Upcoming Events


October 21, 2010

Panelist at symposium on "US Presidential Leadership at the UN", Hofstra University

Fall, 2010

Writing PBS documentary about UN's founding based on Act of Creation

 

 

 

Recent Events


September 1, 2010

Interviewed on half-hour Global Connections TV show (UN TV) about upcoming Act of Creation documentary and UN's future

July 21, 2010

Quoted in CNN.com International article, "Senior Official Chastises UN Chief In Parting Shot"

Author, "Art in The Making: Capturing a Book About the Birth of the UN Onto Film", The InterDependent on-line magazine of the UNA-USA

July 14, 2010

Commentary on two President Kennedy speeches, his Inaugural Address, and his Berlin speech, on PBS, WAMC (NorthEast Public Radio) show "Power of Words"

July 7, 2010

Quoted in front page The Washington Post story "Queen Elizabeth Addresses UN For First Time Since 1957"

June 10, 2010

Speaker at reception announcing launching of UN documentary project based on "Act of Creation", UN French Ambassador residence, NYC

May 14-22, 2010

Trip to Ireland

April 19-20, 2010

Lectures at Occidental College and University of Southern California, Los Angeles, on Obama and the UN

March 29, 2010

Washington Post/Turtle Bay/Foreign Policy Magazine website, Colum Lynch column "Longtime UN Booster Rips Ban Ki Moon" reporting on my article, "Bosom Buddies? Ban's and Obama's Curious Relations", World Policy Journal, Spring 2010

March 12, 2010

Radio interview on Act of Creation on WJFF radio, Jeffersonville, New York

March 9, 2010

Interview for documentary celebrating the 90th anniversary of the League of Women Voters

March 8, 2010

Participant in debate over Obama's Afghanistan policy with Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute, on PublicSquare.net

February 5, 2010

Speaker at Yale Symposium on UN Charter, Political Science Department, New Haven, Connecticut

January 6, 2010

Half-hour interview for Global Connections, UN TV, on latest UN global challenges

December 8, 2009

Speech to New York State Archives Partnership Trust on why the UN was located in NYC

November 17, 2009

Panelist at Russian Embassy conference on Andrei Gromyko and US-Soviet relations, cosponsered by Kennan Institute and Woodrow Wilson International Center For Scholars, Washington DC

November 13, 2009

Panelist at NYU Center for Global Affairs symposium on "The US/UN Relationship: A Realistic Appraisal"

October 29, 2009

Speech to Worldview Institute on future of the UN, NYC

October 9, 2009

Meeting of Council on Foreign Relations Advisory Committee on UN Security Council reform, Washington, D.C.

September 24, 2009

Quoted in New York Times story on Libyan leader al-Qaddafi, "Libyan Leader Delivers a Scolding in UN Debut"

September 22, 2009

Lou Dobbs show (CNN) debate on UN

September 4, 2009

"Hearts and Minds" Interview for SKY-TV on Afghanistan and Colombia

August 17, 2009

"Hearts and Minds" Interview for SKY-TV, Europe on Latin America

July 14, 2009

Quoted in Wall Street Journal story on Ban Ki Moon, "The UN's Invisible Man"

July 11, 2009

Interview on Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC radio, on Latin American coups

June 30, 2009

Interview with eFM's "This Morning", an English-language Korean radio station in Seoul on Ban Ki Moon

June 30, 2009

Debate with Jacob Heilbrunn on Al Jazeera TV on Ban Ki Moon

June 29, 2009

Interview with BBC Radio News "The Today Programme" on the military coup in Honduras

June 18, 2009

Interview with weekly TV talk show, "The Autograph", Press TV

May 21, 2009

"Hearts and Minds" Roundtable --  panel discussion for SKY TV broadcast on Obama's Speech on Islam in Egypt

May 1, 2009

"Hearts and Minds" Roundtable --  panel discussion for SKY TV broadcast on the Middle East

April 23, 2009

Conference on "Building a More Effective United Nations: Opportunities For the Obama Administration", Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.

April 10, 2009

"Hearts and Minds" Roundtable --  panel discussion for SKY TV broadcast in Europe on the topic of Afghanistan

March 13-21, 2009

NYU Academic Mission to Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey

March 11, 2009

Quoted in Washington Post story on new US UN mission building

February 20, 2009

"Hearts and Minds" Roundtable -- panel discussion for SKY TV broadcast on Obama's foreign policy

January 21, 2009

Interview with ZDF German TV on Ban Ki-Moon

January 9, 2009

Interview with Bloomberg News on Gaza and the UN

December 21, 2008

New York Times interview on Bob Kerrey, president of New School

December 13, 2008

Extra in movie "Che"-- screening at Ziegfeld

November 13, 2008

Speaker at the UN Ass. of USA Council of Organizations, NYC

November 4, 2008

Speaker on 2008 Presidential Election panel, 92nd St. Y, 8-9PM, NYC

October 29, 2008

Presentation at Barnes and Noble, Tribeca, NYC on Journals book

September 18, 2008

Interview with The Yomiuri Simbun on UN

September 17, 2008

Presentation at Occidental University in NYC on UN

August 11, 2008

Interview for PBS documentary on UN

August 9, 2008

Interview with Newsweek On-Air radio on President Bush's foreign policy

July 24, 2008

Speaker at Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library on the Future of the United Nations

July 16-18, 2008: Azores Island, Portugal

Speaker at Franklin Roosevelt Azorean Forum: Transatlantic Relations in European and American Public Opinion

July 10, 2008    

Interview for French documentary on the United Nations

May 28, 2008: New York, NY

Roundtable participant at American Foreign Policy Committee meeting on the UN Human Rights Council

May 3, 2008: Century Club - New York, NY

Presentation of Journals book at the Century Club

April 9, 2008: United Nations

Address to the World Federation of United Nations Associations luncheon honoring Ambassador William Vanden Heuvel

February 19, 2008: Knickerbocker Club - New York, NY

Presentation of Journals book at the Knickerbocker Club

February 6, 2008: Columbia Unversity - New York, NY

Panel Discussion at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia Unversity entitled “Can the United Nations Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century?”

February 2, 2008

Interview with Newsweek On Air radio on Clinton-Obama race

January 9, 2008: Strand Bookstore - New York, NY

Panel Discussion on Journals book at the Strand Bookstore, New York City