Canberra Event: America in the Middle East: A view from the summit - Stephen Hadley, 2014 Telstra Distinguished International Fellow
The Middle East is going through an unprecedented period of instability. The region is afflicted with multiple crises with few evident solutions. Please join us for a discussion on the turmoil in the Middle East by one of America’s most influential foreign-policy makers, Stephen Hadley. The event will be hosted by Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Fullilove.
Stephen Hadley is the Lowy Institute’s 2014 Telstra Distinguished International Fellow. He was National Security Adviser to President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2009. He was a key member of the Bush Administration’s national security team in the midst of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and he helped shape the Administration’s landmark initiative to develop a strategic relationship with India. More recently, he has been a prominent voice in debates about US-China relations. He is a principal of RiceHadleyGates LLC, an international strategic consulting firm founded with Condoleezza Rice, Robert Gates, and Anja Manuel, and Board Chairman of the United States Institute of Peace.
Dr Michael Fullilove is the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy.
He has been associated with the Lowy Institute since its establishment. He wrote the feasibility study for the Institute in 2002 and served as the Director of its Global Issues Program from 2003 to 2012. He has also worked as a Visiting Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, an adviser to Prime Minister Paul Keating, and a lawyer. He remains a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings.
Dr Fullilove writes widely on Australian foreign policy, US foreign policy and global issues in publications including The New York Times, Financial Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The National Interest and Foreign Affairs, as well as the Australian press. He is a sought-after media commentator and speaker in Australia and abroad, appearing on programs such as Radio National Breakfast, Lateline and theCharlie Rose Show. He graduated in arts and law from the Universities of Sydney and New South Wales, with dual university medals. He also studied as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he took a master's degree and a doctorate in international relations.
Dr Fullilove is the author of Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America into the War and into the World (Penguin), which won the 2014 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction. He is the co-editor, with Anthony Bubalo, of Reports from a Turbulent Decade (Viking), an anthology of the Lowy Institute's best work. He is also the editor of Men and Women of Australia! Our Greatest Modern Speeches (Viking).
This event is FREE to attend.
