USM’s Lewiston-Auburn College will be the site November
18 for a debate organized by the World Affairs Council of
Maine. This post-election debate titled “America: More
or Less Secure?” will focus on the topics of international
and homeland security.
This forum is part of a 2004 debate series in nine U.S.
cities sponsored by the Fourth Freedom Forum, the Stanley
Foundation's Strategies for National Security Program and
the World Affairs Councils of America. Debate speakers will
present opposing views on national security issues and respond
to questions from the audience. This event will be held during
International Education Week and teachers and students are
invited to attend as special guests.
The guest debaters will be Lawrence Korb and Christopher
Preble. Joseph Wood, provost and vice-president for academic
affairs at USM, will serve as the moderator.
Korb is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress
and a Senior Advisor to the Center for Defense Information.
Prior to joining the Center, he was a Senior Fellow and Director
of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Prior to joining the Council, Mr. Korb served as Director
of the Center for Public Policy Education and Senior Fellow
in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution,
Dean of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
at the University of Pittsburgh, and Vice President of Corporate
Operations at the Raytheon Company. Mr. Korb was assistant
secretary of defense during the Reagan administration.
Christopher Preble is director of foreign policy studies
at the CATO Institute. His work has been published in Reason,
USA Today, The Washington Times, Political Science Quarterly,
The Journal of Military History, and the Naval Institute's
Proceedings, among others. Preble has appeared on CNN International,
MSNBC, CNBC, Fox News, NPR, Voice of America, CTB News (Canada),
and BBC television and radio. Mr. Preble served in the U.S.
Navy during the Gulf War. He is completing work on a book,
John
F. Kennedy and the Missile Gap, which examines the political
and economic roots of the missile gap controversy of the
late 1950's and early 1960's.
The debate will be held Thursday, November 18, at 11:45
a.m. in Room 170 at USM/L-A, 51 Westminster Street in Lewiston.
It is free of charge and open to the public. This debate
will also be held at Portland High School Wednesday, November
17 at 6:00 p.m.
