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Distributed March 27, 1996
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Hoffman Examines "The Ethics and Politics of Intervention"

Princeton, N.J.--Stanley Hoffmann, chair of the Center for European Studies at Harvard, will speak on "The Ethics and Politics of Intervention," at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Monday, April 22, at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.

Hoffmann, who is also the Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France at Harvard University, has taught there since 1955. He teaches French intellectual and political history, American foreign policy, the sociology of war, international politics, ethics and world affairs, modern political ideologies, the development of the modern state, and the history of Europe since 1945. He is a past president of the International Institute of Political Psychology, a member of many prestigious professional organizations, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations, and has been named an Officier in the French Legion of Honor.

He is the author of numerous books, among them The European Sisyphus: Essays on Europe, 1964 1994 (1995); The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, vol. 15 (1994); Duties Beyond Borders (1981); Primacy or World Order: American Foreign Policy Since the Cold War (1978); Decline or Renewal: France Since the 30s (1974);The State of War (1965); and Contemporary Theory in International Relations (1960). He is the co-author of After the Cold War (1993); The Mitterand Experiment (1987); Living With Nuclear Weapons (1983); and The Fifth Republic at Twenty (1981).

Hoffmann's address is the fourth in a series of annual Klaus Knorr Memorial Lectures, sponsored by Princeton's Research Program in International Security (RPIS). The lectures are named in honor of Klaus Knorr, director of Princeton's Center of International Studies from 1961 to 1968.

RPIS aims to encourage research on the causes, character, consequences, and control of inter- and intra-state conflict. The program's activities include providing financial assistance to graduate students writing dissertations in the field of security studies; supporting visiting fellows from other institutions who will spend a year in residence at Princeton; and sponsoring a series of research seminars and public lectures conducted by leading scholars and practitioners.

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