Former Deputy National Security Advisor to Deliver Two Speeches at University of Richmond

November 29, 2005

James Steinberg, vice president of the Brookings Institution and former deputy national security adviser in the Clinton Administration, will speak Dec. 2 and Dec. 3 at the University of Richmond. Both speeches are free and open to the public.

Steinberg will talk on “U.S. Grand Strategy after 9/11” on Dec. 2 at 7 p.m. in Jepson Hall, Room 118.

Steinberg also will deliver the keynote address to the Virginia Political Science Association, which Richmond is hosting this year, on Dec. 3 at 9:30 a.m. His lecture, “The Preventive Use of Force Following the U.S. Intervention in Iraq,” will take place in Weinstein Hall’s Brown-Alley Room.

One of the nation’s top experts on “new” security issues facing the United States, Steinberg held a series of senior positions in the U.S. government, including the Senate, Department of State and the National Security Council after he had worked as a senior analyst at RAND. He was deputy national security adviser to President Clinton from 1996-2000. He will become dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin on Jan. 1, 2006.

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