Conference Video Archive

Thursday, April 12

7:00 p.m. Keynote Address
George L. Ohrstrom Jr. Lectureship on Democracy by Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations
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Friday, April 13

9:30 a.m. Morning Remarks
Elliott Abrams, Council on Foreign Relations
Nicholas Burns, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
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10:30 a.m. Morning Panel 1: Assessing the Arab Spring and Democracy in the Middle East
John Agresto, Board of Trustees of the American University of Iraq
Karan Bhatia, General Electric
Danya Greenfield, Atlantic Council
James Zogby, Arab American Institute
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1:30 p.m. Afternoon Remarks
Al Hunt, Bloomberg News
Judy Woodruff, Bloomberg News, PBS NewsHour
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2:45 p.m. Afternoon Panel 1: Is Democracy Promotion in America's Interest?
Scott Carpenter, Google Ideas
Anthony Cordesman, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Charles Kesler, Claremont McKenna College
Michael E. O'Hanlon, Brookings Institution
Tony Smith, Tufts University
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4:30 p.m. Afternoon Panel 2: Democracy Promotion Beyond the Middle East
Nadia Diuk, National Endowment for Democracy
Morton H. Halperin, Open Society Institute
Adam Przeworski, New York University
John D. Sullivan, Center for International Private Enterprise
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Saturday, April 14

9:00 a.m. Morning Panel: The Mechanics of Democracy Promotion
Les Campbell, National Democratic Institute
Tom Garrett, International Republican Institute
Melinda Haring, American Security Project
David Kramer, Freedom House
Jamila Raqib, Albert Einstein Institution
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11:30 a.m. Closing Address
Larry Diamond, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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