5/12/03

U.S., WORLD AFFAIRS EXPERT TO SPEAK AT AUALL MEETING

AUBURN -- James Nathan, the Khaled bin Sultan Eminent Scholar and Professor of International Relations at Auburn University Montgomery, will address the AU Academy of Lifelong Learners annual membership meeting on May 19.

The meeting, which is open to the public, will be in the auditorium of the AU Hotel and Dixon Conference Center at 10 a.m.

"We are honored to have such a well-known, distinguished person to speak at our annual meeting," said Mamie Hardy, president of AUALL.

Listed in Who's Who in America, Nathan is a former foreign service officer, who received his master's and doctoral degrees from Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of seven books on U.S. foreign and security policy and has taught at the Army and Navy War Colleges and served as a consultant to the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of Defense.

Nathan has lectured widely to professional, military and diplomatic audiences worldwide, including serving as the Senior Distinguished Fulbright Professor at the College of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, the University of New South Wales and Curtin University in Perth, Australia. He is also the director of the Alabama World Affairs Council and a long-time member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Nathan's latest book is Soldiers, Statecraft, and History: Coercive Diplomacy and International Order. One of his earlier books included U.S. Foreign Policy and World Order, which was cited by Foreign Affairs as the "finest book available on U.S. foreign policy since World War II." His book The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited, was cited by The Washington Post's Book World as "mandatory reading for policymakers at all levels."

Nathan has also published articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, World Politics, The Nation and other popular and scholarly publications.

AUALL is a member of the Elderhostel Institute Network, an international association of more than 275 Institutes for Learning in Retirement affiliated with Elderhostel Inc.

Since its organization in 1990, AUALL has enjoyed more than a decade of success and growth, from a handful of members to almost 250. It is supported by annual membership fees. For more information on AUALL call the Auburn University Outreach Program Office at 334-844-5165.

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CONTACT: Nathan, 334/244-3337.