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Date: October 1, 1998
Director of the Aspen Institute Berlin to Address European Security Concerns
Princeton, N.J. -- Catherine McArdle Kelleher, director of the Aspen Institute Berlin, will give the sixth annual Klaus Knorr Memorial Lecture entitled "Thin Gruel from Alphabet Soup? European Security Institutions at the Millennium" at Princeton Universityís Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Monday, October 12, at 4:30 p.m., in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1.
Earlier this year, Kelleher assumed the directorship of the Aspen Institute Berlin, part of the international Aspen Institute network headquartered in Washington, D.C. Established in 1974, the Berlin affiliate pursues two primary goals: to maintain and promote the U.S.-German relationship, including American ties with West Berlin, and to begin to establish an open East-West dialogue in the wake of the Federal Republicís Ostpolitik. It works to achieve these goals through international conferences, study groups, and workshops on major contemporary issues.
Kelleher went to the institute from her appointment as U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia, which she held from 1996 to 1998. Previously, she was defense adviser and personal representative of the secretary of defense at NATO (1994-96), a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (1990-94), and a professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Affairs (1982-91) and at the National War College (1980-82). She was a Fulbright scholar at the Free University of Berlin and has had research links with the Wissenschaftszentrum fur Sozialforschung in Berlin, the Deutshe Gesellschaft fur Auswartige Politik in Bonn, and the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Ebenhausen.
Kelleherís address is the sixth in a series sponsored by the Universityís Research Program in International Security (RPIS). The lectures are named in honor of Klaus Knorr, director of the Universityís Center of International Studies from 1961 to 1968.
RPIS aims to encourage research on the causes, character, consequences, and control of inter- and intrastate conflict. The programís activities include providing financial assistance to graduate students writing dissertations in the field of security studies; supporting visiting fellows from other institutions who will spend a year in residence at Princeton; and sponsoring a series of research seminars and public lectures conducted by leading scholars and practitioners.
Kelleherís lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Research Program in International Security.