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Walker Institute Forum Feb. 8-9 will examine Iraq policy, security

"Iraq: Where Do We Go From Here?" is the subject of the second annual Walker Institute Forum on U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security Feb. 8-9, co-sponsored by the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies.

George Packer

Peter Galbraith

Thomas Donnelly

The two-day event is free and open to the public.

The forum begins at 7 p.m. Feb. 8 in Gambrell Auditorium when George Packer, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize finalist book, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, will present the keynote address, "Reporters in Harm's Way: The Media and the Iraq War."

On Feb. 9 at 1:30 p.m. in Gambrell Hall Auditorium, a panel of three distinguished experts will debate the topic, "Iraq: Strategies for the Future."

Participants include Packer; Peter Galbraith, former U.S. ambassador to Croatia, current adviser to the Kurds in Iraq, and author of The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End; and Thomas Donnelly, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, noted defense analyst, and author of The Military We Need: The Defense Requirements of the Bush Doctrine.

Charles Bierbauer, dean of the USC College of Mass Communications and Information Studies, will moderate the forum.

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