What: Reception & Program with Dr. Thomas Bagger
The Obama Administration’s Foreign Policy:
An European Perspective on the First 100 Days”
 
It is already apparent that President Obama has embarked on foreign policy initiatives that contrast in many ways with those of the Bush Administration. How do our closest allies in Europe view these changes and what level of cooperation can we expect from them in implementing these policies? President Obama’s first visit to Europe as President at the recent NATO summit offers some clues.
 
Dr. Bagger, who serves as Minister Counsellor of the political section at the German Embassy in Washington D.C., will analyse the emerging foreign policies of the Obama Administration from a European perspective. He previously served at German missions in Ankara/Turkey (2002-2006) and in Prague/Czech Republic (1996-98). From 1998-2002 he held the position of speechwriter for then-Foreign minister Joschka Fischer. He joined the diplomatic service in 1992 after two years as a research associate at SWP, Germany’s premier international affairs think tank. Mr. Bagger holds a Ph.D. in political science from Munich University and an M.A in international relations from the University of Maryland at College Park, where he was a Fulbright student in 1989/1990.

When: Thursday, April 23, 2009

• 6:15 p.m. Cocktails (Cash Bar)
• 7:00pm: Dinner & Program
  

Where: Women's National Democratic Club, 1526 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington DC 20036 (T) 202-232-7363

WNDC is a short walk from the Q Street North exit of the Dupont Circle/Red Line Metro stop

Register: Members - $30/person. Member's Guests - $40/person

All prices include program, networking and dinner

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