http://www.heritage.org/static/rss/events.xmlEvents - The Heritage Foundationen-US© Copyright 2012info@heritage.orgRSS Generator {90F4E774-DB92-41BF-BAA9-E341FB2159E7}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/events/2012/06/banker-to-the-worldJohn HilboldtIn more than five decades with Citigroup and Citibank, William Rhodes has worked with senior business leaders, statesmen, and strongmen and brokered immense financial deals while looking across the table at finance ministers – and up gun barrels trained on him. From these and other experiences, he has learned a lifetime of lessons about managing amid crises – and, more important, how to lead prudently, decisively, and effectively to prevent crises from ever happening in the first place. In "Banker to the World", he presents his collected wisdom, best-practices, analysis, and anecdotes in one volume on the creation of value through leadership – and on the importance of leading by one's values. Rhodes’ principles offer an excellent foundation for leaders at all levels. Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:00:00 -0400{48F2857D-7DA1-42F5-92AE-082737880B69}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/events/2012/06/america-and-the-rogue-statesTed R. Bromund, Ph.D.In America and the Rogue States, Thomas Henriksen traces and examines the policies and interactions of the United States with adversarial nations in the post-Cold War era. He focuses on key rogue states – North Korea, Iran, and pre-invasion Iraq and also analyzes what are termed lesser rogue players – Libya, Syria, Cuba, Sudan and others. Dr. Henriksen sets these rogue regimes in historical perspective, but he makes clear that the contemporary variant endangers international peace through the export of terrorism and the pursuit of nuclear arms. Additionally, he chronicles and explains why Washington has relied on non-military options (and delves into the Iraq exception) in dealing with rogues while the U.S. militarily struck in a host of countries after the fall of the Soviet Union. Intra-rogue cooperation is described, along with the role some rogues are playing in the Sino-American rivalry. He concludes with a review and assessment of current polices for dealing with rogue states.Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:00:00 -0400{7008548C-4BA3-461D-A667-6E9999C0EDF7}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/events/2012/06/eagle-scoutsJohn HilboldtSince Arthur Eldred of New York earned this nation’s first Eagle Scout Award in 1912, more than 2 million young men have achieved the Boy Scouts of America’s highest rank. To attain the Eagle Scout badge, scouts must demonstrate proficiency in leadership, service, and outdoor skills at multiple levels. In addition to 21 life skills merit badges required, each Scout must complete an extensive self-directed service project. The Scout must plan, organize, lead, and manage the entire service effort prior to his 18th birthday. Fewer that 4 percent of Boy Scouts earn this coveted rank. As a result, over the past century, Eagle Scout has become widely recognized – both in and outside of Scouting – as a mark of distinction. Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:00:00 -0400{23E585A3-1ED3-4D5D-B210-C181A6FB7F26}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/events/2012/06/dropping-the-torchHelle DaleIn ''Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War'', Nicholas Sarantakes offers a diplomatic history of the 1980 Olympic boycott. Broad in its focus, ''Dropping the Torch'' examines events in Washington, D.C., as well as the opposition to the boycott and how this attempted embargo affected the athletic contests in Moscow. Jimmy Carter based his foreign policy on assumptions that had fundamental flaws and reflected a superficial familiarity with the Olympic movement. These basic mistakes led to a campaign that failed to meet its basic mission objectives but did manage to insult the Soviets just enough to destroy détente and restart the Cold War. Sarantakes also includes a military history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which provoked the boycott, and an examination of the boycott's impact four years later at the Los Angeles Olympics, where the Soviet Union retaliated with its own boycott.Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:30:00 -0400{AF202BC8-5A1D-4CDC-A964-796D7441FB1D}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/events/2012/06/lost-causesEdwin Feulner, Ph.D.For most of his professional career as a pre-eminent development economist teaching at Oxford and University College, Deepak Lal has worked in and on Third World countries. After living in Britain for nearly thirty years, and having become a British citizen in 1987, he casts his focus on the public policy debates in the United Kingdom. Lost Causes is Professsor Lal's collected thoughts on the state of the United Kingdom today, taken from pamphlets compiled for various UK think tanks from the late 1980s. Written from the classical liberal perspective Lost Causes is, in part, an indictment of the failures of the long “Socialist” winter since Labour's second term, but also a record of the hopes that arose and were dashed by the new coalition government elected in 2010. The issues that run through Lost Causes are, sadly, longstanding. Dr. Lal does not remove from the essays the references to the context and time when they were written, but attempts to show how these issues have evolved in recent history. In doing so, he demonstrates how the wealth and welfare of his adopted country continue to depend upon the redemption of such lost causes.Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:00:00 -0400{8BDDE96A-910D-482E-AA93-2DD1A4CAA405}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/events/2012/06/political-womanJohn HilboldtJeane Kirkpatrick became an iconic figure in the 1980s as Ronald Reagan’s United Nations Ambassador and the most forceful presence in the Administration, outside of the President himself, in shaping the Reagan Doctrine and fighting the Cold War to a victorious conclusion. In Political Woman, the first and only biography of Jeane Kirkpatrick, Peter Collier traces the complex interlock between Kirkpatrick's personal and professional lives using her as yet unarchived private papers and extensive interviews with her and her family as well as dozens of friends and associates. Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:00:00 -0400{02B15FF6-A36C-4D04-A045-7DCE1045C109}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/events/2012/06/abm-withdrawalKim R. Holmes, Ph.D.The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 prohibited the United States and the Soviet Union from testing or deploying national missile defense systems. Three months after 9/11, President George W. Bush gave notice to Russia of the U.S. intent to withdraw from that treaty. Ballistic missile technology was proliferating at an alarming rate, and Washington did not want to leave Americans vulnerable to such attacks. With the treaty gone, engineers and scientists could finally innovate, and they have achieved significant advances in land- and sea-based defenses in the interim. Join us as our speakers reflect on the circumstances that led to the U.S. withdrawal from the treaty 10 years ago.Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:00:00 -0400{CF8F9439-EE81-408D-856C-DEEBE5969CD8}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/events/2012/06/berlin-wall-speechBecky Norton DunlopOn June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan delivered remarks at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin – a city divided by a despicable, harsh, barbed wire crowned wall. For almost 30 years, the wall had separated East Germany from West Germany, separated one family generation from another, and separated oppression from freedom. 137 people died trying to get to the other side of the Wall. Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:00:00 -0400{A82D24F3-0E9A-456C-A29E-5EB60A3F9C4D}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/events/2012/06/age-of-deliriumAriel Cohen, Ph.D.AGE OF DELIRIUM - a documentary by Hudson Institute Senior Fellow David Satter – chronicles the fall of the Soviet Union as lived and experienced by the Soviet people. It tells the story of Alexander Shatravka, who crossed the Finnish border only to be handed back by the Finns and tortured in a mental hospital … the residents of the city of Shadrinsk, who believed in the Soviet ideology only to learn the reality of the Soviet system fighting in Afghanistan … and Ludvikas Simutis, who spent his entire life fighting for the independence of Lithuania after the murder of his father and many others. Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:00:00 -0400{BD0F150E-3591-4F53-80C1-9724A0CE07D1}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/events/2012/06/corporate-social-responsibilityJames RobertsLike a vitamin regimen that exceeds recommended daily amounts, corporate social responsibility (CSR) – once seen as a healthy thing in small doses – now poses a toxic threat to American business. As originally prescribed, CSR encouraged companies to look for opportunities to further their business while at the same time addressing additional environmental or social issues, especially in the local communities in which they conduct business. Unfortunately, CSR has evolved into a more radical remedy which now seeks to redefine the very purpose of the company to impose ambiguous environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) requirements. CSR activists are using a radical human rights and environmental agenda to redefine the very purpose of business that will place ever greater burdens and constraints on corporations. Unless action is taken, these anti-free market and statist proponents may push CSR beyond the point of no return and achieve their redefinition of business. Join us for a lively discussion of these issues!Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:00:00 -0400{9CABF4A8-2392-43E7-9A80-58FBB1B71646}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/events/2012/05/smith-mundtHelle DaleControversy has swirled around the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act since it passed mark-up as an amendment to the House version of the National Defense Authorization Act on May 18. The bill is now before the Senate. The Smith-Mundt Act, which established public diplomacy and international broadcasting as activities of the U.S. government, has been in force since 1948. One of its provisions prohibits U.S. citizens from accessing the public diplomacy products of the U.S. government, whether in print or on the airwaves. The purpose of this provision was to prevent domestic government propagandizing. Yet, in an age when global news and information flows are available 24/7 in print, on the airwaves, and online, this prohibition has become an anachronism. Critics on the left and right alike have charged that modernizing the Smith-Mundt Act will lift the floodgates for U.S. government propaganda aimed at U.S. citizens. Not so. Rather, the amended act will force greater government transparency and accountability and it will allow Americans insights into what Washington is communicating to audiences around the world. Join us as our panel examines these and other aspects of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act. Thu, 31 May 2012 16:00:00 -0400{F413D381-9D4F-4218-9790-C36897E80060}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/events/2012/05/castros-secretsIn Castro’s Secrets, acclaimed author and intelligence expert Brian Latell offers a strikingly original view of Fidel Castro in his role as Cuba's supreme spymaster. Based on interviews with high level defectors from Cuba's powerful