ForeignPolicyAfter911

No class March 27: Spring Break

No class Monday, March 27th as Berkeley begins the spring break holiday.

Monday, March 20, 2006 Class

Monday's class will have a distinguished panel talking about what is being done in various countries and internationally to address global warming.  The class will be in 155 Dwinelle just across the hall from where we meet regularly.  Our guests include

Speakers

Lars-Erik Liljelund, Director-General of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket)

Arild Moe, Deputy Director of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo, Norway

John Wilson, Advisor to Commissioner Arthur H. Rosenfeld, California Energy Commission

Commentators

David Caron, William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
John Harte, Professor of Energy and Resources and the Ecosystems Science Division of the College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley

For more information, the url is at http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/SpecialEvents/Sather2006/

Mid term exam

Here is the study guide for the mid term.  Your exam will consist of choosing the correct answers from 4 choices.

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/911/courses/midtermS06.html

All the course lectures are now webcast ready and available at

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses/archive.php?seriesid=1906978286

Remember to bring a  green scantron answer sheet for fifty multiple choice questions and a number 2 pencil

March 6, 2006

Pamela Constable, Deputy Foreign Editor of the Washington Post, will join us this evening for a discussion of the press and foreign policy.  I will also provide information about next week's mid term exam.

U.S-Europe Relations

The Conversations with History archive has just posted my interview with Lord Patten of Barnes, the former European Union Commissioner for External Affairs.  This is a must read for those of you interested in relations with Europe. http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/Patten/patten06-con0.html He has many interesting comments on Bush's foreign policy.