Photo Credit: Rafael Marchante (left), Marshall Burke (right)

FSI International Conference: Transitions 2009
FSI Stanford Special Event

Date and Time
November 13, 2008
9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

Availability
By Invitation Only
RSVP required by 5PM November 11

Join us for an engaging day of debate and discussion about the profound opportunities for change offered by the U.S. presidential election and historic transitions abroad.

8:30 AM	REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST
9:15 AM - 12:00 PM	MORNING SESSION
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM	PLENARY I TransitionS 2009: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going? Coit D. Blacker, Olivier Nomellini Professor in International Studies; Senior Fellow and Director, Freeman Spogli Institute Gerhard Casper, President Emeritus of Stanford University; Peter and Helen Bing Professor in Undergraduate Education; Professor of Law; Professor of Political Science, by courtesy; Senior Fellow, FSI Alan M. Garber, Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Professor; Professor of Medicine; Professor, by courtesy, of Economics and of Health Research and Policy; Senior Fellow, FSI; Director, Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research Stephen D. Krasner, Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations; Senior Fellow, FSI; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; former Deputy Director, FSI and former Director, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS Combating HIV in Low Resource Countries: Who’s Surviving, Who’s Dying, and Why? Alan M. Garber, Chair Rethinking the War on Terror. Martha Crenshaw, Chair The European Union and Prospects for the Promotion of Democracy and Human Rights. Amir Eshel, Chair Towards Regional Security in Northeast Asia. Daniel Sneider, Chair
12:30 PM - 2:00PM	LUNCHEON Keynote Address: Beyond the West? New administrations in the United States and Europe face the challenge of a multipolar world Timothy Garton Ash, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford; Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford
2:30 PM - 5:30 PM	AFTERNOON SESSION
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM	PLENARY II Power and Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threat Stephen J. Stedman, Director, Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies; Professor of Political Science, by courtesy; Senior Fellow, FSI Bruce Jones, Research Professor of Politics; Director, Center on International Cooperation, New York University Carlos Pascual, Vice President and Director of the Foreign Policy Studies Program, the Brookings Institution
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM	CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS Promoting Democracy: Should We, Can We? Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Chair Is African Society in Transition? Rosamond L. Naylor, Chair The World Is Not Flat: Working in a Global Economy. Joshua Cohen, Chair Overcoming Barriers to Nuclear Disarmament. David Holloway, Chair
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM	COCKTAIL RECEPTION