<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif"><font size="3"><b>Cambridge Forum</b></font><br> 3 Church Street ● Cambridge, MA 02138<br>617-495-2727<br>email: director@cambridgeforum.org<br>www.cambridgeforum.org<br><br><font size="3"><i><b>Release </b></i></font> September 23, 2013<br><br><font size="4"><b>LEE KUAN YEW: Leadership from “Behind the Throne”</b></font><br><br>On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. Cambridge Forum continues its exploration of leadership, focusing on leadership in a global economic and security environment. <b>Graham Allison,</b> Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard, discusses his recent book (co-authored with Robert Blackwill) <i>Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World</i>. Lee Kuan Yew is the 89-year-old founding father of modern Singapore, and from this tiny city-state has come to be recognized as “the grand master” in modern Asian politics. Lee has been a mentor to every Chinese leader since Deng Xiaoping, and has counseled every U.S. president since Nixon. Allison recounts Lee Kuan Yew’s visionary thinking about the critical global issues of our time, including the future of China, the fate of U.S.-China relations, India’s murky prospects, and Europe’s deep problems. How did Lee become “the power behind the throne?” How is leadership exercised from the position of advisor that he occupies?<br><br><b>Graham Allison</b> is Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. Allison is a leading analyst of U.S. national security and defense policy with a special interest in nuclear weapons, terrorism, and decision-making. As Assistant Secretary of Defense in the first Clinton Administration, he received the Defense Department's highest civilian award, the Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, for "reshaping relations with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan to reduce the former Soviet nuclear arsenal." His book, <i>Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe</i>, presents a strategy for preventing nuclear terrorism organized under a doctrine of "Three Nos:" no loose nukes; no new nascent nukes; and no new nuclear weapons states. Allison’s latest book, <i>Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States and the World</i>, (co-authored with Robert Blackwill) is currently a bestseller in the U.S. and abroad. <br><br>Cambridge Forum is recorded and edited for public radio broadcast. Edited podcasts are available at www.cambridgeforum.org. Select forums can also be viewed in their entirety on YouTube.<br><br>#####<br></font></font></font></body><pre>
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