Tonight at the Pritzker Military Library
FRONT & CENTER
Iraq in Transition: What Next?
Wednesday, June 30th, 2006
Pritzker Military Library
610 N. Fairbanks Court
Chicago, Illinois 60611
With the United States transferring power to an interim government, what will be the ongoing role of the United States in Iraq? How effective can the United Nations and the international community be in supporting a democratic society there? Is there an end in sight to the ongoing violence and terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East?
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Joining John Callaway for this program:
William Glauber
Reporter
Chicago Tribune
William Glauber has been a general assignment reporter with the Chicago Tribune since 2002. He has made five trips to Iraq over the last 18 months, covering issues there during the rule of Saddam Hussein as well as during the U.S.-led occupation. Previously, he worked at the Baltimore Sun as a sports reporter, a national reporter and a London-based correspondent. He has covered eight Olympics and four wars. Glauber is a 1979 graduate of Towson University in Towson, Maryland, with a BS in history.
Ian Hurd
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Northwestern University
Dr. Ian Hurd is assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University. He specializes in international relations and his research is on the role of international organizations in world politics, with particular emphasis on how legitimacy and legitimation operate in the international system. His research on legitimation in the context of the United Nations Security Council has appeared in International Organization, Global Governance, and Foreign Affairs. He is also interested in how international organizations interact with firms, states and NGOs in the international political economy on issues such as international labor standards. He is an honors graduate of Carlton University in Ottawa, Canada and obtained his MA and PhD in international relations from Yale.
Charles Lipson
Professor of Political Science
University of Chicago
Dr. Charles Lipson teaches international relations at the University of Chicago, where he is a professor of political science. His research deals with international cooperation and conflict and with political aspects of the world economy. His most recent book, Reliable Partners: How Democracies Have Made a Separate Peace, explains one of the most striking features in international relations: why democracies do not fight wars against each other. He is currently writing a book on the history of international politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dr. Lipson has chaired several major programs at the University and is the founding director of PIPES, the Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security. He graduated from Yale and received his MA and PhD from Harvard University, where he won the Chase Prize in International Relations.
John Callaway
Host
After a broadcast journalism career of 48 years, John Callaway is now engaged in writing, freelance broadcasting and speaking. The long-time host of Chicago Tonight on Chicago public television station WTTW Channel 11, Mr. Callaway is now host and senior editor for "Chicago Stories", a documentary and interview weekly program on WTTW. He has been honored with more than one hundred awards, including the coveted Peabody Award and fifteen Emmys. A drop-out from Ohio Wesleyan University who hitchhiked to Chicago with 71 cents in his pocket in 1956, he is the recipient of nine honorary doctorate degrees, including those from Northwestern University and the John Marshall College of Law. Mr. Callaway was also the founding Director of the William Benton Fellowships in Broadcast Journalism Program at the University of Chicago. He is the author of the bestselling book of essays, "The Thing of It Is" and has written and performed two one-man shows, " John Callaway Tonight", and "John Callaway 's Life is . . . Maintenance at the Pegasus Theater in Chicago.