Center Scholars Join CSIS "Interviewing History" Session

On Tuesday, January 22, 2008, Powell Center Director Vince Boudreau and two Colin Powell Leadership Fellows, Lindsay White and Cory Ip, traveled to the Washington headquarters of the Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS). The Center is one of the nation's foremost non-partisan foreign-relations policy think tanks. There they attended a session of "Interviewing History: Conversations with American Leaders," a policy discussion series that the CSIS research staff hosts on a regular basis. Each of the sessions focuses on the actions of one foreign policy decision in relationship to a decisive moment in world history and offers CSIS fellows an opportunity to interview that speaker in front of a live audience. The January 2008 session concentrated on former U.S. National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and the role he played during the Soviet Union’s withdrawal from East Germany.

The event enabled Ms. Ip (pictured left with Brent Scowcroft) and Ms. White to spend part of the day in the dynamic atmosphere of CSIS. The session also offered Powell Center staff a chance to assess ways to deepen cooperation with the think tank. Over the past year, the Powell Center has been developing a working partnership with CSIS. Speakers from CSIS’s Abshire-Inamore Leadership Academy visited the Center in the fall of 2007. Linda Jamison, dean of the academy, presented several leadership development modules to Center-affiliated scholars and fellows and discussed further lines of cooperation between the two centers.