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The following is a list of all speeches available online presented in 1999 arranged chronologically starting in January.

 

  Date:             1/14/1999

  Speaker:      Kevin Phillips

  Title:              Commentator and Author of The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics,

  Speech:        Politics, Civil Warfare and the Rise of Anglo-America to World

  Category:     Foreign Policy

  Link:              Phillips

  Date:             1/15/1999

  Speaker:      Condoleezza Rice

  Title:              Former Special Assistant to the President for National Security

  Speech:        American Foreign Policy for the 21st Century

  Category:     Foreign Policy

  Link:              Rice

  Date:             2/4/1999

  Speaker:      James Mann

  Title:              Foreign Affairs Columnist, Los Angeles Times

  Speech:        America's Curious Relationship with China

  Category:     Asia

  Link:              Mann

  Date:             3/1/1999

  Speaker:      Arkady Ghoukasian

  Title:              President, Nagorno-Karabakh

  Speech:        Nagorno-Karabakh on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century

  Category:     Europe

  Link:              Goukasian


  Date:             3/12/1999

  Speaker:      Dimitri K. Simes

  Title:              President, The Nixon Center

  Speech:        Russia's Tragedy, America's Stake

  Category:     Foreign Policy

  Link:              Simes

  Date:             3/19/1999

  Speaker:      Dan Quayle

  Title:              The 44th Vice President of the United States

  Speech:        Reasserting American Leadership Abroad

  Category:     Foreign Policy

  Link:              Quayle

  Date:             3/22/1999

  Speaker:      James R. Sasser

  Title:              United States Ambassador to the People's Republic of China

  Speech:        United States and China Forging a Relationship

  Category:     Asia

  Link:              Sasser

  Date:             4/16/1999

  Speaker:      George Mitchell

  Title:              Chairman, International Commission on Disarmament in Northern

  Speech:        Ireland's Road to Peace

  Category:     Ireland

  Link:              Mitchell

 

  Date:             4/20/1999

  Speaker:      Henry Kissinger

  Title:              Former U.S. Secretary of State

  Speech:        U.S. Foreign Policy Through the Decades

  Category:     Foreign Policy

  Link:              Kissinger

  Date:             4/22/1999

  Speaker:      Pat Buchanan

  Title:              Candidate for the Republican Presidential Nomination

  Speech:        America First: New Foreign Policy

  Category:     Foreign Policy

  Link:              Buchanan

  Date:             4/26/1999

  Speaker:      Los Angeles Times Senior Editorial Staff

  Title:              Los Angeles Times

  Speech:        Assessing the Past, Predicting the Future

  Category:     Predictions

  Link:              LA Times

  Date:             4/29/1999

  Speaker:      Keizo Obuchi

  Title:              Prime Minister of Japan

  Speech:        Japan: America's Partner in Asia

  Category:     Asia

  Link:              Obuchi


  Date:             5/13/1999

  Speaker:      Gordon B. Hinckley

  Title:              President, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

  Speech:        The International Role of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day

