WASHINGTON, DC
Hotel: Jurys Normandy Inn, http://www.juryswashingtondc.com/normandy_inn.htm
2118 Wyoming Ave., NW
Tel: 202 483 1350

Thursday, October 4
AFTERNOON ARRIVAL – HOTEL CHECK IN
You are responsible for your own transportation to the hotel. If you take a taxi, keep the receipt and submit it as a program expense.

3:30 – 5:00 PM PROGRAM ORIENTATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE BRIEFING
Neil Sumilas, Program Officer, GMF, Liz Decker, Program Assistant, GMF
1744 R Street, NW
Directions : From your hotel, walk south on Connecticut Avenue to R Street. Turn left on R Street and walk 3 blocks to New Hampshire Ave – GMF is at the corner of New Hampshire & R. Allow 15 minutes to walk from the hotel.

7:00 – 9 :30 PM DINNER AT RESTAURANT NORA, http://www.noras.com/
2132 Florida Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20008
202-462-5143

Friday, October 5
Check out of the hotel and store your bags before coming to GMF this morning.
8 :30 AM ADMIN BRIEFING FOR LATE ARRIVALS WHO MISS THURSDAY’S MEETING

9 :00 AM – 10 :15 PM OVERVIEW : UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY
Karen Donfried, Executive Vice President, GMF
Dr. Karen Donfried returned to the German Marshall Fund in 2005 as senior director for policy programs following an extended leave of absence during which she served in the U.S. Department of State. In her current position, she will provide strategic direction to GMF’s programs and bolster its continued work on U.S.–European relations. While at the State Department from October 2003 through May 2005, Dr. Donfried handled the Europe portfolio on the Policy Planning Staff in the Office of the Secretary of State. She previously served as GMF’s director of foreign policy and, prior to that, worked as a European Affairs specialist in the Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division of the Congressional Research Service (CRS). She has written numerous articles and reports for Congress on German foreign and defense policy, European integration, and transatlantic relations. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Council on Germany.Meeting with Mr. Thomas Becker, Head of International Department, Danish Lead Negotiator in Climate Change, Subsidiary Body of Implementation under the UN Climate Change Convention.

10:30 AM – 1:30 PM DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN BELIEFS AND VALUES
Professor Gary Weaver, The American University
School of International Service, Tel: 202/885-1637

Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States in 1831 for a nine-month trip. Yet his observations, in Democracy in America, about U.S. society seen from a European perspective remain thought-provoking and relevant. Nothing is more striking to a European traveler in the United States than the absence of what we term the Government, or the Administration. Written laws exist in America, and one sees the daily execution of them; but although everything moves regularly, the mover can nowhere be discovered. The hand which directs the social machine is invisible. In Europe, we arewont to look upon a restless disposition, an unbounded desire of riches, and an excessive love of independence, as propensities very dangerous to society. Yet these are the very elements which insure a long and peaceful future to the republics of America. In no country in the civilized world is less attention paid to philosophy than in the United States. The Americans have no philosophical school of their own; and they care but very little for all the schools into which Europe is divided, the very names of which are scarcely known to them. Dr. Weaver, professor of international communications, will look to the history of its longstanding and recent citizens for the source of American values, and will compare them to European values. He will address issues that Americans themselves have a difficult time resolving, such as whether there is a distinct American culture and whether its “melting pot” image is an accurate one. Dr. Weaver will focus on such topics as “the American Dream,” individualism, risk-taking, self-reliance, leadership, America’s role in the world (intervention versus isolationism), the right to bear arms, the philosophy of abundance, the middle class and class mobility,

American culture, ethnicity, pluralism, and how Americans view (and hold accountable) their government. Gary Weaver is a scholar in the School of International Service at American University, where he teaches a wide range of courses including Psychological and Cultural Aspects of International Politics, Cross-Cultural Communication, International Conflict, and International Communication. In 1970, he was an adviser to the Iranian Ambassador’s office in Washington,D.C., and in 1976 acted as director of Middle Eastern programs at the American University in Teheran, Iran. In the spring of 1986, he taught international relations at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka. His numerous publications include Readings in Cross-Cultural Communications and The University in Revolution. His most recent book is an anthology, Cultural Communication and Conflict: Readings in Intercultural Relations.

1:30 PM BUS PICK-UP AT GMF
You will be driven back to the Jurys Normandy to retrieve your luggage, and on to Dulles Airport for your flight to Brussels

5:59 PM FLIGHT TO EUROPE
Washington – Brussels, United 950