CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
Political Berlin: Germany and the United States
Panel Discussion

Weill Recital Hall
Sunday, November 11th, 2007 at 7:00 PM

Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg
Josef Joffe
Henry A. Kissinger
John C. Kornblum
Richard C. Holbrooke, Moderator

Following the 1999 return of the parliament to its traditional seat along the Spree River, Berlin has again become the international face of Germany. Eminent public figures and experts of transatlantic diplomacy will explore Germany’s most important strategic partnership—its relationship with the United States.

Presented by Carnegie Hall in partnership with the American Academy in Berlin.

The Berlin in Lights festival is made possible by a leadership gift from the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.

Major funding has also been provided by Mercedes and Sid Bass, and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from Martha and Bob Lipp, Fundación Mercantil (Venezuela), and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Additional funding provided by Axel Springer AG, GWFF USA Inc., and the Jerome Robbins Foundation.

Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg
Josef Joffe
Henry A. Kissinger
John C. Kornblum
Richard C. Holbrooke, Moderator
KARL-THEODOR FREIHERR ZU GUTTENBERG
Baron zu Guttenberg is a member of the German Parliament (CSU) and Chairman of the CSU’s Committee on Foreign Affairs. In Berlin he serves as Department Spokesman for the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group on the Foreign Affairs Committee and as Spokesman for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control.

Before being elected into Parliament, he was head of the Guttenberg family’s companies in Munich and Berlin, and gained work experience in Frankfurt and New York. Baron zu Guttenberg was Managing Director of the Guttenberg GmbH (Munich) and is a member on several boards. Prior to this position, he studied law and completed a doctoral thesis on comparative constitutional law (JD).

Guttenberg has published many articles on foreign and European policy as well as on the period between 1933 and 1945 in Germany. (His family was actively involved in the resistance against Hitler.)

He is married to his wife, Stephanie. They have two daughters.

JOSEF JOFFE
Josef Joffe is publisher-editor of the German weekly Die Zeit. From 1985 to 2000, he was a columnist and editorial page editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung. His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Commentary, New York Times Magazine, New Republic, Weekly Standard, and Prospect (London). His second career has been in academia. Currently adjunct professor of political science at Stanford, he was Payne Distinguished Lecturer there from 1999 to 2000. He is also a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute for International Studies and Abramowitz Fellow of the Hoover Institution, also at Stanford. From 1990 to 1991 he taught at Harvard University; in 2002 he was visiting lecturer at Dartmouth College, and in 1998 at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. He was Professorial Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University’s School for Advanced International Studies from 1982 to 1984, and he has taught at the University of Munich and the Salzburg Seminar. His scholarly work has appeared in many books and journals. He is the author of The Limited Partnership: Europe, the United States and the Burdens of Alliance and co-author of Eroding Empire: Western Relations with Eastern Europe. His most recent book is Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation in American Foreign Policy (W. W. Norton, 2006). He is a trustee of the Atlantik-Brücke and the Deutsches Museum in Munich, as well as a member of the American Council on Germany and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. His honors include honorary doctorates from Swarthmore College and Lewis and Clark College, the Theodor Wolff Prize in Journalism, the Ludwig Börne Prize in Essays and Literature, and the Federal Order of Merit of Germany. Raised in Berlin, he obtained his PhD in Government from Harvard.

HENRY A. KISSINGER
Henry A. Kissinger was US Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977 and is the founding Chairman of the international consulting company Kissinger Associates. Dr. Kissinger was born in Fuerth, Germany, and was naturalized as a US citizen in 1943. He served in the army from 1943 to 1946. In 1959, he graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University, where he received his MA and PhD degrees in 1952 and 1954. He was subsequently a professor at the School of Government and the Center for International Affairs, both at Harvard University, until 1969. Thereupon he served as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from 1969 until 1975. In July 1983 he was appointed by President Reagan to chair the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America until it ceased operation in January 1985, and from 1984 to 1990 he served as a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. From 1986 to 1988 he was a member of the Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy of the National Security Council and Defense Department. He is currently a member of the Defense Policy Board.

At present, Dr. Kissinger is also founding Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm. He has authored numerous books on international politics and foreign policy, most recently Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises (Simon & Schuster, 2003). Among the multiple awards Dr. Kissinger has received have been the Nobel Peace Prize (1973); the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977); and the Medal of Liberty (1986). He has also published numerous articles on US foreign policy, international affairs, and diplomatic history. His column, syndicated by Tribune Media Services International, appears in leading US newspapers and in over 40 foreign countries.

JOHN C. KORNBLUM
John Christian Kornblum was appointed Chairman of Lazard, an international financial advisory and asset management firm, in 2001, after serving as a diplomat with the US Department of State for more than 30 years. As a specialist for Europe, John Kornblum served in Germany, Austria, Belgium, and Finland, in addition to his posts in the State Department in Washington. He has been assigned as Minister to the US Mission in Bonn/Berlin and has served as Deputy US Ambassador to NATO, US Representative at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Assistant Secretary for European and Canadian Affairs, Special Envoy to the Balkans, and US Ambassador to Germany. He is also currently a member of the Supervisory Board at ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG and Bayer AG.

RICHARD C. HOLBROOKE
Richard C. Holbrooke is Vice Chairman of Perseus, a leading private equity firm. He most recently served as the US Ambassador to the United Nations, where he was also a member of President Clinton’s cabinet (1999–2001). As Assistant Secretary of State for Europe (1994–96), he was the chief architect of the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the war in Bosnia. He later served as President Clinton’s Special Envoy to Bosnia and Kosovo and Special Envoy to Cyprus on a pro-bono basis while a private citizen. From 1993 to 1994, he was the US Ambassador to Germany.

From 1977 to 1981, during the Carter Administration, he served as the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and was in charge of US relations with China at the time Sino-American relations were normalized in December 1978.

After joining the foreign service in 1962, Ambassador Holbrooke served in Vietnam (1963–66), including a tour of duty in the Mekong Delta for the US Agency for International Development (USAID). He worked on Vietnam policy at the Johnson White House (1966–68), wrote one volume of the Pentagon Papers, and was a member of the American delegation to the Vietnam Peace Talks in Paris (1968–69).

Ambassador Holbrooke was Peace Corps director in Morocco (1970–72), managing editor of Foreign Policy (1972–77), and held senior positions at two leading Wall Street firms, Credit Suisse First Boston (vice chairman) and Lehman Brothers (managing director). He has written numerous articles and two best-selling books: To End a War, a memoir of the Dayton negotiations, and Counsel to the President, the memoir of Clark Clifford, with whom he co-authored the book. He writes a monthly column for The Washington Post.

Richard Holbrooke has received over 20 honorary degrees and numerous awards, including several Nobel Peace Prize nominations. He is the Founding Chairman of The American Academy in Berlin, a center for US-German cultural exchange; President and CEO of the Global Business Coalition, the business alliance against HIV/AIDS; and Chairman of the Asia Society. He is on the board of American International Group. NGO board memberships include the American Museum of Natural History, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Citizens Committee for New York City, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Refugees International. He is Director Emeritus of The Africa-America Institute, on the advisory boards of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) and USA for UNHCR, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the US Board of Governors of Interpeace, and a Brown University Professor-at-Large.