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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="3"><b>Cambridge
Forum</b></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><br>3
Church Street ● Cambridge, MA 02138<br>617-495-2727<br>email:
director@cambridgeforum.org<br>cambridgeforum.org<br><br></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><i><b>Release</b></i></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">
February 12, 2012<br><br><br></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Cambridge
Forum Mini-Conference:</b></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Challenges
of Globalization -- Global Engagement</b></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><br><br>On
Monday February 13, 2012 Cambridge Forum hosts a mini-conference on
</font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Global
Engagement</b></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">.
Staring at 2 pm, speakers will discuss the various ways that the
United States is involved internationally and the impact that those
"entanglements" have on our sense of security. Have
our responses</font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="5"><b>
</b></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal">to
military, diplomatic, and economic challenges over the past decade
made us more secure? </span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Mark
N. Katz</b></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">
looks at WAR (both the war on terror and the shooting wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan); </font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Diana
Buttu</b></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">
looks at DIPLOMACY (particularly in the Middle East after the Arab
Spring); and </font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Richard
Parker</b></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">
discuss the ECONOMY (examining the European debt crisis). The
future of U.S. international relations is the subject of </font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Stephen
van Evera's</b></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">
evening keynote at 7:00 pm.<br></font></font></font><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="5"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span lang="en-US">Mark
N. Katz </span></font></font></b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal">is
professor of government and politics at George Mason University.
He writes about Russian foreign policy, the international relations
of the Middle East, and transnational revolutionary movements.
In addition to his numerous scholarly articles, Mark has written or
edited ten books, including </span></span></font></font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal">Leaving
without Losing: The War on Terror after Iraq and Afghanistan,</span></i></span></font></font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal">
which is coming out from Johns Hopkins Press in April 2012. </span></span></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><br></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Diana
Buttu i</b></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal">s
a Palestinian-Canadian attorney and frequent commentator on Middle
East politics. She previously served as a legal advisor to the
Palestinian negotiating team in its negotiations with Israel and
later as an advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. She is
currently a research fellow with the Middle East Initiative at the
Belfer Center and an Eleanor Roosevelt visiting fellow at the Human
Rights Program at Harvard Law School.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="5"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Richard
Parker </b></font></font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal">is
Lecturer in Public Policy and Senior Fellow of the Shorenstein Center
at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. An Oxford-trained
economist, he has been active in journalism, philanthropy, social
entrepreneurship, and political consulting. From 2009 to 2011
he was an economic adviser to Greek Prime </span></font></font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal">Minister
George Papandreou.</span></font></font></font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Ste</b></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>phen
van Evera</b></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal">
is Ford Interna</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal">tional
Professor in the MIT Political Science Department. He earned his B.A.
in government from Harvard and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political
science from the University of California at Berkeley. Prof. Van
Evera works in several areas of international relations: the causes
and prevention of war, U.S. foreign policy, U.S. security policy,
U.S. intervention in the Third World, international relations of the
Middle </span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal">East,
and international relations theory. He has published books on the
causes of war and on social science methodology, and articles on
American foreign policy, American defense policy, nationalism and the
causes of war, the origins of World War I, and U.S. strategy in the
War on Terror. </span></font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">This
program is funded in part by Mass Humanities, which receives support
from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is a state affiliate of
the National Endowment for the Humanities. <br><br>Cambridge Forum is
recorded and edited for public radio broadcast. Edited CDs are
available to the public by co</font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">ntacting
617-495-2727. Select forums can be viewed in their entirety on demand
by visiting our website at cambridgeforum.org and clicking on the
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