State of the Union 2014 Class #7
Foreign Policy
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This post describes the seventh and final session of the Stanford University State of the Union 2014 course, offered in Autumn 2014. Details here.
Our distinguished guests for November 11 are:
Karl Eikenberry
Karl Eikenberry served as the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan from May 2009 until July 2011, where he led the civilian surge directed by President Obama to reverse insurgent momentum and set the conditions for transition to full Afghan sovereignty. He is currently the William J. Perry Fellow in International Security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and a faculty member of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University. Before appointment as Chief of Mission in Kabul, Ambassador Eikenberry had a thirty-five year career in the United States Army, retiring in April 2009 with the rank of Lieutenant General. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, has master’s degrees from Harvard University in East Asian Studies and Stanford University in Political Science, and was a National Security Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His articles and essays on U.S. and international security issues have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and The Financial Times.
Michael McFaul
Michael A. McFaul is the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Affairs at Stanford University. He also currently works as a news analyst for NBC. His areas of expertise include international relations, Russian politics, comparative democratization, and American foreign policy. From January 2012 to February 2014, he served as the US ambassador to the Russian Federation. Before becoming ambassador, he served for three years as a special assistant to the president and senior director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council. He has authored and edited several books and his op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Politico, Time, and the Weekly Standard.