  Category:     Religion

  Link:              Hinckley

  Date:             5/17/1999

  Speaker:      Sir John Birt

  Title:              Director General, British Broadcasting Corporation

  Speech:        The BBC: From Inception, through Revolutionary Technological

  Category:     Media

  Link:              Birt

  Date:             5/17/1999

  Speaker:      Alexandr Vondra

  Title:              Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States

  Speech:        Czech Republic: Newest Partner into NATO

  Category:     Europe

  Link:              Vondra

  Date:             5/18/1999

  Speaker:      Thomas Friedman

  Title:              Columnist, The New York Times

  Speech:        Emerging from the Post Cold War Syndrome: Globalization is the

  Category:     Technology

  Link:              Friedman


  Date:             5/19/1999

  Speaker:      Ernesto Zedillo Ponce De Léon

  Title:              President of Mexico

  Speech:        Improving Relations Between Mexico and the United States

  Category:     Latin America

  Link:              Zedillo

  Date:             6/2/1999

  Speaker:      Vladislav Jovanovic

  Title:              Ambassador to the United Nations, Federal Republic of

  Speech:        Crisis in Kosovo: Prospects for a Peaceful Settlement

  Category:     Balkans

  Link:              Jovanovic

  Date:             6/3/1999

  Speaker:      Haakon

  Title:              Crown Prince of Norway

  Speech:        Norway and the United States, an Enduring Relationship

  Category:     Europe

  Link:              Haakon

  Date:             6/4/1999

  Speaker:      Morton Halperin

  Title:              Director of the Policy Planning Staff, U.S. Department of State

  Speech:        Developing New Policies for New Challenges

  Category:     Foreign Policy

  Link:              Halperin


  Date:             6/7/1999

  Speaker:      Dennis Ross

  Title:              Special Middle East Coordinator, U.S. Department of State

  Speech:        Understanding the Arab-Israeli Peace Process

  Category:     Middle East

  Link:              Ross

  Date:             6/25/1999

  Speaker:      Louis Caldera

  Title:              Secretary of the United States Army

  Speech:        The U.S. Army: In Kosovo and Beyond

  Category:     Defense Policy

  Link:              Caldera

  Date:             6/28/1999

  Speaker:      Farid Abboud

  Title:              Ambassador of the Republic of Lebanon to the United States

  Speech:        Lebanon and the Peace Process: An Update

  Category:     Middle East

  Link:              Abboud

  Date:             9/10/1999

  Speaker:      Lee Hoi-chang

  Title:              Former Prime Minister, Republic of Korea

  Speech:        Korea in the New Millennium: A Strategy for Peace and Prosperity

  Category:     Asia

  Link:              Lee


  Date:             9/16/1999

  Speaker:      Mary McAleese

  Title:              President of Ireland

  Speech:        Ireland - A Transformation in Progress

  Category:     Ireland

  Link:              McAleese

  Date:             9/29/1999

  Speaker:      Takatoshi Kato

  Title:              Former Vice Minister of Finance for International Relations, Japan

  Speech:        Changing Fortunes in the U.S.-Japan Relations

  Category:     Asia

  Link:              Kato

  Date:             10/1/1999

  Speaker:      Hong Soon-young

  Title:              Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea

  Speech:        Northeast Asia in the 21st Century: Envisioning the Evolution of a

  Category:     Asia

  Link:              Hong

  Date:             10/13/1999

  Speaker:      Caspar Weinberger

  Title:              Former Secretary of Defense

  Speech:        The Consequences of Our Weakened Defense and Our Failed

  Category:     Foreign Policy

  Link:              Weinberger


  Date:             10/21/1999

  Speaker:      Lucien Bouchard

  Title:              Premier of Québec

  Speech:        Building Partnership in the Americas

  Category:     North America

  Link:              Bouchard

  Date:             10/22/1999

  Speaker:      Eberhard Diepgen

  Title:              Governing Mayor of Berlin

  Speech:        Beginning: Berlin Takes a New Shape 10 Years After the Fall of

  Category:     Europe

  Link:              Diepgen

  Date:             10/26/1999

  Speaker:      David Hackworth

  Title:              Author, The Price of Honor

  Speech:        Question and Answer Session

  Category:     Defense Policy

  Link:              Hackworth

  Date:             11/4/1999

  Speaker:      El Hassan bin Talal

  Title:              Prince, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

  Speech:        Challenges and Opportunities in Resolving Regional Conflicts

  Category:     Middle East

  Link:              Hassan


  Date:             11/4/1999

  Speaker:      Robert J. Lifton

  Title:              Author, Destroying the World to Save It

  Speech:        Destroying the World to Save It

  Category:     Predictions

  Link:              Lifton

  Date:             12/7/1999

  Speaker:      Senior Staff of Newsweek Magazine

  Title:

  Speech:        Countdown to the Millennium: Some Predictions for the Future

  Category:     Predictions

  Link:              Newsweek