U.S. State Department Taps Skidmore College Professor for Speaking Tour.

(From AScribe)

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Skidmore Professor of Government Roy H. Ginsberg has been invited by the U.S. Department of State to travel to Poland April 4-8 to deliver a series of lectures on U.S.-European relations. The visit will include keynote presentations at conferences and other gatherings as well as interviews with print and broadcast media.

Among his many stops on the tour, Ginsberg will give talks in Warsaw at the Center for International Relations, the Higher School of Public Administration, and the American embassy, and in Krakow at the Institute for Strategic Studies and the American consulate. Throughout his visit, Ginsberg will examine U.S.-European relations during the second term of the Bush administration, stressing the need for the United States and the European Union to cooperate in addressing international security issues and political, economic, and environmental problems too big for either one to handle alone.

Said Ginsberg, "The challenges are many, ranging from nuclear proliferation to Russian accession to the World Trade Organization, from postwar reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, from China's military buildup to global terrorism and crime, from climate change to HIV-AIDS and other pandemics, and from democratization in Russia and the former Soviet republics to the humanitarian disaster in Sudan."

Noted Ginsberg, "My overall message is that there is more that unites Europe and America than divides them and that complementary, though not identical, interests and values result in broad accord on desired ends. It is often the ...