Should John Bolton be the Next U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations?
Location: 106 Smith-Buonanno, Pembroke Campus Leading international relations scholars Ruth Wedgwood of Johns Hopkins University and Morton Halperin of the Open Society Institute will debate the nomination of John R. Bolton to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Wednesday, April 13. Thomas J. Biersteker, director of the Watson Institute and Henry R. Luce Professor, will moderate the event. It is sponsored by Campus Progress, the campus division of the Center for American Progress, in association with the Watson Institute for International Studies, Democracy Matters, Americans for Informed Democracy, and other campus groups at Brown. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on the Bolton nomination begin Monday, April 11. Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee, viewed as the committee’s potential swing vote on the issue, told the Providence Journal on April 8 that he will vote to confirm Bolton unless significant new anti-Bolton information surfaces during the hearings.
