The Woodrow Wilson School will co-host the first of the bi-annual Richard Ullman Lecture Series, which will launch with a set of three talks Monday through Wednesday December 8, 9, and 10 by renowned international relations scholar Stanley Hoffmann, the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard University.Hoffmann’s first talk is Monday, Dec. 8 and is titled “Understanding the Global System,” and will be held at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall on the Princeton University campus.
 
His talk on Tuesday, Dec. 9 is titled “Ethics and Global Policy,” and will be held at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium. 
 
Hoffmann will conclude his series on Wednesday, Dec. 10 with a talk titled “U.S. Foreign Policy, Past and Future,” which will be held at 4:30 p.m.in Bowl 016, Robertson Hall. Each Ullman series set of talks will be compiled into book form and published by Princeton University Press (PUP).
 
The Ullman lecture series, which is co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School and PUP, are in honor of the Woodrow Wilson School’s Professor of Politics and International Affairs Emeritus, Richard Ullman. The series is designed to feature outstanding scholars of international affairs addressing topics of pressing concerns to the world community.  Speakers will share their insights from the literature on international relations to problems faced by policymakers in dealing with a range of issues including problems of national security, globalization, the international economy, human rights and the challenges posed by changes to our natural environment.
 
Hoffmann, a distinguished professor of political science, has taught at Harvard University since 1955. He also founded what is now the University's Gunzburg Center for European Studies and served as its Chairman from its creation in 1969 to 1995. At Harvard, he teaches French intellectual and political history, American foreign policy, post-World War II European history, the sociology of war, international politics, ethics and world affairs, modern political ideologies, and the development of the modern state.
 
He is the author of numerous books and hundreds of articles, including, since 1978, regular essays in the New York Review of Books.  
 
Hoffmann’s most recent book is “Chaos and Violence: What Globalization, Failed States, and Terrorism Mean for U.S. Foreign Policy ” (2006). His other works include "Decline or Renewal? France Since the 30's" (1974); "Primacy or World Order: American Foreign Policy since the Cold War" (1978); "Duties Beyond Borders" (1981); "Janus and Minerva" (1986); "The European Sisyphus" (1995); "The Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention" (1997); "World Disorders" (1998); and "Gulliver Unbound" (2004).

He is co-author of "The Mitterrand Experiment" (1987); "The New European Community" (1991); and "After the Cold War" (1993). His Tanner lectures of 1993, on the French nation and nationalism, were published in 1994. Hoffmann is working on a book on ethics and international affairs.

These events are free and open to the public.