Fitchburg State University will welcome Ambassador Adrian A. Basora – national security strategic and scenario planner, scholar and business leader – to deliver the address at the International and Conflict Studies Keynote Speaker Series at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11, at the Ellis White Lecture Hall in Hammond Hall, 160 Pearl St.
Basoram, pictured, will discuss “the challenges for post-communist democracies surviving a continued Euro-crisis.” Basora is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and director of its Project on Democratic Transitions. He served in diplomatic posts in the Czech Republic, Spain and France and was also a member of the National Security Council in Washington, D.C., where he shaped the U.S. response to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the first Gulf War.
Prof. Joshua Spero (Economics, History and Political Science), coordinator of the International Studies Minor Program, will introduce the ambassador and moderate the discussion.
“Ambassador Basora offers a unique perspective to our university and greater Fitchburg community on international diplomacy and the great challenges facing the emerging European democracies still transitioning from the post-Communist era and now experiencing the daunting upheaval of the Euro-crisis,” Spero said.
Basora is a recognized expert on political, economic and social transitions of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union since the fall of communism. He is a trustee of the International Research and Exchanges Board and a director of the National Futures Exchange, and was also independent director of the Quaker Investment Trust and chairman of its audit committee.
Among his diplomatic posts, Basora served as the U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic from 1992 to 1995, where he received the Presidential Performance Award for his overall achievements in Prague and he was director of European Affairs for the National Security Council from 1989 to 1991.
His presentation, free and open to the public, is supported by the Office of Academic Affairs and sponsored and hosted by the university’s International Studies Minor. It is co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, History and Political Science, the Center for Conflict Studies, the Office of International Education, the Office of Career Services, and the Office of Student Development.
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