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EVENT DETAILS
The Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy and The Pluralism Fund present:
Brian Katulis
THE PROSPERITY AGENDA What the World Wants from America — and What We Need in Return
5 p.m. August 6, 2008 – Pell Center
R.S.V.P. by August 1, 2008 to pellcenter@salve.edu or 401.341.2927
Brian Katulis is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he directs studies on U.S. national security policy and publishes analyses with a focus on the Middle East, Iraq, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and Pakistan. He is co-author along with former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nancy Soderberg of The Prosperity Agenda, a new book on U.S. foreign policy that will be published by John Wiley & Sons in the summer of 2008. Katulis has served as a consultant to numerous U.S. government agencies, private corporations, and non-governmental organizations on projects in two dozen countries, including Algeria, Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Pakistan, and Yemen.
His previous experience includes work on the Policy Planning Staff at the State Department from 1999 to 2000, as well as a graduate fellowship at the National Security Council's Near East and South Asian Affairs Directorate in 1998 and work in the Department of Defense during his undergraduate studies. From 1995 to 1998, he lived and worked in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and Egypt for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs.
Katulis received a Masters degree from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs and a BA in History and Arab and Islamic Studies from Villanova University. In 1994 and 1995, he was a Fulbright scholar in Amman, Jordan, where he conducted research on the peace treaty between Israel and Jordan. Katulis has published articles in several newspapers and journals, including the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, and Middle East Policy. Katulis speaks Arabic.

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