Talk entitled ‘The Bush Doctrine and Its Implications for US Foreign Policy’. Mr Polk was a member of the Policy Planning Council of the US Department of State. He then became Professor of History and founding Director of the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago, and the President of the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs. He is also the author of a number of books on International Affairs including ‘The United States and the Arab World’ and ‘The Opening of South Lebanon’.