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Jan. 10, 2000                                                    

Future of U.S.-European Partnership Focus of Lawrence University Lecture


     APPLETON, WIS. -- Senior scholar, diplomat and U.S. foreign policy
advisor Robert Hutchings examines the future of the U.S.-Europe
relationship as the foundation of global security in the second
installment of the six-part Lawrence University lecture series "Another
American Century?"
     Hutchings, the assistant dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of
Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, presents "The
U.S. and the New Europe: Partners or Rivals?" Tuesday, Jan. 18 at 7 p.m.
in Main Hall Room 109.  The event is free and open to the public.
     Hutchings will trace the success of the the United States'
post-World War II goal of a united, cooperative European order, a goal
which has been largely achieved through the democratic revolutions of
1989, the unification of Germany and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
He also will discuss the challenges facing a cohesive U.S.-European
alliance in the next century, including the rise of global economic
competition and the forces of fragmentation that are on the loose in the
East. 
     The former deputy director of Radio Free Europe, Hutchings spent
three years as the director for European Affairs with the National
Security Council and served as a special advisor to the Secretary of
State in 1992-93.  He has written three books about his experiences,
including 1997's "American Diplomacy and the End of the Cold War: An
Insider's Account of U.S. Policy in Europe, 1989-92."  A graduate of the
U.S. Naval Academy, Hutchings earned his Ph.D. in government at the
University of Virginia.