Edwin Ginn

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Good day, everybody. I'm Jim Stavridis the Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and today I'm in one of the most iconic places at The Fletcher School. This is the Ginn Library named for Edwin Ginn. It's an iconic center of research and study and it's one of the places that I remember as a student when I wanted to come and be quietly surrounded by knowledge, I came to the Ginn Library. So, I thought I'd take minute as always to tell you what's going on around your school. One thing that I'm very excited about is coming in January we're going to have Robert Kaplan, who is a best-selling author. He's a good friend of mine, he's written a whole series of marvelous books. Probably my personal favorite is Balkan Ghosts but he's going to come and give a book talk here on his latest best-selling book, The Revenge of Geography. And Robert Kaplan is the Chief Geopolitical Analyst for Stratfor. He thinks more broadly about the world and geopolitics more than anybody I know and that will be open, it will be here on the 23rd of January. And here in the Ginn Library on the 13th of January, we're going to have the World Peace Foundation's celebration of their 100 years of operation and it will be part of a toast to peace that will happen here in the Ginn Library, a very appropriate place for that I would say. Also in January for our alumni in the Gulf region, I will be out there. We're going to have our GMAP program in Abu Dhabi, Dubai. We're going to do a bunch of events out there and I'm looking forward to getting back to the Gulf where I spent a great deal of time myself as an officer in the Navy and now as the Dean of The Fletcher School. One other thing that I'll be doing in January is going to the World Economic Forum in Davos. I've been asked to do a presentation there and I'm very excited to do that. I'll probably be talking about Cyber and its impact both on the geopolitics of the world and also on the economics of the world, so stay tuned for that. That should be an interesting presentation and we'll make sure that gets up on the website afterward. Another thing that's happening that I think is quite exciting at The Fletcher School: we're launching the Fletcher Security Review, which is a new journal of security studies and this is a student-led effort. I'm very excited about it and I think it's going to be just terrific. It will be coming out in late December and you can tune into that at the URL that will be appearing below me in this video. Finally, we have a couple of terrific practitioners coming to The Fletcher School and I'm very excited about both of them. In this coming semester, in early 2014, we're going to have Dr. Mowaffak al-Rubaie who is the National Security Advisor of Iraq. He'll be a terrific statesman in residence here and we're very excited to have someone of his stature here at The Fletcher School to help us talk and think about events in that part of the world. And then, really excitingly for us, Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, who is the Noble Peace Prize winner of course and the former candidate for president in Egypt, will be coming to The Fletcher School to be a Nobel Laureate in residence in the fall semester of next year, which is incredibly exciting for all of us. Lastly, on a very serious note, our thoughts and prayers are with the population of the Philippines. We have many alumni there, many of our graduates have friends and family there. It's a troubled time in that nation and certainly as a school of international relations, we are thinking very much about the Philippines during this period of time. Well that's kind of a roundup of what's going on at The Fletcher School. If I don't have a chance to do another video, please have a wonderful Holiday season. We look forward to welcoming you back here at The Fletcher School. Come visit your school anytime, we're waiting for you at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Thank you.