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AFPC Receives Grant to Study Sino-Indian Relations
Other Events - September 25, 2011
 

AFPC Kraemer Strategy Fellow Jeff M. Smith has received funding to produce a major study on Sino-Indian relations to be conducted over the next year.

 
Karachi’s Last Mayor Speaks at AFPC Headquarters
Other Events - September 22, 2011
 

On September 21, AFPC Kraemer Strategy Fellow Jeff M. Smith hosted the last mayor of Pakistan’s largest city and commercial capital, Karachi, at AFPC’s recently remodeled headquarters.

 
Amb. J. William Middendorf Honored at AFPC Dinner
Other Events - September 15, 2011
 

On September 14, in our new conference room, AFPC hosted a dinner with former Secretary of the Navy, Amb. J. William Middendorf.

 
Field Research Finds Israel Grappling With New Security Environment
Delegations - August 4, 2011
 

This summer, AFPC Vice President Ilan Berman and Kraemer Strategy Fellow Jeff M. Smith each conducted week-long research trips to Israel.

 
World Almanac of Islam Website Launched at National Press Club
Press Conferences - May 5, 2011
 

    On May 5, AFPC formally unveiled the digital version of its ground-breaking new analytical resource on radical Islam, the World Almanac of Islamism, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The press event featured a keynote address by former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security and two-time Pennsylvania Governor Thomas J. Ridge, who described the Almanac as “the first, comprehensive, ongoing resource of its kind of tracking Islamism as a political phenomeno

 
Ilan Berman interviewed by Esquire.com
Media Appearances - March 1, 2011
 

AFPC Vice President Ilan Berman was interviewed on February 28th by Esquire.com on the current turmoil taking place in the Middle East.

 
Senior AFPC Delegation in Russia
Delegations - December 20, 2010
 

As part of its two-decade tradition of organizing fact-finding missions to Russia, the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) sponsored a December 15-19 visit of senior American statesmen led by four former Under Secretaries of State: Paula Dobriansky, Robert Joseph, Richard McCormack and William Schneider.  Also joining the trip was former Assistant Secretary of Defense Mary Beth Long, as well as AFPC President  Herman Pirchner, Vice President Ilan Berman, and Senior Associate Wayne Merry.

 
AFPC Co-sponsors 11th Annual Ukrainian Roundtable
Delegations - October 25, 2010
 

On October 20-21, the U.S-Ukraine Foundation held its annual Roundtable on Ukraine’s Quest for Mature Nation Statehood. As in previous years, AFPC served as a major sponsor of the even

 
AFPC Co-sponsors 11th Annual Ukrainian Roundtable
Conferences - October 23, 2010
 

On October 20-21, the U.S-Ukraine Foundation held its annual Roundtable on Ukraine’s Quest for Mature Nation Statehood. As in previous years, AFPC served as a major sponsor of the event.

 
AFPC Dinner with Russian Ambassador
Other Events - October 4, 2010
 

On Monday, October 4, 2010, AFPC hosted a dinner with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.  The Kremlin’s envoy to the U.S. since 2008, Kislyak previously served as deputy minister of foreign affairs, as well as Russia’s permanent representative to NATO in Brussels