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The effects of United States
intervention in such regions as Somalia and Kosovo, and what
qualifies as successful intervention, are just two of the issues to
be addressed by a panel of experts convening for the Harriet L. and
Paul M. Weissman Center's symposium "U.S. Intervention Abroad: Wanted
and Unwanted Consequences" April 6 at 7:30 pm in Gamble Auditorium.
The panel is composed of distinguished analysts and important players
in recent United States interventions--Ivo H. Daalder, Robert B.
Oakley, and Michael N. Barnett. Visiting MHC professor Phyllis
Oakley, a career Foreign Service officer and former assistant
secretary of state, will moderate the panel. Ivo H. Daalder is a senior
fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institute. He served as
director for European affairs on President Clinton's National
Security staff, where he was responsible for coordinating United
States policy toward Bosnia. A specialist in American foreign policy,
European security and national security affairs, Daalder, who was
born in The Hague, the Netherlands, is a frequent commentator on
current affairs, the author of numerous books, and a member of the
Study Group of the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century.
Daalder will be joined on the
panel by Robert B. Oakley (spouse of Phyllis Oakley), who was named
by President Bush, and later by President Clinton, special envoy for
Somalia, where he served with Operation Restore Hope until March
1993. Oakley comes to MHC from the Institute for National Strategic
Studies, National Defense University. In 1991, he retired after
thirty-four years in the U.S. Foreign Service. In the State
Department, he was ambassador for counter-terrorism and U.S.
ambassador to Zaire, Somalia, and Pakistan. From 1987 to 1988, Oakley
served on the National Security Council staff, working for Frank
Carlucci and Colin Powell as assistant to the president for the
Middle East and South Asia. His many honors include two State
Department Superior Honor Awards and four Presidential Meritorious
Service Awards. Also participating as a
panelist is Michael Barnett, professor of political science and
director of the international relations program at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, where he chairs the department. Barnett has
lectured widely on the Middle East, Intervention and Africa, the
United Nations, and on many other foreign relations topics. The
author of three books and numerous articles on the Middle East, he
served in 1994 as a United Nations elections observer in El Salvador.
The symposium concludes the
Weissman Center's series on human rights and foreign intervention.
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