Professor Weinberger will be running this conference call on our end, Wyatt 226 at 9 am.
On behalf of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), I invite you and your students to participate in the first session of the CFR Winter/Spring 2010 Academic Conference Call series on Wednesday, January 27, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. (ET). CFR Senior Fellows Evan A. Feigenbaum and Daniel Markey will discuss India-Pakistan relations. For the complete Winter/Spring 2010 Academic Conference Call series schedule, please visit: http://www.cfr.org/educators/newsletter_detail.html?id=1750. As a reminder, calls will alternate between Wednesdays and Thursdays this semester.
Dr. Feigenbaum is senior fellow for East, Central, and South Asia at CFR. Previously, he served at the U.S. Department of State as deputy assistant secretary of state for India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and Maldives (2001-2009), among other positions. During the final phase of the U.S.-India civil nuclear initiative, Dr. Feigenbaum co-chaired the coordinating team charged with moving the agreement through the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors and the Nuclear Suppliers Group, and then to Congress.
Dr. Markey is senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at CFR. From 2003 to 2007, he held the South Asia portfolio on the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State. Prior to government service, Dr. Markey taught in the politics department at Princeton University and served as the executive director of Princeton's Research Program in International Security.
In order to encourage an interactive dialogue, we ask that professors convene students in a group to participate. Typically, professors have found it most convenient to gather in a classroom or host a few students in their office around a speaker phone. Please reply to this email if you would like to make this call available to your students, and we will send you the toll-free dial-in number and password. As background for the discussion, you may wish to have your students review the following materials:
1) Daniel Markey, "Terrorism and Indo-Pakistani Escalation," Contingency Planning Memorandum, CFR, January 2010.
http://www.cfr.org/publication/21042/terrorism_and_indopakistani_escalation.html
2) "A Conversation with Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh," Meeting Video, CFR, November 23, 2009.
http://www.cfr.org/publication/20829/conversation_with_prime_minister_dr_manmohan_singh_video.html
3) Megha Bahree, "Showdown on the Subcontinent," World Policy Journal, Fall 2009.
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4) Sumit Ganguly and Nicholas Howenstein, "India-Pakistan Rivalry in Afghanistan," Journal of International Affairs, Fall 2009.
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5) Steve Coll, "The Back Channel: India and Pakistan's Secret Kashmir Talks," New Yorker, March 2009.
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6) Asia Unbound, Blog, CFR.
http://blogs.cfr.org/asia/
I hope you will visit our 'For Educators' portal on the CFR website at www.cfr.org/educators, where you will find CFR resources designed and packaged especially for the academic community, including modules with teaching notes, event announcements, and information on Foreign Affairs resources for professors and students. Please don't hesitate to call Jessica Finz at 212.434.9674 should you have any questions.
Best regards,
Irina
Irina A. Faskianos
Vice President, National Program & Outreach
Council on Foreign Relations
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