Evening With Ambassador Peter Galbraith

The End of Iraq: How Iraq's Constitution
Provides a Roadmap to Partition

Thursday, January 29, 2009, 6:00 p.m.
Lone Star Room
Frank Erwin Center

Reception to follow at the LBJ Library.

TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE

Peter W. Galbraith served as the first U.S. Ambassador to Croatia and has held senior positions in the U.S. government and the United Nations. His diplomatic accomplishments include co-mediating the 1995 Erdut Agreement that ended the war in Croatia, designing East Timor’s first interim government and the process to write their permanent constitution, negotiating with Australia to produce a new treaty governing the exploitation of oil and gas in the Timor Sea, helping expose Saddam Hussein’s murderous campaign against the Iraqi Kurds in the late 1980s, and securing the release of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 1984. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End. Currently, he serves as the Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and a principal at the Windham Resources Group LLC in Vermont.

In Galbraith’s new book, Unintended Consequences: How the War in Iraq Strengthened America’s Enemies, he takes advantage of his vast knowledge of the area to critique the U.S. occupation of Iraq and suggest alternate policies. New York Times columnist David Brooks called Galbraith the "smartest and most devastating" critic of our current policies in Iraq.

Galbraith will sign copies of Unintended Consequences purchased in advance from the LBJ Museum Store. Books will also be sold and signed at the reception in the Great Hall at the LBJ Library following the program. To purchase a book in advance, please call (512) 232-2396 or visit the Museum Store. The pre-paid books may be picked up at the event at the Erwin Center that evening or at the Museum Store at a later date.

Note: Ambassador Galbraith’s talk is the keynote lecture for the Library’s joint symposium with the University of Texas Law School on “Constitutional Design,” to which you are also invited. (Please click here for conference details.)

The Frank Erwin Center is located at 1701 Red River, between 15th Street and MLK, Jr. Blvd. Free and handicapped parking will be available in the Erwin Center parking lot located adjacent to the building (reserved lot 108 in the diagram enclosed). The entrance to the parking lot is on Red River, just south of the entrance to the Erwin Center. Please enter the Erwin Center through the entrance on Red River Street. The Lone Star Room is directly inside the front entrance, to the right.