Joseph J. Kruzel Memorial Lecture
Each year the Mershon Center for International Security Studies selects one lecture in honor of Joseph J. Kruzel, an Ohio State faculty member in Political Science who served in the U.S. Air Force as well as other posts in the federal government. Kruzel was killed in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1995 while serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Affairs.
Past Kruzel Memorial Lectures include:
2007-08
Strobe Talbott, President of the Brookings Institution, "Election of the Century: The American Presidency and the World"
2006-07
William Perry, Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor at Stanford University and former Secretary of Defense
2004-05
Eliot Cohen, Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategis Studies at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at The Johns Hopkins University, "Armchair Killers"
2003-04
Walter Slocombe, former Director of National Security and Defense in the Coalition Provisional Authority, in Iraq, and former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, "Future Security for Iraq"
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