Anthony Lake Lecture February 10 to Kick Off Weissman Center Series

 

Anthony Lake

 

Anthony Lake will return to Mount Holyoke to deliver a lecture February 10.

 

As humanitarian crises--such as those in Somalia, Haiti, and Kosovo in recent years--continue to unfold around the globe, questions surrounding foreign intervention increasingly confront American citizens and international policymakers. With Chechnya and other global hot-spots serving as the backdrop, Mount Holyoke will host a series of lectures and symposia titled U.S. Foreign Interventions: Human Rights and National Interest.

The events, which are sponsored by the Weissman Center for Leadership, will get under way with a lecture by Anthony Lake Thursday, February 10, at 7:30 pm in Gamble Auditorium. Lake, a former Mount Holyoke professor who served as President Clinton's national security adviser from 1992 to 1996, will present a keynote address titled "Foreign Humanitarian Intervention: Which Children to Save?"

Other events in the series include a panel discussion titled "Human Rights and Foreign Intervention: In Search of a New Paradigm" Wednesday, February 23. Panelists will discuss the ethics of international intervention by the United States and the United Nations in light of human rights violations. Sohail Hashmi, MHC assistant professor of international relations, will serve as moderator. Panelists are Martha Finnemore, associate professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University; Michael Joseph Smith, professor of government and foreign affairs and director of the Program in Social and Political Thought at the University of Virginia; and Hurst Hannum of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

A panel discussion titled "U.S. Intervention Abroad: Wanted and Unwanted Consequences" will round out the series Thursday, April 6. Panelists will discuss the consequences of forced interventions as well as the conditions required to sanction other interventions. Phyllis E. Oakley, Cyrus Vance Professor at Mount Holyoke, spring 2000, will serve as moderator. Panelists are Michael Barnett, professor of political science and director of the international relations program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ivo H. Daalder, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; Robert Oakley of the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University; and Susan Woodward of the Center for Defense Studies at the University of London.

Anthony Lake

An active member of foreign policy circles since 1962, when he joined the United States Foreign Service, Lake has extensive State Department experience. He has devoted almost four decades of his life to international relations and to fostering a better understanding of United States involvement in foreign affairs. He has been teaching since 1981, after serving in the Carter administration as head of the State Department's policy planning operation. Lake is the former Five College Professor of International Relations at Mount Holyoke, where he taught from 1984 to 1993. Currently, he is teaching at Georgetown University.

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