June 8, 2004

Speaker Biographies

Karlyn H. Bowman is a resident fellow at AEI and a senior editor of The American Enterprise magazine. She is a frequent television and radio commentator and regularly writes a polling column for Roll Call. Her most recent books include What's Wrong: A Survey of American Satisfaction and Complaint (2000); Public Opinion about Economic Inequality (2000) (both with Everett Carll Ladd); and Public Opinion on Abortion: Twenty-Five Years after Roe v. Wade (2000). Ms. Bowman also writes regularly for Public Perspective and the Women's Quarterly.

Paul Hollander is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a research fellow with the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. He has been a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution, a scholar in residence for the Rockefeller Study Center (1984), and a Guggenheim fellow (1974-1975). A native Hungarian, his research interests include the former Soviet society, socialism, and anti-Americanism. He is the author of, amongst other books, Anti-Americanism: Critiques at Home and Abroad 1965-1990 (1992), Anti-Americanism: Irrational and Rational (1995), and Understanding Anti-Americanism: Its Origins and Impact at Home and Abroad (2004).

John Lenczowski is a director of the Institute of World Politics. From 1983 to 1987, he served as a director of European and Soviet Affairs at the National Security Council. Before joining the council, he was appointed as a special adviser to the under secretary of state for political affairs in U.S. Department of State. Previous to the appointment, he was an adjunct professor of the National Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. His areas of expertise include American foreign policy, intelligence policy, diplomacy, and international relations.

Radek Sikorski is the executive director of the New Atlantic Initiative and resident fellow at AEI. He was Poland's deputy minister for foreign affairs from 1998 to 2001. As the country's deputy minister for defense in the first democratically elected government after the fall of Communism, he spearheaded Poland's drive to join NATO. From 1986 to 1989, Mr. Sikorski was a war correspondent to Afghanistan and Angola, contributing to the Spectator (London) and National Review. He is the author of Dust of the Saints-a Journey to Herat in Time of War (1989) and The Polish House-an Intimate History of Poland (1997). His photograph from Afghanistan received the World Press Photo Award in 1988. From 1981 to 1989, Mr. Sikorski was a political refugee in the United Kingdom.

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