intelligence and security services, long-buried secrets of Fidel’s nearly 50-year reign are finally brought to light. These include numerous assassinations and attempted ones carried out on Castro's orders, some against foreign leaders. More than a dozen ranking Cuban secret agents embraced by the CIA and FBI speak in these pages; some have never told their stories on the record before. Latell also probes dispassionately into the CIA's most deplorable plots against Cuba – including previously obscure schemes to assassinate Castro – and presents new conclusions about what Fidel Castro actually knew of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.Thu, 31 May 2012 14:00:00 -0400{B1AC78EC-3E0D-480C-BCAF-4499EE1F3DEE}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/events/2012/05/common-defenseKim R. Holmes, Ph.D.The Preamble of the Constitution gives paramount importance to the federal government to “provide for the common defense.” Yet, there is a growing misconception that all federal spending is more or less equal, and that it doesn’t matter too much what gets cut. Defense spending, says this thinking, is but one of the luxuries America cannot afford right now, dispensable as, say, subsidies for wealthy farmers. Yet, the Founders new that defense spending wasn’t a luxury and recognized as General George Washington, famously said, “To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.” Thu, 31 May 2012 11:00:00 -0400{687D5680-36F4-4FA0-B882-599344BBC908}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/events/2012/05/sookhdeoBecky Norton DunlopThe Obama Administration has had a longstanding policy of trying to remove all reference to Islam and Islamic ideology from discussions about terrorism. Widespread changes have been instituted in counterterrorism training with the result that many U.S. experts on radical Islam have now been sidelined and are restricted in what they may or may not teach about Islamic ideology. Thu, 24 May 2012 13:00:00 -0400{C632D498-9E5A-4174-972B-BA3056731A94}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/events/2012/05/pakistani-terror-groupsWalter LohmanThe recently released documents found at Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad reveal the importance of al-Qaeda affiliate organizations in carrying out the terrorist group’s global agenda. Furthermore, they show the central role the war in Afghanistan plays for al-Qaeda in inspiring extremists to revolt around the world and re-confirm the close relationship between the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Tue, 22 May 2012 15:00:00 -0400{D49409C3-3E6D-4FB3-B942-08EADD0F8F4D}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/events/2012/05/debt-bombMichael FrancIn a nation whose debt has outgrown the size of its entire economy, the greatest threat comes not from any foreign force but from Washington politicians who refuse to relinquish the intoxicating power to borrow and spend. U.S. Senator Tom Coburn reveals the fascinating, maddening story of how we got to this point of fiscal crisis – and how we can escape. Tue, 22 May 2012 12:00:00 -0400{52F90909-17BB-44A1-AB1C-F41A7F4801DA}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/events/2012/05/road-to-freedomEntrepreneurship, personal responsibility, and upward mobility: these traditions are at the heart of the free enterprise system, and have long been central to America’s exceptional culture. In recent years, however, policymakers have dramatically weakened these traditions – by exploding the size of government, propping up their corporate cronies, and trying to reorient our system from rewarding merit to redistributing wealth.Mon, 21 May 2012 13:00:00 -0400{05891B82-47FD-4029-BA3F-5AA771CC4823}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/events/2012/05/cuba-solidarityRay Walser, Ph.D.May 20 marks the 110th year of Cuba’s achievement of independence from its Spanish overlords. Yet, the struggle to realize the full blessings of independence so fiercely desired by the Cuban people remains incomplete. Individual rights and liberties are callously denied by a communist dictatorship that has ruled with absolute authority for over 50 years. Rights of speech, travel, association, and access to information as well basic economic and personal freedoms are denied in ways inconsistent with universal values and fundamental human rights. For this reason, May 20 remains a day closely associated with the thwarted aspirations and shattered hopes of the Cuban people, especially for those who courageously resist the regime’s cruel and arbitrary demands for obedience and silence. Fri, 18 May 2012 12:00:00 -0400{667D490E-72AD-4F24-A2F9-08E3A87FB42D}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/events/2012/05/us-taiwan-relationsWalter LohmanAmerica’s "unofficial" relationship with Taiwan is by far its most heavily regulated. Where Taiwan diplomats are allowed to travel in the U.S., which government buildings they can enter, whether they can fly the ROC flag, and who they can meet where. Likewise for the United States. In spite of America's commitments to peace and security in the Taiwan Straits and close partnership with the Taiwanese military, even visits by American military officers are tightly regulated. Small things like where American diplomats meet their hosts and under what circumstances, what kind of letterhead they may use, and when and whether they fly the American flag are all regulated. So are big things, like what kind of aircraft we provide Taiwan, whether cabinet level officials travel to Taiwan, and whether the U.S. is able to conclude a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Thu, 17 May 2012 15:00:00 -0400{1B6C7497-6B54-4E10-825B-08939FD4B96E}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/events/2012/05/cwn-hartzlerBridgett WagnerConservative Women's Network lunch featuring Rep. Vicky HartzlerThu, 17 May 2012 13:00:00 -0400