LIVE BROADCAST ON CSPAN 1: Schieffer School/CSIS hosting dialogue on "Understanding Japan's Elections: What the Elections Mean for Asia and the United States"

Fort Worth, TX

8/26/2009

TCU's Schieffer School of Journalism and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. are holding a dialogue titled “Understanding Japan’s Elections: What the Elections Mean for Asia and the United States” on Wednesday, Sept. 2 at 5:30 p.m. EST. The dialogue, hosted by Bob Schieffer, CBS News Face the Nation and TCU alumnus, will be broadcast live on the Schieffer School Web site at 4:30 p.m. local time. Go to http://www.schiefferschool.tcu.edu.

Featured speakers are Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Michael Green, CSIS senior advisor and Japan chair and former senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council;  Steve Clemons, senior fellow and director of the American Strategy Program, New America Foundation and publisher of The Washington Note.

The series of monthly dialogues feature top public policy experts, government officials, leading think-tank scholars, and prominent journalists discussing issues related to national security, foreign policy and global challenges.

CSIS is a bipartisan, independent, nonprofit organization that provides strategic insights and policy solutions to decision makers in government, international institutions, the private sector and civil society. It has earned the reputation of being one of the world's preeminent public policy institutions.

The Schieffer School is emerging as one of the world’s top journalism schools dedicated to preparing professionals in both journalism and strategic communications for the new media world, while maintaining the traditional standards of basic, straightforward reporting and ethics.

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