1999-2000 Convocations Continue with Richard Haass of the Brookings Institution By Marci Janas
	Richard Haass RELATED STORIES Garry Wills Kicks Off This Year's Convocations Examining the Future of the United States		OCTOBER 8, 1999-- Oberlin continues its yearlong consideration of the future of the United States with a lecture by Richard Haass '73, vice president and director of foreign-policy studies at the Brookings Institution. The title of his lecture is "The United States and The World: Will the 21st Century Also Be an American Century?" The free public lecture will take place in Finney Chapel Wednesday, October 27, at 8 P.M. Earlier in the day--4:30 P.M.--Haass will lead an informal discussion in Wilder 115, "An Insider's View of Foreign Policy," with all interested students and faculty. Haass holds the Sydney Stein, Jr., chair in international security at the Brookings Institution, and is a consultant for NBC News and a frequent contributor to foreign-affairs journals and the op-ed pages of major newspapers. He is the author or editor of eight books on American foreign policy. From 1989 to 1993 Haass was special assistant to President George Bush and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the staff of the National Security Council. His contributions to the development and articulation of U.S. policy during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm earned him the Presidential Citizens Medal. Oberlin's 1999-2000 Convocation Series focuses attention on American society as the College presents distinguished speakers--nationally respected intellectuals from a broad political and social spectrum--who explore the theme of the future of the United States. The Finney Lecture and Student Assemblies committees sponsor the 1999-2000 convocations with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Office of the President of Oberlin College.
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