November 9, 2007 - 16:30
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American University: Ward 107
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Antony Blinken is the Majority Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and serves as senior foreign policy adviser to the Committee's chairman, Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE). He served on the National Security Council staff at the White House from 1994 to 2001. From 1994-1998 he was Clinton's chief foreign policy speechwriter and from 1999 to 2001 he was principal adviser to President Clinton on U.S. relations with Europe. Prior to joining the Clinton Administration, Mr. Blinken was a lawyer in New York and Paris. He has been a reporter for The New Republic magazine and has written about foreign policy for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine and other publications.
Edward P. Joseph is a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He spent more than a decade in the Balkans, serving in the U.S. Army, with the UN and, from 2001 to 2003, as Macedonia Director for the International Crisis Group. He was the Deputy Administrator of the contested Mitrovica area of Kosovo and served as an advisor to the arbitration panel to determine the status of the disputed town of Brcko, Bosnia-Herzegovina. More recently he was a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He has also worked in Iraq, providing democracy assistance to the interim government.
