 12, 2007 meeting; implementation issues affecting a number of MCC's compact countries; and certain administrative matters.
Location: State Department, 2201 C St., NW, Washington, D.C.. 10 a.m.
The Heritage Foundation
Discussion on "The Rise of Global Civil Society: Building Nations from the Ground Up."
Participants: Don Eberly, author and Civil Society scholar; and Jennifer Marshall, director of the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at the Heritage Foundation
Location: Heritage Foundation, 214 Massachusetts Ave., NE, Lehrman Auditorium, Washington, D.C.. 12 noon
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
NATO Expansion
Full committee hearing on "NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization): Enlargement and Effectiveness."
Witnesses: Acting Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Daniel Fried; Gen. John Craddock of the U.S. European Command and supreme allied commander for Europe at NATO Headquarters, Mons, Belgium; Ronald Asmus, executive director of the Transatlantic Center of the German Marshall Fund, Brussels, Belgium; Philip Gordon, senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Brookings Institution; and Bruce Jackson, president of the Project on Transitional Democracies
Location: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building. 2:30 p.m.
The Heritage Foundation
25th Anniversary of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative with Vice President Dick Cheney. [Note: Media credential requests must be faxed to 202-456-2973 with name and title on company letterhead by 5 p.m. on March 10. Valid media credentials and photo ID required for entry. Pre-set for all media is 2 p.m.]
Location: Four Seasons Hotel, 2800 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.. 7:20 p.m.
Wednesday, March 12
House Appropriations Committee
International Affairs Budget
State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Subcommittee hearing on the "International Affairs Budget."
Witnesses: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testifies
Location: 2359 Rayburn House Office Building. 10 a.m.
House Foreign Affairs Committee
The Balkans and NATO Enlargement
Full committee hearing on "The Balkans after the Independence of Kosova and on the Eve of NATO Enlargement."
Witnesses: Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried of the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs
Location: 2172 Rayburn House Office Building. 10 a.m.
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI)
Discussion on "What if Reagan had not Run and the Soviet Union Still Existed? The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Two Speeches that Changed History" with former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, R-Ga. [Note: Register online: http://www.aei.org/event1684]
Location: AEI, 1150 17th St., NW, Wohlstetter Conference Center, 12th Floor, Washington, D.C.. 5 p.m.
The Johns Hopkins University Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies' (SAIS) Central Asia-Caucasuses Institute
Discussion on "From Illicit to Licit Livelihoods: Understand the Changing Role of Opium in Rural Livelihoods in Afghanistan and One Possible Alternative Crop." [Note: RSVP to 202-663-7721 or caci2@jhu.edu; The speakers' comments will be off the record.]
Participants: David Mansfield, consultant at the Department of International Development in the United Kingdom; and Keith Disselkoen, contractor at the U.S. Agency for International Development
Location: SAIS, Rome Building, 1619 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Auditorium, Washington, D.C.. 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 13
Senate Armed Services Committee
Nuclear Nonproliferation Programs Budget
Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee hearing on the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program and the Proliferation Security Initiative at the Defense Department, and nuclear nonproliferation programs at the National Nuclear Security Administration, in review of the Defense Authorization Request for FY2009 and the Future Years Defense Program.
Witnesses: William Tobey, deputy administrator for defense nuclear nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration at the Energy Department; and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Joseph Benkert, for global security affairs
Location: 222 Russell Senate Office Building. 2:30 p.m.
The Woodrow Wilson Center (WWC)
Discussion on "Returned from Russia: Nazi Archival Plunder in Western Europe and Recent Restitution Issues."
Participants: Patricia Grimstead, associate at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute; Michael Kurtz, assistant archivist for records services at the National Archives; and Robert Wolfe, retired senior archivist of the National Archives
Location: WWC, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.. 3:30 p.m.
Friday, March 14
The National Press Club Noon Newsmaker Program
Discussion on "What We Have Learned from Afghanistan-And the Future of NATO" with Danish Defense Minister Soren Gade.
Location: National Press Club, 14th and F Sts., NW, Washington, D.C.. 10 a.m.
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