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Discussion Explores Current and Future Challenges for NATO

Date: November 24
Location: Eidman Courtroom of the Connally Center for Justice at the UT Law School
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

The European Union Center of Excellence at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law presents "NATO: Current Operations and Future Challenges,"a discussion with Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry.

Eikenberry is the deputy chairman of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Military Committee in Brussels, Belgium. His previous assignment was commander of the Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan.

A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy with master's degrees from Harvard University and Stanford University, he has held various strategy, policy and political-military positions, including director for strategic planning and policy for U.S. Pacific Command; U.S. security coordinator and chief of the Office of Military Cooperation in Kabul, Afghanistan; assistant army and later defense attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China; senior country director for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense; and deputy director for strategy, plans and policy on the army staff.

Eikenberry's talk is open to the public. Refreshments will be served.



About the Strauss Center

The Strauss Center works to engage the best minds in academia, government and the private sector in developing practical solutions to the pressing problems of an increasingly globalized world. Randy Diehl, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, serves on the center's governing board, and seven liberal arts professors are Strauss Center fellows for 2008-09.

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