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Bruce Herschensohn Resumes Weekly Foreign Policy Roundtables for a New Academic Year
Bruce Herschensohn
While some college students look forward to prime-time television on Thursday evenings, many Pepperdine students look forward to Thursday evenings for the weekly U.S. foreign policy roundtables hosted by Bruce Herschensohn, senior fellow at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy. Starting September 9, Herschensohn will once again conduct a series of 12 weekly U.S. foreign policy roundtable discussions from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Drescher Graduate Campus Auditorium, Malibu.
The discussions will focus on current international events, and are free and open to all students and members of the community. This year, Herschensohn will discuss President Obama's foreign policy objectives; space exploration and ballistic missile defense; the Global War on Terror; the power of the media; becoming a foreign service or civil service officer; and the continuing effect of the Vietnam experience on current policy. For a full list of proposed and likely topics for discussion, visit the foreign policy roundtables website here.
Herschensohn has conducted these roundtables for the past two years, and aims to foster a collaborative, conversational tone. "The greatest benefit of the roundtables has been the unique participation of those who sit around the table, and their views of world events that have passed, that are current, and most important—looking ahead to the future," he says.
Advance sign-up is encouraged. Contact Marie Ann Thaler at (310) 506-7691. For more information about the U.S. foreign policy roundtables, visit the School of Public Policy Web site.
About Bruce Herschensohn
Bruce Herschensohn has been a television and radio political commentator for more than two decades. After service in the United States Air Force, he began his own motion picture company and was appointed director of motion pictures and television for the United States Information Agency (USIA). In 1969, he was selected as one of the 10 Outstanding Young Men in the Federal Government. He received the second highest civilian award, the Distinguished Service Medal, and then became deputy special assistant to President Nixon. He was appointed a member of the Reagan Transition Team and in 1992 was the Republican nominee for the United States Senate in California. He was a fellow at the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard University and a Distinguished Fellow of the Claremont Institute. Herschensohn is the author of several books, the most recent being, Taiwan: The Threatened Democracy (2006) and Above Empyrean (2008).
