The Alaska World Affairs Council Presents

Dr. Michael Kraig
Director of Policy Analysis and dialogue at The Stanley Foundation

"Energy Security and the Changing Global Order"

Friday, 5th December 2008 – Hilton Hotel
Doors open at 11:30 a.m. - Program begins at 12:00 p.m.
For Reservations
RSVP by Wednesday, 3rd December to the Alaska World Affairs Council
by telephone 276-8038 or by email to AlaskaWorldAffairs.org .
Lunch Program $20 for Members - $25 for Non-Members - $6 for Coffee Only

Dr. Michael Kraig is director of Policy Analysis and Dialogue at the Stanley Foundation in Muscatine, Iowa. In this role, he manages the foundation’s work in six major initiative areas: United Nations and Global Institutions; US and Global Security; US and Asian Security; US and Middle East Security; Rising Powers; and Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and Disarmament. These ongoing initiatives are centered on widening the policy debate in the United States and within foreign capitals by discussing multilateral, cooperative policy options that could make both the United States and the world more prosperous and secure. Kraig has a Ph.D. in political science from the University at Buffalo, New York, with a concentration in international relations, US foreign policy, and comparative politics.

In addition to managing overall foundation policy programming, Kraig is continuing his own analytical work on Middle East Security and US national security strategy. This work includes frequent presentations to US citizens, US policymakers, and foreign leaders in Europe and the developing world. He has presented his own findings and the results of Stanley Foundation policy dialogues at meetings and institutes in Berlin, Rome, Paris, London, and all Middle East capitals from Egypt to Iran, as well as lectures for student leaders in Texas (Rice University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas at Dallas-Ft. Worth, St. Mary's College in San Antonio) and in Ohio (Wesleyan University and Bowling Green University). Kraig has authored numerous policy briefs, journal articles, and book chapters on these issues, in addition to being guest editor for a special fall issue of Middle East Policy titled "Alternative Strategies for Gulf Security".

Prior to his current position, Kraig was a policy program officer and implemented major foundation projects on US security strategy, Persian Gulf security, global disarmament regimes, and US-Iranian relations. This involved the creation of a new "Gulf Security" initiative in 2003 incorporating several multilateral Track II dialogues in Dubai, UAE, between Iranian, Arab, Asian, European, and US officials and experts; organization of US-Iran bilateral dialogues, including small-group talks in Berlin between former officials from Germany, America, and Iran to produce a "draft outline for rapprochement"; and management of an independent task force on Strategies for US National Security (Washington, DC, 2002-2003) led by former Pentagon official Lawrence Korb. Kraig also led the marketing of the task force results via several "in-house briefings" at the RAND Corporation, the US General Accounting Office, US Congressional Research Service, US Institute of Peace, Georgetown and George Washington Universities, and National Defense University. Kraig also helped organize numerous citizen outreach panels with Lawrence Korb around the issue of US security strategies in Maine, Ohio, Montana, Florida, Wisconsin, Texas, and Minnesota in fall 2004. Finally, in the period 2000-2003, Kraig organized several Stanley Foundation global policy dialogues between UN diplomats, IGO leaders, and US policymakers on issues relating to WMD arms control and disarmament regimes.