Threats and Opportunities: The Year Ahead for President Obama 
 
Charles Lipson, University of Chicago
 
The big foreign policy test may be Afghanistan, but there are plenty of other challenges to keep the President up at night: the spread of nuclear weapons, the resurgence of Al-Qaeda, the rise of China, and the continued search for peace in the Middle East. How is Obama expected to tackle these and other issues? Will his new soft-power approach become an effective new policy?
 
Charles Lipson is an award-winning analyst and teacher of international politics and history at the University of Chicago, where he is the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Political Science. He also founded and directs the University’s Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security (PIPES), where scholars from around the world come to discuss the latest issues in world politics. He is one of the most popular lecturer’s on campus.
  
When:  September 7, 2010
Time:  Registration: 6:00 p.m., Program: 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Location:  Junior League, 1811 Briar Oaks Lane
 
Members: Free, Non-members: $20
 
Co-Sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Houston and the Council on Foreign Relations.
 
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