MEDIA CONTACT: Wendy Leopold at 847-491-4890 or w-leopold@northwestern.edu

April 19, 2005

Buffett Lecture Explores Foreign Policy

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Louis W. Pauly, professor of political science and director of the University of Toronto’s Centre for International Studies, will deliver the Inaugural Lecture of the Roberta Buffett Visiting Professorship in International Studies at Northwestern University on Wednesday, April 20.

In his lecture “Bound to Follow? U.S. Foreign Policy, International Reactions and the New Complexities of Sovereignty,” Pauly will examine what he views as an important shift in U.S. foreign policy. Free and open to the public, his lecture will take place at 4 p.m. in the McCormick Tribune Center Forum, 1870 Campus Drive, Evanston campus.

Pauly will discuss what he sees as a policy shift in the way the United States pursues peace and security in the world. A former staff member of the International Monetary Fund, Pauly studies the ways that the lives of citizens in nations around the world are disrupted when national policy falls out of line with the expectations of international financiers.

Pauly is author of “The Myth of the Global Corporation” and “Who Elected the Bankers? Surveillance and Control in the World Economy.”

The Buffett Visiting Professorship and Lecture are sponsored by Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and Center for International and Comparative Studies. The professorship recently was established by Northwestern alumna Roberta “Bertie” Buffett Bialek on the occasion of her 50th reunion.

The Buffett Professorship will support visiting professors at the Center for International and Comparative Studies in the fields of political science, economics, sociology and history.

For further information about the lecture or professorship, call (847) 467-3005.