Event: National Security Seminar Series – May 10

May 10, noon - 1:30 p.m. — Ambassador Richard Kauzlarich, who recently stepped down as the DNI's National Intelligence Officer for Europe, will discuss current stresses within the EU and NATO as these organizations deal with events resulting from the democratic revolts across the Arab world: the Allied military campaign in Libya, a major influx of economic refugees from North Africa, disruption of energy supplies etc.

Ambassador Kauzlarich served as National Intelligence Officer for Europe from September 2003 to April 2011. From 2002 to 2003, he was Director of the Special Initiative on the Muslim World at the U.S. Institute of Peace. During a his 30-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina and to Azerbaijan. Earlier he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European Affairs and then Senior Deputy to the President's Special Representative to the Newly Independent States. Ambassador Kauzlarich holds a BA from Valparaiso University and MA degrees from the universities of Indiana and Michigan. He is a visiting fellow at the Joint Forces Staff College.