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Lunchtime Speaker Series: Dr.
Mark Gasiorowski, "Current Issues With Iran"
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LOCATION:
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
115 West 7th Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
TIME:
12 Noon - 1:30 PM
DATE:
September 28, 2006
COST:
$15 (Includes Box Lunch)
***RSVP is required.
Please call 704-687-4485 or e-mail
ltpham@uncc.edu
(RSVP Deadline: Sept. 25,
2006 by 12:00 PM)
**Presidential Address**
President George W. Bush spoke to an audience of several hundreds of
people at Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) in uptown
Charlotte on Thursday, April 6, 2006. Sponsored by the World Affairs
Council of Charlotte, the event offered Charlotte area residents a
rare opportunity to hear the President speak about his policy
decisions on the war against terrorism. After his speech, the
President graciously answered questions from the audience regarding
issues pertinent to US domestic and foreign policy.
  
President Bush Discusses Global War on
Terror - Click to Watch
(Real
Player Required - Link to Viewing Web Cast is on the
Right-Side of the White House Web Page)
Transcript of President's Speech
- Click to Download
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The
World Affairs Council of Charlotte & Midrex Technologies, Inc.
cordially invites you a luncheon with Ambassador Ali Suleiman Aujali,
Ambassador of Libya to the United States. He will be addressing
issues relating to the development of strong relations between the
United States and Libya
Topic: "The US-Libyan Relations"
Join us for our Lecture and Luncheon on Tuesday, April 25,
2006 (12:00 - 2:00 PM) at the Marriott South Park Hotel
(Formerly Park Hotel), 2200 Rexford Road, Charlotte, NC
28211
Cost:
$ 35 (WACC Member); $ 45 (Non-Member)
Reservations and payments
required by Friday, April 21, 2006. Call 704-687-4485 or email
pnavarrete@worldaffairscharlotte.org
(Subject: Ambassador Ali S. Aujali).
Visa/MC accepted or please make
checks payable to the "World Affairs Council of Charlotte"
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Speaker Bio:
Ambassador Ali Aujali was named Chief of the Libyan
Liaison Office in Washington, DC in 2004, after serving as the
Charge d’Affairs at the Libyan Embassy in Ottawa, Canada. While
serving in Canada, Ambassador Aujali founded the Libya/Canada
Business Council. He has held a variety of positions in the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs in Tripoli, including deputy director general of
the Americas Department. Ambassador Aujali received his BA in
Business Administration from the University of Benghazi in Libya.
Summary of US-Libyan Relations:
Since
1988 and the bombing of PanAm flight103 over Lockerbie, the
Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya had been cut off from most
of the global community and was sanctioned by the United Nations.
When Libya accepted formal responsibility for the PanAm bombing in
2003 and began making other moves to restore its place in world
affairs, the United Nations lifted its sanctions, and the US began
the process of restoring relations with Libya.
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The World Affairs Council of Charlotte & The American
Council on Germany Charlotte Warburg Chapter cordially
invite you to a Luncheon with
Dr. Hannes
Adomeit,
Senior Research Associate, Institute for International
Politics and Security, Berlin.
Topic:
The EU Neighborhood Policy and Russia:
Conflicts of Interest in Common Spaces
Join us for our Lecture and Luncheon on Thursday, March 23,
2006 (12:00 – 1:30 PM) at the Hilton Charlotte Center City,
222 East Third Street, Charlotte, NC 28202
Cost:
$ 35 (WACC Member); $ 45 (Non-Member)
Reservations and payments
required by Friday, March 17. Call 704-687-4485 or
email
pnavarrete@worldaffairscharlotte.org
(Subject: Dr. Adomeit). Visa/MC accepted or please make
checks payable to the
World Affairs Council of Charlotte."
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Topic Summary
As the EU continues to struggle economically, companies in
Germany, France, Italy and England continue their expansion
east past the former Eastern Block countries of Poland,
Check Republic, Hungary, etc. to the Ukraine and Russia in
search of cheap skilled labor. Additionally huge consumer
markets loom in Russia and the Ukraine. The future of EU-Russian
relations will have tremendous importance in the continued
development of the EU. Additionally, as the world grows
increasingly closer this relationship will become just as
important as the EU's relationship with the US, and this
development will be critical to watch for the US, as our own
foreign policy toward China and the EU continues to develop.
Speaker
Biography
Dr. Hannes Adomeit
is Senior Research Associate at
the Research Institute for International Politics and
Security (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik) in Berlin. He
has held teaching and/or research positions at numerous
institutions in several countries, including the
International Institute for Strategic Studies in London; the
Institute for Soviet and East European Studies in Glasgow;
the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen's University
in Kingston, Ontario; and the Rand/UCLA Center for the Study
of Soviet International Behavior in Santa Monica,
California.
From 1989
to 1997 Dr. Adomeit was Professor of International Politics
and Director of the Program on Russia and East-Central
Europe at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts
University, and Fellow at the Harvard Russian Research
Center. He has published numerous books on Germany and the
Soviet era and has contributed many research papers
published under the auspices of the Stiftung Wissenschaft
und Politik.
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