Josef Joffe, Publisher-Editor of Die Zeit, Germany; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Visiting Professor of Political Science and Marc and Anita Abramowitz Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, California, U.S., spoke on "The Myth of American Decline: Why China Won't Inherit the Earth" as part of the International Relations Series

Jason Mazzone, Lynn H. Murray Faculty Scholar in Law, College of Law, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, U.S., spoke on "Obamacare: Law, Politics, Religion, and Culture" as part of the Law Series

Alain Dieckhoff, Senior Researcher, Center for International Studies and Research (CNRS/CERI), and Head of the Political Science Department, Sciences Po, Paris, France, spoke on "Religious Parties in Israel: God's Voice or Men's Interests?" as part of the God, Power, and Politics: Religious Parties in the Middle East and North Africa Series

Julia Buxton, Professor of Comparative Politics, School of Public Policy, Central European University, Budapest; Senior Researcher, Global Drug Policy Observatory, University of Swansea, Wales, U.K., spoke on "Latin America's Drug Policy Reforms: Between Drug Wars and Drug Harm Reduction" as part of the Latin American Policy Lessons: Perspectives for Europe Series

Helen Parr, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Keele University, U.K., spoke on "Power, Policy and Domestic Politics: Britain and the Falklands War 1982" as part of the Post-1945 International History Series

Michel Rosenfeld, Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights and Director, Program on Global and Comparative Constitutional Theory, Cardozo School of Law, New York, U.S., spoke on "Marriage, Gay Rights and Equal Citizenship: Prospects and Paradoxes" as part of the Law Series

Kjetil Storesletten, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Oslo; Editor, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Norway, spoke on "Growing like China" as part of the Economics Series

Justin Tyson, Senior Economist, European Department, International Monetary Fund, U.K., spoke on "Dealing with High Debt in an Era of Low Growth"

Michael Willis, Director of the Middle East Centre, St. Antony's College and King Mohamed VI Fellow in Moroccan and Mediterranean Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, U.K., spoke on "Tunisia: the Last Hope for the Arab Spring?" as part of the God, Power, and Politics: Religious Parties in the Middle East and North Africa Series

Campbell Craig, Professor in International Politics, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, U.K., spoke on "Free Security and America's Cold War" as part of the America Foreign Policy Series