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Who Is Reshaping the World
The Brooking Institution
Proliferation Europe France Transatlantic Relations
Transnational Security Threats
Event Summary
On October 7, the Center on the United States and Europe
at Brookings will host Thérèse Delpech, director for Strategic Studies at the French Atomic Energy Commission and a nonresident senior fellow at CERI, the Centre d’etudes et Recherches Internationales, to deliver the Fifth
Annual Raymond Aron Lecture. Delpech will explore the forces currently redrawing the lines of the international system, from the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to revisionist powers and globalization. She will
offer insights into the future of the trans-Atlantic community and the French-American alliance in particular.
Event Information
When
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Where
Falk Auditorium
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington , DC
Thérèse Delpech is
also a commissioner of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission; a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies’ Council; member of RAND Europe’s Advisory Board; and international
advisor to the International Committee of the Red Cross. In 1999, she chaired the U.N. Advisory Board for Disarmament Matters. From 1995 to 1997, Delpech served as advisor to French Prime Minister Alain Juppé on
politico-military affairs. She is the author of a number of books on strategic issues, especially proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Following Mrs. Delpech’s remarks, Brookings Senior Fellow Philip Gordon will
offer a response. Brookings President Strobe Talbott will give introductory remarks and moderate the discussion. After the program, Mrs. Delpech will take audience questions.
The lecture series, named after the renowned
scholar of post-war France , features leading French scholars and statesmen speaking on critical issues affecting the transatlantic relationship. The evening will begin with a reception at 5:00, with the lecture to follow
at 5:30.
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