The English-Speaking Union
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October 14, 2009 Dinner Meeting, with Dr. Linda P. Brady
“Seizing the Moment: Arms Control and U.S. National Security”
The Sandhills Branch of the English-Speaking Union of the United States will hear Dr. Linda Brady, Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, discuss this timely topic at their October 14 Dinner Program Meeting at the Country Club of North Carolina.
The news media are full of dire warnings about new nuclear programs. Arms control is clearly back on America’s national security agenda. Many believed arms control had been relegated to an historical footnote at the end of the Cold War. In the years since, the emergence of new threats, including international terrorism, and the entrance of new actors on the international stage, including North Korea and Iran have restored arms control to a central position on the national security agenda. Dr. Brady will discuss the current context and future prospects for arms control in the 21st century, with special emphasis on Russia, North Korea, and Iran.
Diplomacy with each of these countries presents unique issues that the previous and current administrations voiced differing strategies. However, when viewed in the context of their public diplomacy, are they really so different?
Dr. Linda P. Brady is eminently qualified to discuss this complex set of topics. Dr. Brady is Chancellor of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro as of August, 2008 after she was elected by the UNC System Board of Governors, upon her nomination by UNC President Erskine Bowles.
A native of New York City and the first member of her family to attend college, Brady graduated from Douglass College, the women’s division of Rutgers University, in 1969 with a degree in political science. She received a master’s degree from Rutgers (1970) and a doctorate in political science from Ohio State University (1974).
From 1978 to 1985, Brady held several positions in the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Defense. Among those roles, she served as a political analyst in the State Department’s Office of Disarmament and Arms Control and as special assistant for mutual and balanced force reductions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. She later served as a senior fellow in international security and arms control at the Carter Center of Emory University (1986-87) and as a distinguished professor of national security at the U.S. Military Academy (1991-92).
From 1993 to 2001, Brady led the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she was also a professor of international affairs. She joined North Carolina State University in 2001 as Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of political science. She left North Carolina in 2006 to become the chief academic and operating officer at the University of Oregon only to return to the Tar Heel state to take her current position.
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