2008 Alumni Reception
All International Relations MA alumni and their guests are invited to attend the 2008 Alumni Reception, organized by the Graduate International Relations Student Council and the Department of International Relations.
We are very pleased this year to have Professor Andrew Bacevich speaking on the topic of U.S. Foreign Policy after Iraq. Following his talk, Professor Bacevich will also take questions from the audience.
Andrew J. Bacevich is a professor of international relations at Boston University. A graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, he received his Ph. D. in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. Before joining the faculty of Boston University in 1998, he taught at West Point and at Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Bacevich is the editor of The Long War: A New History of US National Security Policy since World War II (2007). His previous books include American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U. S. Diplomacy (2002), The Imperial Tense: Problems and Prospects of American Empire (2003), and The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (2005). His essays and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general interest publications including The Wilson Quarterly, The National Interest, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Nation, The American Conservative, and The New Republic . His op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today, among other newspapers.
The 2008 Alumni Reception will be held on Saturday, March 29 on the first floor of 154 Bay State Road. Doors open and refreshments begin at 6:30 pm. The talk will begin at 7:00 pm. Refreshments will resume after the talk and subsequent question and answer session, and alumni are welcome to remain until closing at 9:00 pm. Dress code is business casual. There is no cost to attend. This is a great chance to reconnect with old classmates and with your former professors, as well as to meet our current graduate students. We hope to see many of you there!
In addition to the speaker and reception, a careers roundtable discussion is being held on the afternoon of the same day, at 2:00 pm in the same location. Alumni are welcome to attend this event also, should they wish to do so. Any Alumni interested in participating as panelists in next year's careers roundtable are invited to contact the IR Department at irgrad@bu.edu.
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